-
Posts
14051 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
3
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Store
Downloads
Recruiting - 2020
2019-2020 Football Season
Football
Entertainment
Sports
News and Business
Cloak Room
Transfer Portal
Recruiting
Events
Posts posted by RDCanecutter
-
-
Republican infighting allowed Alabama Democrats to jiu-jitsu in a blue senate seat, however briefly. I expect Texans could do the same.
-
4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Yeah, but is probably an aggy.
Oh no, it'sa verrry nice-uh.
-
3
-
-
Just now, InkaUtexas said:
You know you just want to be their translator.
They already got one.
-
1
-
2
-
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
In the late-90s, several UT French professors and a scad of grad students (including moi) put together an interactive French language course with cartoon armadillos, meant for local use:
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/
It won awards and got added to the curriculum of many schools. It's still used today, though as you can see it's long in the tooth now.
We are redoing it and updating it. I am the artist again.
They are running a fund-raiser. I figured the Surly 1% would want to know:
-
9
-
2
-
8 hours ago, Bevo said:
What type of cancer?
Fluid cancer.
-
On 10/30/2025 at 7:22 PM, Sbbruin said:
Oh hell yeah! That's a great feeling. I definitely teared up when I did that.
I am psychologically set that if I live to 100, I will still be dragging a little parasitic blob of cancer around with me. Maybe I can train it to laugh at my jokes.
But like @Gatorubet said, my elbow bursa blob is halfway back to normal with zero college-boy-doctor treatment. Good ol' @Gatorubet
-
1
-
1
-
-
I grew up in half of an old mansion in Selma, Alabama, when it was ground zero for Spanish moss, honeysuckle jungles, and spiked iron fences leaning askew. My bedroom looked across a narrow street at the famously-haunted Sturdivant Hall. I knew there were ghosts over there, but they never bothered me.
In fact, given the surroundings, I saw way less than my quota of ghosts. I had a normal childhood, talking to my toys. And they'd talk back. A regular chattering until bedtime.
One time I told my Mom that my toys told me something. She said they couldn't, toys can't talk. I walked back to my room and looked inside. All my toys were looking back. They weren't saying anything. But it wasn't because they couldn't.
-
4
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, scottsins said:
Austin area.
…and fractional ounces was what I should have stated originally.For fractionals I usually do a tad better locally but you're limited to what they have. Austin dealers are probably pretty well stocked though.
Fractional mark-ups can be high, but I have beaten the system by buying from friends, split the difference between what they'd get and what you'd pay.
In Texas, if you are going with Mexican gold, I'd get the first few from a dealer. I say this because down on the border they make 2 peso copies (usually 90%, or 21.6 karat) in 18 karat, 14 karat etc for weddings and whatever. I seent em on trays at La Moneda de Oro in Laredo. Side by side it's obvious which is original, and the store wasn't trying to trick anybody, but you can see how some might get mixed up out in the wild.
-
6 hours ago, MissingInAction said:
I havent lost any weight at all. They gave me super steroids during chemo which made me ravenous.
6 hours ago, KingBobo81 said:
Same…we got a raw deal!I was waking up at 5 to eat 3-egg steak breakfasts during the steroid months. Had a pony keg of water weight in legs and balzac. Since stabilized down at 190, weigh-in after weigh-in.
Until they run some more science fair experiments on me.
-
Note to self: when having a pleasant conversation with people you just met, and you tell then you lost 40 pounds of beer gut, and they say: "How did you do that?", just say:
"I stopped drinking so much beer."
Do not say:
"Cancer!"
That is like ripping onion and sausage farts inside a minibus. They didn't have time to roll down their psychic windows.
-
2
-
1
-
-
19 hours ago, scottsins said:
On the topic of local shops, what places seem to consistently offer the lowest premiums for gold/silver purchases?
I can only assume that this has been covered but mega thread is mega, and I ain’t got time for that.
* Also, is it better to just purchase online?
Specifically, I’m looking for gold bars or coins, and not necessarily wanting to buy in full ounces sometimes.Where you at?
Online can be fine. Just avoid any "scam yer grandad" places that say to call them for prices. I had good experiences with Provident Mint, Apmex (before it went crazy on prices), Gainesville coins, a couple others.
By your last sentence, do you mean you want to buy multiple ounces, or fractional ounces?
-
On 10/17/2025 at 1:20 PM, gsoda3 said:
Hosed, that's what I got. I sold some 90% for $30 per dollar of face value.
That's $42 per oz, ie $1.40 face value.
Maybe not what you wanted to hear.
Those prices mirror what I heard happening back when the Hunt Brothers cornered the market. Before my experience, just going off what old coin dealers said, people lined around the block selling everything for a fraction of melt. IIRC the price of silver went up about ten-fold, so maybe few tears were shed if they "only" made 7 or 8 times what they paid.
-
3 hours ago, gsoda3 said:
I'm selling my silver today.
Whatcha gonna git?
-
One day the youth of Alabama will learn how to aim automatic weapons, and we will need a color redder than red.
