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Longhorn Fever

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  1. I just noticed blowU Superfan John Slate gives an OU salute with his head and neck: His head forms the O and the fat roll of his neck forms the U. He is the perfect Sooner fan. Howver, now that I think about it, he also has an upside down OU working with his round belly and arms held down. Ha. He is simultaneously giving the horns down and a downward OU.
  2. Was it 2009 or 2010 that Trump accepted Christ and became a Republican? Is that when he saw the error of his ways and disassociated himself from Epstein, the Clintons, and stopped living a hedonistic lifestyle?
  3. Yep, when a family is living paycheck to paycheck, which are they going to buy: Lettuce $2-3 Tomatoes $1.29/lb Chicken Breast $1.99/lb or Loaf white bread $0.69 Jar peanut butter $2 Bag of Chips $0.99 And I've got to wash and cut those veggies plus cook the chicken and clean the dishes? That fresh food is gonna spoil quicker, too, and my kids don't like it. I'm too tired from working my 2-3 jobs/part time jobs. Ain't nobody got time for that! Subsidies are going to the wrong foods and producers
  4. WRT A&M SaberSlinger: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/smu-cheerleader-texas-aandm-cadet-7101684 The article ends on this note:
  5. If you're that concerned, why didn't you send out the PhlegmSignal (TM): "Texas Aggie" Now he ought to be here any minute to chastise me for spelling aggy Aggie and omitting the A$M.
  6. FRANtastic! Haha, Jolly didn't quit though, did he?
  7. That seems to be a good deal on the VZW network. I wonder if they will let users keep the plan if they have no plan changes after the "limited time offer" expires? This is correct. Although, we have never noticed a real difference. AS I mentioned above we routinely stream video from the major streaming services with no problems except as noted above at the FCS football stadium in a rural area.
  8. This motivated me to share my story on long story phones. As I mentioned, I had been a long time Sprint customer. With the lack of deals on phones that they were doing at the time I was ready to switch, I started looking at ATT & Verizon. I decided if I was going to pay Sprint's going rates at the time with no phone deal any better than VZW or ATT, I wanted to get better coverage. Thus I tested our unlocked iPhone 6 phones on Cricket to test ATT. I loiked it, but still heard that Verizon was best. In the meantime, I had seen an ad for a T-mobile offer called "Get Out of the Red" where they were offering to pay up to $650 per line for people willing to switch from Verizon. The catch was that you had to have been a Verizon customer for 60 days. Since I wanted to test each network, I went ahead and purchased 4 iPhone 8+ from Verizon while they had a buy one-get one promotion on an installment plan using monthly credits. I stayed with them for my 60 days and switched under the promotion to go ahead and give TMO a chance. I immediately sent in my authorizations for the $650 credit per line. I think all in, the rebate for $2600 on a Mastercard debit card came in at about 40 days. This was just in time for my final bill from VZW. I paid off my phones. I used TMO for 2 months and decided it was not for us. So, after giving each major network a 2 month run, we decided that the ATT network was best for us where we lived and roamed to most often. I've now been on Cricket for almost two years with no complaints. Now for the bad: The 4 unlimited lines for $100 plan is technically throttled at 3Mb/s and videos are typically shown at 480p rates. On a phone, I have not noticed a problem with video quality even if I use AirPlay to our Apple TV 4th gen. Note that I still have a 1080 p TV and no 4k Apple TV. I have seen rates occasionally up to 10-15 Mb/s. Cricket does, or at least used to, offer a plan with higher speeds. I think it was a whopping $160 for 4 lines. We decided that the "slower" plan worked for us. I have been able to watch games streaming on WatchESPN while we were at HS marching band competitions in NC, Atlanta and Indianapolis. Now that my youngest is in a college marching band/dance line, I have had trouble streaming at her Div IA school football games in rural Alabama with attendance of about 12,000. However, when I carried a VZW phone for work I had the same issues to some extent. I think there it is just a lack of network build out for all the carriers. I am sure as a CW customer, I get less priority than a full-fledged ATT customer. BOth of my daughters are heavy users. The youngest has gone over 22gb in a month twice, but said she did not notice a significant drop off. She was able to still watch videos on the phone and cast to the TV. The phone was her primary television device rather than cable or satellite. We all also routinely stream Netflix, DirecTV Now, Hulu and/or Amazon Prime Video while on road trips.
  9. Too proud to use Cricket? It is a wholly owned subsidiary of ATT and uses the ATT network.
  10. By the way, you can add tethering to each line for an additional $10/line. We only got it on mine because I occasionally tether for work. Also, regarding international service, we could do WiFi calling at hotels and trusted hotspots in Italy.
