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Hornius Emeritus

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  1. He was 79. Irreverent, iconoclastic, but with a heart as big as Texas, he lived on his own terms. Truly one of a kind. I'm trying to figure out what my favorite Kinky quote is. Among them: 1) "If elected, the first thing I'll do is demand a recount." 2) "A fool and his money are soon elected." 3) "There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction, and I believe I snorted it in 1976." 4) "I believe musicians can run this state a lot better than politicians. We just won't get much done in the morning." 5) "Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive." 6) “Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.” 7) "Friedman's just another word for nothing left to lose." Kinky was not a native Texan, but he once said that he had to come to Texas because we were the only state that would put up with his nonsense. It was here that he caught up to his future. There will never be another like him.
  2. That was my favorite day ever in the history of cycling ... Fignon with his stupid hair flying in the wind, Lemond stealing his cornbread, Fignon collapsing in shock at the end.
  3. I do not want that at all. I want to see 5 men within 30 seconds of each other going into that final time trial on the last stage in Nice.
  4. Crazy prediction time: Vingo does not make the podium but Matteo Jorgenson does.
  5. Oklahoma University appears to be bankrupt. https://www.ou.edu/insideou/articles/norman-financial-situation
  6. Sepp Kuss is out of the tour. Hasn't recovered from Covid, Visma announced.
  7. Everything is a reaction to enshittification. "The current guys are shitty! Maybe the alternative won't be so shitty!" Meanwhile, those who say things are shitty are living better than 99% of the planet ever has. Having said that, Fareed Zakaria pointed out something interesting a few days ago. In 2008, the United States and the euro-zone economies were roughly the same size. Today, the American economy is nearly twice the size of the euro zone. Average European income is now 27% lower than in the United States, and average wages are 37% lower. When the British left the European Union, they fantasized about forging a close relationship with the United States, almost becoming the 51st state. Were that to happen, Britons would find themselves in the 51st poorest state in the union, with a per capita gross domestic product below that of Mississippi.
  8. Good point. You don't need DTs if the other team never stops you from scoring.
  9. Re: Vaughters, Johan Bruyneel is not a fan.
  10. Yes. Sorry .. that's it. Unchained. Brain fart.
  11. That doesn't necessarily say that Baker struck out with them.
  12. I'm going Jok, Luka, Wemby. But no bad answers there. Despite him being dead for 25 years, I'm going Wilt, Jokic, Luka, Giannis, Wemby, Embiid. That's how dominant/great Wilt was.
  13. None of y'all will watch it for ... reasons ... but PLEASE watch just the first episode of "Tour de France Overdrive Season 2." Holy shit. My female friend who doesn't care about cycling (or even sports, really), watched this with me and got hooked. It's a badass documentary series and the action shots, taken with cameras mounted to the bicycles as they race down mountains at 65 mph, and the crashes are insane. Really gripping stuff about a sport that most Americans know very little about.
  14. Putin is done. It's just a matter of when. Amazing to think that about 3-4 years ago some were thinking he is the richest man in the world. He could have just abdicated and lived the rest of his life on a South Pacific island that he owns.
  15. If we have to, we'll go and get better, more experienced DTs in the portal. Sark is keeping his powder dry.
  16. You can tromple on the Constitution. You can support a man who cheated on his wife with a porn star, paid that porn star hush money in order to win an election then lied to the American people about having done so ---- but killing a good boy is a bridge too far.
  17. Chat GPT predicts the Tour results: https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/special-chatgpt-predicts-2024-tour-de-france
  18. Brenen Thompson's mom is a Sark hater. "Plus everybody knows Sark is a hypocrite!"
  19. I don't have any experience with that particular guayabera, but I believe guayaberas are meant to fit loose and boxy, right? They are designed that way because they are worn in hot, humid climates where you want ventilation. I only have one guayabera, but I wear it open, with a colored t-shirt underneath that matches the color of the embroidery. Looks spiffy.
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