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  1. On 3/3/2024 at 11:34 PM, Red Five said:

    How long are we on this island? How many people can we select? Also, was Stevie Nicks there?

    We’re on the island until rescue at some unknown future date.

    Watching LR and QJ wrangle these people was not too far off from an SNL celebrity jeopardy skit.  Lionel telling Lauper to “make a good decision,” was funny.

    No Stevie Nicks.  
    Yes Diana Ross.

  2. Watched it with my kids and at the end I asked - “if you had to be stuck on an island with 2 or 3 of these people - who would you take?”

    Willie, Lionel and Diana Ross were all preferred.  Honorable mention to Huey Lewis, Quincy, Steve Perry, the blond guy from hall&oates, Kenny Loggins and the Boss.

    If you put me on an island with Stevie Wonder, Prince, Al Jarreau, Cyndi Lauper and Waylon, I predict it would devolve into violence almost immediately, and then starvation and suffering.

    Also, can’t rewrite history on Michael Jackson, but it was really cool to watch him work in the studio, to hear him sing unfiltered, and to watch him interact with others.  I never appreciated his raw talent.

    fun show.

     

  3. 4 minutes ago, BigDHornfan said:

    because my wife buys whatever she wants when she goes to the grocery store.  I try not to argue and cost myself sex.

    Correct.

    I've learned that kid food consumes a substantial amount of my wife's thoughts.  If you listen closely, kids will come around really regularly with the "I'm hungry."  If I were a single dad, I would say "you'll find the food in the kitchen, good luck."  I think of this as preparing them for the slings and arrows of adult life.  I don't remember anyone being all that worried about my feelings when I was a child.  I got a lot of "wait until ____."  If it worked for me...

    But that's not how the mind of a modern mother works.

    These premade things preload for them a "go get an uncrustable out of the fridge."  Instead of dropping whatever they're doing and going to make a sandwich which, inevitably turns into some other kid issue, my wife just stays the course and sends kid on a foolproof mission.  Kid - go to fridge, unwrap plastic, eat.  It's the modern mother version of a polite f.o. you kid.

    This in turn takes pressure off of my wife which, somehow someway has to benefit me, somehow.  Someway.

  4. 14 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    I mean, if you insist on being "that guy" and creating a dish they don't serve, then I would get the two scrambled egg breakfast, smothered, covered, peppered and diced. I'm assuming you've done research to know that they have doritos (gross) so you could get a bag of doritos, crumble them into the mess of gross you just ordered. I don't think the cooks are gonna open a single-serving bag of doritos and do that for you. Or if you're committed to Frankensteining your order up, throw some tortilla chips in your pocket instead and bring them into the restaurant instead of crumbling a bag of doritos into the mess. Sub tortillas (if they serve them) for toast. Boom. You've got shitty migas.

    Or you could order something they're not gonna fuck up... 

    You gonna call me dumb in the dumb question thread?

  5. Just learned I'm having breakfast tomorrow at Waffle House.  It occurred to me that they make a lot of different things and will customize and so I wonder...

    How do I order migas? 

    I'm going with "Hash scattered and smothered and covered, hold the hash add scramble, add doritos, scratch the raisin toast and slide me a tortilla on the side." unless someone has a better plan.

  6. 1 hour ago, formermav43 said:

    No man is an island, but some live under a rock.

    Was it that obscure?

     I kinda thought this was required reading somewhere between Where the Wild Things Are and A Modest Proposal.

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  7. 2 hours ago, 83Horn said:

    Seriously?  This seems a but dramatic.  Who said this?  If it's true, what about births; wouldn't they uplift him?  Since the world population is increasing, he should be doing alright then, shouldn't he?  I'm confused, and I need answers.

    No man is an island,

    Entire of itself;

    Every man is a piece of the continent, 

    A part of the main.

    If a clod be washed away by the sea,

    Europe is the less,

    As well as if a promontory were:

    As well as if a manor of thy friend's

    Or of thine own were.

    Any man's death diminishes me,

    Because I am involved in mankind.

    And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;

    It tolls for thee.

    John Donne

     

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Very true but from what I understand behind the scenes, he was a really good guy.

    He's not the first or only musician to peddle trash to the masses.  

    I struggle with the concept of "garbage people."  The optimist in me wants to think each individual has some redeemable quality and this kind of generalization is lazy.

    But then I remember that there is a thing called the Juggalos.  If ever there was a justification for chemical weapons.

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  9. Mixed emotions. 

    He wrote some catchy songs.  Politics.  He said some stupid things.  I'm sure he gave money to charity.  I can almost talk myself into forgiving the ousux thing.  He grew up in Moore (which is what, 30 minutes from Norman) watching Darrell Royal beat sooner ass.  Who was he supposed to cheer for?  

    I land on "any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."   

     

     

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  10. I don't understand why more of these ladies don't end up with wealthy husbands to buy the Mercedes and pay the pool boy to "clean the pool."

    It would seem to me like there have to be at least as many 60-80 year old fat lonely dudes with jobs and cash as there are porn starlets that refuse to pursue any course of self-sustenance.

    Instead, they never get there, and end up in some trailer in Moore snorting fentanyl with some guy that probably is more like Lester Diamond from Casino than anything else.

    Tragic.

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  11. 13 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    Here's a long description of what happens when a bunch of skydivers jump out of a hot air balloon.   You can see that this has the potential to go very wrong.  Here the "parachute" is the valve at the top that lets hot air out.

    https://www.balloonadventures.it/record-breaking-parachute-jump-balloon/

     

    Does a balloon have a terminal velocity?  I would think horizontal wind speed would always be zero. Wind blows you blow with it - feels like no wind.

    But vertical - thermal rising… if you go up too quickly the think inverts or collapses or something sporty like that?

    what is terminal V?

  12. Aha!  Informative.

    Is there an upper limit in ballon ascent velocity?  As I understand it - dropping all the skydiver weight causes so much positive ascent that may exceed balloon’s limits.  So they start off in rapid descent to ameliorate that, and then start dumping lift as soon as it gets light?

    More dangerous than I initially thought.

  13. Maybe I can find solace in the fact that some of those Washington fans we saw in NO spent a lot of $$ to get there, and then turned around and did it again, just to taste defeat.

    I'm guessing a W fan that went to both games spent minimum $6,000 for the experience.  

    Now, you Huskies go back to your desks and get to work like the rest of us.

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  14. The play that was called was three receivers left side to clear out, running back goes out into the flat, and ADM alone on the right.

    That play is designed (I think) to get a 1 on 1 for Mitchell.  It looks like he is the first read.

    Ewers go/no go is probably "if Mitchell is 1 on 1 throw it - if there are two purple shirts there, look left and crank it to the open guy."

    Seems like it was very effective because he was... 1 on 1.

    Seems like Ewers did his job because the ball was in Mitchell's catch radius.  Maybe not perfect - 2 feet lower would have been nice - but not a wild miss.  After all the batted balls, I could see the qb throwing everything a little high.

    What is success rate of that play for 13 yards?  50%?

    Maybe some football expert can help with this - why is that play to the right/short side of the field and not left/wide side of the field?  Shorter pass?

     

  15. Somewhere there is a spreadsheet that includes number of scores and possessions per game, average yard line of recovered onside kicks, and quantifies the risk and benefit.  You give up 40-50 yards of field position if you don't recover, but you gain a possession near midfield if you do recover.  How do you value that in a football game?  Does it matter if you're a high scoring team or grind it out team?

    Seems like a team with a finomenal defense would risk less than a porous defense.

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