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wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:54 pm
DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:46 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:45 am
Old cycling race pictures are just cool
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Look at that bike...the brake cables aren't led under the handlebar tape...and the shifters on the downtube!
No Helmet
No Sun Glasses
Wool Jersey that is a bit baggy
Probably a steel bike
Old school capped bottle
Knit gloves
Toe Cages for the pedals
That is all way cool, but no way could I do without index shifters.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 2:20 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:54 pm
DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:46 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:45 am
Old cycling race pictures are just cool
Image
Look at that bike...the brake cables aren't led under the handlebar tape...and the shifters on the downtube!
No Helmet
No Sun Glasses
Wool Jersey that is a bit baggy
Probably a steel bike
Old school capped bottle
Knit gloves
Toe Cages for the pedals
That is all way cool, but no way could I do without index shifters.
What could happen? Get distracted and hit by a car? Whoops sorry :)

The bike my dad kept on his trainer was a Fuji race bike he bought in med school. Had shifters on the downtube. It was a beautiful machine that he destroyed on the trainer.
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Jim "Ace" Adams. I think only Shirley and I will care about this one, but legend UVA lacrosse coach. I am also pretty sure Shirley and I are both alums of the Ace Adams lacrosse camp.

A 1950 graduate of Johns Hopkins, Adams helped the Blue Jays win the 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 USILA National Championships as a midfielder. He never lost a game as collegiate player. 12 seasons as the head coach at Army, he won four USILA National Championships. Adams also spent eight seasons as the head coach at Penn, bringing the Quakers to their highest ranking ever up to that point. Then 15 years a UVA.

https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/college/m ... dies-at-91

Also when my dad served on the admission board at U of MD Med School he got a letter of recommendation about a kid from Coach Adams with the line. "I just wish he was as good a lacrosse player as he is a student and person".
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Not sure how I missed Paul Barrere of Little Feat fame passing away.
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Fred Cox

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But I had no idea that he invented the Nerf Football.

And this is what kickers used to look like:

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Michael J. Pollard

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Cartoonist Gahan Wilson

One of the greats.

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Gahan Wilson was really great!
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If there was a prototypical Gahan Wilson cartoon, it may have been one that appeared in Playboy in 1964, showing a bearded skeleton in a Santa Claus suit lying crumpled in a fireplace.
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Not to overstate the obvious, but you can see where Larson drew (heh) significant influence.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:49 am Jim "Ace" Adams. I think only Shirley and I will care about this one, but legend UVA lacrosse coach. I am also pretty sure Shirley and I are both alums of the Ace Adams lacrosse camp.

A 1950 graduate of Johns Hopkins, Adams helped the Blue Jays win the 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 USILA National Championships as a midfielder. He never lost a game as collegiate player. 12 seasons as the head coach at Army, he won four USILA National Championships. Adams also spent eight seasons as the head coach at Penn, bringing the Quakers to their highest ranking ever up to that point. Then 15 years a UVA.

https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/college/m ... dies-at-91

Also when my dad served on the admission board at U of MD Med School he got a letter of recommendation about a kid from Coach Adams with the line. "I just wish he was as good a lacrosse player as he is a student and person".
I did go to his lacrosse camp multiple times - I think once as a day camper and twice overnight. He was already legendary at that time, but was super nice to all the kids.
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Clive James

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... es-aged-80

I really liked his column in the Observer on Sunday's
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Baloney wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:14 pm Clive James

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... es-aged-80

I really liked his column in the Observer on Sunday's
He famously described Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his bodybuilding days, as looking like "a brown condom full of walnuts"
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Should read The Crystal Bucket, it's full of lines like that
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Seymour Siwoff...when you look at the picture you have no doubt he would be President of the Elias Sports Bureau.
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Cricketer Bob Willis

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/50655612

His charging in and getting 8 wickets against Oz in 1981 is the stuff of legend

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wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:35 am Seymour Siwoff...when you look at the picture you have no doubt he would be President of the Elias Sports Bureau.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/spor ... -dead.html
My god...that link should come with a warning.
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Baloney wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:39 am Cricketer Bob Willis

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/50655612

His charging in and getting 8 wickets against Oz in 1981 is the stuff of legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlknlMi_g44
"One of the greatest victories ever known."

