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Jameslaw121

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  1. 23 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:

    I don’t make fun of them because the fruity bastards helped us just a bit in the Revolutionary War. 

    Agreed. I don't think most people know how much the French did. At the Battle of York town, you hear about the navy. But the French Army had 7,800. The US had 8,000 soldiers and 3,000 militia. 

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  2. 19 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    I used to love the beefy tostada at Taco Bell. That was all I ordered for a long time. Then of course they took them off the menu. I looked online but couldn’t find many pics. I found this tiny one on Pinterest:

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    And I grabbed this from a YouTube video of an old Taco Bell commercial:

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    Some years ago I noticed that they had tostadas back on the menu. I got pretty excited. But they weren’t beefy tostadas. No problem, I could tell them how to make one. I always ordered them without tomatoes anyway and I could go without the sour cream. I never ate the black olive, either, so I didn’t have to bring it up. Just give me a tostada with layers of retried beans, beef, lettuce, and cheese.

    This is what they gave me:

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    I think you're looking for Taco Casa:

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  3. 18 hours ago, NWBuck said:

    Nope. They use something Gershwin-esque:

     

    It's a "modern (crap)" Version of Rhapsody in Blue. They started using it (the real version) in commercials in 1987. 

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  4. On 8/20/2023 at 10:42 AM, Bullneck said:

    I would kill for an Enchirito or two right now.  I saved that picture.  

    Supposedly last fall they were thinking of bringing them back for a couple of weeks.

    Probably had my last Enchirito at this Taco Bell around 1980.

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    Go to Taco Casa. Their menu is pretty much 80's Taco Bell

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  5. I was reading Band of Brothers (again) and ran across this. I didn't even know @Brisketexan was in Easy company:

    PFC David Webster in a letter home:

    "I cannot understand why you hope for a quick end of the war. Unless we take the horror of the battle to Germany itself, unless we fight in their villages, blowing up their houses, smashing open their wine cellars, killing some of their livestock for food, unless we litter the streets with horribly rotten German corpses as was done in France, the Germans will prepare for war, unmindful of its horrors. Defeat must be brought into Germany itself before this mess can come to a proper end; a quick victory now, a sudden collapse, will leave the countryside relatively intact and the people thirsty for revenge. I want the war to end as quickly as anybody wishes, but I don't want the nucleus of another war left whole"

    (last paragraph on page 117 of my version)

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  6. 14 hours ago, BamaATL said:

    It's also estimated they lost about 27 million people to do it with all that help, with 9 million of them being military.  Hence the quantity having a quality all its own thing.  

    Just to put that in perspective I did some math, it's almost exactly 1,000 miles from Moscow to Berlin, which translates to 9,000 military deaths for every mile gained.  9 thousand per mile.  

    The allies had app 4,500 on D-day. The soviets averaged 6,300 military deaths a day during the war...... Jesus

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  7. Why can I not have my AM and FM presets together at this point in time. I listen to basically 4 stations - the three "sports" FM ones (96.7, 105.3, 97.1) and the AM news traffic station (1080). I have the hands free on the steering wheel that I can use, but have to manually change it to the AM.

    Seems like you should just be able to have 6 preset stations and it can figure when to switch to XM, sirius, AM all by it's self.

     

  8. 16 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

    We could use a front line sp. We could use bullpen help. I feel like our sp is a house of cards ready to collapse at any moment. Our bullpen we know is a disaster. I don't know what to do.

    I've been feeling this way for awhile. Can't quite put my thumb on why.

  9. 4 hours ago, Skipper said:

    I loved that place (other than day games in July/August).  I was fine with an August night game as long as the beer was cold.   I thought the sightlines throughout the old ballpark were better. I've yet to find the sweet spot for viewing at the new place which is why I want to try lower rows in the 100 level.  I've sat upper rows in the 100's on first base line a couple of times and still felt too far away/high up for what should be "good" seats.  200 level seemed way too high so I can't fathom how high up the 300 level feels.  But games like yesterday are why that place was built.  Revenue was probably around 10X what it would have been at the old ballpark.

    That's where I am. I would go to one or 2 (night) games every year either by myself of with an adult male friend. Mainly because you could get pretty cheap tickets in the outfield.  I could have a couple of beers and deal with the hear. But there was no way I was going to try that with my wife and kids

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