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  1. 12 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    The more interesting debate is whether UT is elite now. It might seem obvious given how difficult admission has gotten. But that’s driven entirely by Texas’s hyper focus on one flawed metric. On other academic measures, the Texas student body is pretty unimpressive.

    According to this site, UT ranks #133 in the US in terms of median SAT score of enrolled students. 

    Considering the ranking appears not to include test-blind schools (which would include some of the most prestigious public universities in the country: eg UC Berkeley, UCLA), that ranking is pretty eye-opening. 

    Hey, at least we're 133 and climbing, while aggy is 242 and falling like a rock

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  2. 20 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    Well fuck! I know exactly where this was located. You went to Tascosa High, unless you moved. Fart and Fetchum indeed.

    I usually didnt get to play the game as I was getting a cartoon of cigs for my grandma, one of the grumpy old folks you described above.

    I once punched a kid for taking my younger cousin bike and ended up, no joke, fighting his dad. 

    He was fat and really slow. 

    Nope, Caprock. We did often pick up smokes there for my friend’s mom though.

  3. Grew up in Southeast Amarillo (not the swanky southwest side). There was a Toot n Totum (local convenience store chain) about a mile from our house we'd ride our bikes to, taking shortcuts down alleys and vacant lots,  dodging crazy dogs, and angry old people who didn't like us riding across the lot next to their house. At the Toot n Totum, or as we referred to it, Fart and Fetchum, they had a little room with a couple arcade games that would rotate. I remember playing Spy Hunter, Tiger Heli, 1942. When we ran out of quarters, we'd shoplift a few pieces of super bubble (allegedly),then ride out into that hot, dry, dusty wind like the badasses we were, now headed for the lot that had the sweet jumps.

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  4. 1 hour ago, hornbri said:

    I think this is right, it should be about 30 hours and if they took off at 1am ET that makes sense. I guess we will find out soon if they actually land in Guam.

    So I'm definitely no expert on any of this, but I'm assuming at some point the Stealth Bombers actually become "Stealthy" to the point jackasses on Surly or anyone else for that matter can't track them or no?

     

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Grande Mart said:

    Also, the idea that the "Framers", which I guess means the 55 delegates to the constitutional convention who were in a little bit of a hurry to get this shit over with and get out of the hot Philadelphia summer being cooped up in Independence Hall with the windows closed to keep the debates from getting out, not to mention the other influential people that were not there such as Thomas Jefferson, all had one monolithic viewpoint that happens to fit what you want to say has always seemed to me to be a little bit of a stretch

    Man, imagine what you would get if you locked 55 Surly posters in a hot room all summer long.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said:

    What if, and I’m just spitballing here, the framers, guys that lived almost 300 years ago ya know….got some things wrong. 

    Also, the idea that the "Framers", which I guess means the 55 delegates to the constitutional convention who were in a little bit of a hurry to get this shit over with and get out of the hot Philadelphia summer being cooped up in Independence Hall with the windows closed to keep the debates from getting out, not to mention the other influential people that were not there such as Thomas Jefferson, all had one monolithic viewpoint that happens to fit what you want to say has always seemed to me to be a little bit of a stretch

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  7. On 6/17/2025 at 4:51 AM, texifornia said:

    I actually liked Corvallis more than Eugene when my brother was looking at Pac schools, but for a football trip UO would definitely be a bigger deal. It's just not as cool as the lakefront stadium in Seattle.

    Yeah, my daughter is going to Oregon State next year (we live in the Portland Metro)- Corvallis is way cooler as a town to me than Eugene- but obviously the experience at Autzen is going to far surpass Reser, especially these days. Autzen is small, but gets fuckin loud. The whole stadium going nuts during "Shout" is cool and feels more authentic than some mass sing alongs since they've been doing it for a while since they filmed Animal House there. Duck riding out on his motorcycle, etc... They developed a unique shtick

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  8. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Iran announced they are joining the SEC.

    Awesome! Can they replace aggy?

     

    Never mind, that's what I get for getting all excited and posting my lame joke before I see if everyone else has said the same thing.

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  9. 39 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    We’ve had mid-war presidential elections before. To re-elect the guy responsible for the 22nd, even.  Back when we still used to amend the constitution and treat it as intended as a living document, and not some religious artifact that is perfection incarnate. 

    Yep,  and Lincoln had to run for president in the middle of the fucking Civil War,  wars don't get to stop elections in the U.S.

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