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  1. I wouldn't recognize 99 percent of celebrities if their publicists beat me up (although I'd recognize @TreatyOak if he had to be the enforcer). But the first interview I did at UT was with Darrell Royal in his office after he became AD; was there because, surprisingly enough, nobody else on the Cactus yearbook staff wanted to do the interview. DKR got a phone call he had to take while answering questions, so while waiting, I just looked around his office at the pictures of him hanging with LBJ and golfing with Willie. When he got off the phone, he said, "Sorry. That was Bart Starr." I also went out once with former Cactus staffer Piper Rountree, convicted of murdering former UT professor Fred Jablin. I was an awkward guy, and I'm kinda glad for that.
  2. Does anybody remember jumptheshark.com? (Title of Reddit post about the defunct website, where folks went to discuss pop culture's shark-jumping absurdities.) It seems that site was bought by TV Guide ... so if you type in jumptheshark.com, it now takes you straight to TV Guide. Glad I missed that site. And just to keep this thread from derailing further -- I came here to figure out what's going on with the Director's Cup -- here's a link back to Texassports.com and today's schedule, which is what I usually visit when I'm having issues getting YouTube or ESPN+ to start my Longhorn baseball or softball games properly. Ready for some baseball and cup drama.
  3. I'm not giving up on either baseball or softball, although I sensed impending doom for softball all the way up to Kavan's final strikeout yesterday. OU is still the team to beat, but if the Horns can pull that off, it will be glorious. Feeling better about them now than the baseball team. The UTSA loss last night is a head-scratcher. Today is suddenly more interesting in an annoying way, and I'm still looking for full projections on the cup, which is even more annoying. I'm guessing the Horns get it together, but they've been living on the edge way too much the last few weeks. Also learned that "Happy Days" and the Fonz are the reason we say "jumping the shark." I'm gonna throw that term out for further deliberation at this afternoon's happy hour, where we regularly jump the shark in our attempts to entertain ourselves. No surprise for a bunch of opinionated guys with a cooler of beer.
  4. According to the OM beer listing page, those are regular, light, and an NA option that says "near beer" on the can. So the answer to your question appears to be "no."
  5. My neighbor, a retired school superintendent who's had his share of midwestern beer -- especially during his early teaching days in Minnesota and the Dakotas -- swears by Grain Belt as not just a budget option, but a solid beer.
  6. https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/2025/05/28/alex-foster-dies-shooting-baylor-football-st-joseph-catholic-greenville/83900680007/ Very surprised there's been nothing posted about this. Read about it three nights ago while taking part in the schizophrenic post about Johntay Cook, and it seemed a little inappropriate to bring it up there, or even on a separate post. But I still see no mention of this anywhere on the forums, if my searching skills were adequate. Only a few posts on the recruiting board during the time when Texas was apparently pursuing Foster. I always tell my students all death is tragic and not to use the term in a news obituary unless quoting someone. But when a guy this young dies this way, regardless of who he plays for, it is always just that. Apparently he would have been heading back to school for the summer this weekend, and that makes it even worse. RIP, Alex.
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  7. If I had to hang out with a bunch of press, I'd go out with the regular folks and start drinkin', too.
  8. Did she let you play "dookie?" There is a beer named Not A Scrabble Valid Word, made by Lupulin out of Big Lake, Minnesota. I've had Lupulin's Fashion Mullet NEIPA and thought it was pretty good. And Shiny Brewery in Derbyshire, England, makes one called Scrabble Rouser. Gotta like that one for the name.
  9. I'd rather see stuff sooner instead of later, but I guess either way it's too long until the annual family Christmas disaster thread. Calling her ugly and a crappy singer would be one thing, but Fisher? Beyond cruel. Man, it's like she ditched you for CTJ or something.
  10. Mine are just aging dad and washed-up professor vibes, so I'd probably trade places. We've got some hours to kill before weekend baseball and softball, that's for sure.
  11. Not Taylor Swift's standard. Three full or go home. Bet their pee chart was dark-colored.
  12. Pffft. Johntay's a derailment, and this thread is a derailment of a derailment. Surly is the Land of Infinite Derailment. And just as well, because a discussion of rockstars and CTJ's wife is way better than beating Johntay's pedestrian flameout to death some more. As a participant myself, I am torn between wanting him to succeed and hypocritically waiting for him to make things worse. Then I say you have to prove it with a better rockstar story than CTJ, or at least some remotely related but surpassingly embarrassing yarn about somebody I vote "aye."
  13. Or vice-versa. Guilty look on that kid's face. Probably a future Sooner.
  14. Beer stories are like beer in my book. Lot more good ones out there than bad, and this is good -- except for that part about dumping it. ☹️ Beer definitely had a learning curve for me, and I wonder how many people remember their first sip as being pleasant. It took a while to grow on me, and for me to be confident enough to recognize when a beer had gotten skunky or was just bad. Had some bad Schell beer once that was more an issue with old stock being shelved too often at a local grocer, and I tried several bottles from a mixed 12-pack before I finally just decided there was something wrong. Manager offered to replace it with a six-pack, and that made me start watching their offerings and checking for born on/use by dates a lot more. Changes of ownership and management helped, but I had to abandon that grocer's liquor store for a while Of course, some of the stuff I've posted here probably makes beer purists shiver, too. Was wondering when you'd be back. I've seen Backwoods Bastard discussed frequently on previous threads. Seems to be highly rated by Surly. Scotch ale is among my least-favorite beer, so the barrel aging doesn't do as much for me as it does for other beers, but it's still worth a glass for sure.
