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16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I got my Eagle as a freshman in high school.  My parents didn't usually have to issue ultimatums/ae, but it was pretty clear to me that my only way out of Scouts was to get my Eagle.  I didn't hate it, but felt dorky about it and it did absorb some time that I wanted more to myself.  Also, part of advancement in my troop was acting as an assistant patrol leader and patrol leader, which was considerable work and responsibility.

Even so, I stuck around for a year after getting my eagle on "staff," which meant general supervision of patrols, patrol leaders, etc. and was more fun, because you basically just had to handle your own shit and not anyone elses.  I also did the national Jamboree, which took place after my year as patrol leader and earning eagle.  I thought I'd be on staff there, too, making it more fun.  Instead, I miscalculated and they wanted experienced patrol leaders, so I had to fucking revert.  In the BSA footage from the 1983 National Jamboree, I can be seen slugging one of my more annoying patrol members in the stomach as we "marched" to some assembly.  Not real proud of that, but everyone, including the victim agreed he deserved it for being a pain in the ass.

Sorry I'm not familiar, but what exactly were you 'patrolling '?  Keeping playgrounds safe from packs of hooligan squirrels or something? 

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My time in Cub Scouts and Webelos was awesome.  My very short time in Boy Scouts was horrible.  A bad scout master can really fuck up what should be a great growth opportunity.  He let his sons and their buddies be thieves and bullies.  Everyone else could fuck right off.  I don't have the reverence for Eagle Scout that most do because of this.

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3 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

My very short time in Boy Scouts was horrible.  A bad scout master can really fuck up what should be a great growth opportunity.

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Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died at 81.
The band announced his death, saying he died after battling a type of blood cancer for more than a decade.

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8 hours ago, RPM said:

Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died at 81.
The band announced his death, saying he died after battling a type of blood cancer for more than a decade.

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Didn't Supertramp file a cease and desist order against South Austin's mom?

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8 hours ago, RPM said:

Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of British band Supertramp, has died at 81.
The band announced his death, saying he died after battling a type of blood cancer for more than a decade.

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No offense to this guy, but I fucking hated Supertramp. My friend would play that shit when we rode in his car and he'd sing along, just to get my goat. I'm glad he'd dead, Jimmy!!

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16 minutes ago, Sandman said:

No offense to this guy, but I fucking hated Supertramp. My friend would play that shit when we rode in his car and he'd sing along, just to get my goat. I'm glad he'd dead, Jimmy!!

Eh, sounds Logical.

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1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

Big one. 

 

RIP. Loved him in lots of things. Genuine good person too. Really helped the indie film industry. These great actors are all around the same age. We are losing the great ones. Old magic Hollywood. The new crop isn’t and never will be close to the Redford type of actor. IMO. 

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1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

Big one. 

 

 

High level message:  A girl I went to high school with showed her cooch to Robert Redford.

 

 

 

 

Details:  It seems when she was an infant, her family was at some sort of music festival in Colorado.  She either shit or pissed herself, so mom had to carry out an impromptu diaper change.  As she was mid-change, Roy Hobbs walks by and gives mom a quick wink.  Her mom loved telling that story.

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aww man 💔

Hackman, Redford... it's starting 😒 there's a long line of literally the best actors that have ever lived that are all 80-90+, the pace is gonna be picking up. 😕 

 

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3 minutes ago, mchookem said:

aww man 💔

Hackman, Redford... it's starting 😒 there's a long line of literally the best actors that have ever lived that are all 80-90+, the pace is gonna be picking up. 😕 

 

On the clock:

Happy 94th birthday Clint Eastwood: his best films – ranked! | Clint  Eastwood | The Guardian

 

 

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Interesting from the Houston Chronicle regarding his ties to the Austin area. I remember hearing about Redford learning to swim in Barton Springs.

 

 

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As a boy, Robert Redford spent summers in Austin and San Marcos, where his mother's family is from. Redford, who is associated almost as much with environmental issues as with movies these days, says his love of nature is rooted in those long-ago Texas summers. 

"I learned to swim in Barton Springs," he said, referring to four popular natural springs in Austin's Zilker Park. "That time was very, very important to me. My early experiences with land and with nature really started in Texas."

The quintessential California golden boy, the Los Angeles native's connection to Texas isn't well known, but it surely had something to do with his involvement with two documentaries — Fighting Goliath: The Texas Coal Wars, and The Unforeseen, another documentary he produced in association with Terrence Malick that deals with an environmental threat to Redford's beloved Barton Springs caused by a real estate subdivision.

He also was involved in that Austin fight in a more direct way, visiting the city a number of times to work with the late Ann Richards, Jim Hightower and others to raise funds for the campaign against the development.

 

 

 
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Robert Redford (front row, center) with fellow members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Colorado, c. 1955. Photo: UC-Boulder Alumni Association, Flickr

Redford attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale.[4][9] He described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom in art and sports.[4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzalez at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to help Gonzalez warm up for matches. Redford had a mild case of polio when he was 11.[10]

After graduating from high school in 1954,[11] he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half,[4][12][13] where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity.[14] While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness now figures prominently among the bar's murals.[15] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school.[12][13] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy.[4] He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City.[4][16]

 

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1 hour ago, mchookem said:

aww man 💔

Hackman, Redford... it's starting 😒 there's a long line of literally the best actors that have ever lived that are all 80-90+, the pace is gonna be picking up. 😕 

 

It’s really depressing. People under 40 likely have no fucking clue what a huge loss all these actors are to the film industry. They made Hollywood what it is. It’s like a shell of itself movie wise without all of them. Their absence from film too (some of them the last decade plus) is felt. Sad. 
 

I have seen the movie The Natural dozens of times. And this scene always gives me the chills. I loved him in Legal Eagles even if it was cheesy. Everything. Cannot understand why no Oscar. Too handsome? Goodbye Hobbs. 😭 

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4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

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He grew the mustache while preparing to play the Sundance Kid. The 20th Century Fox President told Redford to shave it off. He refused. 

"It was authentic", Redford said. "I got it my way." 

 

 

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