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TreatyOak

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  1. I know I post a lot of stupid stuffer here to get laughs, but this is going to be serious post. I'm really, really scared of Texas A&M. They are back with a new energy and determination. They've won championships with players from small towns before. They could very well do it again. And now, they are discussing bringing the bonfire BACK ON CAMPUS. We simply don't have the traditions to combat this kind of commitment. And even worse, THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THE PREVIOUS MISTAKES SO ANY BONFIRE BUILT ON CAMPUS WILL HAVE POLES DRILLED INTO THE GROUND. Consider this current post from Texags: "The reason stack fell, started circa 95,96. I commented to the wife in 97, something is not right! Stack was falling every year in less than 15 minutes. In 97 98? It fell before the war hymn was over! What happend? Bonfire has center pole. You are supposed to go out about 6 feet and drop another 12 mini center poles 5 feet deep. Go out another 5 feet drop 20 center poles, and continue. When stack is done it has 80 poles 5 feet in the ground. It physically cannot really fall over if the thing is anywherer remotely close to balanced. Circa 95 that stopped happening. There were zero poles in the ground in 99." That's right. They solved it. The National Championship is coming home to College Station.
  2. Are there any articles documenting this? I would like to read it.
  3. Thank heavens it isn't dated-looking at all.
  4. I don't appreciate you coming here and calling us morons. Dumb fucks is more appropriate.
  5. Master storyteller Flemlo Raps looks at the life of Vince. It's a very sympathetic profile. Part 2 comes out next week.
  6. There’s a lot of people w expertise in this thread and I’ve learned a lot. From my untrained perspective, it seems the most high-end properties are relatively unaffected by the downturn in sales prices. All the reductions are really hitting the mid-level inventory. Can someone corroborate this or tell me if this is wrong?
  7. Rodney Terry as coach is death by a thousand cuts. He's good enough to keep the program in a positive place, but not good enough at coaching or attracting talent to make the team a true contender. He's a perfect corporate CEO, as he will keep his job by offending the least number of people possible, but not visionary enough to make a real impact. I can see him here for decades.
  8. Oh, thanks heavens it happened at 4:41 am. Whew! I thought it was at 5:40 am. That would have looked much worse. Now his draft stock won't be affected at all!
  9. 1. Very cool that you are a lawyer. That is impressive. 2.Just my wishful thinking. In an ideal world, 100% of of people who are impaired would find a way to get alternative transportation to get home, but sadly, we have a lot of really stupid and selfish people in this world.
  10. This is brilliant. Thanks so very much. Very simple and smart.
  11. For pure enjoyment, I encourage you to watch Calipari’s last postgame press conference. He is such a little weasel. He totally throws the team under the bus. Makes me miss Jimbo’s amazing postgame press conferences even more.
  12. As someone who thought I worked insane hours in advertising in NY, her job has been fairly astounding to us. She was a computer engineering major at Duke and interned at Morgan Stanley in NY two summers in school. Since graduation, she has been there full-time. The hours are like nothing we’ve ever seen. She will stay at her job (with a promotion in Aug) and has already accepted a job at another private equity firm & start in Aug of 2025. I have no understanding how the industry works as it seems to have its own unique structure, but perhaps all finance is like that. She has worked on some pretty cool deals, as well. I would encourage it, since your son can bank a lot of money and then be very valuable to so many different companies.
  13. Thanks so much. This is really helpful and I think you’re right. I will continue to check but I really appreciate your input. She’s 24 and already making some serious dosh and insanely, would be able to buy her own NYC condo outright in 2025. Investment banking is a brutal profession but the pay is just crazy.
  14. Yes. I live in on a compound in the Philippines and am forced by a Chinese mob to post in threads for a living. I get paid $.001 per post. Our conditions are horrible. Please help me.
  15. Thanks for the info. I think you’re right. Thinking it will be a condo. We used to live/own a co-op in NYC. I never really understood that we actually owned shares in the co-op, rather than the apartment. Hated selling it, but co-op rules required you to live in it for a year every two years. So we would try to time the sale/purchase for next Spring. Thanks again.
  16. I have a question for the real estate experts here. We own a second home in Lakeway that we currently rent. (It used to have lake views, lol, when there was a lake). Super-wiz NYC investment banker daughter wants to buy a condo in NYC. Can we sell the Lakeway property and use the money to help her purchase a condo in NYC and avoid capital gains taxes if she is the owner of the condo?
  17. Since we now seem to be starting threads of total randomness, here are some random facts that interest me: Though most people assume it is private university, William and Mary is a public university Frank Sinatra was considered a really good basketball player A man once lost his wedding ring in in the ocean off of Australia. Five months later, a snorkeler spotted a wedding ring attached to a fish, and retrieved it. Sure enough, it was the wedding ring and he returned it to the grateful owner. There are 293 ways to make change with a dollar All clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20
  18. From The Athletic April 4th. concerning 'Ole Miss hiring a coach former players have accused of physical and sexual abuse: "Ole Miss shouldn’t be held up as a moral compass given it’s the same athletic department that hired Chris Beard, who was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence (felony domestic charges were ultimately dismissed), to coach its men’s basketball team and D.J. Durkin — after he was placed on administrative leave and fired by Maryland following the death of one of his players — to assistant coach its football team. McPhee-McCuin has difficult questions to answer about why Hillsman — three years removed from a resignation at Syracuse amid a third-party investigation that found “a concerning number of players and managers” who described “an unhealthy environment and culture” — was the right person for this job."
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