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  1. 2 hours ago, UncleBuck said:

    Uncle Buck would make you a giant breakfast, and Chet tackled the Ole 96'er, which was definitely a cut of bone-in beef. Not sure which of his characters always ordered the big pork chop, though. 

    That's from when he played Hercule Poirot on SCTV. One of his funniest.

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  2. 2 hours ago, UncleBuck said:

    Tried a new CFS yesterday at a place called 35 & Main in Tivoli, and it was a pretty good one. No pictures because I actually didn't get the CFS. Wife and daughter shared an order, son got a half order, so I figured I could try theirs while also seeing what the burgers were like at this place. Would go for the CFS again without a doubt. Their toast is actually really good also. No fried okra, though. 

    John Candy always ordered the big pork chop, and you are no John Candy, sir.

  3. 18 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    It isn't just the commercials. It's fucking up the time that they're live with all of the gay-ass history pieces and announcer shots and interviews. I don't give a fuck about what Matthew Fitzpatrick has to say about every shot he hit. Show me golf, dammit. 

    I never thought I would end up disliking Francis Ouimet, but I think I do now. His elfin caddy too.

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Cool. I started that thread so as not to overshadow the US Open. This was a direct response to a post on here (literally one of only three that’s been made since the tournament started today- counting my response and then yours, so… yeah not a single post about the golf today). 
     

     Now on the tee from Louisville Kentucky, Justin Thompson. Good job starter. 

    And that's cool. The coverage (and tee times) started later than the last two days. Or so it seems.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    You fans will lose. Because you won’t see all the best guys together anymore. 
    Maybe. 
    But, it’s not guaranteed to play out that way. We shall see. 

    With all due respect, you have your LIV thread to discuss this topic. We're talking about the US Open up in here.

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  6. 9 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    Oh cool. Vestavia Hills.

    Very nice Birmingham suburb - not Mountain Brook rich but probably the second old money suburb.

    Went for 63% for Trump.

    My wife was shopping at Publix across the street from the shooting when it went down. Out of all of the LEO agencies..including the FBI that immediately descended on the scene, you would have thought that one of those "heroes" could have strolled across the street to warn the shoppers that there was a crazed gunman on the loose. Fuck those idiots. I'm not sure what your point is with the 63% is though, or if it is even correct.

  7. 44 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    That's wild!  After a Jocko podcast I read his book.  Amazing read.  Then circling back to the Pacific series, Jesus man....what those guys endured.  Both fronts were so wild and had MASSIVE intel failures that got so many guys kiled.  Missing the atoll reefs, bad reads on tides, or the entire hedgerow campaign that were coordinated killing fields for the Germans.  Damn.  

    And some of those Pacific battles weren't even necessary. Peleliu for instance could have been bypassed. The Tarawa landing was a total cluster.

     

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  8. 7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Give me Malmady over the death marches and beheading & bayonet "practice" utilized by the officers to "raise morale"

    For sure. My family ( I was born and raised in Mobile, Al) was close with Eugene Sledge author of With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. His pal, Sidney Phillips lived across the street from me growing up. Dr. Phillips would speak a bit about his experience on Guadalcanal. Sledge kept it all in until he wrote one of the definitive books about the war in the Pacific. Anyway /csb.

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  9. 9 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


    Don’t forget all the biting insects and tropical diseases.

    And don't forget the Japs. A cruel and worthy adversary. I would take the European theater over the PTO any day. If I had been captured by the enemy(which was likely considering my slow ass) I would rather take my chances with the Hun, Malmedy notwithstanding.

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  10. 32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Exactly. This massacre wasn’t a result of our system failing. It was a result of it performing exactly as designed, by a ruling party we’ve kept in power for three decades. This happened because we wanted it to happen - we’ve spent thirty years doing all we could to ensure that it would happen.
    If we want it to stop, we should stop doing the shit we’ve been doing for thirty years: keeping republicans in office while also demanding zero accountability from them.

    You're killing your father, Larry.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    The timing of all these crashes is just exquisite.   I started college in 1984, crash in 1987, job market sucked when I graduated.   The 1990s were good (thanks a lot, Clinton), had kids in ‘96 and ‘98 and started my good earning years, crash in 2000.  Wiped out half of my retirement savings.  Repeat in 2008.   Now, I was magically close to the number I needed to retire and bam! I’m gonna have to work until I die, unless we get some quality nationalized healthcare.  

    I feel your pain. I started college in '72 during the start of the Arab Oil embargo. Graduated and the best job I could find to pay for grad school was working on an offshore oil rig. Finally got a decent job, and then stagflation came along. The first mortgage I had was @ 12% (yeah, houses were cheaper..but still). Then came Black Monday in 1987 which wiped out my meager holdings. Then the rest of what you also experienced. Had I not stayed in the market in '08 ( against my better judgement) I would be in a world of shit right now. tl;dr Recessions are a normal part of the economic cycle, and they suck donkey dicks.

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