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Ghost of LL

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  1. Fuck--I'm trying to watch a baseball game and prep two witnesses for deposition. I can't keep up with this third thing. Can someone tell me when they're voting on the MTV?
  2. Jesus, guys--I saw this thread bumped and was afraid for a second that he wasn't dead. So Rush is still rotting in his cold, cold grave? Yes? Good.
  3. 1) If you're not staying downtown, there are two surface lots at Pearl & Ross downtown. Drive down there, park, and get on the DART from the Pearl Street station. That's the last downtown station on the way to Fair Park, and the ride is less than 10 minutes. If you're staying downtown, just walk to the nearest DART station. 2) You probably want to be at the Fair not later than 8:30. Get your coupons immediately--the lines start to get long around 8:30. Get your corn dog and wax-paper cup beer. 3) The State Fair has a good website with maps of the Fairgrounds. I just go in for a corn dog and beer before the game--no need to upset the stomach too much before the stress of the game. But if you want to stress your constitution with a deep-fried birria bomb, have at it. 4) Post-game, losers should depart as quickly as possible. Winners own the Midway. 5) I go over to Craft & Growler across Parry Ave. from the Fair (right across from the DART station). They have a great selection of beers, and there are plenty of televisions to watch the other games. It makes good sense to have a couple beers over there while the crowds at the DART station die down.
  4. And by the way, I particularly enjoyed the out-of-town scoreboard flashing "SCORES FROM AROUND THE SEC" and only showing SEC scores all game. Not once did it show a Big12 score.
  5. Oof--we're still in this conference, and there's not a single game that I have any real interest in seeing.
  6. Not necessarily. There was never a negotiated settlement in Korea, or in Cypress, or in the Golan. Realistically, this is what that is going to look like.
  7. Fuck--Optimistic Brisket is Worst Brisket. I need Brisket on that Wall Ledge.
  8. You think?
  9. The fucking DJ today was great. Volume was fine. No complaints.
  10. I never would. Wow--your dad is as old as @Armybrat? Does he also have some cool stories about the Battle of Hastings?
  11. So what are we doing about Alabama, since the Legislature refuses to pass a legal map?
  12. My Brother in Christ--Diane Feinstein was born in 1933. She is definitely not a Boomer.
  13. I don't remember which edition. It's been a very long time since I read it. And I have A Distant Mirror on my Kindle. I've been meaning to get to it.
  14. I may be misremembering, but I thought she did write about seeing the chase from a passenger liner. Perhaps that was in one of the subsequently added forwards that you mention. But I really thought it was in that chapter.
  15. I remain very skeptical of Clemson/UNC/Florida State moving out of the ACC anytime soon. That requires the SEC or B1G inviting them. And that requires the networks promising to pay. I'm not sure the networks are eager to undermine the ACC, particularly after seeing what has happened to the Pac12.
  16. Yes. The retired numbers are now lit at night. The conference championships are now combined; the Big 12 conference championships are not split out from the SWC championships.
  17. Yep. On independence back in the early 1990s, a war broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh is within Azerbaijan's internationally recognized borders, but it's populated by Armenians. The Armenian residents started a rebellion. Armenia supported them and the declared independence. So they have had a little statelet that isn't internationally recognized. It's kind of akin to what the Russians did in South Ossetia and Transnistria. For thirty years, the Azerbaijanis have just had to eat shit on that deal because Armenia is protected by Russia. There are Russian peacekeepers there that prevent Azerbaijan from retaking Nagorno-Karabakh. But now Russia can't do anything; they're busy getting their asses kicked in Ukraine. So now the Azerbaijanis have decided it's time for a reckoning. They're supported by Turkiye/Turkey and to a lesser extent by Israel. Armenia is supported by . . . well, not really anybody. So the Azerbaijanis had no real trouble overrunning Azerbaijan. So now comes the ethnic cleansing bit. Hard to say how much is being forced by the Azerbaijanis and how much is just good sense on the part of the resident Armenians in deciding that they don't want to stick around and figure out how much the ethnic cleansing is going to be forcible. Regardless, there's about 125,000 Armenians who are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh. And that's a helluva refugee crisis for a country with a population of less than 3 Million.
  18. I think that's way too limited a universe. We can play North Texas from time to time. Or conceivably Texas State. Or maybe SMU (but probably not).
  19. Goddamn, this is amazing. These are guys Alabama used to get and we’d be all “how the fuck does Alabama get these guys.” But now they’re coming to Texas.
  20. If he’d have stayed in Lubbock, he would’ve gotten actual medical care in less than the two hours it took to drive to Jackson. Perhaps he would be alive and coaching.
  21. Oh, good—now I can just pop a gummy and chill.
  22. I want to see so much more of that against this shit team. And the other teams in this shit conference, for that matter.
  23. Yep—run the game plan they should’ve been running all along, and suddenly they look pretty good.
  24. Fuck this—I’m switching to the Rice game. At least that’s interesting.
  25. Neither of these teams are very good. It Alabama’s OLine just looks helpless.
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