I must admit, it’s a big week around here. The college football season begins in a big way this weekend. I resolve, as usual, not to wind up like Arlo above. I know it’s all a big racket, and I’ve certainly been critical of big-time college sports in the strip over the years, but then, doggone it, my alma mater has a year like last year. It certainly was one of the most interesting seasons ever; even non-sports fans were watching the replays and talking about the end of the Auburn-Alabama game. It’s going to be another exciting year for us, I think, but there’ll never be another last year.
234 responses to “All in the Game”
Lily: Coffee is not responsible if idiots/bigots appreciate it.
It is, however, an acquired taste, and boy, have I acquired it. Ii doesn’t give rise to nasty ideas/thoughts, but, like much else, some nostalgia. Even bad coffee. Maybe I’ve mentioned that, on a couple of trips over the pond [Britain, Europe], we flew out of and back to Winnipeg. On one return, we spent the night at the airport motel. At breakfast the next morning, I tasted the coffee and said to wife, “We’re back.”
That was probably early ’80s. It may well be better now; good coffee has become widespread. We have both Caribou and Dunn Bros. in town, and > independent coffee house/café joints > you’d think the town could support. Be nice if we made similar progress on some other fronts.
The Boss (and no not Springsteen, I wish) was by today…had his 10 year grandson with him….started teasing him with the rhyme, Mary Had A Little Lamb…which then took him in another direction…..he asked me if I remembered this particular guitar player and song…I grinned….yes, I do 🙂
tag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaX7Y1GQl5w
I love my coffee in the morning, at this computer., on this website..it’s what jump starts my day….thanks Villagers….
I drank coffee, bad coffee, I am sure when I was in college. There was a vending machine in the Biology building, and I always got extra sugar and cream. Hey, get all you pay for, right? But when I got out of the hospital with no coffee for 3+ months, and went back to visit my colleagues and friends in the Lab, I ate lunch with them and got coffee just like they did, and PU! They were trying to recruit me back, and I honestly think it was the thought of that coffee that immediately decided me to think about it instead of just saying “Yes!” I went to The Office Is My Life the day after that, asked for a job, and got one immediately. Started that Monday. That was over six years ago, almost a quarter of my life. Where does the time go?
It flies, Lily, it flies….
Oh, and I clicked on the Sinatra song listed in the comments OTDS…jazzy!
For you GR 😉 …again. Love the lyrics.
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Debbe 😉 Thanks for dedicating the Springsteen song to me, hon. It’s one of my favorites, as well as being very appropriate now. Also, thanks for not dedicating the “upside down kitty” to me. 🙂
And thanks, Lily, for ruining my “smoothie” joke. (No. I wouldn’t have done that. Really. Too easy. No challenge. I have my standards. 🙂 )
I never developed the coffee vice. I always trumpet that, being as it’s one of the few vices I never developed.
The problem with the opening day of college football is that you get too many snoozers between teams that had 11-2 records last year playing ones that finished 4-8. Of course, there’s always a chance for an exciting upset, but how often does that actually happen?
And naturally, as I finished typing that, I looked up and saw the first quarter ending with West Virginia (4-8) tied 3-3 with Alabama (11-2). 🙂
Jean dear 😉 Yay, sundresses! Flannel or otherwise.
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I suppose this would also make them moist, juicy and flavorful should you decide to cook them.
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Somebody posted on a FB posting about skinny girls:
Ashley Noel O’Donnell Lol I love when people make comments like she needs to eat. I can eat everything under the sun and I’m still a size 2. I get comments like that myself. Like excuse me for exercising and having a fast metabolism.
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I replied: “Best lunch I ever had. Some ladies bought a sundae and sent it to my table. I ate the cherry on top, tied the stem in a knot with my tongue, spit it on a paper napkin, and sat it on top the sundae. Then I left, giving them a grin and finger wave. Boy, did they look sour!”
I once had a girlfriend who could do that. With a cherry stem, I mean. I still miss her.
I just found my all-time favorite subject line on an email in my Spam Folder (and this is verbatim, including the emoticon):
BuyExclusiverMedicamentz Here 😉
Gee, I wonder what that could be?
