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- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2500
- Views: 109625
Re: The Weather
:D i know - my girls and i had a blast last night hooting it up in the Pittsburgh/enemy territory hotel room. the youngest (Pitt freshman) said "Go Bills" to all the workers wearing Steelers gear at the Pens game :D (all in fun obvs) *extreme local WNY reference warning* so our drive to Pi...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2500
- Views: 109625
Re: The Weather
it's always a "fun" crapshoot as to who gets hammered....but yes: it's always Hamburg. :) I still can't believe the localized weather events. I still about the day we had 36 inches of snow in one day on campus, then driving off camopus the next day and a mile away there was one maybe 4 inc...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2500
- Views: 109625
Re: The Weather
Syb- ugh. Echoing everyone else in here, just awful - sorry as hell to read all that. (i'll note but not complain about my basement getting water seeping up from the ground in 2 big spots. i sprinkled some baking soda on it, i'm sure that'll take care of everything #professionalhomeowner) - - - am m...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6686
Re: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
I actually don't think i've been to Mints since ~1992? yet somehow it's comforting to know it's still there :D (and i agree, the idea of eating there is incredibly skeevy. Last one i was in - somewhere on Lundy's Lane (IYKYK) - there were tables of guys fully eating food. it's a dichotomy i could no...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6686
Re: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
i enjoyed this one :D (but why not both goddammit - i'll let it slide) The main bridge from Canada to Buffalo has been closed since last night because of the storm. No word on when they'll reopen. So you're saying some players might not be able to get to the game from the Candian strip clubs? Ballet...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-2024 NHL Season
- Replies: 653
- Views: 11241
Re: 2023-2024 NHL Season
so i got suckered into going to the Sabres v Canucks tomorrow afternoon. counterpoint: on Monday i'm (supposed to be*) driving down to Pittsburgh to take my daughter back to Pitt and have tix for us to see the Pens v Kraken. Have never been to a game in Pittsburgh and am probably going to cry seeing...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6686
Re: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
i kept seeing on my phone that we're (meaning me, 1 block north of the city) only getting like 7" why are they talking like it's armag....
OH. i see.
OH. i see.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-24 MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2246
Re: 2023-24 MLB Offseason Thread
"OK, I'll pay your $6778 for seasons but NOT A PENNY MORE GODDAMMIT"
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6686
Re: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
(also i love boneless wings. which are not wings, of course. #confessions?)
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
- Replies: 277
- Views: 6686
Re: 2023 NFL Wild Card Weekend
i hear nobody around us is buying anything made of steel until next Monday. Suck it, yinzers.
also they're never called Buffalo wings anywhere near 716. just wings.
also they're never called Buffalo wings anywhere near 716. just wings.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:35 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Travel Guide: Boston
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2590
Re: Swamp Travel Guide: Boston
moved 10+ years ago after having been there for ...fk...25ish years and it already feels like a different lifetime. Funny that Somerville/Allston divide - truth. Needed a car (which i didn't have for a while / college) to traverse that boundary. Seeing the Green-E line go past Lechmere does not comp...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Disc Golf Discussion Thread (wlu_lax6 talks to BSF21)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1167
Re: Swampers At The Disc Golf Course
2 of my friends / former bandmates were often more into disc golf than new songs :P so i got sucked a little bit into their cult and it's a blast... but every single time i played my weakass arm was sore for about 3 days after best course: Grouse Mtn, North Vancouver random image from reddit here - ...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2023 - Week 18 - Down the Stretch They Come!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 2486
Re: NFL 2023 - Week 18 - Down the Stretch They Come!
when Cook dropped that easy TD catch last night I started yelling RONNIE HARMON at the TV.
goddammit...here we go....
goddammit...here we go....
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: World Juniors Hockey
- Replies: 21
- Views: 491
Re: World Juniors Hockey
2-0 Finland about halfway through
I don't know how anyone uses these sketchy online streams for anything - if i'm fortunate enough to a) find a link to a game and b) get by the myriad awful popups - inevitably every stream will briefly hiccup every 30-45 seconds.
