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NWBuck

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  1. Read this... Thought this... Would have preferred this...
  2. Expected more Hasselhoff and a couple of luftballons
  3. My fam and I love to eat there when we're downtown- Started over by DePaul, and has branched out (as you mention). State or Rush street locations are where we usually land.
  4. NWBuck

    My dog died

    Dogs will be our best friends for a significant part of our lives... but we'll be their best friends for all of theirs.
  5. Good to know this has been restored, but the fact that it was removed at all... Army removes, reposts website documenting Japanese-American WWII soldiers From the article- "The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in WWII and composed of Nisei — American-born sons of Japanese immigrants..." A friend's father was one of the members of the 442, and I was fortunate to meet him before he passed. He was drafted while his family was at Tule Lake, and went without question. Helluva man, with a deeper set of moral and ethical convictions (and love for our country) than the current occupant of the White House could even imagine.
  6. Look, I'm really trying to not be "that guy"... I loved the books (although I agree with many who said Jordan didn't do Sanderson any favors with all the dangling thread he left), and enjoy the show (changes and all- it's not horribad). But I can't imagine how anyone who hasn't read the books can follow all of the plots and characters and such. They jump between storylines so quickly (as would be expected of a TV show) and don't have the time to lay some of the bigger groundwork (cultural values for various peoples/kingdoms, etc.). Combine that with the young actors really struggling to enunciate their lines makes for a very challenging viewing experience- exacerbated by those of us who DO know the names/places/etc. finding ourselves unable to fill in some of the gaps because of the changes they've made to the original material. I wonder if folks who read all of the Game of Thrones books felt the same way while watching HBO's efforts to capture that storyline? I'll keep watching, but only between moments of yelling at clouds and shooing damn kids off my lawn.
  7. More like "shit-boleth", amIrite?
  8. I'd blame Keanu, but I've seen John Wick. Always thought the first was a direction (as in trying to stop a horse), while the second was a proclamation of surprise/bewilderment. But you're right... The conflation is real.
  9. Not my wife, that's for sure. My girlfriend has a different opinion tho
  10. Lulu Roman Smith? Miss Minnie Pearl?
  11. Username, etc.
  12. NWBuck

    We got Soul?

    Back on the other site (or one of them) we had a similar thread. I created a playlist of all the offerings then, and have added the ones here as well. SPOTIFY: SurlySoul
  13. Given this... Looks like all the colleges and universities can ignore the Dear Colleague letter from February regarding "racial bias and preferences". Who's going to investigate and sanction them since it's a DoE and OCR matter?
  14. Sandra Bernhard has not aged well... And wasn't starting off well in the first place
  15. The man brought out the best in Jimmy Chitwood and Shane Falco. Rest in peace, Mr. Hackman.
  16. Good time to be in the Pacific Northwest as well... Gotta figure out how to use some PTO.
  17. My dad was substitute teaching and looked up to see one of the students with their bare feet on their desk. Figured that someone was screwing with the sub and told the kid to put his shoes on and pay attention. No one told him about the student who lost both his arms in a tractor accident when he was 7... Dude was a FFA star, helped his parents run their own farm, and drove himself to school every day. Pop said he wanted to crawl under the school out of embarrassment
  18. Repped for the Heywood Banks thread title.
  19. Finished two days at Purgatory... Got in Saturday night right after they'd gotten 27 inches of powder on beginning on Friday. Skied Sunday... Crowds at the base were packed, but I've waited longer at Copper and Breckenridge. Sunday morning was 'family time' so a lot of green runs then back to chair three and eight in the afternoon. We got just a dusting last night, and it was a good morning for our second day today. Family was in Durango, so this was just me and the guys... Blues and blacks ahoy. They've had a really dry winter up here, so the weekend crowds had pushed around all the powder making inconsistent surfaces with hard pack/ice underneath. After lunch there were a lot of places where it was very icy and hard to carve and make turns. Bluebird days all weekend... Simply gorgeous! Wasn't the best skiing I've had in Colorado, but it was the best trip I've had to Purgatory. And it's infinitely better than being at work this week.
  20. There's an unusual amount of turnover in the industry lately
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