-
1
-
-
17 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
I whacked my elbow and the bursa sack started growing until it looked like a Popeye thing. My doctor said it might go away or it might not, and in any event. If it did not then draining it would not help - but surgically removing the entire bursa sack might work.
Sometimes around nine months later it dawned on me that it had completely resolved without any treatment. Maybe it’s that. Or the internal parasites from your street food intake are having a convention in your elbow.
Doc said mine was normal for a man my age, although larger than most she had seen.
badoom shing.
I have been sent to physical therapy where my job for three weeks is to play with a giant rubber band 5 times a week until my shoulders are tired, then we will take account of everything. After one session my wife remarked that I was already swole, and her eyes followed me around the room. Her next eye doctor visit is soon.
-
3
-
-
Weekend loading, driving, unloading, setting up art tent and tables, jabbering with locals, jabbering with locals again, taking down tent etc, loading, driving back to Bamalama went well with maximum burliness and well-spaced drugs. Now I go to regular Doc visit, maybe she knows what this ping-pong ball growin on my elbow is.
-
On 10/11/2025 at 7:53 AM, baboso said:
The coin store located on the second floor of some developer's cocaine fueled inspiration of a double-decker strip mall? Also, the Whataburger in Clanton may well be the best one in their expansion into the Southeast.
Same strip mall, second floor guy closed down. "New" (10 years?) store is on ground floor, it's the bullion shark's friend as he monitors local prices and prides himself on beating everybody both buying and selling.
Agree on Clanton WB. I eat there then recommit my life to Jesus thanks to the bombardment of Christian Rock.
-
On 10/10/2025 at 10:34 AM, Armybrat said:
My brother had 600 silver dollars he had accumulated over 20 years in a footlocker stored above his garage along with lots of other old junk.
One of his sons and a neighbor kid liked to play up there and snoop in that stuff.
Then one day brother decided to haul the coins down and put them in his new gun safe. Of course they were missing.
(the garage door was left open quite a bit in those days 50 years ago, so anybody could sneak in)
Then the neighborhood kids’ rumor mill indicated that his son’s “friend” had been spending silver dollars for candy at the nearby 7/11.
Brother went over there to question the owner & his clerks, but of course they denied all knowledge of any such transactions.The #1 hoarder rule is to store your gold and silver where you can see it from your bedroom. #2 hoarder rule is to build a castle out of National Geographics.
-
1
-
-
Don't forget the basics, boys.
Yesterday a break in routine interrupted my breakfast. By afternoon I was a raving stroke victim. Wife got a sammich and a 10mg Hydrocortisone in me, 30 minutes later, healed.
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
-
On 10/9/2025 at 5:03 AM, 52-80 said:
met with family and extended family recently, most of whom i gave physical gold for wedding gifts
i informed them their gifts have already 2x-4x in value in the few short years since their wedding. they had no idea. in fact, my sister almost lost hers when she found it in my nieces toy pile, and almost tossed it thinking it was a chocolate coin. i advised her to flip it for cash.
I had a student (basic English composition, so we could talk about anything) who admitted he'd thrown away a gold bracelet because it was broken. He'd already caught hell from his dad (Who throws away GOLD?) so we made it a learning experience-- showed em how karats worked, estimated weights compared to 5g nickels, taught a bunch of Juco kids what they'd get for it at the coin store in Pelham vs the pawn shop in Clanton.
We estimated he'd made a $50 mistake (bracelet must have been spun air.) It was still a dumb mistake, but who hasn't made a dumb 50 dollar mistake? He was able to move on from it and I doubt he'll ever toss anything again.
I knew a woman in DC with wealthy parents. Mom was crazy and would regularly dump trays of jewelry in the garbage. Dad, in theory, would fish them out and pass them on the Daughter, who may have gotten top dollar for them but I kinda doubt it. She was into leaving family jewelry buried in the dirt to "cleanse" it.
If you are a landlord with witchy tenants, maybe get a metal detector.
Back to the Juco, I had another student who would carry around collectible coins in this wince-inducing home-made copper chain. He monitored Kitco every day, worked his ass off in the hot sun at a plant nursery. I hope he held onto his loot until now.
-
1
-
-
Nahgonnalie, kinda cool having a pile of shiny coins double in value. Be great if/when I sell it all to get $ for something else.
At the same time, sorta kills the fun of collecting it at the old price.
-
8 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:
Hey…
you’ve had worse
I wasn't aware that I was being videotaped!
But everybody's had 8-pint vision one time or another.
-
Hope I don't jinx it, but a guy reached out to me that I did more than 200 drawings for in the 90s. Most fun I ever had working on commission. He said they need more, and implied they had more money now.
I mean hell I made a decent rate on the old pay scale, but if you felt bad about that, I mean, I don't want you to feel bad.
-
2
-
-
2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
Well…
I didn't know we wuz usin' code hieroglyphs...
Basically all my arm woes bored the Oncology Nurse and she told me to hike my weak ass over to some regular doctor. So my wife (PhD Chemistry) hit the Googles and it says the main cure is rest. So I guess when I look at porn I'll become a Leftist.
-
1
-
UT Language Website Fundraiser
in Daily Texan
Posted
Like a full-grown man.