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Carl Spackler

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  1. You also are doing this thread correctly. You're absolutely wrong, but I love the fact that you don't let that stop you. Pos rep to you.
  2. Fine -- amend my statement to say post-1978 Schlitz. The Schlitz I've had is piss. (And I frankly doubt that Schlitz brewed at any time could truly be called "fantastic," but, hey, different strokes for different folks.) You don't recall the ad because it didn't see the light of day until fairly recently. The family of the guy who engineered a lot of SD's music, Roger Nichols, found it in his archives just last year. The ad never got aired. https://www.stereogum.com/2231031/another-lost-steely-dan-track-has-been-unearthed-and-its-a-schlitz-beer-jingle/news/
  3. Necro-bump simply because I happened across a Schlitz beer jingle from the early 1970's that the Steely Dan boys did for the money. Between SD extolling the virtues of shitty beer in their inimitable way and the Mad Men-style marketing, it's fascinating.
  4. Friend of mine owns Missoula Wine Merchants. They sell beer, too. That's all I got.
  5. Got it when you were a kid, eh?
  6. Kentucky Owl Confiscated for $60 -- yay or nay? (From what I'm reading online, it seems like $60 is about what it's really worth to most folks.)
  7. Gotta love science experiments in pursuit of good whiskey.
  8. Sampson is a fucking moron for calling that last TO & not having his players foul.
  9. Yep . . . unless they were underage (e.g., 16 y/o) at the time, which is possible -- I've read many accounts of kids who enlisted back in the 1920's and 30's who were under the age of 18. They'd just fib when asked how old they were, and so many people didn't have access to birth records at the time that the military didn't really check closely. But even in that scenario they would be in their late nineties at least. That's why I was somewhat surprised that there are more than 20 people who were apparently military survivors of the attack. That's quite a few folks in their late nineties or over 100 who were on the scene at the time. Bless every single one of 'em.
  10. Iowa Snake has hit their first 8 shots (but did miss a FT).
  11. Understood. But the "couple dozen" figure I mentioned comprised people who, according to the article, were known by the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, which requires that members were military as of 12/7/41 and were on station or within 3 miles of Oahu at the time of the attack, so I assumed that figure referred only to military survivors of the attack. No doubt there are many others, including civilians (such as your friend's mother), who were present at the time attack and are still living.
  12. Although he wasn't on the Arizona, I thought this topic would be a good place to post this article about one of the last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, who just passed away at the age of 102. I was somewhat surprised that there are apparently still a couple dozen Pearl Harbor survivors with us -- they've all got to be at least 100 or very close to it. Much respect to all of them for their service, and of course the 2,400 or so who did not survive the attack. https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-few-remaining-pearl-harbor-101006368.html
  13. A desk calendar -- how quaint. I see you got entered on the 7th. Congrats on the sex. Those peanut butter patties are my #1. Out here they call 'em Tagalongs. You failed by only getting one box of them.
  14. The original is really good, but I think the Clash probably surpassed it. The urgency is compelling.
  15. Hell, no. Used Cars is hilarious. And remember: Fifty bucks never killed anybody.
  16. Minnesota only had that vet QB (Cousins) for less than half the season. He got hurt in week 8, and the team finished 3-6 without him. Minnesota was starting to gel (back-to-back wins over SF and GB) when he got hurt, so I think they would have finished better than 7-10 had Cousins stayed healthy. But with that said, I think there is a substantial chance that Minnesota does not improve on 7-10 in the '24 season, so your larger point about the future 2nd round pick likely being a relatively high pick in that round is probably going to end up being correct.
  17. That's what it looks like to me as well. I don't think they're picking up a late first round pick in a draft of this type (i.e., solid in terms of depth but unexceptional in the top 20) simply to get another player; rather, they're looking to package and move up to get someone in the top 5 picks or so.
  18. Never saw the movie, but watched the first episode yesterday. While I felt it was a mixed bag in some respects, there was enough good stuff to keep me on board.
  19. Cousins is going to have a lot of weapons.
  20. I suppose it's somewhat a matter of perception, but I think Hunter has been far more inconsistent than Abmas this season. One thing we can agree on is that Terry and this fucking team give the fans a shot to the collective balls on just about a weekly basis. It's maddening.
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