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RomaVicta

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  1. 4. The spot right before greatness and success. The College Station Dictionary of Homer Language according to this idiot.
  2. It will be written of these pages: There were a few valiant efforts to return the thread to recruiting. Efforts with real news and something to discuss. Still, the flood of dick-headed football board fuckwad fuckery was impossible to stem. One fungus showed up to complain about a player, and the rest stormed the thread like flesh-eating jock rash. O, for the satisfying sting from the nozzles of Lamisil spray.
  3. My guess is that the Aggie aim is to establish themselves as equal in stature to UT, a co-flagship as it were. Two great giants of the college football world clashing every year! Two storied programs, equals among midgets! Either way, I don't care. I recognize the rivalry, of course, but they can try to puff themselves up however they want. They're not fooling anybody. They're afraid of somebody.
  4. There was a twitter thread or something talking about all the shit Jimbo had in his hands. One guy asked if Jimbo was doing his taxes. Still makes me laugh.
  5. In thinking about a career in Hollywood, I decided that I'd rather be a successful screenwriter (a couple of decades ago when the pay was great) than actor. I'd choose more than comfortable life with plenty of extra money to set aside rather than 5 times the money and dealing with fame. Add the responsibilities of a HC to constantly be dealing with boosters, the press, and whatever emotions the fans are experiencing wouldn't be my cup of tea. I don't know a thing about this well-paid DC, but I could see it being difficult to pry him from where he is if he's like me.
  6. If some vicious fuck runs for governor of Fla and out MAGAs DeSantis to win. I guess, typically, we'd be replacing this POS with a worse POS. Lovin' today's political scene!
  7. Looks like Sharon Tate's head stuck on a giraffe.
  8. I wonder if this national campaign flop will hurt him in Florida. This is a whole new spotlight showing him as just how unlikeable a person he is. He's always been hate-able for his actions, but that really doesn't count as much as emotional response these days. Do I need to name the example?
  9. From the corporations, not a word about the future. They make their case in the now. Their paid "scientists" are no longer enough to generate general doubt about what the future holds, so the fat shameless oligarchs won't talk about it. It's bad for business. Energy security? Maybe reduce reliance on petroleum. Maybe build nuclear plants and take the smart bet that if some of them meltdown, that's better than burning carbons. Reliabililty? What the fuck is that? Addiction enabled by the selfish is more like it. Consumer cost? That's where the knife goes in. Joe American wants a ride as free as he can get it. Priority One. The future they sponsor with their greed: Absolutely great movie.
  10. I don't know anything about baseball recruiting. Looks like we're getting hard throwing pitchers. Is this a good class? Will we have national top ten talent as a team?
  11. Very succinct description of TV news. They don't find news themselves, they just get opinion quotes. They maintain an absolutely childish adherence to the notion that there are two approximately equal sides to every story. They wouldn't have any news at all to report if it weren't for print journalism. They only cover predictable stuff. They love the election cycle because they can just about say the same thing in 2 and 3 year cycles with just a few name changes. They're fumbling the two biggest stories since WW2: Climate Cataclysm and the Fascist Threat to the USA. They handle them pretty much just as Red 5 describes.
  12. That and he's hanging onto their balls like a fruit bat.
  13. I see why Billy Boy doesn't resort to simile much. He's very bad at it. It would be more like Olin spending the money on a sputtering Maserati that the owner was delighted to unload and hoping the car will heal itself. Oh, and Billy is the idiot in any scenario.
  14. I fully expect Lane Kiffin to have one of these on when Ole Miss comes to Kyle next year. He'll have the cup in front of him as well in the post victory press conference. I asked the guy in the pink shirt to pass the idea on to Lane.
  15. This plays so well into Aggie pathology. They're not really bad. They've lost to good teams (except for the one that killed them). In a vacuum, all is okay. But it's not a vacuum. A&M's okay-ness is being distorted by negative recruiting and a hail of arrows raining down on the Aggie football program. Recruits are thinking A&M maybe sucks really bad. Aggies know A&M is nearly perfect and oozing manly manfulness and honor codes and facilities and traditions! Thus, the opinions of these recruits is being driven down by mean ol' negative recruiters and, evidently, a large band of archers. A&M sucking and staying the mediocre course is a narrative pushed by negative recruiting and those dildo-waving nancy boys in the liberal hell that is Austin. Losing to good teams by close scores just isn't as much like winning as it used to be. Or so the t-sips would have you believe.
  16. Meyer knows he won't be there 10 years or even 6. A&M would likely have to pay 15-20MM per season or stretch it out over ten years with another guaranteed contract to pay Meyer Jimbo money. I think Meyer would require more than what the prior losing coach was paid. I don't know shit about Meyer, but if the Aggies come up with the money mentioned above they'd be in for about $30MM a year for the short contract (Fisher and Meyer combined) or $17MM for a longer contract. There's no guarantee, as pointed out, that Meyer will succeed at A&M. It's been a long time since he was at a mid-tier program. Maybe the facilities facilities facilities and the magic of Kyle Field and participating in Midnight Yell will draw him out of retirement. If he fails, the money the Aggies would be paying coaches that didn't succeed would be enormous. It'd be funny, too.
  17. Anybody remember the King's X. Worked when I was 6 or 7.
  18. I'm too busy today to bring much more over from this amusing thread on Texags about their status as a coaching destination. Dennis "Frantastic" Francione wanted out of Bama. They were a mess at the time. Not exactly like luring away Saban. Jimbo? Stolen? We all know the story there. He was just a few seconds away from getting a boot mark on his ass. 1 True. A&M is an agent's dream. 2 Facilities! Facilities! Facilities! Gee, I wish I could live in a paradise like College Station and be in constant awe of what Kyle Field is.
  19. I tole her, "Lucy, no more hats." -Ricky Ricardo testifies!
  20. What type of messaging will have impact on ice cream lady? What type of messaging do you need if all the things you mentioned to her are common knowledge? The news and information couldn't be clearer on all of the hideous aspects of Donald Trump and the treasonous conspiracy he just about daily encourages. It doesn't penetrate. Trumpists are argument-proof. The undecideds are argument-averse. Messaging can't work if there are no receivers. This is maybe the most demoralizing aspect of the republic today. Discourse is seemingly completely dead. Hell, most people don't really know anything about the republic or it's origins. The USA is their favorite team which they believe is the bestest ever. By all means, keep trying to enlighten and persuade people. Just don't have much in the way of expectations that your good arguments and messages will carry a point to your listener should you find one. I'm stumped.
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