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by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6283
Views: 377246

Re: Television (no longer temporary)

sancarlos wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:21 am
The Sybian wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:15 am And ScarJo looks so hot as Britt.
IMHO, she looks hotter as herself.
Personally, I’d think ScarJo would look hot as Kenny Britt. But I’ve always had a thing for her. What was that movie where she fucks that guy in the rainfall? Such a great scene.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 543
Views: 16295

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Perfectly normal stuff here... Biden effigy beaten at GOP event in Kansas; ex-official calls for resignations Attendees at a Kansas county Republican Party event punched, kicked and took a baseball bat to an effigy of President Biden on Friday, sparking backlash from former party officials. The Joh...
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

For the record I’m not excited for this at all except for the fact that I have Barkley in a dynasty league that maybe I’ll be able to pawn off to another Eagles fan instead of just not retaining him.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

I’m getting DeMarco Murray vibes. But if he changes his jersey number to 34 it’d be a little fun.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8969
Views: 448412

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Maybe we can DISRUPT the industry by selling a subscription based service to change clocks for people. $9.99 per month, each additional clock after the 1st one is just $4.99, will come out after power outages and guarantee an update within 24 hours of a time change or that month is free. We all lau...
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:37 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

Legit lol’ing from the last three posts.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8969
Views: 448412

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

I have four clocks in my kitchen (analog wall clock, oven, microwave, coffee maker), and not only do none of them tell the same time, none of them tell the correct time to the minute either.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU, 4/1, 9:30 pm ET
Replies: 94
Views: 3621

Re: Swamp Movie Club: The Coen Brothers, THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, 3/11, 9:30 pm ET

So the movie whose article I read got me to start this up, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). I believe there's some connection to Raising Arizona. I know I haven't seen this one. And apologies, as I've been a little behind in watching them. I've been shuttling between my house and my parents pretty consis...
by L-Jam3
Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:41 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NBA Regular Season 2023-24 f./ NBA In-Season Tournament 2023-24
Replies: 349
Views: 14458

Re: NBA Regular Season 2023-24 f./ NBA In-Season Tournament 2023-24

I like how the Knicks and Sixers all heard the Gen Xer complaints that the NBA isn’t like it was in the 90s and did their very best to recreate the experience.
by L-Jam3
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 628
Views: 34865

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

So the women’s SEC final against South Carolina and LSU got a little chippy, to say the least.
by L-Jam3
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8969
Views: 448412

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

govmentchedda wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:42 am
P.D.X. wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:38 am
Rush2112 wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:24 pm The library is in shit shape, I've been pulling books from the 80s out of the collection.
?
Same thought. Are they falling apart? What's wrong with old books?
50 copies of The Art of the Deal.
by L-Jam3
Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 628
Views: 34865

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

I’d be fine with them winning it. They were the funnest team around when I started following, and seeing The Dream and The Glyde at the Final Four would be boss as hell. Bust out the red and white polka dot towels while they’re at it.
by L-Jam3
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Live Music thread...
Replies: 2118
Views: 183014

Re: The Live Music thread...

A_B wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:17 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:14 pm
A_B wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:35 pm May do a vip Isbell thing at rupp arena this fall.
I think we might try to see him when he hits Wolf Trap.
We sprung for the VIP package. Exclusive bar and restrooms. whores de vores all night. good seats, too.
Damn. That's one hell of a package.
by L-Jam3
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 543
Views: 16295

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Trump was full racist bigot in the 80s at the latest. I assume lifelong given his father's rental philosophies. There is a lot of reporting on Trump being racist long before he came near politics. Assuming certain high rollers wouldn't want to see black employees at his casinos and having them all ...
by L-Jam3
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 543
Views: 16295

Re: Presidential Election 2024

This is in no way a defense, but one factor in TFG’s, and for that matter any nepo-baby thinking, is that he literally never had a job he could get fired from until he was president. Imagine all throughout your life that would could literally do anything, and it wouldn’t cost you your livelihood. It...
by L-Jam3
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 543
Views: 16295

Re: Presidential Election 2024

Republicans are such pussies.
by L-Jam3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Replies: 2619
Views: 159516

Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread

Very cool, and staying in state to boot.
by L-Jam3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: A New Brushes with thread
Replies: 868
Views: 80236

Re: A New Brushes with thread

The Legacy of Kain series was good stuff all the way back on the first PlayStation.
by L-Jam3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:53 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

Four of the depictions and two of the performers in that sketch are now no longer with us. Three of the performers if you want to include Victoria Jackson's mental stability.


