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by Shirley
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
Replies: 31
Views: 307

Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?

Toasted ravioli is quite good, but it's not really something to base a meal around. More of an appetizer. And there used to be quite a few good Italian restaurants on The Hill. And one or two very good high-end restaurants down near the river.
by Shirley
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Meet Me in St. Louis?
Replies: 31
Views: 307

Re: Meet Me in St. Louis?

Yeah, he knows it pretty well. I went to college there, so my knowledge is a bit stale. Go to Ted Drewes for frozen custard!
by Shirley
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

It's not just road traffic greatly affected. With that bridge in the water, ships now can't get to nearly any of Baltimore ports. Gonna be a huge pain in the ass with a huge financial hit.
by Shirley
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:39 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695
Replies: 83
Views: 804

Re: The Baltimore Key Bridge collapse on 695

That's some truly incredible video. When you see how easily it collapsed, it's a wonder it doesn't happen more often. How many ships pass under how many bridges around the world every day? I'm guessing the collapse wasn't related to any prior bridge damage or degeneration, but maybe I'm wrong.
by Shirley
Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Man's Best Friend
Replies: 2243
Views: 103288

Re: Man's Best Friend

Shit, that's not what I was looking for in this thread. I'm sorry Duff, but it sounds like you guys took good care of your girl.
by Shirley
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Singularity
Replies: 234
Views: 15622

Re: The Singularity

Any of you guys who are good with AI stuff know if there's an accessible/affordable way to create a version of a song with the lyrics changed that sounds like the original singer is performing it? Thinking of a farewell present for someone at work. There are obviously tools that do this, because we...
by Shirley
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:06 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook
Replies: 2496
Views: 208014

Re: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook

A_B wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:02 am
Shirley wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:01 am Today, Facebook reminded me of this post I made 12 years ago. I have no idea what this was about. Anyone know?

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It was in a commercial that ran all the time for a bit. Car commercial I believe.
Thank you!



(I still want to slap that guy)
by Shirley
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:01 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook
Replies: 2496
Views: 208014

Re: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook

Today, Facebook reminded me of this post I made 12 years ago. I have no idea what this was about. Anyone know?
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by Shirley
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Mutherfucking free throws. Extra annoying to lose that way. Go Coogs or Aggies. Whatever. Back when most of you were in diapers I saw NC State win a national championship over Univ of Houston, because Houston couldn’t make free throws. I was 12. Thurl Bailey! And Phi-Slamma-Jamma was fun to watch. ...
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Rex wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:06 pm What university isn’t for profit?
Every D1 university except for GCU.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:00 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

brian wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:30 pm Was always creeped out that they were a for-profit Christian college though at least they’ve ditched the for-profit part.
It sounds like they've tried to ditch the for-profit part to avoid taxes, but the government hasn't fallen for it. They're still listed as for-profit.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Any interest I may have had in cheering for GCU (and I had little) was completely killed by that obnoxious screecher who's too near the TV mic.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:16 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Mutherfucking free throws. Extra annoying to lose that way. Go Coogs or Aggies. Whatever. Well, at least they didn't blow it. They just didn't catch up via free throws. As a mostly-disinterested party, I though Baylor got a couple soft calls in the last two minutes on bumps fighting for loose balls...
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Pretty disappointed that no college team is called the Browns. Or the Rice We could also use some Drakes. Would be a pretty cool nickname, actually. We kinda do with the Oregon Ducks. I was thinking more about the mythical beast that breathes fire - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_(mythology)
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:46 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Ryan wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:20 pm
Rex wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:20 pm Pretty disappointed that no college team is called the Browns. Or the Rice
We could also use some Drakes.
Would be a pretty cool nickname, actually.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

EnochRoot wrote: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:30 pm So uh…Why is there a half hour layover between the first and second games today?
I hate the way they always schedule games on the first Saturday and Sunday. I really don't understand the way they stagger them such that it's a slow start, a gap, and then a bunch of games all overlapping.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Commercials
Replies: 919
Views: 54240

Re: Commercials

I think I like the commercial, but I've already seen it so many times I now hate it too.
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

I don’t know what it is that mulkey is scared of coming out but I am here for it. For all the shit we know about there has to be something else that’s got her extra worked up. Exactly. Although I'm sure she's super thin-skinned, but tells everyone that's she tough and doesn't care what anyone think...
by Shirley
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

In the Oakland game, I thought the ball did hit the NC State guys pinkie, but I thought it happened before the ball left the Oakland guy's hand. Not one announcer mentioned that though. Yeah, I agree. And, why didn’t they call that over-and-back? It seemed pretty clear to me that the Oakland player...
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:57 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