  11. Just took a trip to Italy with my wife and youngest daughter over the holidays. I just bought local SIMs for use in country. As far as I know, you can only travel to Canada and Mexico with Cricket. I think they have an inexpensive plan add-on for that.
  12. I am a shag uh surly poor, so laugh at me all you want: we we were with sprint for a LONG time only because they offered inexpensive service and great retention discounts on phones for a long time. The discounts were significant enough that we overlooked the slow “unlimited” service we were offered. Those great discounts slowly disappeared over time. I finally decided to switch carriers. I wanted to test ATT networks where we lived so I bought Cricket SIMS for our phones and had good service and coverage. I ultimately tried Verizon and T-Mobile to get a great discount on iPhone 8 pluses a couple of years ago, but ultimately switched back to Cricket (ATT) because we found the service better than the other 3 networks where we live and travel most. Long story I won’t share now, but managed to get 4 new iPhone 8 Plus phones for about $250 each. I currently have 4 unlimited lines of service (throttled after 22gb/month/line).One line has tethering capability. We pay $110/month and I have no complaints and no contract.
  13. I prefer a mix of crabgrass, dallisgrass and johnsongrass.
  14. I asked this question earlier.I am completely stupid about basketball, but... Looking back, I think that there was about 22 seconds left in regulation when Tech shot free throws to go up by 3. I know that is a good bit of time. I wondered why not immediately foul and let Virginia take two free throws rather than potentially give up a game-tying three-pointer. At worst tech makes one, misses the second and puts up 2 more to tie. At that point Tech has 15-20 seconds to go score/get fouled by Virginia. If Virginia does not tie, they are forced to foul Tech to prevent Tech from running the clock. Play the back and forth fouling game in the waning seconds, best free-shooters deserve to win at that point. Please tell me what's wrong with this strategery?
  15. Help this basketball illiterate. When Tech went up by three on the free throws, why not foul Virginia quickly to avoid a three point play?
  16. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I get where you were going here, but doesn't Cetacea also include dolphins, porpoises and other marine mammals like orca that may be fast and agile, besides just the big, blubbery whales. Let's trust they have more of the latter than the former.
  17. So, we already have a suburban and were shopping for a wagon for some time. I’ve been looking at Edmunds, KBB, Cars.com to get an idea of pricing. Since there aren’t a lot of wagons out there we fairly easily narrowed down the search between a VW Golf Sportwagen and Subaru Outback. The best deals I could find on the VW were a 4-hr drive away. Most Subaru dealers did not seem initially willing to bargain much outside of the $1750 dealer cash incentive since Subaru is offering 0% financing on the cars. I finally pulled the plug and tried the Costco referral service. It listed one of our local three Subaru dealers. I spent the afternoon emailing back and forth with the associate to let him know what I was looking for. After some back and forth, he finally said since it was end of month and quarter, he might be able to do better than Costco pricing. The car we agreed upon had a Sticker MSRP of $32,814. I requested to add an OEM trailer hitch and accessories that listed out at $707. This put me at a list of $33,521. I then checked with the 2 other local dealers. I ruled one out right away because they play the game of dealer add-ons on all their cars with highly overpriced nitrogen fills, wheel locks, window tint, etc. I ended up with the second dealership because I liked the salesman. Final deal for $27,292 plus TTL and BS doc fees that N.C. allows. Ended up with about 18.5% discount off MSRP and 0% financing. I feel like I got a pretty good deal considering Edmunds True Market Value of $29,916 not including a couple hundred of added accessories. TL,DR: got 18% discount off MSRP and 0% financing of 2019 Subaru Outback
  18. Good job, @Dbeasy! Can you share how you did on the vehicle compared to, say, Edmunds True Market Value?
  19. So, Coach K or Roy Williams? Or Is “high major” code for heaven? That’s it!!! Those bastards are gonna try and pay God to reanimate John Wooden!!!
  20. I actually used something like this many years ago along one wall. https://www.lowes.com/pd/47-75-in-x-7-98-ft-Smooth-White-Hardboard-Wall-Panel/3015239 What I used had a smooth glossy white finish like a whiteboard. We used dry erase markers for quick measurements or notes, notes to/from the wife, and for the kids to draw.
  21. Yeah, sip, that was when A$M only admitted men's men. What about since A$M became co-ed and scholarship limits were put in place? Oh, wait... Since the modern era began in 1984? No, wait a minute. Frick!!!!!
  22. We're not taking any transfer QBs until at least next year.
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