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Welshy

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  1. 1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

    It's actually a refreshing departure from long posts.  It's just a quick anecdote that I had long forgotten about.  It really could be worthy of a FB/DT post, but I know it would hurt some feelings.  And I don't expect blacklab to remember this (and it may have been around the time immamac grabbed the wheel as well).  But this was late 2017 when the bidding was going on for Los Alamos.  I helped a small, tiny, miniature amount (that's what she said) with the UT System bid (not on the engineering or legal side anyway because I'm slow, mostly some real estate and lobbying).  Anyway, because of some questionable posts that could be linked back to me, I asked them delete the "Cruiser" account for a good while, which I'm sure most of you very much appreciated the break from.  And they did, so I was gone for basically Summer 2017-Summer 2018, the golden era of Shaggy.  But most everyone knew that Perry would rig it for A&M but it was a good experience for UT System to do this, and they'll get one down the road.  But lotta rumors swirled around A&M, Perry, Trump, The Saudis, Qatar, & UAE.  I wasn't terribly in the loop so didn't' think much of it, but this news cycle brings back a lot of 20/20 hindsight.  I'll get shit from our resident Trump/Perry ball-washers and RexBeeperHouse will be along shortly to insist I'm over reaching, but it really was why I left originally.  Here's my oldest in the Chancellor's seat at the time before we pushed off for Los Alamos soon after:

    /csb

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    Interesting.

    Did you happen to speak to a Los Alamos guy over drinks? Did he happen to give you any inside info?

  2. 5 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    I had no idea my spouse posted on this message board....really though that's what he does.

     

    To all you that wear watches every day, especially the nicer ones: It's sexy a good watch is and fwiw, when a guy is wearing a quality watch and has his sleeves slightly rolled  up his forearms so you can see it, well that's just mighty fine. Eye-catching and practical is not a bad compliment when you consider it, yeah?

    I don't disagree, but it seems like a young kid move: if you're young-ish and have a great watch, it's compelling...cuz you're accelerated. You're a catch.

    At 50...not so much.  I have several watches worth more than 10k apiece...and no one gives a shit. No one. I'm not bragging, I'm saying no one I know cares how much I've spent on watches. I thought it mattered at 20...at 40 I suspected it didn't. At 50 I feel weird wearing them at all. The second cheapest watch I own, Brietling SOH, gets the most comments. These people just don't know. Or care. 

    TL;DR - take that 10k and invest it in the S&P. Amex High interest savings account at 5%. Something that is not a watch. Watches are not an investment.

    Unless you dig watches....watches you dig matter. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, ChickenNuggets said:

    Important notification for administrators... if you replace the coach, beware, players may enter the portal, so show caution and focusness.. 

    Gross. Yes. Exactly. Like paying your coach 75 million...because you want a new one. 

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    UT telling everyone in Texas to fuck off is not what UT's mission is. Fuck that. Athletically and academically. Donations and taxes don't get invested to Ut to "shove everyone's nose in it." 

    We can go play fuck off on the southeast, but we start cold-shouldering everyone in Texas and the dynamics will change. They already are. UT is gonna have a hard time asking for whatever windfall the SEC will deliver, from the school. You'r making a ton, fund your own shit.

    Believe it or not, the amount of money UT athletics makes is not top of mind for most Texans. It IS with legislators who write checks with taxpayer dollars for UT.

    UT is a State Institution. Alienating everyone who is not "UT" in Texas, when most people in Texas, high SATs and GPAs included, cannot go to Texas, is exceedingly dumb. 

     

     


     

     

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  5. 14 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Most of them insist they are on a far higher level, so good for her by being only moderately delusional.

    I was trying to be current. Did I miss a note? Are you current? Can you give me some tips? Thanks.

  6. Just now, msucolt45 said:

    I knew the great group of Surly youngsters wouldn’t understand, as Mike Holder (OSU) golf Coach, would actually be their Athletic Director for like the next two decades.

    Hook’em!!!

    Suspicious Monkey GIF by MOODMAN

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