That's a sweet thing to do for a small school like Yale that simply doesn't have the financial resources of so many larger D-1 programs.
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:56 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90015

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Well, fortunately for you, I just completed a 2-hour (not a second less!) training course on harassment in the workplace. Once you notified a manager, that manager had a duty to do something about - specifically talking to HR. But whether that actually happened or not, you should go to HR. This guy...
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8826
Views: 409619

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Yeah, a few of those are just generally popular videos that a lot of people watch. The carpet cleaning ones crack me up. "A customer brought this dirty rug in and we made it like new." And it's like a completely black rug just caked like it was stored at the bottom of a pond for a couple o...
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90015

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Well, fortunately for you, I just completed a 2-hour (not a second less!) training course on harassment in the workplace. Once you notified a manager, that manager had a duty to do something about - specifically talking to HR. But whether that actually happened or not, you should go to HR. This guy ...
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

sancarlos wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:32 pm Based on the five minutes I’ve watched (and, perhaps the wine I’ve drunk), I’d say James Madison is going to beat Wisconsin.
They looked like the better team all night. Very impressive.
by Shirley
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:56 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

HaulCitgo wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:54 pm I saw duke wearing those and though it was great cause the utility. Didn't realize it was generic. Works way better duke.
Big Duke Energy
by Shirley
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90015

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

That's really dumb. They make us take what is basically the same 3 or so training courses every year. I don't need to read the text or watch the videos. One is on cybersecurity. I used to work for a cybersecurity firm. I don't need to keep reading the same shit over and over. If they made me do tha...
by Shirley
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Holy shit did Auburn miss a ton of free throws at the end. Good shooters too. It reminded me of how UVA blew the NC State game a week ago. (And nearly the BC game the night before)
by Shirley
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

BTW, I picked Auburn to win it all. Fuck me. I think I picked Purdue to win it all last year. I'm on a heater.
by Shirley
Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:57 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Rex wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:27 pm “We’ve decided to put SGA and Chet Holmgren in a commercial”

“Sounds great. Those guys can really ball”

“We’re going to have them sing”
A somewhat memorable song from before they were born. The kids will love it!
by Shirley
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

He went Carson Edwards on Kentucky - complete with the banked-in three. Kentucky just needed Kihei Clark to save them.
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Jerloma wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:13 pm
sancarlos wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:59 pm The Mormon God is apparently not a basketball fan.
A lot of Utah whites singing "Hasa Diga Eebowai" tonight. Also a decent chunk of my eliminator pool!

(Shout out to the 4 of you who got that reference)
In Salt-uh Lake-uh Ceetay?
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90015

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

sancarlos wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:40 pm I remember encountering the same issue. I think they think they are keeping you from just zipping through it and not learning anything.
That's what the quizzes are for. I just got another 4.5 minute penalty. Back to basketball...
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2752
Views: 90015

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

I'm taking a mandated Workplace Harassment and Discrimination course for work. I'm fine with that. But this course is penalizing me for going too fast. I skipped listening to their slow narration and just read the text which is the same. Much faster that way. But I just got to a page that said I'm g...
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
Replies: 1521
Views: 63445

Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread

DaveInSeattle wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:59 am And, if I remember correctly, it was the last one to have the 3rd place game.
Nope. The last was in '81. UVA and Ralph Sampson beat LSU. It was played just a few hours after Reagan was shot.
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

I can't get any video to load on the ncaa.com site. I've restarted my browser, cleared my cache. Nothing.

Just going with YoutubeTV for now.
by Shirley
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

sancarlos wrote: Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:06 pm Does anybody know the history of how 10 seed play-in winners have done in their first round games against 7 seeds?
As Bronto said, it's typically been 11 seeds, not 10s. But those 11 seeds have done pretty well. Two of them, VCU and UCLA, even made runs to the Final Four.
by Shirley
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Commercials
Replies: 919
Views: 54240

Re: Commercials

Those radio spots are outstanding. Saul Goodman couldn't have done better.
by Shirley
Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Don't get it twisted. I'm not at ALL suggesting that Virginia move on from Bennett or that he's not a great coach. A little perspective - this "terrible" team finished 3rd in the ACC this year. And they've won (outright or tied) the ACC regular season 6 times in the last 11 years. Duke and...
by Shirley
Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:24 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 454
Views: 6841

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

My apologies to everyone who had to watch or even read about that mess. For some reason this particular uva team would occasionally show up to games with no interest in playing hard in offense. You could usually see it in the first few possessions, which was true last night. Ugh. They could probably...
by Shirley
Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, 3/25, 9:30 pm ET
Replies: 89
Views: 1292

Re: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, FARGO, 3/18, 9:30 pm ET

Interesting. I hadn't thought about that. (Confession, I didn't rewatch last night. I'm actually three films behind now!)