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TreatyOak

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  1. 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?
  2. 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
  3. 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."
  4. "Mr. Terry, how are you enjoying this Iowa vs UConn women's basketball game?" "Yes, it is very interesting to watch. Why do the players keep taking shots but the shots go to other players on their team?" "Mr. Terry, that's called passing. They pass the ball to other players who are open, so their team can take a better shot." "Oh, so is that a rule in women's basketball that they have to make shots to their own players?" No, Mr. Terry, that's called strategy. Perhaps you should coach our players to pass to open players like that so we can take better shots. "By better shot, do you mean when the ball goes in the net?
  5. Bronny ready to rip it up in the league! 4.8 points / 2.1 assists / 2.8 rebounds / .08 steals
  6. I asked ai to help reveal Kim's true self.The results were...interesting.
  7. I literally just shared a Google link to a long list of articles from legitimate sources about how beloved Boggy Knight is.
  8. He may have been, but he's perceived very positively by a lot of people today: https://apnews.com/article/bob-knight-death-reaction-e547acda816aed5a5e04371febf59bb9 This reporter even said Bobby Knight was mean to him but it made him a better person, lol. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2023/11/02/bob-knight-texas-tech-reporter-memories/71418468007/ LA Times: "Loved and loathed' https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2023-11-01/bobby-knight-dead Lot more articles about his positive legacy here: https://www.google.com/search?q=bobby+kbight+loved+today&oq=bobby+kbight+loved+today+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIKCAEQABiABBiiBDIKCAIQABiABBiiBDIKCAMQABiiBBiJBTIKCAQQABiABBiiBNIBCTExNzE0ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#ip=1
  9. My wife, who knows nothing about college coaches (but a ton about HS coaches as she works with them every day) made the the point that women have a much shorter leash in all aspects of our society. As someone who worked in corporate America for my career, I have to agree with her. Women who made it to the top were seen as a "bad mom", "greedy," "short-fused," "bitchy," etc, while men were more perceived as "driven," "committed," "hard-working", "tough," etc. Bobby Knight was and is still mostly regarded in a very positive light precisely for possessing those characteristics. I'm not defending Kim Mulkey and I don't know her story, but I do enjoy all the barbs people throw at her. It was more a general observation about human nature and our society.
  10. Thinking the same. He was a major asshole but he was a great coach. It's very entertaining to watch asshole coaches get angrier and angrier as the game goes on. It was fun watching Kim make all these faces as things turned bad against Iowa. It was one of the highlights of the game. Plus, Greta Van Fleet (or whatever her name is) isn't bad to look at.
  11. I meet assholes all day! Everyone I work with is an asshole. Everyone my wife works with is an asshole.Everyone I deal with in stores is an asshole. Every one of my neighbors is an asshole. I've had terrible problems with every single one of them. No idea why I am so unlucky!
  12. LOL. So well done. I can't stop laughing.
  13. I hear you and I'm not defending Mulkey, as I don't know much about her. I'm just stating a general truth about human nature regarding men and women.
  14. My wife says there are two sets of standards for men and women coaches. She says when a man is a hard-nosed, mean SOB, people praise him for how tough he is and how he makes his players better with tough love, blah, blah, blah. She says when a woman coach acts exactly the same, people call her a nasty bitch who's angry and a monster. I think she's right.
  15. Yes, I was joking about her playing men's basketball. I was not joking about her court acumen being superior to many of our players and her team being better coached than the UT men's team.
  16. Can Caitlin Clark play four more years in college on a men's team? I watched her play last night to watch her shooting prowess and came away really impressed with her passing and decision-making. I'm no basketball expert but does it seem like she's a lot smarter than many of our players and that her team overall was better coached than UT?
  17. Someone call the police, ‘cause we were robbed!
  18. Blue Devils think they are better than everyone else cause, well, they are. It’s my younger daughter’s school. Amazing school, amazing campus. Go Blue Devils.
  19. Wife: “Hi, honey. What are you reading?” Me: “Oh, I’m on a website where men talk to other men, and we discuss other men’s bodies, and how ripped the men look, cause they’ve added so much muscle.” Wife: “Okay. Is there something you’d like to tell me?”
  20. There should be a historic plaque outside the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin that reads, “On this spot in 2005, Ryan Philipe cheated on his wife, Reese Witherspoon, with Australian actress, Abbie Cornish.”
  21. Instead of separating himself from the morons, he acted in a very aggressive way. He grabbed people, held onto them, pushed people back, etc. He should have just walked away and let the idiots sort it out. But since Vince is well, an idiot, he placed himself right in the middle of a very stupid, pointless and unproductive situation. I'm so glad he attended the University of Texas and got us a championship. However, he has become an embarrassment to himself. Hope he gets some help but at this point, my expectations for him are very low. I agree that a lot of bars in Texas suck. However, breweries here and across the US are fantastic.
  22. Always go for the bum rush. That's what I did last fall at the Surly tailgate. While @immamac was stacking the condiments on the folding table, I launched a withering assault from behind and landed a wicked blow to the back of his head with all the aged might I could muster. Both of us tumbled forward straight into the table, which collapsed, with ketchup and mustard bottles, beer openers, paper plates and containers of cole slaw flying every which way. A woman screamed and a huge roar of anger erupted from the crowd. I remember a wild scramble as men grabbed at me, dragging me off Immamac by my legs. His face was bleeding and his glasses were shattered. The enraged onlookers pummeled me with punches and kicks, and I freely admit that I screamed in terror like a girl. As the furious men pounded me with heavy blows, I cried, whimpered and screamed for mercy, stuttering that my medication was to blame. They must have broken my nose, and I was engulfed in pain from the many vicious blows and kicks. Finally, seeing me wrapped up in a ball and crying hysterically, they relaxed their grip. I could see Immamac laying close to me with @6th Street's fiancee administering first aid to him. With what little strength I could muster, I delivered the hardest kick I could, straight to Immamac's face, and I could feel the bones and tissue of his nose collapse, as blood flew everywhere. A mighty cry of fury erupted and three or four dudes proceeded to beat the living crap out of me That's the last thing I remember.
  23. I've been watching the Calipari train-wreck videos on YouTube. He really threw his players under the bus in the press conference following the horrible loss to Oakland. Fun tip: great leaders don't use language to separate themselves from their team. Calipari says awful things like, 'They couldn't do stuff.' 'They got anxious,' etc. Subtext: 'It wasn't my fault.' In many of the videos, the creators discuss whom they would like to replace him. Guess what name hasn't been ever mentioned? Chris Beard really screwed up his life.
  24. Democracy is always at a disadvantage. The very nature of being tolerant puts you at a disadvantage against people who are willing to use a democratic system to seize power, and install a totalitarian regime. The Nazis were a prime example of this, as were the Bolsheviks. I can see Trump and his minions using the courts to have him declared president for life.
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