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Aqua Buddha

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  1. I see what you did there.
  2. I don't know Amy Downs but I know someone who does. If you remember, she was kind of heavy set in the original pictures but not now. After somehow surviving the bombing with no serious long term physical injuries, she made a vow to get in better shape and took up running. Her first half marathon was the Oklahoma City Half and her goal was just to beat the cut off time. With only two days notice, the moved the cut off time up by two minutes, which made her at risk for not finishing. That got up to whoever was in charge and they basically said over their cold dead body were they going to cut her off regardless of her time. In the end, she beat the adjusted cut off time and took up running and tri's over the years. You could tell the entire saga of the Oklahoma City Bombing just through Amy Downs. I'll also add that no other city in America has improved itself over the last 30 years than Oklahoma City. The oil bust hit it hard but the bombing made the people there want to known for something good. Over the years they taxed and spent vast sums of money for public spaces, arenas, etc. It was a hollowed out lower tier cowtown and look at it now and it will look remarkably different ten years from now.
  3. This. It's why I have a short fuse for people like that January 6 dipshits. Neither McVeigh nor them are smart, nuanced, or original. They have emotional and/or mental problem and have murderous intentions. You are correct about the day care center. They knew it was there and parked the bomb there anyway. Had he done this at 2 in the morning, I wouldn't have agreed with it but he would have made whatever statement he was trying to make without the "collateral damage." We're talking about a guy who probably jerked off to the Turner Diaries the day before, though, so no, I do not find him interesting at all.
  4. One more thing. (I was explaining this to my wife watching the doc.) You've seen the picture of the building thousands of times but you don't realize that the whole part of town was blown to hell. Probably a 10 square block radius. Saw this in a recap story: In the weeks after the blast, a survey determined 330 buildings were damaged, another 15 were destroyed or needed to be torn down, and that repair costs would top $150 million.
  5. Watching the Hulu doc, they had the raw footage and what I remember was the local TV stations just running that live, raw footage literally all day. That's kind of surreal looking back but you'd see blood, gore, everything. My wife was surprised when I told her that. We were all glued to the TV for days.
  6. I've heard only excellent things about the museum. I don't need to go but if someone wanted me to take them, I'd go. I just don't know if I could make it through because of the people I knew on that list. I can't make it past the fence line that they kept.
  7. From what I understand, that one is more about Tim McVeigh and he's not that interesting of a person, quite frankly. The Hulu/Disney doc is from National Geographic and it's about the stories of the people involved.
  8. I almost never watch any documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing. (I don't need to. I was there.) To this day, I've only been to the memorial twice and have never been to the museum, which I hear is fantastic. However, the doc on Hulu and Disney+ got great reviews and with the 30th anniversary coming up on Saturday, I decided to give it a watch. Highly recommend this. It gets current interviews from all the people involved from Clinton, Keating, to the people on the ground. Also a lot of raw footage that I remembered. TBH, it's a tough watch but a great watch. At the 30 year anniversary of anything, the only people that remember are the people too old to forget. I put this here and no the TV board or god knows the CR because I want it to be a wide ranging topic for discussion. If you haven't watched it, please do but better yet, watch it with your kids. If you're under 30, you weren't even alive. The only people that remember something at the 30 year mark are people who are too old to forget.
  9. An all time classic:
  10. Yes, the "hate" is ancient history. Whenever I go to the game in Dallas, I sit on the 50 yard line, which is always intermingled with fans from both sides. There's not hate at all. Good natured ribbing, yes, but it's not the 90's when people were getting into fights in the West End. Last time I sat next to a guy whose daughter went to Arky and we had a good chuckle about that and our unholy trinity of fandom.
  11. Part of it has to do with how PJ Washington plays like first team all NBA whenever they play. The biggest difference would be instead of having Dort guard Luka, he'd have guarded Kyrie. Now he'll guard Klay. But I think a fully healthy Mavs team would have taken OKC to 6 or 7 games.
  12. With all they've been through this season, I still expect them to beat Memphis and make the playoffs. (Memphis just isn't that great.) Could be wrong, though. To your point about Kyrie, though, a fully healthy Mavs team was probably the worst matchup for OKC. That's just a big team.
  13. That's what I was just thinking. I've never heard of this brand so I went to their website. It's just basic apparel (T shirts, etc.) for $40. There is nothing remotely unique about it.
  14. Drive Through Bastards would be an excellent grunge band name.
  15. I don't even know where to start with this: Musk refers to his offspring as a “legion,” a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire. During St. Clair’s pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” he said to St. Clair in a text message viewed by The Wall Street Journal, “we will need to use surrogates.” He has recruited potential mothers on his social-media platform X, according to some of the people.
  16. Arky and Iggy hate Texas far more than OU does.
  17. Just because someone is a rival doesn't mean you hate them. The hate (if there's any left) that OU and Texas have for each other is a fraction of what it used to be. The schools and fan bases have found each other to both be rational players unlike some of the others.
  18. Meanwhile, Waymo is everywhere in some markets.....
  19. In this scenario, we're saying you should never win MVP if you're on a good team. If you're on a good team, of course you have a good roster. SGA could average 50 if he wanted to. Then again, so would Jokic.
  20. I always love the Jennifer Nettles episodes. Also, the casting, wardrobe, and acting of the kids as teenagers was 100% on point.
  21. He said Jokic should get MVP because Shai has a better roster but then struggled to say whether Jalen Williams should be All NBA or Dort should be DPOY.
  22. I like all the food Scheffler had but that menu read like a menu from a Texas Roadhouse.
  23. I guess I didn't realize the Suns had the highest payroll in league history. Jeez. I don 't see where they go from here, either. They've completely ruined Booker's career up to this point. Kuminga with the DNP in the Cippers game. At what point do we talk about how bad GS has been on drafting and development over the years? They either can't play of Draymond doesn't get along with them so they ship them out. He should take more heat for this, actually. Had they not won the title in '22 (which was kind of a fluke), they'd have wasted the back half of Steph's career. They had the draft picks, too. The Clippers won some games down the stretch but with the exception of yesterday, they were beating bad teams or good teams resting people. They lost to OKC who was without Chet and Jalen Williams. Yes, Harden is a fat sloppy mess but he's still rarely hurt at 35 and putting up very solid numbers. One of the better stat sheet careers in history. He'll shit the bed in the playoffs, as always, though.
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