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@TreatyOak, I'm starting to think you really need an AI intervention, as everybody knows Al Gore didn't invent Surly, the mother of all message boards, until four years after he invented the internet. I also think you stole this work from one of my students.
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Well, now that you've twice made the effort to bring my mistake to the attention of everyone, I will own it, because I simply misread and never noticed until you so astutely picked out the most important aspect of the entire 743 pages of this thread. I'll be damned if I'm gonna move on, though, as there's clearly a bowling crowd on here that needs to be served. There's also the whole nit-picking crowd that's probably starting to smell blood, and probably a few idoits and pre-Madonnas as well, and it won't take much to get us up to F2. In fact, we may already be their, so the grammar Nazis can also have they're say, even though it's not really grammar but simply spelling and punctuation, although one could argue that's kinda grammar too, because why not. And that's not just a rhetorical question, or maybe it is? Besides, I said "like Sam" both times, and SFA is "like" Sam in that both "SFA" and "Sam" have three letters, the first being "S" and another being "A," and they're both in East Texas, and they're both smaller schools, sort of, or at least used to be, and Sam Houston has a women's bowling team, and both used to be members of the Southland Conference although only one of 'em is now but both are D1 although both aren't FBS, and both are named after Texas heroes although I'm sure some folks would argue about one of 'em being better than the other or less than the other, because this is an internet football forum. And not just any forum, but Surly, so hell yeah, let's go. But whatever. Now I'll probably do it again just for fun.
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I'm hoping this gets to be a popcorn-chewin', shit-flinging battle reaching F5 on the Quinn Ewers Thread Scale.
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I expect SFA to lead the Pac/MW resurgence, using NIL money pouring in from a couple of low-key but filthy rich pyramid-scheme entrepreneurs. The school will parlay its secret East Texas right-wing political contacts into lucrative agreements with the Qatari government, which is still smarting from its failed relationship with A&M (as if there is any other kind with Aggies). SFA will thrive on all fronts and will be the only real in-state threat to UT's power base in 10 years.
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To a certain extent, it doesn't matter how much it costs. We know it's not free. It's almost certainly not profitable. It doesn't have irrefutable tangible or even intangible benefits. So even at a D1 school like Sam, it's a target. Universities everywhere are pinching every penny. It's not just about sports, which on the whole cost more than they bring in except at a very few schools like Texas and Ohio State. So schools like Sam are going to see a lot more of this, as will many of the lesser P4 schools. A lot more of it is coming, because things are no better on the academic side and that's ostensibly what schools are there for.
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According to Wikipedia, people used to travel to Antlers from the world's finest cities: "Antlers has served as a local resort town, as it is a gateway to the Kiamichi Mountains. Many tourists came to fish, hunt, and relax in the town and nearby mountains. Many came from Paris, Texas. "
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Dude definitely had a wingspan in his day. But don't involve ME in rumors about his personal life. That's a different matter. 😁
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If Gella's is as good as I remember it, you should skip Ardmore and just go to Hays.
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Having lived in Kansas four years, I can relate. There's certainly a simple and basic kind of beauty in that part of the world -- always enjoyed driving down 70 to western Kansas and Colorado where others would complain about the lack of scenery. And folks tend to have a more human and often humane set of priorities in smaller communities. Your response made me look at the map to figure out where we'd have to go shopping. Never knew until today that Salina had a Sam's Club. And now I know where the Solomon drains into the Smoky Hill River. I imagine if I lived out there I'd have more chances to grab a bourbon and watch the sunset, which is what @Kennythetiger might have to do in Ardmore, even if it is about 50 times the size of Cawker City.
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Yeah, at that point, you might as well drive on up to Kansas to see the largest (reputedly). Is the proper response "sorry about that?" if it's the Cawker City ball? Regardless, it seems that there are several making the claim (Reddit post on the subject), so you gotta figure anybody shilling Ardmore based on the second-largest is a pretty lousy huckster. Now, if we're just talkin' figuratively, I'd say Surly is the world's largest ball of twine -- especially if that Quinn Ewers post keeps spinning around like it has been.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I'm looking at their tap list and going to guess Back Alley Bock Fight. Then I'll blame it on the lighting when you tell me it's one of the ambers. That looks like a nice facility. Haven't been there yet and in fact haven't done Milwaukee any justice whatsoever for it being such a beer Mecca. Envious ... have one for me, will ya, @zlavydra? -
There are incredible numbers of German words that start with prepositions. Best to just import their beer and leave the language back there. But I also found that enough beer makes the language flow a lot better.
