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BearSchlong

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  1. @sbbruin Is this a feature or a bug? Do you know the backstory? At Hamilton Cove.
  2. After yesterday I gained more appreciation for your advice. In Dana Pt last night (Laguna Bluffs Marriott oceanfront room for a mere 40k pts????!!?!) but hung out in Laguna Beach yesterday which is totally more my vibe, especially after Newport. My wife’s first day ever in CA and the weather is perfect. About to go meander to Long Beach and take the ferry to Catalina.
  3. This. Wonderful for family beach house or mountain vacations. I’m at my work hotel in Costa Mesa about to leave for a VRBO on Catalina.
  4. Rosenthal, from Miller’s book - “I had read Mein Kampf in college and had seen the newsreels of the big Nazi rallies in Nuremberg, with Hitler riding in an open car and the crowds cheering wildly. It was the faces in the crowd that struck me, the looks of adoration. It wasn’t just Hitler. The entire nation had gone mad; it had to be stopped. “I’m a Jew, but it wasn’t just that. Hitler was a menace to decent people everywhere. I was also tremendously proud of the English. They stood alone against the Nazis during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. I read the papers avidly for war news and listened to Edward R. Murrow’s live radio broadcasts of the bombing of London. I couldn’t wait to get over there. “When I finally arrived, I thought I was at the center of the world, the place where the democracies were gathering to defeat the Nazis. I was right where I wanted to be.” Rosie Rosenthal didn’t share these thoughts with his crewmates, simple guys who distrusted what they called deep thinking. They never learned what was inside him, what made him fly and fight with blazing resolve. Later in the war, when he became one of the most decorated and famous fliers in the Eighth, word spread around Thorpe Abbotts that his family was in a German concentration camp. But when someone asked him directly, he said “that was a lot of hooey.” His family—mother, sister, brother-in-law, and niece (his father had recently died)—were all back in Brooklyn. “I have no personal reasons. Everything I’ve done or hope to do is strictly because I hate persecution. . . . A human being has to look out for other human beings or else there’s no civilization.”
  5. Funny what we do now on Friday nights, eh Celeryman? About to rewatch it. My wife took her dad to see the Eagles and Steely Dan so I’m living it up.
  6. Not yet, he probably hasn’t even signed the offer yet.
  7. The child had a great day. Her dad got custody, and there’s a warrant out for mom’s boyfriend.
  8. Bumping this thread, because my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew are moving to Minneapolis from Portland, Oregon. My BIL was just offered a partner track position at a law firm. Last summer, my oldest nephew died by suicide. The whole family is optimistic, that this new start will contribute to the healing process. My brother-in-law has been a lifelong Minnesota Vikings fan, even though he grew up in Florida and Pennsylvania. My youngest nephew is a sports fiend, and is already pestering his father for season tickets for the NFL, MLB, NBA and hockey teams. Plus, it’ll be convenient since my daughter lives in Chicago. I’m sure I’ll be spending a lot of time there in the warmer months and I’ll be reading this thread looking for good intel.
  9. @kenny Same here. I never have to plan a holiday or family event ever again. All I have to do is pay the credit card bill.
  10. To that point, Crosby’s book self-justifies his own extramarital adventures. Immediately before deploying he married Jean but while in England he hooked up with a former girlfriend who also found herself in London. And he was sent to Oxford as the Air Force’s emissary to study the abrupt and powerful societal changes in British society brought about by the presence of so many Americans, especially in light of the vacuum left when English men of fighting age were sent to Africa and other theaters. There, he hooked up with a worldly intellectual lady of noble descent and spent all his available time with her. After the war, he attempted to confess his affairs but Jean shut him down, effectively saying “what happened in England stays in England.” She bore 4 children and they had a lengthy marriage until her death from Cancer in 1980. He went on to earn a PhD at Stanford and a professorship at Harvard. American forces were paid roughly 4x more than their British counterparts. “Overpaid, oversexed, and over here” was a valid complaint.
  11. Are you God’s agent saying I should run for TX21 as a Democrat? (My wife and Mrs. Dade (ad litem) will be in court tomorrow protecting a child. There are photos - a mother drugged out, her toddler sitting in the bed playing with an AK47.)
  12. Ouch, and good luck. My stepbrother has a friend who he is trying to point to rehab. In the last month, he's been banned from the Little League field/organization for being wasted around kids, is about to be thrown off a pretty prestigious charity board for simulating fellatio on another board member, and then did shots at another family event and had a loud discussion about myths, generalizations, and penis-size with the only black guy in attendance. He's rich and writes big checks but is about to wear out his welcome in polite society. I chortled. Gave my stepbrother the phone number to La Hacienda and said good luck. He is so obsessed with polite decorum so if anything the aforementioned events were under-embellished. One of my favorite parts of the big book of AA mentions “let him drink for a day, and he becomes disgustingly, even dangerously anti-social.” Hey, that was me.
  13. I laughed, I mean, what if it was that easy to escape?
  14. My niece’s first vinyl was a Taylor Swift disk. I got to be the hero who showed her how to use a turntable. Haven't checked in with her but I hope she and her friends had a party too.
  15. That's the face he made when my ex gave him a hand job at Kanakuk summer camp. Circa 1982
  16. My ex-wife claims she could have married him. Narrator: “not in a million lifetimes”
  17. I've been explaining that Taylor is a bigger GDP than 35 countries to the triggered snowflakes on my county GOP chair’s FB page. /no CR, just mad props.
  18. Ha I forgot about that! Awesome.
  19. Now if Taylor wears a Biden t-shirt to the podium my weekend will be complete.
  20. Ballgame, Taylor wins in her rookie year.
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