The Swamp

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The Orange Crush defense. Craig Morton. Haven Moses and Rick Upchurch.I remember the 1977 season (12-2) and playoffs. Biletnikoff gets hurt in the first half of the AFC Championship, a big 'what if' for Raider fans.

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https://twitter.com/DadBoner/status/913252946619506689

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That Bowden book on Hue sounds great, added to my list. I really enjoyed Black Hawk Down. But this may be the most significant post of this thread. Pay attention. Online, on the PBS site, they have different versions of the film. The broadcast edit, one with Vietnamese subtitles (degen mentioned tha...

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I am trying to limit my comments on this issue. But, as someone once told me, you can't be too strong.

https://twitter.com/nycjayjay/status/912499678771589121

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via timgod and the old style 140 twitter

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that is funny

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The assistants arrested have ZERO reason not flip on everyone they know at this point. This ain't the mob (well, maybe except for Pitino), if they can implicate others to reduce their probable sentences, they will. How could they not flip? My second thought, after my disgust that no head coaches we...

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And episode 6, we get to 1968. It always comes down to 1968. This horrible stupid war, and the whole period of American history. (And episode 6 only covered half the year.) The oft repeated assessment that Tet was a military victory for the US/ARVN infuriates me. If true, it lacks any relevance to t...

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Mine is "it's such a fine line between stupid and clever"

(but you're not as confused as him. It's not your job to be as confused as him)

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You are right in your analysis, Joe. They drastically improved themselves, it might work. I don't think it will, but the chance of them winning a title went from near zero to significantly above zero.

Dubs are just an injury to Curry or Durant away from beatable by Houston, SA, or now OKC.

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In retrospect, it's not too hard to see how a bland appeal to staying the course lost out to some crazy nationalist telling everyone to grab a nuke and bomb the foreigners back to the Stone Age. fify. An idea whose time hadn't yet come (but 53 years later…) wrt setting up shop at Da Nang, it starte...

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Westbrook took 24 shots per game last season; PG-13 took 18, both career highs. Melo 17.8. I'll be surprised if Russ and Melo find a way to coexist offensively. Lotta talent, but they're gonna need more basketballs.

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How the hell does she still look so young? Sure, only 36 but she looks 16.

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The ones who come to my mind are all too old (Posey, Panda, McCutcheon, Tulowitski). But, Giancarlo Stanton. (looked it up, he's the last on your table.)

eta: and Gunpowder beat me to that one.

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Nonlinear FC wrote:She's very flat footed, which is almost definitely because her mind was caught in two places.

goodness, I hate that feeling. I hate the decades-old memory of that feeling.

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Come on all of you big strong men Uncle Sam needs your help again He's got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in Vietnam So put down your books and pick up a gun We're gonna have a whole lotta fun! Well, it's one, two, three What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn The next...

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Today is not the day.

Next Friday pm/ Saturday, the 29/30th. Yom Kippur. Tenth day of the seventh month. Then we talk about them.

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Oh boy, this is fun. Degen, you prob remember the last time we kicked this around, I had not read anything negative about Gen Giap, until you unloaded. I've opened my mind, but I have yet to take the time to read the other side, about Giap's career during the American phase (or who was calling the m...

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Bengal, with all the hurricanes in the news, impressed you've put away two episodes so far. I thought the first two episodes were poor and lacking. The colonial stuff is off. Very flawed as if Burns didn't know how or where to start his documentary and I can get into the details. Interesting. On one...

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"Hey, look at that, look at those assholes over there…" (night, day, don't mean shit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcJXT5lc1Bg

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trip dude, this movie, basically just Hart talking about this life, came out a couple of years back: Grant Hart - Every Everything: The Music, Life and Times of Grant Hart

such a simple song. I sure do love it. That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm9uquPK1SQ

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Steve of phpBB wrote:Hell, Motorhead is in a car commercial. I have no idea what that means.

That Lemmy is god. Duh.

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A_B wrote:Fuck pickleball.

ok, I give up. Just imagine the actress from The Birds and Alfred Hitchcock's pickle.

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A_B wrote:Fuck decaf.

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yep, looking forward to that tomorrow. The WFMU twitter feed points to a wide range of weirdness and interesting links.

rass wrote:
https://twitter.com/wfmu/status/907988137997213696

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Kim Jong-un is a Manchester United fan

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A_B wrote:Fuck birds.

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Miami is about 70 miles from the center of this thing. Fucking massive. The west side of South Florida getting it much worse. I can't imagine the toll in Key West (to where a dear friend retired just two months ago) and the more populated areas in the path. Maybe all the way from Naples to Tallahass...

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glad you reached high/inland ground. Best of luck.

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Re-intensivization is underway, as Irma turns north and breaks away from the Cuban coast. Pressure has fallen from 940mB this morning to 932mb in a special 2100hrs NHC note. Radar imaging indicates a new eye wall reconstruction cycle may be underway (according to the people who seem to know about th...

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This dude is fantastic, clear concise simple communication of facts. Maybe it'll catch on (maybe not.)

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Sloane Stephens is so pretty, as well as your US Open champion. Boring ass match, though.

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Hey, DC, remember these guys? Rush does I bet. When the history of the emergence of southern rock is told, these guys are ofter omitted. An anti-Marin county bias, no doubt. The Job story in the godless thread (aren't they all on this forum?) made me think of this tune that I loved in ninth grade, (...

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Thanks. Between working with a doc who is a recreational pilot, and listening to Bill Burr talking about learning to fly helicopters, I've lately become more interested in normal weather, as well as my attraction to the big storms.

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… how much anyone wants to hear about weather nerd-dom. A lot, speaking for myself. Post when you can, please. The ratio of good info to noise/trolls on the WeatherUnderground board ( Cat 6 section, following updates posted by Masters or Henson) is quite low but the info so good it makes the effort...

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new cone diagram is out. Keys and Fort Myers in the bulleye now, Miami at the eastern edge (but if it tracks close to the center of the cone, Miami will still get a hell of a storm surge, this sucker is so wide.) Subject to change. you might have much better guidance in the morning. http://www.nhc.n...

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heading is 280˚at the 2300 NHC report (270˚ is due west), at 13mph, so sure you right Rex!

eta: NHC 2300 report link http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MI ... 0258.shtml

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Irma is interacting with Cuba more than anticipated, the eye may be making landfall now (2230 edt). The models and uncertainty cone may be significantly adjusted over the next several hours. And the intensity may decrease (good for the US, not so good for Cuba, but the region the eye is hitting is n...

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Today is a good day. Because this hit my email inbox:

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