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Final whistle. If I'm remembering correctly, the verb "pfiffen" is to whistle, and "ab" is a general preposition with several potential meanings -- in this case, "off." So literally, the "off" whistle. German is a fun language. Edit: It's "off" more in the sense of "away," which is another common meaning, but whether "off" or "away," it's the same general sense: we're leaving. "Abseits" is another common football word ("offside") and "abwärts" (downwards) is another I've seen when things are going wrong.
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As long as Dietmar Hopp keeps supporting it, Hoffenheim will hang around. The relationship of companies and communities to German football (and other sports) is fascinating. I knew about Hopp, Red Bull, and Bayer's ownership of Leverkusen, but I did not know until just this morning (reading about Hoffenheim in Wikipedia) that Volkswagen wholly owns Wolfsburg. Good to know that little ol' Sinsheim will keep hosting Bundesliga ball next year. And Hamburg is coming back. Would like to see Köln back as well, but Elversberg and Paderborn will fight for it tomorrow. I think Elversberg draws on a far smaller area than Hoffenheim does. Wife wants to hike tomorrow with a group of mostly her friends, so I'm going to have to miss the Bundesliga 2 action. Might have to get sick.
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Stuttgart is my second-favorite team now. Crazy day as Mainz tells Hope she's not needed here. Would have been nice for Stefan Bell to get that winning goal counted, but even on a day with four goals withdrawn, the 05ers get it done with some needed help from Stuttgart. Nice moment for Xabi Alonso after the game. Mainz waits for Leverkusen to celebrate his run at the Leverkusen end of the stadium, then cuts loose with its own party.
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Crazy game in Mainz right now as the 05ers try for European Conference League. Thoroughly dominating Leverkusen, but missed a couple of easy point-blank opportunities and had three goals disallowed in the first half-hour. Did finally manage to pull one out to take a 1-0 lead in a 54-minute first half. They're keeping an eye on Leipzig-Stuttgart, with Stuttgart trying to pull one out on the road but falling behind twice in the first half. Mainz needs to at least equal Leipzig's result, and it looks like the 05ers are going to have to win outright to ease into Europe on points. I haven't had a chance to look at what's going on in the fight for fourth and fifth in the Bundesliga, but if it's half this wild, it's gotta be fun stuff. Ya watchin', @Mittens? Update: Freiburg and Frankfurt in a tight one that may push Freiburg out of Champion's League. Dortmund looking comfortable to win at home over Kiel. Looks like any of Frankfurt, Freiburg and Dortmund could be Champion's League or Europa. And Mainz just opened the second half with a boneheaded penalty and is now 1-1.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
I remember when I first heard about shandies/radlers and thought that was way beyond a weird idea. And sours. The more I venture out, the more surprised I am, although I haven't done the coke bit yet. At Leinie's the other day, the lodge included a list of "brewology" combos with my son's flight menu -- stuff like "Berry Weiss + Summer Shandy = Pink Lemonade" and "Dark Lager + Honey Weiss = Bumble Bee." We didn't do that, but we've done similar things once or twice over the years at happy hour, especially with a beer we don't like but are reluctant just to drain into the yard as a matter of principle ("don't waste beer"). Our college-age sons are another way to get rid of less tasty beer. -
Other than Turner Falls being 26 miles north, I got nothin'. And that's a smaller private park, so not much hiking. Might be worth a visit because it's nice scenery and it would still be warm enough to swim. Took the kids camping there once on the way back to Wisconsin. Like most Surly posters, I've generally just passed through Oklahoma as fast as I can, especially Ardmore, as it's too close to Texas to stop most of the time. But it's big enough that there's gotta be a decent restaurant or two, and probably a surprising little museum, a good boot store or something for when a guy has to be there.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Great story, @utee94. "Forbidden Fruit" -- I'm going to have to look for that one. The Flemish term sounds very similar to German. My first day at a pseudo-internship was the last day of the annual festival in the village of Reichelsheim, Germany. We all left work at 1 p.m. and parked ourselves in the beer tent. Everybody in the company wanted to buy me a liter, and I think I got through it by taking a couple of laps around the festival area every time I went to relieve myself. They finally let me go around 10:30. German hospitality was the main reason I gained 25 pounds that year -- and I was barely 150 when I went over. Beer and wine were the main culprits. