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Paul Wesley

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  1. 1 hour ago, Constant said:

    OU’s remaining schedule includes the following ranked teams: #3, #4, #6, #9, #14, and #18.
     

    Cool Cool Nbc GIF by Brooklyn Nine-Nine

    That's rough.  

    In one of Mack's first few years, I think we played UCLA, Nebraska, and K-State... at one point it was like 3 of the top 4 in the AP poll, and maybe all of them on the road (I may be getting the year/teams slightly off, but it was something like that).  

    Whatever it was, the OU schedule this year is pretty rough.

  2. Never has a team failed upwards on their first drive more than this.  

    Starting with running the kickoff out of the end zone and getting KO'd.

    Bunch of gifted 3rd down penalties.

    Losing half a mile on a laughably bad reverse.

    Fumbling forwards to your own guys.  

    Touchdown.

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  3. 23 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    Yeah, that's f*cking ridiculous.  I'm not sure if it's Gibson or Sweetwater who should be more embarrassed (insert "why not both" gif).

    I'm pretty sure Duesenberg PLEKs every single guitar they make, including guitars waaaaaay cheaper than 6 or 7K.  

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  4. I met Donahue (and Marlo) in about 1984 at a benefit gala for Gloria Steinem's "Ms" Foundation.  The featured speaker that night was Dabney Coleman - and yes, he was pretty famous at that time for playing male chauvinists, especially in "9 to 5," and I'm sure the irony of making him the featured speaker was intentional.   

    I was Coleman's cue card holder for his speech.  He was very cool to me.

    Donahue definitely wasn't afraid to give orders to the entire production crew (spotlight guys, etc) even though he didn't specifically have any role of authority.

    Both guys now in this thread.

    /csb

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  5. The first song that my garage rock band ever performed live was "the breakup song."  

    My bass-player friend and I were at a pretty good-sized house party, and another band had set up a PA.  They took a break, and we asked if we could play a few songs and borrow their drummer.  The next day, he defected and became *our* drummer.  Great guy, and - by a lot - the most talented guy in the garage.  I think he got a music degree from North Texas.

    Decades later, and we'll still text one another when one of us hears it come on in the grocery store (or wherever).  It's still a great song.  

    RIP

  6. 11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    And as I keep saying - 

    Arizona flipped to having a Dem Gov and Dem AG and kept a Dem SOS
    Wisconsin's supreme court flipped to Dem majority
    PA's supreme court is 5-2 Dem
    MI's supreme court is 4-3 Dem (and the GOP Chief Justice is hated by the state party)
    NV kept its Dem SOS and AG and the Court is Dem-leaning (technically nonpartisan judges)
    GA gov and SOS are not friends of Trump, that's for sure.

    Also don't forget the Electoral Count Reform Act:

    • State governor, unless otherwise noted in state law, is the only one who can submit the slate of electors
    • Expedited judicial review for election lawsuits to a three-judge panel and only available for candidates
    • Threshold to challenge slate of electors was raised to 1/5 of the House (87) and 1/5 of the Senate (20)
    • States can no longer declare a "failed election" (struck an archaic 1845 law) to override the popular vote

    I truly hope the optimism is justified and well-founded.  

    The flip side of that is that there were a ton of city/county/precint/state/whatever-level Republican election officials who were actually trying to do a fair and honest job in 2020, and there are probably hundreds of those that have now been replaced by facts-don't-matter MAGA lunatics who don't give a fuck about administrating a fair and honest election.  

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    Trump took out full page ads seeking the death penalty for the central Park five who were actually innocent. Up until now he has never apologized for that.

    Pretty sure that when he was asked to account for this, he said something like, "Well, what were they doing in the park?"  i.e. they're young black men... they must be guilty of some capital offense.

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