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  1. Just turn the sign around. This the best you can do? You thought this indicated your superiority? Change your mind? You're a fucking cult. Proof? You're here proselytizing. You didn't specify as to whom you're superior. You may be superior to other cults. I don't blame you for wanting your mind changed. This is a cry for help. I'll call some de-programers. Thoughts and prayers.
  2. They're doggie spirits now who can float up from the ground and glow. But they're lazy and don't want to bother spiriting themselves over the stadium wall (look at all those natties!) to see the game directly. They mainly smell each other's asses and spirit piss on the doggie scoreboard.
  3. They must be basing this on their projected record rather than any reality. They don't play Alabama, Ole Miss, or Georgia. They may end up with a better SEC record than those teams therefore they're the best team in the SEC. The genius of sports pundits. They may be the third best team in Texas. go hawgs
  4. In the 80s, I'd visit friends in Austin. We were all young. They were law school students and an architecture student. We'd go to County Line on Friday night then return to somebody's apartment to watch Dallas (I didn't care about it, but loved the company) then Second City would come on. I was blown away. I recall their take on some important movies with The Man Who Would be King Who Would Be Pope. They did Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, and Richard Burton just shouting I want to be Pope! No, I want to be king! They also had Redundancy Theatre where there was a western. Murderin' killers are on the way a comin'. Where do such ideas come from?
  5. Looks like a thumbs up on this. Thanks for the notice. I didn't read much of the thread. Just wanted to pick up the tone. I've been steered right many times in the different iterations of Hornfans over the years.
  6. I'm with Iceman on this one. Whenever they mentioned doctor advice it was lose weight and stop drinking. I didn't hear mention of smoking. As you say, it's not tearing a person down to mention this and other habits/addictions in a biography. These aren't crimes or a reflection of his character. They are part of his struggle to succeed, deal with fame, deal with over-empathy for his fellow humans, or something. Revealing this is humanizing not character assassination. If the filmmaker, C. Hanks, wanted hagiography, then don't just repeat the same stuff two hours. The whole thing was lazy. The good part? I did like hearing the testimony as to his character, talent, and path. I'd seen Catherine O'Hara's brilliant eulogy before the film. I'm sort of indifferent to using his son for so much of the VO. Tom Hank's description of their work together in Splash was insightful. The way Candy's eyes changed in some of the rude interviews was enticing but not explored enough. The best exchange was when the interviewer tells him he's a funny guy. So much is conveyed in Candy's ironic tone. Would have been better at 75 minutes if they are not going to expand further than they did. I've been late coming to John Candy's work. He was brilliant in Splash. He grounds the movie even with his short amount of screentime. I didn't see Uncle Buck until 2002. Fuck. Great movie and unforgettable character. I wish I knew more about him. And, closing down the 405 for his funeral procession was stunning. I was in LA one time when they did that for the president. It really hit home what he was to so many people. I actually didn't know that. I ramble. Great subject for what's an ok documentary.
  7. Maybe it will be like our mojo over Oklahoma State for all those years. Then the nasty backlash. Or maybe Arkansas, a middling team, is A&M's, another middling team, Nebraska. Our mojo held like a motherfucker over those corn heads.
  8. Indiana looks rugged and physical, or at least they did against Oregon and Illinois. I don't know anything about Indiana or what moves Cignetti, whose name I didn't know until this season, has made, but I'm impressed by what I see. His team belongs where they are in the rankings this wild, wonderful year.
  9. The great state of Texas is proud to announce the invention and soon-to-be-deployed technology known as Gaydar. Scientists at the Texas A&M Institute of Cold Fusion have perfected the apparatus.
  10. My thought exactly. The coaching market is a bubble that may not burst. You're coaching at Michigan State. Not bad, no likely championships, but not bad. How incentivized are you to work your ass off just to have good seasons when coasting will get you that kind of money? Phone it in, delegate, and then live like a god however you like.
  11. I think Elko is proving to be a solid coach. His trickiness with the defense is impressive. He's bringing in good players via the portal. He has a chance to be legendary at A&M. On the other hand, he isn't playing the cream of the SEC this year except for (fingers crossed) who is emerging here in Austin. If he thinks he can keep up the winning even when schedules change, I think getting a ton of money to make himself the biggest hit since Jackie Sherrill might tempt him to stay. I see A&M resuming their 8-4 ways when their schedule evens out, but he may not.
