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  1. 7 hours ago, RaylanGivens said:

    Jesus H. Tap dancing Christ, If this keeps up, next we'll be discussing Maple flavored Bourbon...

    How to get wimmenz to buy? I present to you ... Pumpkin Spice Bourbon. Who wants to invest?

  2. 22 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    The point is to optimize your redemption over your own personal travel plan.

    A fare might be 23k usd face value, but if you wouldnt have bought it for that much (and nobody else would have ever bought it for that much), it's doesn't have that value to you, in per-point calculation. 

     

    Had this exact argument with a buddy. Not sure where I stand on it now/

  3. 14 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

    I think it depends on what your end goal is with UR spending. I save up for bigger trips so I can fly and stay at hotels essentially for free. SWA doesn't get me enough $/point to be worth it so I look at point transfers to that airline as being a waste of money.

    Not sure, maybe I'm missing something. Like 4th above, I transfer points to SWA when flights are available for few points and then couple with a companion pass to get the highest $/pt value I see in all of my uses.

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  4. 13 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    I love my life. A lot.  But there are all sorts of things about college I miss.  

    Couldn't agree more. Doesn't mean I'd want to trade my life to go back, but there was a LOT to love.

  5. 21 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Comparing to NCAA basketball.  If you want to make the NCAA like the NFL, thats obviously your opinion but mine happens to be different.  

    Personally, I dont want 8 teams.  I would rather them go to 6, with #1 and #2 getting a bye week. 

    I most certainly DON'T want college football to be like the NFL. In fact, I don't like the playoff system at all, and prefer the old bowl system even back before the BCS (git off my lawn, I guess).

    But, if you are going to have a playoff, I think that all major conference champions should be automatically in it, and the conferences can decide themselves how to determine their champion. If they want to risk the "4 loss team beating the undefeated one in conference championship" scenario, they can. But they don't have to.

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  6. 7 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Still wrong. 2004 colorado as well if they would have won.

    If a weak sec east team like Tennessee knocks off georgia and wins the H2H and beats a say 1 or 0 loss alabama, and Tennessee has 4 losses to tn Chattanooga, troy, Mizzou state, and vandy, you are fine with Tennessee taking the Alabama spot?

    That is the definition of the regular season doesn't matter.

    In the NFL, if a 10-6 Baltimore knocks off a 15-1 Pittsburgh in the Divisional playoff game, does that mean that the regular season didn't matter, and that the playoff format is bad?

  7. 3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    That's the shit my grandmother always had at her house.  I would never eat pancakes when we visited because I despised Karo syrup so much.

    Oh my goodness, the LIGHT Karo on pancakes? That's nuts. My dad loved loved LOVED the dark Karo on his. While I much preferred the standard "Mrs Butterworth's", "Log Cabin", or whatever, at least the dark Karo was edible. 

    I consider the light is just for (very limited) use in some recipes, myself.

  8. 3 hours ago, RMac5 said:

    Raisins do suck!

    Gotta go ahead and disagree there, but of course context matters. Handful of dry raisins? Blech. Cooked in oatmeal on top of the stove, getting all plump and juicy, then coated with a little brown sugar and cinnamon? Mmmmmmmm.

  9. Just now, deadshank said:

    Oatmeal is terrible.  Sure, I'll eat it but it is not good.  

    If you add enough brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins such that it's approaching some type of cinnamon roll sweetness, though, even my kids would eat it once a week in grade school.

  10. There was a time when I would have said "oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon, and raisins."

    While still pretty tasty on occasion, ain't nowhere near the top. Can't believe none of you fitness freaks that make up this place haven't dropped "oatmeal" even once.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

     However, there was an old supermarket chain aroud here that made breakfast pizza.  It was fucking amazing.  Doughy crust, sharp cheddar cheese, and eggs, bacon, sausage........

    IIRC, Mangia at ABIA used to have a breakfast pizza that I'd get on occasion, and it was pretty damned good.

  12. Just now, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Cold pizza, next topic.

    C'mon, I've now seen this two (or more?) times.

    Don't get me wrong, I will eat a couple of slices of cold pizza for breakfast and think it's juuuuuuuust fine. Overall, pizza is perhaps my favorite food. But when the topic is "best breakfast food", you're saying that you'd pick leftover, cold pizza over everything else? 

  13. 3 hours ago, TornACL said:

    ... and don't you god damn dare put the eggs on the same plate as the pancakes. If they're on the same plate, there is risk of the syrup touching the eggs. And if that happens, well everyone knows that now the eggs aren't even worth serving to the fucking dog.

    Hmm, you seem to align with my friends.

    To me, the rich yolks soaking into the fluffy pancake, the combination of sweet syrup with just-salty-enough eggs, is awesome. I'm hungry.

  14. 26 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    The better pancakes are not made from just add water mixes.

    You need to find the ones you have to add eggs, butter and milk as one or  all the ingredients.   I forgot the brand name, HEB carries a mix in a canister that is good.    Most importantly you have to have a good pancake griddle. 

    But the just add water mix is good when you have screaming kids wanting their breakfast.   Kodiak brand cakes are good if you want protein infused pancakes.  

    Ah, I remember the old "Bisquick Shake-and-pour" days... Not good pancakes, but as you say, good enough for little kids in a pinch.

    Never really understood pancake mixes. I mean really, it's like 3 or 4 (depending on recipe) dry ingredients. Takes a few seconds longer than dumping out of a box, and avoids some of the nasty preservatives and stuff.

    Alton Brown had a "Good Eats" episode showing you how to make your own pancake mix for buttermilk pancakes. Then you use it like any other, combining at certain ratios with the eggs and milk. Really pretty good, in my opinion.

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