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NeverMarryAStripper

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  1. On 5/3/2024 at 11:23 PM, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Going to have to disagree with you there chief. By the late '70s there was a lot of tech going into high end bikes.

     

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    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if you’re riding your bike on the streets of Houston neither it’s’ aerodynamics, your spandex unitard, nor your streamlined helmet are going to make a shit.

  2. On 4/30/2024 at 8:31 AM, Jerry Callo said:

    So I picked up this skit from another thread.  After watching, it is quite clear that previous generations of SNL cast members were better and rehearsed much more than the recent casts.  It drives me crazy when no one in a skit can give a line without reading it off cue cards.  I get that some of the hosts are outside of their comfort zones, but the regulars should be able to learn their lines.

     

    I watched SNL a few weeks ago for the first time in many years and the first thing that I noticed was that it seemed like everyone was reading their lines off of cue cards. I found it to be very distracting

  3. 17 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Delta, SW and AA are all in the top 15 for Ted's campaign and PAC contributions. 

    More surprising was that a Dem from WA State co-sponsored it on the Senate side and a Dem from WA State co-sponsored the House side (with a GOP rep from Missouri). 

     

    Fuck those airlines, then.  I guess the WA rep sponsorship must have something to do with Boeing

  4. 2 hours ago, Grimas said:

    I'm not sure Protestingpropertytaxes.com is still alive - I just put in my address and it just spins...  (And I had paid for a yearly report but haven't gotten one this year...

    I went to protestingproprtytaxes.com and the site said it couldn’t locate my address.  I emailed them and they responded that they had located my address and gave me a link to verify my HCAD information and request a free assessment.  I requested the free assessment and a few days later got an email that said they could support about a 10% reduction based on 10 comps in my neighborhood that they showed on a map.

    I just went to Jubally.com and got an assessment.  They responded in just a few minutes.  They also said they had 10 comps, but didn't give any specifics.  Their reduction based on the comps was only 4%.

  5. 3 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

    I am not sure where to put this?  Either here are in "Trivial Things That Make You Surly".

    I went to Hobby Lobby this past Saturday looking for some bookends.  I looked in what I thought would be a logical location for them but did not find any.  I found two young employees and asked them if they had any bookends.  Neither one of them knew what bookends were.  I found myself describing to them what bookends were and what they typically look like.  You would have thought that I was describing quantum physics to them.  Does anyone read or keep books anymore?

    I had the same problem a while back.  I ended up ordering some from Amazon.

  6. 11 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
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    It's not really open to interpretation: The prophecy is absolutely manufactured, and yet Paul is very much the person the prophecy makes him out to be.

    BUT... one of the key aspects of the story is that Jessica was supposed to have a daughter, but she fell in love with Duke Atreides and gave him a son. And this messed up the plan. So Paul ends up being the Kwisatz Haderach, but not the one they planned, and outside of their control.

     

    Spoiler

    The Bene Gesserit plan was to breed the daughter that Jessica was supposed to have with a Harkonen

     

  7. 9 hours ago, mdmost said:

    He explained it to Toranaga. Spain and Portugal divided the planet into two halves for their empires. 

    At one point he also explained how Portugal was getting rich off of the trade with Japan by basically ripping them off

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