  15. Probably the oddest flight I've had. Blue Heron Brewpub in Marshfield, WI, an old favorite with many fond memories of post-activity visits with family and friends. Changed ownership during the pandemic, and probably brewmasters too. Always had both a rotating peppered beer and their house rauchbeer, both of which are no more and my drinking buddy was missing. Still good, but unexpected offerings yesterday. First was a Belgian enkel, which I'd somehow never seen in a brewpub, but ended up my favorite. Then the Ope IPA, which looked more amber and was a bit more pineapple than hoppy, but still solid. Then the Red Hare amber that was fairly dark and tasted like smoked ham (the smoke more so, the ham a hint that disappeared with my pesto-pizza consumption). Then the Return of Yeti doppelbock which immediately made me think I was having a barrel-aged stout, but with slightly less body. Finally, the Trapper's Tripel, which seemed slightly minty and then kind of bubble-gummy (probably because of @utee94's power of suggestion last week). Good, though, and why I like the surprises of beer. Stopped by after my daughter's track meet, during which the team won both boys and girls team titles and her relays moved on to sectionals. Would have taken pictures but they'd be from a distance and too many other folks on the track and infield, so forget it, ya pervs. Go to your own track meet.
  16. I'm mostly with @TreatyOak on this one, but it's definitely a "show me more than social-media posts" situation. And it's probable that a 10-TD season at Syracuse does far more to impress people than a thousand hours of sincere community service. On the other hand, even if it is just his agent, at least Cook is listening to somebody when he doesn't seem to have been clued in before.
  17. Bad bummer for Elversberg. Heidenheim breaks loose and scores with just seconds left in extra time to win 2-1 and stay in the first division. Elversberg won't be getting its town-hall balcony.
  18. I hadn't heard of it, so I checked their beer finder link and it looks like they don't distribute outside of Iowa yet. Will keep an eye out for it. Looks like they're expanding their business rapidly. Mango Ride wheat ale, an Aldi beer from ABW in Virginia Beach (apparently affiliated with New Realm Brewing). Found it a bit flowery but a couple of other people said it was still solid and tasted more like beer than mango. Can't beat the beer prices at Aldi, and it was a nice light one to go with burgers and brats at our annual Memorial Day gathering with family and neighbors. Daughter turns 17 tomorrow (sorry, beer got in the way in the picture) and will be a senior next year; son will be a senior at Minnesota and leaves for his summer internship in Maryland in a couple of days. Listened to Bob Seger's "Night Moves" on the outdoor speakers while cleaning up and thinking about the passage of youth. Time flies.
  19. So Köln makes it back into the 1. Bundesliga and Elversberg is fighting to get in against Heidenheim in the second of the two legs after a 2-2 in Heidenheim Thursday. The visitors take a 1-0 lead in Elversberg's 10,000-seat stadium but the home team ties it up in the 31st. Extra time and then penalty shootout if it stays this way. And then no more Bundesliga until August. @Mittens, here's another of those German prepositions (or lack thereof): rauf geht's, which is both "let's go" and "going up."
  20. Pretty slow beer-drinking weekend around here, it looks like. Or at least beer posting. Cyber Sue IPA from Toppling Goliath. Not my favorite TG offering but solid. 7.2 ABV. In the low 70s again as summer tries to establish a foothold in Wisconsin.
  21. Halftime. BTW, I was in that stadium back in the '80s, well before the renovation. It's imposing now, but it was a spooky-ass stadium before they put the roof over it. I went to Berlin with my sponsor's youth soccer team for a tournament (just to watch) and we took a brief tour of that stadium, along with various other historical sites like the Reichstag and the Wall. Standing in that place, it was pretty easy to sense the history of the Nazi rallies, Jesse Owens, the pre-war era ... the movie "Chariots of Fire," even though about an entirely different subject than the war, did a nice job evoking the place and time.
  22. Looking good ... have fun! Been puttering around the house and turned it on just after the second goal. VfB probably should have had a fourth just a second ago. Grim prospects now for Bielefeld.
  23. Was guilty of just drinking all my beer and not really thinking about what I was tasting until just a few years ago, but after I started paying attention it was the hefeweizens that made me first taste that banana note. But I also noticed it a little in Spotted Cow and other New Glarus beers. My neighbor, who after retirement started helping the brewmaster at a little place called the Kozy Yak in Rosholt, Wisconsin (now defunct) pointed out that is was this ester: Isoamyl acetate is the ester responsible for the banana-flavor. Typically described as the “circus peanuts” flavor or the dominate flavor in german-style hefeweizens. How does it form in beer? This compound forms by the condensation of acetyl CoA and isoamyl alcohol during fermentation. I'm with @utee94 on this one -- would not seek out a beer with "banana" on the label, but neither would I spurn it as I do any beer advertised as "peanut butter" or "dill pickle." Other than that, I would drink pretty much anything, at least to try it. Which, this week, included Metabolic Memories, a Central Waters double dry-hopped NEIPA, 6.8 ABV.
  24. Not an EPL guy -- mostly Bundesliga -- but already suffering from table withdrawal symptoms, so I'll probably watch this instead of going out to help my wife clean up yard crap after the normal Wisconsin winter and prolonged cold-mud season. She's already got me on the relegation list anyway.
  25. Great. First I mistake Steve for Sam, and now this.
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