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Vanilla Strange Gato

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  1. I always wondered what the big deal was with a “Brazilian wax”. Radiation showed me. That was an odd time.
  2. Yes, but not as good as Dinosaur Jr.
  3. I like that you offered. It takes care of something she would need to find a home for, it returns some funds to the estate or her, and the guitar goes to someone she knows who is going to give that guitar the proper honor it deserves by creating music with it. Everybody wins.
  4. Dr. James Dobson has headed to the pearly gates.
  5. As I have heard it said to a number of scouts, “Don’t be a Life for life.” It’s tough to get them to finish their Eagle requirements once the fumes hit: gasoline fumes perfumes
  6. Yeah but did any of those losers have almost 40,000 pos rep points on an college-themed message board?
  7. Great. Facebook knows that I read Surly. Or Surly is tattling on me. Or my phone wants to watch the world burn. I only know about this venue because of this thread.
  8. I sure didn’t want a port but man it came in handy. Have a good day. I would sleep during my infusions and dream of tiny little angels on surfboards in my bloodstream, grabbing molecules of chemo and shoving them into the tumors because fuck cancer.
  9. 😝 excellent
  10. They wouldn’t let me donate for years after doing treatment, and my blood counts will always be lower than normal (white cells and platelets) but I have been told I could donate double red cells. Do donate if you can! I only had to have blood once during my journey when my platelets dropped to 50 after my liver resection. I was glad someone else had donated!
  11. I have a feeling that nobody here produced this meme.
  12. Go look at the guitar thread on the music forum. Thats why I joined Surly. I had an account on one or both of the Shaggys, I don’t recall. And before that, way back in the 90’s, used to post on the ESPN football forums and Blacque Power and Jerome’s Chat (invite only). I got tired of the delusion of college football fans. The player worship, the grown men fellating themselves over star rankings, the always assuming the next new coach was absolutely going to be the answer this time, or if we didn’t get the coach we thought we should, it’s not our fault. It’s totally somebody else’s fault. “TOM HERMAN IS BUILDING CULTURE!!!!” Yeah. Ok. But what kind? Turned out to be more Petri dish than wine and cheese and opera and fine art. I’ve had the good fortune to meet a number of former athletes. And they have all been good to chat with. Except Andre Ware. He seemed too good to talk to commoners. Santana Dotson was probably my favorite. We sat next to each other in the press box at a Texans/Colts game and gabbed the whole time. Great guy. So yeah, Crow was a good visit. Don’t care if you disagree. Typical fascist behavior. Immediately try and shut down anybody that disagrees with you.
  13. Well this sucks. But is scene on social media more often than expected.
  14. I can respond, but you’re a Surly poster whose mind is made up and makes claims that can’t be validated so what’s the point? 🙂
  15. Inflation calculator shows my boss was getting the equivalent of $10,255 per semester in today’s dollars. Plus performance bonuses left in his locker. And a car anytime he wanted it. For a Texas basketball player in 1970 or whenever he played. Think objectively about what football recruits were getting. At every big football school in the nation. That ain’t $100 handshake money. You aren’t comparing apples to apples. Nobody wants to see how the sausage is made. The process for making the sausage is the same at all the big football schools.
  16. One more side note: I bumped into John David Crow at random a few times over the years. First time was at his grandson’s basketball game in Houston. We talked all kinds of stuff but especially football. He could not have been more friendly and he remembered me every time I saw him. Right after Cam Newton won the Heisman, I saw him again. I asked him if he would divulge who he voted for and he said he voted for Cam. He said his wife asked him, “Are you sure you want to vote for him? There is a lot of speculation that he got paid!” Crow said he told her “I have to go off of his performance. There wasn’t any proof when it was time to vote. Just speculation.” He followed that up with “Hell, everybody even sold their bowl game tickets back in our day. We even networked with players at other schools sharing info about what everybody was getting for their tickets that year. I remember calling some guys at Bama to see what they had gotten for tickets to a bowl we were going to play in.” None of this is Michigan level cheating, but the idea that some blue blood schools weren’t paying under the table is ridiculous.
  17. My former boss was a basketball player for the Longhorns long ago. Early 70’s era. He came up from nothing. They had one car for a large family, which wasn’t uncommon at the time, and had no tv in the house. They couldn’t afford it. He got paid $1200 cash under table each semester. Use an inflation calculator and see what that equates to now. It’s not Quinn/Arch NIL money, but it was damn good money back then. The athletic department asked him if he wanted a car to use while he was in Austin. They said if they got him a car they would cut the cash payment a bit. If he didn’t want a car as “his own”, he could keep the $1200/semester and he could borrow an athletic department vehicle any time he needed to go somewhere around town. He couldn’t take it on trips home or out of town. When he had a particularly good game, there would be extra cash in his shoes in his locker after he got out of the shower. That was for basketball. We know football is king and everything would be more in that scenario. You people that think everybody else did it but not the largest university for years in the greatest high school football state in the nation are living in denial. I once went with the gal I was dating and her roommate to a pep rally before the ‘86 team was getting ready to head to a road game. My girlfriend and her roommate were really jealous of all the LV bags that Eric Metcalf had with him and his diamond jewelry as well. Yeah, Eric’s dad was in the NFL years before. They didn’t have the kind of contracts they do now. Eric’s dad wasn’t throwing cash on LV bags for his son to use to travel. Metcalf is still the favorite Longhorn player I’ve ever watched. You never knew if that guy was just going to bust a 50yd run out of nowhere.
  18. We like the good reports. 👊
  19. I think it can be true of a number of high profile athletes. Or those that perceive themselves to be the guy. think of how many college football players, regardless of school affiliation, have had a massive case of dumbass and pulled some stunt you or me would never consider. Football players for big schools have been told they were The Man since 7th grade. They got favorable grading, misbehavior was excused, etc. They are used to acting the fool and getting away with it. Probably no different for this track athlete.
  20. 21 of the first 23 astronauts to go to space were first-born or only children. And the other two have exceptions that basically qualify them. https://www.nytimes.com/1968/12/24/archives/each-astronaut-is-an-only-child-fact-cited-as-evidence-of-theory-on.html
  21. No kidding. This is not exactly an AA meeting where people are going to tell him to not take a drink. 😆
  22. The pics you just posted of your friend’s guitar collection, to help remind us, are not displaying properly.
  23. It’s nuts. There have been three rollovers in the Houston area this week, including two in the Cleveland school district. All 58 kids on that bus were taken to the hospital.
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