That was cool.
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Rapper Juice WRLD
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sancarlos wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:25 pm Rapper Juice WRLD
I'd never heard of him and then his album popped up on Rolling Stone's top 50 of the year.
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Giff wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:22 am
sancarlos wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2019 8:25 pm Rapper Juice WRLD
I'd never heard of him and then his album popped up on Rolling Stone's top 50 of the year.
I'm not into rap one bit. But, I've heard him a lot, through my daughter.
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rass wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:06 am ...but it's over now.
Harsh. But fair.
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Former Derby, Oxford, Newcastle, QPR and Portsmouth Manager Jim Smith, the Bald Eagle

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I forgot to tell this little story about the recently departed:

So back in my spring 1L year, spring of 2001, my parents came up for a visit, so we went to Hoboken for lunch. We stop at this Italian place on 2nd (or 3rd) and Washington. Good place. Top-notch macaroni from scratch. Anyway, we look over, and who's holding court with a small group two tables over? Danny Freaking Aiello! Apparently he was a regular there. So as a fan in between courses I go over of course and tell him I'm a big fan of his work, including that little cameo from Godfather 2. We get a picture smiling and shaking hands on my Dad's disposable camera. I go and get that film developed because I had to use this pic. I was running for Student Bar Association rep for that next year, so I photocopy that pic of me and him, with the caption "Danny Aiello says Do The Right Thing, and vote for [LJam] for SBA".

Didn't end up winning, but it was a good pic. I need to go take a look for that next time I'm at my parents'.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:39 pm I forgot to tell this little story about the recently departed:

So back in my spring 1L year, spring of 2001, my parents came up for a visit, so we went to Hoboken for lunch. We stop at this Italian place on 2nd (or 3rd) and Washington. Good place. Top-notch macaroni from scratch. Anyway, we look over, and who's holding court with a small group two tables over? Danny Freaking Aiello! Apparently he was a regular there. So as a fan in between courses I go over of course and tell him I'm a big fan of his work, including that little cameo from Godfather 2. We get a picture smiling and shaking hands on my Dad's disposable camera. I go and get that film developed because I had to use this pic. I was running for Student Bar Association rep for that next year, so I photocopy that pic of me and him, with the caption "Danny Aiello says Do The Right Thing, and vote for [LJam] for SBA".

Didn't end up winning, but it was a good pic. I need to go take a look for that next time I'm at my parents'.
I'd bet it was Tutta Pasta on the corner of 2nd and Washington. Saw him eating there at a sidewalk table 50 times. Actually sat next to him at a Jets game last year, didn't acknowledge him, though. I feel funny imposing on celebrities.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 4:39 pm I forgot to tell this little story about the recently departed:

So back in my spring 1L year, spring of 2001, my parents came up for a visit, so we went to Hoboken for lunch. We stop at this Italian place on 2nd (or 3rd) and Washington. Good place. Top-notch macaroni from scratch. Anyway, we look over, and who's holding court with a small group two tables over? Danny Freaking Aiello! Apparently he was a regular there. So as a fan in between courses I go over of course and tell him I'm a big fan of his work, including that little cameo from Godfather 2. We get a picture smiling and shaking hands on my Dad's disposable camera. I go and get that film developed because I had to use this pic. I was running for Student Bar Association rep for that next year, so I photocopy that pic of me and him, with the caption "Danny Aiello says Do The Right Thing, and vote for [LJam] for SBA".

Didn't end up winning, but it was a good pic. I need to go take a look for that next time I'm at my parents'.
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A guy I went to J-school with got the assignment to write his obit for the Washington Post. (He’s written books on NASCAR and covered it for Sporting News and other pubs.)
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Jack Sheldon just missed 2020. He San I'm Just A Bill and Conjunction Junction. Also Merv Griffin's side kick.
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Don Larsen

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Pruitt wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:29 am Don Larsen

9 Innings of glory
"He was 81-91 lifetime, never won more than 11 games in a season and finished an unsightly 3-21 with Baltimore in 1954, the year before he was dealt to the Yankees as part of an 18-player trade."
From the obit in the Times:
Larsen’s 1956 season had not begun on a promising note. During spring training in St. Petersburg, Fla., he drove his car into a telephone pole while returning to the team hotel around 4 a.m. He said later that day that he had fallen asleep at the wheel, and when he was asked about the incident through the years, he maintained that he had not been drinking.
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"I was very sober, returning home from nailing someone who was not my wife" isn't preferable, I imagine.
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