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  1. Jimmy - You know that song "the girl is on fire"
    Greg - no
    Jimmy - It got replaced with eyes
    Greg - .....what?
    Jimmy - my eyes are burning

    Jimmy: Y'all wanna hear a crazy story?
    Us: no
    Jimmy: ....ok, check it out

    "This lady had a dog with her, it was a snickerdoodle"

    When you die and they pull out your safety closet box.....

    I haven't seen you in a dog's age, buddy

    Lisa: "This Saturday is my work anniversary"
    Jimmy: "You started on a Saturday?"

    Didn't the new John Wick win the Oscar last week?

    Lisa (after walking in from the rain): I'm soaking wet.
    Jimmy: I wasn't even involved.

     

     

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  2. The public parks are worth it if the kid is still into playgrounds. There's a lot you can just drop in to when walking around. We went to Joe DiMaggio Playground, Dolores Park, and one in Chinatown. The first two in particular were really awesome. Both had some really unique playground equipment I've never seen anywhere.  

    The Joe playground had this crazy fucking thing.  Where the guy is holding on, there's another seat for a 2nd kid.  The kids were getting insanely high. 

     

  3. 7 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    there's the potential for drugs and violence in our children's lives much earlier than many of us might have suspected.  

    Is there more potential or is it just our faulty/selective memory as adults? my wife and I were talking about this last night. I grew up in a small town around Victoria with a graduating class of just over 100 kids. I was in junior high '84-'86.Thinking back on it, I remember in 6th grade, a couple of students offering to sell us joints for a $1 each (really good deal in hindsight!). There was the kid who bragged about snorting coke in 8th grade.  A couple of 7th graders who had something called ice - which I'm pretty sure is meth.  I hadn't even thought about any of this until we had that discussion last night. Violence wise, an 8th grader raped and murdered a 7th grader's mom.  There were a couple of stabbings.  If you would've asked me if my junior high had a drug/violence problem, my immediate reaction would've been absolutely not.   But, once I added up all the stories, apparently it did have a problem.  

  4. What's getting a bit lost in all of this is that it wasn't a school issue at all.  

    A drug dealer got killed by a couple of drug buyers nowhere near school. All involved just happened to attend good schools.  Guess what. Every single school has drug dealers and drug buyers. All of them.  Back in the day, a former coworker's son went to Anderson and was a major heroin addict. His dealer was a girl at Westlake High School.   Lake Travis and Dripping Springs had several heroin ODs a decade ago.  No telling what happened at the "bad" schools...well, that murder at Reagan.  None of it really moved the needle on my opinion of any of the schools.

     

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  5. If Election Day was a holiday, voter participation would probably drop. Many would see it as a long weekend with only burning Monday as a PTO day. Maybe if there was a way to confirm you used that day for voting, then it’d probably be really successful in getting out the vote. Go vote at 7am and spend the rest of the day fucking off.

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  6. Lucy's was great the first week it was open at the original location. It had tons of seasoning. They very quickly cut it back to the rather pedestrian seasoning they now have.

    Tumble 22 is the best in town.  Gus' is solid but I've had it at the original spot in Memphis and it is much heavier seasoned and spicy there than the Austin outlet.

     

  7. On 1/29/2019 at 9:03 AM, Dennis Taylor said:

    I'm pretty sure the format is what he was referencing, not just buying music. You must be old. (join the club). Most cars I've rented lately don't have CD players. I remember renting them when it was a big deal if it had CD instead of cassette   

    Yep.

    10,000 Days was my last CD, then I went the torrent route for MP3s for a while. Gave that up when Spotify came around. I pay for a Spotify family plan.  I got a turntable around Christmas '18 and have bought 141 albums on vinyl since then.  I'll buy the new Tool album on vinyl.

  8. 5 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Also, if I recall, boomers liked Trump more than the silent generation. I found that odd.  

    Greedy, self-important, pieces of shit like a greedy, self-important, piece of shit? Shocked, I tell you.

     

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  9. 58 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Putin would not be pleased, so we aren’t going to attack Iran.  

    Putin knows it better to have America in his back pocket than Iran. As long as he owns us, he probably okay with putting any other country on the chopping block as long as it's the US swinging the ax.

     

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