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oSuJeff97

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  1. I have State Farm and while they threw a fit about my roof (had to be replaced) they gave zero fucks about the aluminum wiring. Didn't even bring it up.
  2. Has anyone in this thread mentioned our historic 1945 national championship yet?
  3. Yeah... like I said... we were able to out-score Andrew Luck and Stanford in the Fiesta, which was a much, much worse matchup for us. The OSU defense that year gave up a bunch of yards but thrived on creating turnovers because of the pressure our offense put on the opposing offense to keep up. I really think it possibly could have gotten ugly if we got up a few scores and then they are relying on Jordan Jefferson to throw every down to try and catch up.
  4. LOL re-reading that I’m not even sure if I think we would have won or not.
  5. Sigh. I will never not believe that we wouldn't have beaten LSU easily. It was the perfect matchup for that OSU team - a very good defense and a plodding offense that was challenged in its ability to throw the forward pass. The Stanford team we beat in the Fiesta Bowl was a WAY worse matchup because they had Andrew Luck and a host of NFL players on offense that was a huge problem for that defense. Jordan Jefferson would have been about the 6th or 7th best QB that OSU team faced that year. We faced 4 future NFL starters (Foles, Tannehill, RGIII, Luck), another long-term NFL backup (Landry Jones) and two other damn solid college QBs (Collin Klein, Seth Doege). And yeah -- it was also likely the best and only change that OSU had to win a national title in football in my lifetime. Oh well.
  6. I kind of disagree on the first point. We talked about it upthread when the show was originally airing, but I feel like this documentary changed the popular perception that the Get Back sessions were some kind of burdensome slog that broke the band up. Yeah there was some tension at Twickenham, but once they were back at Apple Corp they were having a great time. That John quote about "granny shit" was just him taking a shot at Paul when they weren't getting along. It doesn't mean it's gospel. And it's far from fucking true. As for the opinion that John and George were "far beyond" Paul's writing..... Ummm..... Ok sure. Opinions vary.
  7. Very strong for sure... you'd be hard-pressed to find such a run outside of the all-time greats. Tony Scott comes close, but he would throw out a clunker every couple of movies. Even so, check out his run from 1986-2004: Top Gun Beverly Hills Cop II Revenge Days of Thunder The Last Boy Scout True Romance Crimson Tide The Fan Enemy of the State Spy Game Man on Fire That's almost two decades of some goddamn entertaining movies.
  8. Agreed 100%. Those two are definitely the best representations of how I always pictured Ryan in my head while reading those two novels. Ford is also pretty good for the first half of Clear & Present Danger, before that movie goes off the rails.... the stuff with him vs. Ritter was great.
  9. Seems like I remember a behind-the-scenes thing from the DVD where Scott Glenn talks about playing Mancuso. He went on a “ride along” with a Los Angeles-class submarine prior to production and was surprised how “book-ish”, “calm” and “understated”, the Captain was… he basically patterned his entire performance after this particular Captain, including the same haircut and those glasses he wore.
  10. The Clear and Present Danger film was a MASSIVE disappointment… by far the worst adaptation in the original run of Clancy films. In addition to the completely different ending, they completely changed Clark from a high-level CIA operative into some kind of mercenary, which was bullshit. The Sum of All Fears was also a pretty big disappointment, but adapting that sprawling novel into a 2-hour movie and doing it justice would be almost impossible. I always thought it would be great as a prestige TV miniseries.
  11. Fantastic film. And BY FAR the best representation of Jack Ryan on film, well before they decided that he was some kind of action star. Red October shows how Ryan won the day with his brains, not running around shooting bad guys.
  12. Thanks for that link. Everyone knows by now how much I hate when this tread gets bumped... I always assume it's something bad, lol.
  13. Confirmation of original question noted.
  14. Thanks that makes sense. We just don't go through that much only having a newborn and toddler... I assume as the kids get older our ice demand will increase significantly.
