The Swamp

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you guys leaving out the OG Otis...sheesh...

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this is some seriously cool "brushes with..." material I think I have posted about this before. The dad of my best friend growing up played guitar in Otis Redding's road band. The Upsetters...based out of Baltimore. He never spoke about that. In fact growing up I never saw him touch a guit...

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just know that i'm preliminarily extremely envious. i've given instructions that hopefully in about 50yrs my ashes are scattered at one specific turnoff up there - nothing like making it easy on the kids :lol: (always feel free to shoot me a note, i've been there a few times and might remember some ...

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Banff is top 5 spots anywhere for me but if you can make it north to Jasper that's #1.

Just that drive alone (Icefields Pkwy) is 3-4 hours of nonstop holyshit.

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meanwhile i'm getting 3 different NHL alerts from various apps .... about how Utah is ready to make a bid for an expansion team.

"Nothing to see here!"

man i've really developed a hatred for this league

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that is so delightfully cheesy - i love it. Chico.

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Also i'm totally simplifying it i realize as one who really isn't a *football fan* but if there's even an average quarterback behind center for the Bills this year do they go....what, 5-11? Maybe??

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at least 98% chance that was happening. At LEAST. i actually LOLd when that went wide right because *OF COURSE* - the most Losertown™ ending possible - but it only would have delayed the inevitable. Sadness. In my younger days that game would have kept me up all night. Just...going with a wounded pu...

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a. this is my dad [same age-ish] on every video call, only mostly the opposite. we see his forehead and the ceiling.

b. i don't think i understand the shirt. ...? is it a fraction i.e. is that a division line? a table?

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ok - this was amazing

Gunpowder - that's completely awesome. Looking good up there.

We should have a thread of/about Swampers on national (or any) tv.

seeing as I'm completely out of touch, what's the concept here? is every person on the floor a contestant or are there teams?

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actually my kids have known for ages about "that message board" (even may have met 1 or 2...) but only over xmas break for some reason finding out my "handle" wasn't my real name but instead *MaxWebster* sent them into hysterics.

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i don't know if i'm doing it right.

i do enjoy reading about The Garys tho, for real.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:47 pm I use the ... thing where I ... put it up ... or ... I have it wrapped around one of the Garys.

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thanks bronto and syb - i'll start looking at shit seriously tonight :/

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well...fuck. can i ... just glue it? (is there any chance this is a sump pump issue? we have one on the other side of the basement - the "ugly" side - although i've never seen any water there so i assume it's working...) could the basement floor have cracked underneath? Most likely. And th...

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at the risk of this being a completely idiotic question (i just don't know) ... what could/would be a reason that suddenly this winter in the finished part of our basement i'm getting water coming up from the ground? it's not on the walls but right in the middle of the floor i.e. through the shag (y...

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mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:47 am Then I'm definitely rooting for Buffalo, unless you reject me too.

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...goddammit... :D (that took me a minute but then I CONSIDERED THE SOURCE ;P) Today's return drive...holy shit. Bad from the start in Oakland and for 10 minutes north of Erie was arguably the worst drive of my life. Total whiteout, couldn't see 4' beyond the car in any direction and there were no t...

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just a shout-out to the Penguins and their fans - we had a blast at the game yesterday and ppl were great. Also a special shout out to this Crosby fella for scoring two goals, who has been my daughter's favourite player since she's been aware of hockey. Maybe the locals can corroborate - PPG Arena u...

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: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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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"OK, I'll pay your $6778 for seasons but NOT A PENNY MORE GODDAMMIT"

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(also i love boneless wings. which are not wings, of course. #confessions?)

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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.

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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...

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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 - ...

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when Cook dropped that easy TD catch last night I started yelling RONNIE HARMON at the TV.

goddammit...here we go....

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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.

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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...

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Ronnie
Harmon

(i'm only saying his name to exercise the demons, Pruitt)

Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:32 pm All are preferable to the Browns!

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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...

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! I would easily have put 10 bucks on Shecky Greene having died in the 80s what the what

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bought yesterday in Toronto - not sure when (if) I'll even drink it. Henderson's Rush Golden Ale.

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boy i miss watching these games. it would be nice if they made this easier to watch in the States.

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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 ...

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7:30pm tonight at our house but you're only allowed to look in from an outside window, sorry.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:08 am A Moneyball + _______ mashup should be made just for me and instead they pick a _______ I have negative understanding of.

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