ETA: Adjusted the count b/c I forget Edie Gorme died.
by L-Jam3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Presidential Election 2024
Replies: 543
Views: 16295

Re: Presidential Election 2024

I just need to vent. The fact that Biden is 80 years old in a normal election would be a huge worry, and the NYT is doing its due diligence pointing it out, but when the opponent is only 4 years younger, in worse physical health, and dumb as a pile of fucking rocks, in addition to failing in his big...
by L-Jam3
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9334
Views: 503700

Re: Random Politics

This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte ...
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

Jeez, I didn’t hear about the troubles (to say the least) Erik Kramer went though post-career, but reading that he’s somewhat on a better path now is hopeful.
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8969
Views: 448412

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Lemme see if I can remember the other ones. I’ll put it in spoiler if anyone else wants to try:
[+] spoiler
Dick Scobee
Ellison Onozuka
Ronald McNair
Judy? Resnick
Some guy Jarvik?
Don’t remember the other white guy.
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

MaxWebster wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:33 pm lmk if you'd like to re-read about the Dean brothers :)
L-Jam3 wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:03 pm I had that same book! That’s how I knew the 5 home runs in a doubleheader story!
Is that the one where Dizzy threw a 3-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader then Paul pitched a no-hitter in the nightcap?
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8969
Views: 448412

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

I guess good teacher/overrated astronaut?
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

I had that same book! That’s how I knew the 5 home runs in a doubleheader story!
by L-Jam3
Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

this is exactly how i first heard of him too - i even remember the book, was called "Baseball Players Do Amazing Things" :) like 10 different 3 page stories of, um, baseball players...doing.... Padres all-time HR leading, Nate Colbert https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Na...
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Politics
Replies: 9334
Views: 503700

Re: Random Politics

I genuinely hope that whenever Sinema is out in public someone yells at her that she could have protected the right to vote for Black Americans, yet chose not to. Fuck her straight to Hell.
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

mister d wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:26 pm Jets should sign him and let their QB room break the Dork-O-Meter.
I'm thinking Rodgers is more of a prick than a dork, but YMMV.
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

I don’t know how many teams this would make this claim, especially one that’s over 90 years old like the Eagles, but two of their top ten players all time are centers, including arguably its best all time. I believe 2 of the top 6 Steelers in PFR's Hall of Fame monitor score are centers (1st and 3r...
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)
Replies: 29
Views: 1936

Re: Mush, Mush (Dog Sled and other "Manly" Sports)

A few years back during the first pandemic summer I used to watch the shit out of the Stihl Timbersports championships while I was working. That stuff was great. There’s a LumberJill from Chadds Ford, PA (Philly suburbs) who’s the best in the world. Easy on the eyes too: https://www.instagram.com/p/...
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:22 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

… whoever signs Wilson will be getting a financial steal since he'll play for the vet minimum (Denver will pay the offset so there's no incentive for him to take anything more). he *could* be fun in a place like Atlanta. I would not understand the play in Las Vegas. that would feel a lot like the s...
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:59 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away
Replies: 159
Views: 6753

Re: Umbras and Penumbras - The Sun is Going Away

I just booked a couple nights in downtown Cleveland, about 6 blocks from the waterfront/Rock n Roll HoF, so assuming I can get a sitter for my kittie-cats, I'll be there. The Guardians have a game that night, so I'll be able to check another ballpark off the list.
by L-Jam3
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:50 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

At my age I prefer when athletes go out on their own terms and with some gas left in the tank, so Jason Kelce’s retirement makes me happy overall as a sports fan, even if it’s a short-term knock on the team I root for. I don’t know how many teams this would make this claim, especially one that’s ove...
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL 2024 Offseason
Replies: 320
Views: 21129

Re: NFL 2024 Offseason

I think the cap hit is over two years but yeesh.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: EPL 2023-24
Replies: 417
Views: 16760

Re: EPL 2023-24

Good Lord. Sheffield should just get relegated right now. And I mean during halftime.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

I don't know why Sybian quoted me, but sure. I can picture saying that.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

And then that offseason, the Phillies traded defensive specialist Larry Bowa and some middling prospect for Ivan DeJesus. What, what was that prospect’s name? Ryan Sablesberg? Something like that.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Replies: 3893
Views: 242039

Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread

The Ripken-Young-Trammell troika was the first core of power hitting shortstops, but I think Ernie Banks was probably the first true middle-order power threat. He played the first half of his career at SS, and put up 512 career bombs. Not too shabby.
by L-Jam3
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NCAA Basketball 23-24
Replies: 628
Views: 34865

Re: NCAA Basketball 23-24

Taking nothing away from Caitlin Clark, because what she was able to do in her career puts her down as the greatest women's gunner in NCAA history. But man, what Pete Maravich did was nuts. He averaged 43.8, 44.2, and 44.5 PPG in his three seasons at LSU. This is without a shot clock, no three-point...