  15. (I think technically it was the main reason he wanted to be an American *citizen*, but yes... very awesome.
  16. I'm kind of curious - what is the draw of the undercounter ice maker? Is it that you need that much ice? Is this from entertaining all of the time? Lots of kids? About the only time I've ever felt like I needed more ice than what my ice maker in my freezer makes is when we were hosting a good-sized party at my house and then I would just run down to QT and grab 3-4 bags of ice and be good to go. So I guess if I was doing something like that almost every weekend it would be nice to have the auxiliary ice maker, but outside of that I don't see how I would need that much ice....? So what I'm saying is tell me why I need to go buy one right now so I can let the wife know we are getting and undercounter ice maker.
  17. Is this the thread where the olds get mad about a movie from their youth being remade? In.
  18. LOL yes. And you could also see his Dream Team poster in the background when they were in his room during the "dick negotiations."
  19. This is very true. I would say though if you’re sure you want to have them but are waiting for the “perfect time”, then just do it, because there is no perfect time. There’s also no guarantee you can make it happen. Most do, obviously, but I have a few friends who went through the hell (and $$$$$$) of trying everything up to and including IVF before going the adoption route.
  20. Last night's episode was probably the "worst" of the new season, but still pretty damn strong. Nandor's escalating "plastic surgery" was fucking hilarious.... and the end montage of Colin Robinson in the various youth sports had me rolling.
  21. Interesting on the Samsung hate. I've had a Samsung front load washer and dryer for like 3 years now without a single problem. Knock-wood I guess just in case.
  22. Just found this thread when looking for something else, so thought I'd add my two cents. So I've just had my first two kids in the past 18 months.... I'm old AF for a new dad... had just turned 46 when my son was born in February 2021 and was 47 when my daughter was born a few months ago. Of course having a newborn and toddler at the same time is a challenge but I couldn't be happier. I've wanted to be a Dad forever, but life circumstances basically caused about a decade of delays for me. I got married to my first wife in my late 20s and we were both perfectly happy to wait a bit... our original plan was to have kids in our early 30s. Well years went by and we kept putting it off. I sensed that she was starting to be hesitant about it but we pushed forward and started trying when I was maybe 33-34 and she was maybe 31-32. Nothing happened for about a year to the point that I was starting to wonder if something was wrong then - boom - she got pregnant. Unfortunately, we had a miscarriage. This was when I was around 35. I didn't really know at the time, but that whole thing basically convinced her that she didn't want kids, but it took several more years and a lot of drama to get that out of her and we got divorced the year I turned 40. Meanwhile, I had basically given up on the idea of having kids. I figured I would meet someone and get married again (which I did), but I also figured the person who I met would very likely be divorced and have kids and so I made myself fine with that... I really just wanted to have any kind of family I could get. So fast-forward a few years and I met my future wife. She was divorced and a good bit younger than me (she was 32 when we met) and also wanted kids. So fast forward a few more years and we are married with two amazing kids. The TL;DR version is if you think you want to have kids, just do it. I don't think anyone can ever be truely prepared. Also - even if you're old, go for it, man. Obviously for women there are increasing risks as you get older, but still. Are there things that will be more challenging because I'm an old-ass dad? Sure there will. But nothing in life is guaranteed. If you want kids, make it happen because we only live once. Even only being a Dad for just under 2 years now, I can't imagine missing out on this stuff. I feel pretty lucky, but then this is something that I've wanted for a long time. In terms of the upside of being an old-ass Dad, I do feel like I'm a more patient than I would have been in my 30s or certainly my 20s. And as others have talked about... I don't feel like I "missed out" on anything as I did a shit-ton of partying, traveling, etc., in my 20s and 30s.
  23. Yeah, I mean, wasn't Jesse's original quote about Saul/Jimmy - "You don't need a criminal lawyer.... you need a criminal lawyer." Saul/Jimmy was always "bad."
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