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  1. 14 minutes ago, ApocalypseTexas said:

    This is such a classic who gets credit for this pure gold

    One of my best friends, who has always been aware of Hornfans/Shaggy/Surly but isn't a lurker or poster, made this and HenryJames posted it. Way back in the day. 

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  2. 5 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

    We have a whole thread in Lolz somewhere i’m pretty sure, this one just went on a offseason mini detour.  It started with physically bumping into or stepping on their feet and evolved in offseason form.  

    Sir, you can remove the credit for this thread derail from my cold, dead hands. This started when I asked about a Dave Grohl reference and then things began spiraling when his drug-addled drummer hit on my wife. 

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  3. 23 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Apparently Bono lasts a long time.

    I’m reminded of the old business line “how long do you let an 800 lb gorilla fuck you?” here.

    “How long does hagbard celine let Bono fuck him?”

    ”As long as Bono wants. “

    22 hours ago, nnm said:

    In the area.

     

    Edit: CDC and I are contemporaries. Went to different high schools. We crossed paths a time or two, but I’m sure he has no recollection of me (he wasn’t remarkable at the time either).  He is now the AD at the premier college athletic program in the country. I am not. 

    Don’t take it too hard. I’ve met CDC at least 50 times, including in closely held meetings, and I feel fairly certain he wouldn’t remember me if I ran into him right now and kicked him squarely in the nuts. 

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  4. 30 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    I think Klatt's missing the mark here.  I think the committee will frequently screw over the Big 12 with odes to "eye test" and "good losses", but at least they (the Big 12) aren't publicly saying "we're signing up for a guaranteed less".  They're also planting a bit of a strategic flag in saying "we know we'll get less than we want some times, but it's the right thing for the good of the sport".  I think at this point most Big 12 officials are more interested in staying in the game than maximizing revenue in the short term.  Especially when the playoff gets reformed every single year.

    The Big 12 isn't super likely to get more bids this way, but I don't think that's what they're after in this negotiation.

    Hahahahahaha!  HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!

    Get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. They're not being altruists or strategic thinkers on this. They're simply not interested in codifying their position as merely a second tier conference in an explicit manner. Klatt is 100% correct with his argument. 

    I realize not everyone on here has had the misfortune of being present in a board room when leadership is facing a daunting outlook and some of the sunshine-pumping ass-kissers start vomiting false hope and everyone else starts injecting that into their veins as well, but that is almost certainly what the Big 12 and ACC board rooms are doing in this set-up. They're convincing themselves of the premise that they'll outperform their past as they look to the future, even though their foundation has actually gotten weaker relative to the competition.

    It is flatly idiotic for those groups to leave a locked up spot sitting on the table. The SEC and B1G will ultimately figure out how to take all of the at-larges on a virtually annual basis. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Actually I think it was “kick those fucking Lubbock bitches in the cunt, ladies” 

    I haven't seen the clip in a while, but I feel like I would have remembered Bum Phillips calling the Steelers a bunch of cunts. I'll go get a refresh on YouTube, I guess. 

  6. I buy any I can find with the exception of Dave Campbell's. I still love reading all of them front to back. Going to go buy the two that are out later today. Phil Steele's is always my favorite. I usually have my own thoughts gathered across the big conferences by the time I start reading these and it is always fun to see the disparity from my perspective versus the writers in each magazine.

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  7. 2 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Anyone notice what kind of pitch Kayden hit her HR off of?

    Finally, someone besides Mia timed a fucking change up 

    The idiot threw the change on the first pitch of the AB. She deserved to see that one sail out. Less about timing when that happens, though. 

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  8. What a fucking clown that Wright State coach is. Just a dumb motherfucker in every way. You are the last seed in the tournament and your guy is throwing a no-no with a lead and only 76 pitches thrown. Just keep running the guy out there, you piece of shit. 

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  9. 42 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Yup. I would sarcastically tell people to “just read the damn article” but even I had to read it a few times to figure out what is going on here. I know many on this board are still mad at Yormark and the “Irate 8,” but we’re not the ones causing trouble here, it’s the BIG conflating their big payday with strength on the field. They got their money because of the size of their media markets, not because they’re in any way equal to SEC on the field (top to bottom).

    The B1G has all of its talking heads, paid directly or indirectly, out there talking about being the strongest conference and winning the last two titles. "Now that everyone is paying players, power has shifted to the north" implying that the SEC was actively playing bag games that other leagues avoided before. Shit like that. 

    I hate the SEC history and idiotic bravado. Hell, and the schools themselves, outside of UF and Vanderbilt, who I like a little. I'm all for what the B1G is doing. I hope it all causes the SEC to yield to the pleadings for them to play 9 conference games. 8 game conference schedules causing what is effectively a cheat for the SEC and ACC (lol) getting more teams into a playoff is beneath what Texas and its brand stands for, so fuck all of that shit. 

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  10. 6 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    I had about a 3 hour layover when changing trains in Gstaad, Switzerland back in ‘97, so I went into a shop and picked out a blue Swiss Army knife, because I had heard in my hostel in Madrid or Geneva that you could only get their classic utility knife in blue if you bought it in Switzerland.

     Picked out my knife and asked fire an engraving. (Maybe “Summer ‘97” or something like that.)

    I picked up the knife an hour later before heading to the train station and saw the engraving on the knife… then noticed on the receipt that I had patronized a shop named “Fuhrer Tobacco” (or something with “Fuhrer” in the name) and I believe that the shop name may have even been imprinted on one side of the blade. 

    I mean…. Heil! It just seemed a little odd.

    My FIL served in the British military for a decade. He then went on to work for a UK conglomerate working in "development" behind the Iron Curtain, in the USSR, the Middle East, Iran and the Far East for various stretches of time. He tells random stories of the same ilk as you do, although often really absurd or disturbing. He does it in the same matter of fact manner.

    "I was bringing across £50,000 through Ashgabat once via a hidden floor in the soles of my shoes for a mate once ..." or "our friend in Dubai, Ramy, kept buying canaries at the pet shop after he first brought his family over. it took awhile to figure out what was going on ..." or "the bloody problem with Russians is that life is not valued by them. I've run into more sociopaths in my dealings with those dirty bastards than anywhere else in the world outside of Kowloon ..."

    Now, I'm fairly certain that he actually was part of the British intelligence world. I sometimes wonder if you're not our Surly version of that. 

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  11. Just now, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Yeah I realized I said jumping the shark instead of jumping the gun abut two seconds after I posted and didnt bother to edit it. Shouldve known with your insufferable ass you would make the whole post about that. Jesus christ you are a miserable prick.

    Not miserable. I’d have to be a perpetually wrong buffoon to qualify as miserable. You should know well enough. 

  12. 8 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Baseball and softball still have a chance. Jumping the shark a bit. 

    Eh, no. If you’re going to attempt to correct someone, don’t be that much of a fuck up. It’s jumping the gun. Jumping the shark is a reference to a popular something or other taking things too far into absurdity and losing its audience/impact. Jesus. 

    Also, no shit softball and baseball are still playing? So are rowing and both gender T&F. 1 national championship for this season will be won. 

  13. 9 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    Weird, but as much as I did not want Oklahoma to win, it is extremely satisfying knowing that so many Tennessee fans are suffering after an excruciating loss.  I can never really feel bad about that.  Fuck everything associated with that school.

    Your gain is our pain. I fucking knew Tennessee was fixing to choke as that inning was unfolding. Just fucking brutal. 

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