  12. Speaking of sailing blind. I read The Fatal Shore a long time ago. Great book about Australia. It's remarkable how many times explorers missed it when they actually had some information about it being there.
  13. I understand the Māori women were sassy and independent.
  14. I read the diary of Bernal Diaz years ago. He was a soldier of Cortez in Mexico. He discovers the horror of human sacrifice and, I think it's him, casually menitons the Inquisiiton which the Spanish brought to the New World. Diaz was awed by the cities and noted they were bigger, cleaner, and more orderly than any he had seen in Europe. He had no explanation for motives, but he repeats that gold is an honorable objective. Such a clash of civilizations. Savagery in both. (Aztecs and Spanish. I don't mean to put all indigenous people in the same pot.) Culture in both. So much was wiped out. The Spanish destroyed the libraries of the savages. The natives died in droves to disease. Europe invaded a civilized land, and did all they could to erase every aspect of those civilizations from the earth and memory.
  15. I don't get it. ETA Now I get it. Right wing hilarity: Humor for the humorless. It's a big market.
  16. I think they are far more dangerous to the US than Muslims mujahadeen will ever be. My point concerns the level a fanaticism rather than relative threat. Jihadists are totally committed and proof against any attempt at reasoning. They're both holy warriors. I apply the Muslim term generally as it has the correct connotation of blind fanaticism. I agree with your assessment of the threat.
  17. I've never encountered such a profound misspelling. You've encapsulated this moment in Western history using three words.
  18. Disgracefully under-reported by other prominent news outlets. The Christian danger is the worst force working against freedom and rationality. They are jihadists. Like jihadists, it's hard to persuade someone who thinks God through some random human is telling what must be done in His name. I think the doom of the republic lies in the argument-proof entities of the racists, idiots, and psuedo-Christians. The Democratic Party messaging strategy won't do the trick here. They know they are in a holy war. We mostly think it's politics and elections and discourse as it should be and generally was. Those days are over.
  19. Can you recommend some good reading on this? I'm pretty fascinated but know very little. They may have made it to South America. That's a vast bit of ocean with few islands.
  20. The courage to sail into the sunset and keep sailing cannot be overstated. Nor can the scale of catastrophe visited upon the existing civilization by the invasion of Europeans. I've come around on the celebration of Columbus and discovering the "New" World. The contact led to unfathomable death and sorrow and destruction. He personifies that. I don't care that he thought he was landing in Asia or wasn't actually the first European here. His achievement stands just as do the consequences. I'm with the descendants of the indigenous who think the whole thing should not be celebrated. I doubted their claim for years. Read 1491, 1493, and an Indigenous People's History of the United States. Or try to before they're banned, collected, and burned to protect the feelings of the downtrodden white man.
  21. Now that I believe we can do some damage, this looks like a really fun season going on. Indiana and A&M in the top 5 with Tech and Georgia Tech in the top 15 is fun as shit. Anybody can lose any day. Indiana was playing some pretty badass football Saturday. I still haven't watched Tech. A&M's easy schedule will keep them up there if they can win away from home. We can dogfight our way back into the scrum. Good times!
  22. I screamed it at the TV and said I could smell his mother's vagina over the airwaves. Had to keep a can of Glade at hand as well as fly spray.
  23. Da ball moved. And moved. Wisner gets a little more help from an inspired line. Da ball move in different way. I don't care how.
  24. That was me. I went into OU with remarkable little feeling or expectation. I'll just react to what I see. The brilliance and violence of the Texas defense was reminiscent of some of those intense option football games of the 70s. I grit my teeth at the futility of the offense, but it wasn't so much on Arch as the OL penalties and other holding calls. Arch didn't subtract, but, IMHO, he didn't add a whole lot either. But he was thwarted no matter what by the line. Second half, I'm edgy starting, and then Arch comes alive. He leads the offense to more spirited play. The defense plays like a group of angry, fleet hammers. Great! Now Kentucky.
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