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- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2024 NCAA Ice Hockey Championship (Frozen Four and what not)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2999
Re: 2024 NCAA Ice Hockey Championship (Frozen Four and what not)
damn. see, just another reason to hate BU As you may or may not recall my wife’s niece is a photographer for several RIT Tigers teams in their athletics department. She’s slated to graduate in May. They finished the regular season 27-11-2, and won the Atlantic Hockey Tournament before dropping their...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2024 NCAA Ice Hockey Championship (Frozen Four and what not)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2999
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 8938
- Views: 437539
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
that's pretty awesome - rare corporate win. yeah i'm putting in for vacation time from 1:30pm on; i wanna go out back with a drink and not worry about anything else. except clouds. Head on over. Although, getting in and out this weekend is going to be nuts. Don't come to my place for the eclipse. Sp...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Commercials
- Replies: 933
- Views: 65705
Re: Commercials
Weck is the shortened form of Kummelweck roll. There is a Buffalo dish called beef on a weck , which is a roastbeef sandwich with au jus and horseradish on a kemmelweck roll. It's pretty damned good, and not sure why it hasn't spread. The roll has kosher salt and caraway seeds (think rye bread seed...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4313
Re: Everyone OK?
why shouldn't Oreo change - they're the one that sucks. (or something like that. reminded me of...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgS_vMGgzY Then rename it so something that doesn't sound like a cleaning product for fuck's sake. Just, like... what the fuck. If a syrup brand was once branded Syphl...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4313
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Everyone OK?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4313
Re: Everyone OK?
hydrox were the original and the infinitely superior sandwich creme cookie dammit. <fistbumps and/or hugs to everyone here who needs them. can relate.> Is there a version more embarrassing than "my teeth are so weak a (fresh) oreo (WF brand knock-off) broke if in half"? Getting punch by AB...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Getting the spins
- Replies: 3317
- Views: 215195
Re: Getting the spins
I enjoyed that far more than I expected.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
- Replies: 2025
- Views: 55974
Re: To the extent it comes up: Trump crap post-WH years
I knew she'd been mentioned somewhere here in the past - I'm right now in a live SBA chat with Rep. Crockett; she's giving a talk about (obviously) small businesses, and strategies for black entrepreneurs to access capital etc. Putting aside the important takeaways from this presentation (really lay...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9304
- Views: 493263
Re: Random Politics
this. fking this all day every day. it's literal misinformation otherwise. ... although that's really not a catchy slogan L-Jam. too long. ;P yes true on the surface, but the problem/danger with framing it like this ignores the fact that the Republican party is solely and always the ones who prevent...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9304
- Views: 493263
Re: Random Politics
yes true on the surface, but the problem/danger with framing it like this ignores the fact that the Republican party is solely and always the ones who prevent positive action and help to the citizens of this country. When we read stuff like "Congress doesn't do anything" it is inaccurate &...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 235598
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
you get an A-. Dizzy gave up just 2 hits. :) "It was an easy win for Dizzy. Even the Brooklyn fans cheered him." [/i] this...i do not believe. lmk if you'd like to re-read about the Dean brothers :) I had that same book! That’s how I knew the 5 home runs in a doubleheader story! Is that th...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 235598
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 235598
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
found the book i think i got it when i was ~7
cover and the chapter on Musial/Colbert
cover and the chapter on Musial/Colbert
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: A New Brushes with thread
- Replies: 868
- Views: 79161
Re: A New Brushes with thread
this and Rush on the Iditarod championship track at age 7 - feels like we're amping up for a 20th (25th?) Swampiversary Gala or something.
I love it - let's go WHO'S NEXT
I love it - let's go WHO'S NEXT
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1649
Re: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)
!!! yeah echoing Sybian here - tell more! what do you mean by "we" - your family? school? club? this is so cool and unique - Rush you've got a story here! We had a dog sled team when I was a kid. Recreational at most (we only had 10 dogs max) though I did the kid and mutt at the Alpo races...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 235598
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
wasn't that mike torrez who hit him? Dickie Thon, before being hit in the head by a pitch. In 1983, he was 4th in total bases and 13th in the NL with a .457 slugging mark in part due to a jump to 20 HR (.798 OPS, 34 steals). Not sure if that power jump was sustainable, but would have been nice to fi...
