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GringoSalado

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  1. I was probably thinking more about how much of the $1.7 trillion (and growing) in student loan debt we are eventually going to eat.
  2. I'm relatively young compared to Brat, if my tuition followed inflation it would cost $120 today (google says $1,130). Now it is equivalent to a mortgage. I paid my tuition with bartending tips, and spent more on books. Let's say I was only paying half the true cost, so today it should be about $250. University should be less expensive now with modern technology, not 20x more expensive. So now if you get a worthless degree you are reminded of it for the rest of your life. Good job, everyone.
  3. It now costs 20x what I paid. That must've been a hell of a subsidy. Too bad we don't subsidize higher education any more.
  4. The fucking apocalypse will come and go and dipshits will still be misrepresenting the Horns Down thing.
  5. You always do the really important shit yourself.
  6. Oh great, more time for them to post here. (what I should have gone with)
  7. Any AI that replaces surly would have to be programmed by the assholes here.
  8. I personally think we should go by years attended enrolled, much better metric. Since I'm also a UTEP former student I already had an opinion on RT, and that was he's a guy who excelled at finding good players, but his teams underachieved and players didn't develop. It was frustrating because you know that getting talent to El Paso is a tall order and the fanbase was excited about his teams here. That said you see guys like our last coach build their entire reputation on one FF run (tho it'll be interesting to see what he does this year) and you wonder how many coaches could really kill it at a place like Texas but, absent that magical FF run, they are forever going to be stuck at the UTEPs and Fresnos of the world. I'm just conditioning myself for our FF run this year and RT as HC next.
  9. The fact that they dug wells and there was fucking water there is what was/is remarkable (and why a water utility now owns it). Water's kinda alkaline. Alfalfa, cotton, and some grapes. There are large areas on either side of Dell City where you cannot find water at any depth (not a geomorphologist). I had heard of that.
  10. My old man's godfather is from Ft. Davis, and I still go down to Lajitas etc. now and then, so I've driven by this place over the years and had never heard of any of that. Yeah I've wanted to explore those roads myself, but never have. Went out there around when EPWU bought the place.
  11. edit: working for El Paso Water Utility (they bought Dell City about 5 years ago)?
  12. I celebrate the entire catalog, but I typically have a bottle of Tabasco in my glove box. Although sometimes it is Cholula (better on potato chips). csb when I was in the oil field I became notorious when one of my crew asked if I had any hot sauce in my truck and I replied, "What kind?" /csb
  13. I am surprised by results so far. Didn't think anybody would give him the job for anything short of FF.
  14. Man on the street - "TARP?" Banker - "Govt. had to give the banks money to save their asses." MoS - "Sounds like a bailout." B - "The banks paid the govt. back, with interest." MoS - "Oh, that sounds more like a loan." B - "A loan nobody else would offer, and the banker knew he was protected by the regulator. He was in his wedding, so that enabled his excessive risk taking..." MoS - "Yeah, I'm never getting that kind of treatment. Who are you?" B - "I'm that banker. I was fired and am unemployed now." MoS - "Well I guess that is appropriate, but still. I hope you can find another career and be useful." B - "Nah, I sold all my stock before anybody else knew things were pear shaped. I'm worth $20M" MoS -
  15. It does make a ton of sense for the bank. But also prompts borrowers to exceed the insured limit.
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