I don't know how anyone uses these sketchy online streams for anything - if i'm fortunate enough to a) find a link to a game and b) get by the myriad awful popups - inevitably every stream will briefly hiccup every 30-45 seconds.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2023 - Week 18 - Down the Stretch They Come!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 2486
Re: NFL 2023 - Week 18 - Down the Stretch They Come!
honestly this still kills me and IIRC - and I'm pretty sure I do having been obsessive in those days - i remember that mfker blaming Kelly for a high throw after the game. Since we didn't have interwebs n shit back then I think it wasn't until that week's SI came out with an article on the (objectiv...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2023 - Week 18 - Down the Stretch They Come!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 2486
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Undefeated
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1691
Re: The Undefeated
exactly my thought (...i don't even think espn.com is necessarily responsible or even can be for what he sees right? is that ISP-controlled? or espn's hoster gathers cookies and some ad co buys the info? no idea. other than it seems like someone's been balls-deep in some "research") Aren't...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
- Replies: 3881
- Views: 217404
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
! I would easily have put 10 bucks on Shecky Greene having died in the 80s what the what
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The OFFICIAL Craft Beer Thread
- Replies: 3119
- Views: 178533
Re: The OFFICIAL Craft Beer Thread
bought yesterday in Toronto - not sure when (if) I'll even drink it. Henderson's Rush Golden Ale.
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: World Juniors Hockey
- Replies: 21
- Views: 491
Re: World Juniors Hockey
boy i miss watching these games. it would be nice if they made this easier to watch in the States.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Video Games Thread (See first post for Swamper handles)
- Replies: 454
- Views: 27230
Re: Video Games Thread (See first post for Swamper handles)
I'm gonna need your address. Also found a connector to hook up the Atari to a modern TV for $6, so I ordered one in case the TV is the problem. Too many games to list, but I'll give some highlights. My friend's Atari broke at some point after he had Nintendo, so he gave me all the games he had that ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:36 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: X: New app, new thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1347
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:35 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: X: New app, new thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1347
Re: X: New app, new thread
this is goddamned perfect. Definitely sharing w the fam today as we're on the final night of our annual Extended Trilogy watch. yes: 3-4 hours each night, all guests are kicked out of the house before we begin. We'll accept no slander nor questions from so-called "friends" or "family....
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2500
- Views: 109625
Re: The Weather
it's nuts isn't it? i mean i know i've seen green christmases in the past but not so many in a short span. i know i can't just throw out last year's local snow hurricane but assuming i do, last winter was jack shit for snow as well. even with the what 6+' that fell we were back to bare grass in a we...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2500
- Views: 109625
Re: The Weather
yet another 50F late December day in Buffalo. documenting the last year in local weirdness from a Western NY weatherblog - the area has gone from most snow [and 90% of that was just from 2 storms (noting of course that one was the deadly xmas storm...)] in a year in local history to the 2nd-least ov...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Video Games Thread (See first post for Swamper handles)
- Replies: 454
- Views: 27230
Re: Video Games Thread (See first post for Swamper handles)
this entire description kinda excited me. I'm still floored at and will never forgive myself for gifting my 2600 (and original playstation...) to a friend as we moved to Vancouver 10+ years ago - I could jam on a little Adventure (level 3) right now... that problem seems so familiar - it sounds like...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:58 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Getting the spins
- Replies: 3316
- Views: 198473
Re: Getting the spins
one thing that's really difficult for me in middle age is to not be overwhelmed with how much music is "out there" and how much of it has grown huge and I'll never know. Noah Kahan I'd never heard of before September when my daughter started sending me daily links to his music, demanding ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:56 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Getting the spins
- Replies: 3316
- Views: 198473
Re: Getting the spins
one thing that's really difficult for me in middle age is to not be overwhelmed with how much music is "out there" and how much of it has grown huge and I'll never know. Noah Kahan I'd never heard of before September when my daughter started sending me daily links to his music, demanding I...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: What?? Are you drinking?
