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by Pruitt
Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:46 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The 2015 Trivia Calendar
Replies: 212
Views: 7128

Re: The 2015 Trivia Calendar

What famous entertainer wrote the 201 memoir entitled Who I am?
Pete Townsend
by Pruitt
Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:41 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Josh Hamilton mess
Replies: 50
Views: 2639

Re: The Josh Hamilton mess

Like anything to do with baseball, I'm not following this closely...

But the term "caveat emptor" seems relevant here.
by Pruitt
Sun Apr 12, 2015 8:10 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2015 MLS
Replies: 202
Views: 9687

Re: 2015 MLS

Toronto FC in the middle of a season-opening 7 game road trip while stadium is upgraded. 1-3 with fan interest non-existent at this point and the stadium just might not be ready on schedule. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/mlse-insists-bmo-field-renovations-finish-in-time-for-tfc-home-o...
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:38 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

howard 7-1
rex 6-2
Pruitt 5-3
AB 4-4
GPJ 2-6
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 10, 2015 12:46 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Maya Angelou
Replies: 4
Views: 524

Re: Maya Angelou

US Post office has created a lovely stamp to honour Ms. Angelou http://www.trbimg.com/img-552400e5/turbine/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-revealed-20150304-001/500/500x281 Beautiful words, so inspiring, so hopeful. So not written by Maya Angelou: THIS week the United States Postal Service celebrated th...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:50 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

Ya-huh.

howard 6-1
Pruitt 4-3
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:39 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
Replies: 1595
Views: 171165

Re: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC

Working Man is a great great tune (and play that Diane Sawyer tune.) Used to be my get home from the shitty early-20s job, crack a beer and put my feet up jam. ETA: Rutsey wasn't a bad drummer (or a good weight lifter,) but Dr. Peart just blows him away. oh, and this a grand tune as well. https://w...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Masters 2015
Replies: 76
Views: 2269

Re: Masters 2015

howard wrote:Random golf thought - David Feherty is two years younger than me. Fuck i'm old.
Once you technically qualify for the Seniors Tour, it's all downhill.

And Mike Weir is +10. Soon we'll be able to call him Canada's David Duval.
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

Intro to Shakespeare - McGill 1983 baby!

Howard 5-1
Pruitt 3-3
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2016 Presidential Race
Replies: 6046
Views: 287623

Re: 2016 Presidential Race

And only 20 months to go!
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 08, 2015 4:07 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Clickhole
Replies: 112
Views: 7281

Re: Clickhole

by Pruitt
Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:45 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

howard 4-1
rex 4-1
chedda 2-3
Pruitt 2-3
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 08, 2015 3:44 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NBA 2014-15 Thread
Replies: 342
Views: 19778

Re: NBA 2014-15 Thread

The April awakening of the Spurs is the true tradition unlike any other. Is there any better run organization in all of sports? Patriots would be in the discussion - and that team has similarly benefitted from having a healthy hall of famer for over a dozen years... One of the good things about hav...
by Pruitt
Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:50 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
Replies: 294
Views: 15325

Re: Depression is awful, awful, awful....

If given the choice, I'd always take "not suicide" over "suicide" for someone unless they were truly monsters, like Tottenham supporters. But like I said, he's the boy who cried wolf. I have legitimate doubts how serious he was if he Tweeted it. It's obvious he has mental issues...
by Pruitt
Tue Apr 07, 2015 6:00 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

Grrrr...

howard 3-1
Shirley 2-2
Pruitt 1-3
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:12 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8938
Views: 431698

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Same in Toronto. And here, the city owns the large trees that are within (I think) ten feet of the curb. Decades ago, the city planted them. I know this because the tree root that messed up my drainage was a city tree. And they paid for the repair. Came close to breaking even on property tax that ye...
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:10 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

Rex 3-0
howard 2-1
Pruitt 1-2
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 10:09 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Cooking Thread
Replies: 982
Views: 52569

Re: Swamp Cooking Thread

The Sybian wrote:
Pruitt wrote:Meat is out of the oven and I am this close to shedding tears of joy.

Juicy, full of flavour and the veggies are outstanding. It's a Passover miracle!!
Throw that in between two slices of rye, and you are good to go!
For shame!
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8938
Views: 431698

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

I have a neighbor who set up a surveillance camera to catch people letting their dogs relieve themselves on her yard. She confronted us about letting Deebo urinate on her tree. WTF!! I can understand that if you didn't pick up some poop but to bitch about peeing on a tree is ridiculous. Tell the na...
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Travel Guide
Replies: 1223
Views: 86304

Re: Swamp Travel Guide

rass wrote:My wife started treatment for bronchitis today. We leave for Vegas on Wednesday...
Isn't the desert air good for respiratory problems?
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Cooking Thread
Replies: 982
Views: 52569

Re: Swamp Cooking Thread

Meat is out of the oven and I am this close to shedding tears of joy.