It’s really easy once you get the hang of it. I used to do that to cherry cokes back in the hospital cafeteria back in the olden days. Never failed to get a laugh or some clapping, even
Dunno, Ghost, I don’t get spam, I have Yahoo
Soft-wash tees: What a waste of resources, unless maybe you’re doing a dozen or two. Peace, emb
Don’t no what those are, emb. I just buy tees if I think they are funny. Latest example: “Step Aside, Coffee! This Is A Job For ALCOHOL!” 😀
Don’t look at me, emb. I never even understood the concept of buying new “distressed” jeans that look old and grubby.
I use Yahoo Mail, too, Munchkin, but I still get about 5 or 6 spam emails per month.
Some would have you believe this woman is a criminal, a psychotic, a menace to society or all three because she chose to take responsibility for her own safety. I would not be one of those people.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/30/woman-uses-her-gun-to-ward-off-abduction/
My mother would have made them lie down and wait with her for the cops. She was always a tough old farm girl with good aim.
I know some do and will, Ghost, but that is simply inconceivable to me. Those people are so anti-gun that they would rather see a woman beaten and raped than protect herself. It’s like a monomania with them.
As I understand it, and correct me if I am wrong, but a 9 year old little girl was handed an automatic rifle to fire and, obviously, could not control it, resulting in the death of the instructor. Since he is dead we will not take him to task for his like of professionalism. It’s a mistake that will not be repeated. The little girl will need years of counseling, to be done while her parent serves his (or her) time in prison for child abuse and negligent homicide.
lack, not like.
Earlier this week, a 9-year-old girl, visiting Arizona on a family vacation, accidentally shot and killed the man who was “instructing” her how to fire an Uzi 9mm sub-machine gun on full automatic. She was unable to control the considerable (and to her, unexpected) recoil of the weapon on full auto, and the muzzle flipped up and to the left, sending one or more rounds into the head of the “instructor” standing next to her. While I have great sympathy for the family of the deceased man, and especially for the child who will have to live with the horror of what happened for the rest of her life, I have none whatsoever for anyone else involved in this preventable tragedy.
The business is, I understand, more of a tourist trap than an actual firing range, where people go to rent and use firearms. Perhaps its name…Bullets and Burgers…should have been the first clue her parents should question its safety and professionalism. The “instructor” was very remiss in placing himself too far forward and too close to the muzzle of the weapon; being to her left rather than to her right where he could control her firing hand; and for not starting her out with a limited number of rounds (say three) in the magazine until he could see how she handled the weapon. The range safety officer (if they even had one on duty) was equally remiss in allowing those things to occur. First and foremost, any competent firearms instructor should have known that even a 200 pound man who had never fired that weapon in that manner would probably end up with the muzzle pointed straight upwards before he could release the trigger.
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with a 9-year-old learning safe firearms handling from a competent instructor in a structured program with a single-shot .22 caliber rifle, what her parents permitted was akin to teaching her to ride a bicycle by putting her on a Yamaha YZF-R1 super bike and then being surprised when she crashed. What were they thinking? Oh wait, they weren’t. And once again, we learn, the very hard way, that although guns are not inherently dangerous, they (not unlike fire, nuclear energy and home-canned vegetables) can be deadly when used unsafely or improperly by the unqualified.
Ghost and Lilyblack, you might be interested in reading this article. A local reporter decided to ask a number of Alabamans why they decided to carry a gun. Just click on the photos at the top of the article to rotate through their answers. Ignore the ignorant comments at the bottom. Many of the commenters on that paper’s site are worse than the Dark Side.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/17_alabama_gun_owners_tell_us.html#incart_m-rpt-2
I suppose we shouldn’t hold our collective breath waiting for some news organization to survey people about why they choose to exercise freedom of speech. Or practice the religion of their choice. You know, some of those other rights guaranteed by our Constitution.
Good morning Villagers….
Woohoo….hand packed, off the steel rod conveyor (which is very rusty), 1080 small eggs yesterday….had an entire unit down (8 belts) which had to be handpicked (I had child labor yesterday, mine and a 15 year slave boy), then a ‘still’ not fixed bottom line that has to have eggs transferred off from……it’s going to be another day in paradise.
GR 😉 thank you for your insight on the 9 year old child and her parents….I had heard it on the news and looked at my husband and asked “who would place an Uzi in a nine year old’s hands?” As I said yesterday morning, I’ve seen one fired once and that did it for me…
Ya’ll have a blessed day…
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