- Replies: 935
- Views: 34990
Re: What?? Are you drinking?
I mix up a decent Manhattan (um pretty regularly these days) and these are the cherries - but i got a little miffed when they went up to 19 bucks here ... guess we're getting a bargain in WNY and I'll be thankful? about the price here Maple old fashioned. Rye, maple syrup, and muddled orange slice a...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL Swampcrash 2023 - Week 16
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1014
Re: NFL Swampcrash 2023 - Week 16
have been following this in part to see these answers. I literally don't/didn't know a one of these. " Stormy the pig???? " Ryan how come you didn't put YOUPPI! in this question? gutless. ...as you were... Q4 - Name the ANIMAL portrayed by one of the following NHL mascots (8) CORRECT Wild ...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swamp Travel Guide
- Replies: 1222
- Views: 82556
Re: Swamp Travel Guide
not sure how relevant but i last went in winter 2006 on a hockey/drinking trip. Bring skates - honestly. Hell, throw a few sticks/pucks in the car as well. Finding a few outdoor skating areas / rinks right near the wall is my best memory (other than seeing a few games at Le Colisee). Anyone know any...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: NFL 2023 - Week 15
- Replies: 96
- Views: 1374
Re: NFL 2023 - Week 15
maybe MISTER Pegula could co-hire them to run some shit across town for the Sabres. i.e. that "other" team he bought and forgot about. (entire organization has turned a former hockey crazed city into one of complete and utter apathy. I have watched 1 sabres game this year and don't even th...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
- Replies: 1523
- Views: 64963
Re: Random thoughts/images/shit that makes you feel old thread
yeah and related (and i feel like i may have brought this up before, apologies) is i can't have anyone call me "mister webster" - first of all, it's not my name, and second .... no. please please call me max ffs. idk i know even with my relatively-young parents in the 80s it was considered...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
- Replies: 360
- Views: 6389
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random personalized license plate thread
- Replies: 360
- Views: 6389
Re: Random personalized license plate thread
noticed at the end of my block yesterday
WHIT JAZ - ny plate
because i suspect everyone of being racist these days, what am i missing here
WHIT JAZ - ny plate
because i suspect everyone of being racist these days, what am i missing here
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:45 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2023-24 MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2246
Re: 2023-24 MLB Offseason Thread
i spent a night visiting my daughter in Pittsburgh on Saturday/Sunday and was there when the news came down - a phone was thrown across the room (me: "i'm not paying for that repair you know...") and meanwhile my Dodger-fan wife was/is in Boston on a drunken girls' weekend and didn't know ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 8938
- Views: 413778
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
LOL exquisite timing for that tweet - i have to watch that video again now (actually now that I see it again that "delivery" is more akin to a knuckleball, but honestly they should have CGI'd someone else into that scene...) a billion times yes. MTV played the fk out of that video - that's...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 8938
- Views: 413778
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
:( goddammit, Johnnie. I'm so sorry. This is tough for me because whenever you move base to base or eventually retire from the military, they all kinda disappear. And it sucks because a buddy of mine that I really, truly looked up to because he was just so damn cool killed himself recently and it ab...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 8938
- Views: 413778
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
<3 this is awesome and true. thanks bfj Reach out to friends who seem to have disappeared. They need the love. I have a buddy going through some shit and we talked for hours yesterday. He needed it. His wife told me he was smiling and laughing after the call and she hadn’t seen him that happy in mon...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: EPL 2023-24
- Replies: 397
- Views: 9231
Re: EPL 2023-24
i've never rooted for a soccer team in my life that has played a game like that today. so that's what it's like - fk that was fun. Could (should) have had more than 1 but 1 was enough.