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jimmyjazz

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  1. LMAO. Be a dick, I don't care. I simply refuted one of your points and you can't counter it so you angle somewhere else. Good luck with that.
  2. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    Man, I saw Judas Priest in 1980. They were incredible.
  3. Type 2, correct?
  4. Just understand that CAP only guarantees admission to a majority subset of Liberal Arts, with a 3.2 GPA for 30 hours and those courses are very specifically defined. If that works, great. Anything else is a risk, as is a transfer from another university. I'm not familiar with PACE so I can't speak to that.
  5. That's pretty cool. Just a duo with backing tracks or is it a full band?
  6. It's definitely a lot easier on trumpet. I never played much flugelhorn, but in my descent from trumpet to (brief stop) euphonium because I got braces to French horn I just kinda avoided the usuals like flugelhorn or mellophone. French horn was my wheelhouse, which was cool because it was so damn hard most brass players just said "fuck that".
  7. Oh, I get that part. No sane person of color would challenge it. Maybe the ACLU just on a lark, but it likely wouldn't go far.
  8. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    Dang. That was awesome.
  9. So 3 of the biggest recent boom states are seeing a correction and this means nationally home prices are dropping, even when the data clearly suggest otherwise? OK. Statistics, how do they work?
  10. You kinda have to account for sales volume in those segments, though.
  11. Liberty University to UT-Austin. Well, that's gonna be eye-opening.
  12. surly lawdogs, how is this legal? From the justice.gov website:
  13. I thought he might have been referring to the cumulative price rise over Biden's 4 years, but even that doesn't track. I don't have it in me to dig too deep, but the average annual inflation from 2021-2024 is reported as being 4.7%, 8.0%, 4.1% and 2.9%. This works out to a net price increase of 21%. (Yes, it's a crude calculation.) Alternatively, one can look at the median consumer price index between Feb 2021 & Jan 2025 and find that it increased . . . 21%. Huh. Whodathunkit.
  14. Why, just once, can't a reporter follow up with (for instance) "can you explain the effect of a stronger/weaker dollar on imports and exports?"
  15. Disregarding the fact that IQ is a flawed measurement of "intelligence", I would love to see left/right or Democrat/Republican spectral distributions of IQ. Hey to the Bell Curve.
  16. Doc is WAY underrated, presumably because he was seen as Johnny Carson's outlandish foil for so many years. I got to see Wynton back to back nights -- one with his jazz quartet, the second with a symphony. Mind blown.
  17. That looks like Donald Trump's NY apartment.
  18. What? It's as if you don't understand the whole "transaction". Yes, it was paid with inflation.
  19. Outside of the blatant extortion, what is it you can't believe?
  20. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    That is a fantastic shot.
  21. As a very young pup I saw Maynard in the round, circa 1977. Peter Erskine was his drummer, right before he split for Weather Report. I was nowhere sophisticated enough to understand what I was seeing, but holy shit Erskine was unbelievable. Years later, Maynard's band came through the Wendy's I worked at late one night. I was semi-gobsmacked. Stan Mark stepped up to order and I asked him why he played a black trumpet. He was a total dick -- "because I can". OK, fucker. That was the very last time I let someone's fame clutter my thoughts. I might have spit on his burger. (Might have.)
  22. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I've already copped to not being anywhere close to a Sabbath (or even metal) guy, but I've seen plenty of live clips of early Ozzy, and the guy had a very good voice. Maybe not as pyrotechnic as Halford or Dio, but the guy could sing.
  23. I so hope that's real. Everyone just needs to keep piling on.
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