Juicy, full of flavour and the veggies are outstanding. It's a Passover miracle!!
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:35 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Getting the spins
Replies: 3317
Views: 210997

Re: Getting the spins

Not a big Sabbath fan. Only "Paranoid" is on my regular playlist.

Need to learn more about latino rock - especially if it's punchy like these guys.

All I have is a couple of Los Straightjackets cds.
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:33 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Return of Confessions
Replies: 1301
Views: 78813

Re: Return of Confessions

I was making a small bit of humor. If you have older teens, and the 8th and 11th are in the same month, you're doing relatively good. Well, that is a theoretical reality. Last night, just as things started becoming fun, my wife's phone went off - daughter needed to be picked up at a friends house -...
by Pruitt
Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:22 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Images (now possibly NSFW)
Replies: 2145
Views: 250390

Re: Images (now possibly NSFW)

Hilarious!

These signs were a fairly common sight in Toronto until recently.

Image
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Return of Confessions
Replies: 1301
Views: 78813

Re: Return of Confessions

Except for the sexual memories. Those make me very sad indeed. Sorry to hear that. No one should spend their youth without having at least a few good times of the sensual sort. You misunderstand - I had a number of fine sexual memories. The melancholy is from realizing they aint happening again - a...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 7:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

On fire!

Syb 2-0
rex 2-0
howard 1-1
Bensell 1-1
Pruitt 0-2
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:28 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Getting the spins
Replies: 3317
Views: 210997

Re: Getting the spins

That is surprisingly, almost shockingly, good!
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:26 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: April Fools pranks (successful and otherwise)
Replies: 70
Views: 3537

Re: April Fools pranks (successful and otherwise)

I was teaching yesterday and I mentioned that as an April Fools joke one year my wife and I told our kids we were getting a divorce. (Neither kid believed us for a second, so it kind of sucked). One of my students said that a couple of years ago when she was in high school one of her friends told he...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Mr. Show Reunion on Netflix
Replies: 15
Views: 706

Re: Mr. Show Reunion on Netflix

Fantastic news!

by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Return of Confessions
Replies: 1301
Views: 78813

Re: Return of Confessions

I kind of did "take a year off" before going to college. Hell, I took about 8 of them off before I started and finished up last year. Knowing what I know now, I would have went to college somewhere warm and commissioned into the military. The pay is much better and I'd still get to travel...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:18 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8938
Views: 431698

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Which dog it was, what he ate, who the other dog just hung out with, whether's he's sick. Their sense of smell is truly ridiculously amazing in terms of potency. My dog will piss, then walk a semi-circle before sniffing (in an almost lady-like way). I have convinced myself that this is how she chec...
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:17 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8938
Views: 431698

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

P.D.X. wrote:If you're a dude, shouldn't your hair style be pretty much locked-in by the time you're 35?
Or gone.

<Sigh>
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:05 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015
Replies: 221
Views: 5260

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge April 2015

Off to a flying start!

Howard 1-0
Pruitt 0-1
by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Videos
Replies: 1993
Views: 204277

Re: Random Videos

Old time soccer!

by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:39 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Headlines
Replies: 513
Views: 48790

Re: Random Headlines

Arizona Yoga Instructor busted for Sex at Bar Mitzvah

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by Pruitt
Thu Apr 02, 2015 6:33 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6259
Views: 362070

Re: Temporary Television

Better Caul Saul, Justified and The Americans all had arguably their best episodes ever in back to back to back nights. Really is the golden age of television. It really is. When producers and broadcasters (and writers) began to escape the standard format of shows, things became so much better. In ...
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:27 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: World Cup 2018 Qualification
Replies: 702
Views: 24654

Re: World Cup 2018 Qualification

Saint Kitts and Nevis 12, Turks and Caicos Islands 4. I bet that was a fun one. If I moved to one of these places, would I have a shot of making the team? I mean, these countries have the equivalent populations of a small US town (50K and 30K). This was a fun book that focused on a few world cup no...
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: stewart/colbert goodness dump
Replies: 70
Views: 4038

Re: stewart/colbert goodness dump

Honestly, the idea of watching a bunch of comedians shoot fish in a barrel has no interest for me.

I am far too old to give a crap about anything Bieber.
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:23 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: What the fuck is wrong with people (thread)
Replies: 1059
Views: 63604

Re: What the fuck is wrong with people (thread)

Jesus.

My admiration, respect and sympathies go out to people like your wife who do the necessary but gut wrenching jobs.

I guess sometimes knowing that you are helping people can't make up for the stress associated with the job.
by Pruitt
Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! March Madness Edition
Replies: 254
Views: 5590

Re: Final Jeopardy! March Madness Edition

Bensell 19-3
Syb 16-6
rex 16-6
howard 16-6
J-Lo 14-8
Pruitt 14-8
Chedda 11-11
Shirley 10-12