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C-Man

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  1. Was shocked to see that yesterday. She was great on those cooking shows.
  2. Personally, I think I'd get rid of aggy first. I have tons more friends who went to OU than aggy. They are much more normal people. As long as they're not led by Switzer or somebody like Stoops, who Mack couldn't consistently beat, I got no real beef with the Sooners. I guess it's fun to laugh at aggy but if we're cutting one of Iran, OU or aggy, I think I'm taking aggy out.
  3. We are closed tomorrow in honor/celebration of Juneteenth. I think I'll set up my "Out of Office" to proudly proclaim *why* we aren't open tomorrow. I'm usually purposely vague on these.
  4. I helped cover a lot of golf at the ST and one story I remember writing during the Nelson or Colonial was a story about Ron Streck, who was the first PGA Tour pro to use a metal wood on tour. I think it was the 25th anniversary or something that year. The first metal wood was made by TaylorMade. I talked to Ron and wrote the story and TaylorMade sent me a pretty nifty TM r5 or something driver (it was the higher handicap version of the one that you could adjust the loft with a tool) that was top-of-the-line back in 2004 or 2005. We weren't supposed to accept shit like that but first, I wasn't sure how to get it back to TM and second, I knew I was leaving the newspaper biz pretty shortly after so I said what the hell and kept the damn thing.
  5. FIFY. Looks like it's Tulsi vs the head of lettuce time in DC. Trump is ‘losing confidence’ in Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as he mulls removing her entire office, senior official says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tulsi-gabbard-israel-iran-b2772131.html
  6. So I just Googled this and it sounds like Mormons are now a slight minority in SLC but only slightly. Google went on to say that while 49% are Mormon, less than 30% are active members of the church. Not sure how our friends would be classified. They were born and grew up Mormon but haven't been members of the Church in 20+ years.
  7. I have the same Scottie Cameron putter that I bought back in 2003 right before I got married to my first wife. It cost me $350 or so. It was a big purchase for me at the time as I wasn't making all that much as a sports reporter at the Startle-Gram. Love that putter. I've thought about swapping it out for a newer Cameron but it's still a great putter. Not to thread derail but I like to buy woods that are one or two generations behind. I have a Ping G20 driver and 3W (I think I got the driver when it was one generation behind and the 3W when it was two behind to match the driver) and they both suit me just fine. I have the stock graphite shaft and haven't thought of replacing it. The bottom line is you could buy a great putter now and use it the rest of your life but the driver will ultimately give out due to wear-and-tear. I had an old Callaway Great Big Bertha where the head snapped off the hosel at the old Scotty's Driving Range in Uptown Dallas (where the Rustic and Mutt's are located now). It went flying out into the range. I went back the next day and picked it up after the retriever cart scooped it up for me later that day. Good times.
  8. Great post. Last May, my wife and I decided to attend Kilby Block Party in SLC on a whim. In the course of the weekend, we met a really great local couple, who we later found out are directly involved with the group who put on the annual music festival. In other words, good people to know. We've become very good friends with them and their group of friends in the 14 months since. His wife and her friend joined my wife and I in Charleston this April for High Water Fest (they're big music fans like we are). We also went up to SLC last Sept for the War on Drugs/National co-bill show and spent a long weekend with that group. We also went to Kilby this year. Anyway, great folks. They are all ex-Mormons and we have had some very interesting conversations with them. Most are from bigger families (4-6 kids) and in almost every instance, they're the only sibling who has left the church. They're all around my age or a few years younger (I'm 52). To a person, they all said the main thing that made them decide to leave the church was the internet becoming readily available in the late 90's/early 00's. These people are forbidden to read newspapers/magazines (even when on missions) and don't know anything that isn't spoon-fed to them by the Church. But the internet is the wild, wild west and they finally were able to read all this stuff from the outside about Mormonism and it forced them to really take a introspective look at it. So they left. They admit it is 100% a cult. One interesting thing the woman told us when she and her husband came down to Dallas last fall (he was coming for work so she tagged along and we dragged them down to the State Fair on a Monday night) is that they grow up being told things like the sky is yellow not blue -- shit like that gets repeated enough and it becomes the new truth (see Fox News and other MAGA-adjacent peddlers of disinformation, Russia/KGB, etc). I'm not quite explaining it right but essentially elders are teaching an alternative reality. You're right about the crisis facing the church. Members are leaving in big numbers. The population of SLC is only like 20-25% Mormon now. Same for the county as a whole. However, if you go one county south toward Provo and it's in the 80's and higher maybe. It's crazy town down that way.
  9. Kristi Noem Visited Biohazard Lab Day Before Allergic Reaction https://www.newsweek.com/kristi-noem-hospital-allergic-reaction-biohazard-lab-fort-detrick-2087130
  10. Glad this series is over. I’d grown tired of the matchup and had definitively decided Florida was the better team.
  11. Maybe. But I think JJ was in shock after he won.
  12. Nice rack behind Paul Maurice in that interview
  13. Not sure validity but saw the Suns were asking for #2 and Castle for a package involving Durant. Uh, go fuck yourselves on that one.
  14. EDIT: shit, maybe that's old news
  15. The Oilers should be moving heaven-and-earth to go and get a stud goalie. It's definitely their albatross. I bet Skinner gets lit up pretty good tonight as the Panthers smell blood.
  16. My dipshit full-MAGA BIL used to work for them.
  17. The caddy's cut is usually 10% of winnings unless it's a situation like Tiger where he wins so much that they have a set salary situation instead. To my knowledge, caddie is the only one who gets a percentage of winnings in the professional golf world unless you've got a player who is "sponsored" by a group of investors who might have a payout schedule. JJ was T2 at The Cognizant back in early March, then went T31 at Bay Hill/Palmer, lost in a playoff at The PLAYERS, cut in Houston, 50th at Augusta, T42 at Harbor Town, T17 at Truist, T37 at PGA, T6 at Colonial, cut at Memorial and won the US Open. That's a pretty good 3+ month run. JJ's win at the US Open puts him 3rd in the current Ryder Cup rankings -- who would've pegged JJ Fucking Spaun as a Ryder Cup player two weeks ago!
  18. Skinner back in net for Game 6. Hold on to your butts!
  19. I think their hypothesis is that when they got their hands on the election computers (didn't the CO lady go to prison for allowing that access) they were able to reverse engineer the software so that Starlink would be able to "activate" it even though they weren't connected to the internet/WiFi, or at least not visibly so. It's been several months since I had it explained to me so I might be leaving something out. It also would force you to consider Elon's involvement much sooner than the public timeline indicates. (Was he really planning this from the day he took over Twitter? I doubt it because it seems like he was trying to back out of that up until the very last minute.)
  20. So she's back to wearing makeup?
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