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Dbeasy

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  1. The Rangers announcers need to go listen to the Astros announcers for how not to be annoying voices constantly talking ALL the time. The Astros announcers are completely superior to what the Rangers are rolling out there.
  2. I have never seen HornFans, ShaggyBevo, ShaggyTexas, or SurlyHorns with a higher level of ADHD than right now. It’s remarkable how every thread is “rabbit!”.
  3. Congratulations. It only took you one post to talk about the most boring, polarizing topic on the planet, fantasy leagues.
  4. “Sir, you are not allowed to hit golf balls in here. This is a yoga studio.”
  5. This one is perfect for this thread. A few years ago I looked her up and she hadn’t done a whole lot since Uncle Buck.
  6. I totally don’t get this movie and turned it off 45 minutes in. I feel bad because people like you rave about it and it confuses me because it was one of the worst 45 minutes I’ve ever wasted. How should I watch that movie and “get it”?
  7. Diamond back water snake I believe.
  8. A few years ago I reviewed fifteen years of Texas recruiting classes and the hit rate on them. From what I recall it was much lower than I ever would have thought. It really was shocking. So then I did it for OU. Same result. I concluded recruiting is a crapshoot with a bit of skill and hustle.
  9. What if I make really good comments during a football broadcast. Does that count?
  10. Hahaha. It’s so bad that whenever either my wife and I say “identical”, in any social situation, we stop, look at each other, and go “I - (clap) DENTICAL!” It’s ridiculous.
  11. I’ve watched My Cousin Vinny 112 times.
  12. Interesting side note. Extensive research on men’s lives have shown that the 40’s is the second cockiest decade in a typical man’s life, behind the teens. It results from a high level of confidence built from success in relationships and career during their 20’s and 30’s. The decade of the 50’s is when most men became more aware and philosophical about their life and the world around them. However, some men get stuck and fly through their 50’s not progressing, leading to higher levels of frustration, unhappiness, closed thinking, and conflict in relationships. We’ve got all types on Surly, I’m sure.
  13. Today is Texas A&M National Football Day. 8-4.
  14. It’s a team with some talent, a lot of gaps, and a pretty easy schedule outside the top 4-5 teams they play. 8-4 seems certain.
  15. I love how this administration has rooms full of people scrambling around to look for any obscure statistics they can find and serve up to rubes like Chickensandwich for distribution so they can obscure the damage they are doing to the economy.
  16. I actually don't mind Taylor Swift. Listen to some of her stuff, and about every other genre. Sydney must be having a mid-life crisis. He's complaining about old people in multiple threads, despite the fact he's pretty old too. Methinks he doth protest too much.
  17. That’s good because if she was quite a bit younger than Taylor that would present a problem.
  18. You methodically built up tremendous credibility on Surly over many years. It’s been an impressive run. But you just completely destroyed it all in one post. You are now on the level of Rocko, TxTow, and Helobious.
  19. I just spent weeks building spreadsheets to analyze these scenarios. Roth conversions are the mechanism to deal with that, or saving more in after tax accounts rather than just IRA’s. However, there was an interesting article written about the “widow tax” that debunks some of the perceived cost of it. The guy does make a decent point. It’s a bit along the lines of what Imammac is saying https://www.financialplanningassociation.org/learning/publications/journal/DEC23-widow-tax-hit-debunked-OPEN?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLh_ehleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpKnpeidF9xh6NKlKm6oELFyhwwriQQx6E8LI7dbLLL91MCadhaAp7idd2kZ_aem_-ssQJ5Ve3SYMR9wW-42tKA
  20. I’m confused. How is it we are getting Astros announcers?
  21. There is light at the end of the tunnel for golfers who desire to improve but haven’t been able to do it. Here’s how. I’ve been playing golf for 50 years. My first lesson was with Harvey Penick and Ben Crenshaw at Mo Willie. However, over the years I only played a few times a year, went to the range a few times a year, and took a few lessons here and there sporadically. As a result I always struggled. In my 40’s I finally got down to a single digit handicap. However I had grooved a flawed swing. So I could never improve from that. Then, in 2015, I experienced a number of injuries that kept me out of the game until 2021. Once back, I still didn’t improve and had lost my single digit handicap. It was bad. Breaking 100 became a challenge. Finally, in 2024, about a year ago, I finally said “enough”. I was either going to fix my game once and for all, or quit. So I tore my swing down to the beginning, and began taking a few lessons from various folks in Austin. None of the instructors helped much at all. That was really frustrating. But in parallel I did two things. I joined an online golf service to finally really learn about the golf swing. And I joined an indoor golf simulator service to get feedback from a Trackman device on my swing. I also started playing more regularly, once or twice a week. Last week I finally broke 80 for the first time in a long time, and followed that up with a 39 on 9. My handicap has dropped from 20 to 12 and I’m on my way to an 8 or better. I’m confident I’ll get there. So what have been the keys so far? 1. Learn everything you can yourself about the golf swing. Amazingly over 50 years I never really understood what causes hooks, slices, etc. I didn’t understand how the wrists should move in the swing. I didn’t understand swing planes. I was an idiot. I relied on instructors, but most instructors aren’t very good. 2. Practice, obviously, but get feedback from a simulator. It will tell you things an instructor alone can’t. 3. Work on all four parts of the game, or one part will kill your rounds: putting, chipping, irons, woods. 4. Be patient. I still have WTF moments and completely lose my swing every few days. I’ll go to the range and hit like a beginner. While I understand the golf swing much better, I still can’t diagnose which of the 40 different swing factors has gone wrong to ruin my swing on any given day. I hope to have that figured out in the next few months, though. That’s the last key piece. Because when I’m on, I am on! I just can’t figure out how to get back on when I’m off. It’s 1.2 steps forward and one step back. Good Luck!
  22. The other thing that could keep the economy from crashing and rates somewhat escalated is the irresponsible spending bill. It will just keep the party going for a few more years until the next election.
  23. Ha. As soon as CTJ posted about Evans I thought of my post on him. Terrible prediction. Not my finest moment.
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