Re: MLB Spring Training 2024
we draft on Saturday, i have the 6th pick. i kind of have to take him if the first 5 pass on him, but i hope they don't so i don't have to think about it
tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:50 am The Acuna knee news was unsettling. Probably nothing. Unless it is something. Glad my draft is late this year.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3889
- Views: 235598
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
U.L. "Toothpick" Washington staple of my childhood baseball watching. Always played with a toothpick in his mouth; Little League coaches had to yell at us to never copy UL. No-fun jerks. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
- Replies: 159
- Views: 5755
Re: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
man <geek alert> - no lie i've been waiting for this since i was 9 :) - flashback to 1979 elementary school, us watching a west-coast eclipse on tv and them mentioning there'd be a total eclipse in 2024 was just too fking science fiction to believe it'd ever arrive and yet here we are. where we live...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 8938
- Views: 437539
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
now i'm actually sorry i even brought it up LOL (when i started at this job ~4yrs ago they'd also just hired what turned out to be the worst person i've ever worked with and the only way to cope with her on a daily basis was to put together a list of her bullshit phrases - like this one but the exte...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MAC Football Thread - 2018 and beyond
- Replies: 134
- Views: 9752
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
no question this nouning-of-verbs is something that really grinds my compete level
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1046
- Views: 62421
Re: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
a) i didn't know Whataburger was/is an actual real restaurant until sometime in the last year, maybe due to the Swamp. Thought it only existed in the mind of David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest's "Whataburger tournament" or something) b) I accompanied a friend and his son to Shake Shack in...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
it's altogether too easy to pivot into that lane isn't it
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:41 pmIn my new role as dealing with Customer Support tickets, I have found myself saying that...and hating myself as the words leave my mouth.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9304
- Views: 493263
Re: Random Politics
you've already got another on the side? jeez man...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
it really doesn't matter obviously but then again...i think it does.
that kind of bullshit corp-speak drives me nuts. it's like in sports when they talk about "growing the game"
that kind of bullshit corp-speak drives me nuts. it's like in sports when they talk about "growing the game"
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
"can I do an ask?"
- uttered by someone just now in a Teams meeting
- uttered by someone just now in a Teams meeting
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1046
- Views: 62421
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Fast Food Thread: Not just about assholes anymore
- Replies: 1046
- Views: 62421
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
- Replies: 1598
- Views: 112543
Re: OFFICIAL Eat Right & Get Fit Challenge
holy shit dude - 51lbs since August??? I cannot fathom that kind of discipline - tb that is worthy of some big congratulations. Boom mofos - 187.2 - goal of getting into the 180s achieved. Gotta say, reaching that goal felt pretty goddamn great. Not sure why, but something about that was important t...
Re: Racism
no, that's a fair point in general - it's very literally impossible to cover everything significant. I just think something as deeply impactful and directly related to so much uniquely American history as the Tulsa (and Wilmington!) massacre should have been on *someone's* radar - and I don't think ...
Re: Racism
i'm the exact same (history major etc etc). I think it was Watchmen that fking taught me about it and then i went down that terrifying rabbit hole. I do think it was overlooked, but what does that really mean, right? I mean at some point mid-20th century if it's not in any books you can't blame some...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Home Repairs
- Replies: 1559
- Views: 116219
Re: Home Repairs
yeah i don't know anything but please don't fk with your own garage door / springs. my dad almost lost his hand when i was in college because he thought he could be a hero (narrator: he couldn't). it's a shitty and unfun thing to pay for but absolutely a 100% outsource situation.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook
- Replies: 2496
- Views: 221062
Re: Ridiculous Things You Read On Facebook
jfc, NextDoor is full of off the rails lunacy. I forget that we got an account when moving into our house 5yrs ago and once every few months i happen over there and over 50% of it is "someone drove slowly by my house at 2:34am i have them on my Ring camera..." we are so fucked.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Official Swamp Dating Thread
- Replies: 2060
- Views: 109115
Re: The Official Swamp Dating Thread
wow congrats Dave that's awesome
(also kinda wild that i remember when you started dating - man we are old here on this board )
(also kinda wild that i remember when you started dating - man we are old here on this board )
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
- Replies: 2800
- Views: 103703
Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
shit Syb, I'm real sorry.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 27922
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
i've always hated "the code" and so-called "unwritten rules" which...you know....aren't rules. somebody dig up the 2004 Bertuzzi thread (....no don't, actually...hoooooboy) I agree with sc in that the culture is broken in so so many ways and maybe it's just that the culture has a...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 657
- Views: 27922