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Eyed some cans of those pretty hard, but didn't buy because they're in stores here. Put together a couple of mixed sixers ($21 total) of stuff that's not readily available -- a hazy tropical IPA, some original-recipe Leinie's, some lime Mexican lager. Wanted to fill some crowlers but they were out of cans -- almost certainly would have gotten grapefruit shandy, which I suspect is that much better fresh. Was impressed with the offerings, as I'd never looked at their beer menu before. We canoed up there when my son was in 7th grade. He suggested we go again, so I think we'll try to make it happen. Not many more chances. Just before leaving Leinie's we asked for a couple of tasters and they're pretty dang generous -- probably over three ounces just to sample, and when one of them is the imperial shandy at 9 percent, it can force a change of departure plans. Our mostly old-guy happy hour has taken to splitting the big boy beers. I might have posted a pic of the Central Waters Why Is The Cake Gone? not long ago -- a couple of years ago those were close to 15 percent, and our campus is probably still trying to recover from it taking out part of our IT staff for a day. -
Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
Label doesn't look familiar and I don't have it in my Untappd listing, so I was going to say I haven't had it ... but I see the last review on Untappd was four hours ago and there are also 2023 and 2024 versions listed separately. When I read the description of Born Yesterday, I know we had a discussion in our happy hour group not too long ago about rushing the hops to the brewery so they could be used within 24 hours of harvest. That means, if not Born Yesterday, we probably had a similar beer, but I can't be sure. We try pretty much any Lagunitas we can find, and I'd have to say I didn't find it that memorable if I did have it. Speaking of fresh beer, my son and I stopped by the Leinie Lodge in Chippewa Falls today for the first time. I had the Lakeside Cherry sour gose, which was pretty good for a Wisconsin-warm day (83 at the lodge around 3 p.m.). Virtually everything I've had from Leinenkugel's is fairly light (as it's generally been their shandies and seasonal fruited lagers). But they had a decent stout in my son's flight. Nice setting and their stuff was pretty good on tap from the source. -
I like your take, except for the "nobody has the time or means ..." part. Lots of great reporting still out there, but it tends to get buried under the landslide of crap. And some media just have a lot more capability to kick off the landslide. Bohls is too much of a rock-kicker in a way that the original scattershooter, Blackie Sherrod, never was. It's maddening, often infuriating, but at least this one had some good follow-up and we got a clearer story -- assuming the unnamed Texas source is shooting straight, which I believe is probably the case.
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Virtually impossible to comment on this thread without going CR, but I will say that Saban is an enigma to me. On the minus side, there's primarily his association with Bama and what appears to be some hypocrisy on his part regarding NIL, but it's a pretty damn complex problem and therefore difficult to judge. Also a minus is that it's exceedingly difficult to trust any power structure, and he just aligned with the structure when he's supposed to be "retired," whatever that means -- and I'm not going to trust anyone in that kind of role who's also paid to be a talking head. On the plus side, he appears to have some ability to poke fun at himself, and for a guy with such a deadpan personality he milks it for everything it's worth. So I gotta respect that, too.
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Beer 2025: sith_horn drinking more than the rest of us combined
Hayduke replied to HenryJames's topic in Food and Travel
As a noob on this thread since around February, I skimmed or read through large portions of past beer threads, and as best as I can tell somebody checked out the Book of Beer Thread Rules sometime during the 2018 thread and never returned it. So as far as I'm concerned you're doing it right, but I'm not in charge. Happy Mother's Day to your mom, @Derka. And to all other Surly moms and moms of Surlies.
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