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bfj wrote:My oldest will be getting his driver’s license on Wednesday.

Yeah, I'm close behind you, there. My daughter (who is almost 17) got her learner's permit in September. Should get her driver's license in March. I may have a heart attack in the passenger seat before we get to that point.
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sancarlos wrote:
bfj wrote:My oldest will be getting his driver’s license on Wednesday.

Yeah, I'm close behind you, there. My daughter (who is almost 17) got her learner's permit in September. Should get her driver's license in March. I may have a heart attack in the passenger seat before we get to that point.


My son got his permit two years ago ... never bothered to go through with getting his license, mostly because the driver's ed class at his school was a massive clusterfuck.

I guess you can get a license at 18 without having taken a driver's ed class. So that's his plan now, since he'll be 18 in six months.

The other thing that makes me feel old is that my son will be 18 in six months.
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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Good News! Almost no one here is old enough for "your children are wearing bifocals" so you've got that going for you.
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how long has this place been around? I feel like I was a sophomore in college when I joined, which is like 2006/07

which makes me feel old
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that's about when I joined...over 10 years ago...
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I think I'm class of 04
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Why are we all guessing when we can j...oh right
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Ryan wrote:Why are we all guessing when we can j...oh right


not gonna lie, I felt really fucking guilty about that when it got bombed about the time of the Tiger Woods TMZ thing and my comments helped fuel that fire.

(but y'all can't say I was wrong about the TMZization of internet sportsball blogging so take that haters)
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Remember when Ryan was a little baby and left for a year?
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Very early 2003.
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I don't remember when I joined and there were months or years where my posting was very sporadic, but I'm pretty sure I first created an account to say that Lance Armstrong was definitely doping and that the American media was crazy to treat him with any less suspicion than Barry Bonds. That one aged a lot better than most of my uncommon opinions.
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Brontoburglar wrote:
Ryan wrote:Why are we all guessing when we can j...oh right


not gonna lie, I felt really fucking guilty about that when it got bombed about the time of the Tiger Woods TMZ thing and my comments helped fuel that fire.

(but y'all can't say I was wrong about the TMZization of internet sportsball blogging so take that haters)

I'm fairly certain I still have that podcast...and all 20-ish of them, really. We were PMT before PMT.

August '05 for me, btw. Terrell Owens being mad about the Eagles not giving him money and dressing up in military camo made me join. Had been lurking for some time before because MemBengal invited me to drop by the Swamp with a thought or two at the end of his blogs on this archaic thing called a "Front Page."

The first thread I read was about Karrine Steffans' (nickname Superhead because she was good at sucking dick) book, Confessions of a Video Vixen. In it everyone was entertained by Chris Brown's reaction after getting blown by her: I'm Transforming!
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Stipe's>Letterman's>Cross'

(and yeah, the 25th anniversary of Automatic for the People has been rough as it's an all time fave an coincided with my senior year of HS)
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rass wrote:Stipe's>Letterman's>Cross'

(and yeah, the 25th anniversary of Automatic for the People has been rough as it's an all time fave an coincided with my senior year of HS)


That got me looking back to the albums from my last year in high school.

I may just drive to the nursing home now...

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What's up with all the terrible, milquetoast repurposing of popular songs in commercials lately? I mean, I guess that's always been a thing...

Holiday Road by Lindsay Buckingham is an example of what I'm talking about.

Seriously. I feel genuine rage before my age whenever this happens.
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The guy next to me who recognized “Bulletproof” to be Radiohead but had never heard of the song
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I've been mentoring a kid for the past 5 years or so - helping him get gigs, giving him advice on agents etc. Nice, smart guy.

Just had lunch with him. I treated, since he's turning 30 tomorrow.
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The top cornerback recruit in the country just picked Alabama - Patrick Surtain Jr.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:38 pm
sancarlos wrote:
bfj wrote:My oldest will be getting his driver’s license on Wednesday.
Yeah, I'm close behind you, there. My daughter (who is almost 17) got her learner's permit in September. Should get her driver's license in March. I may have a heart attack in the passenger seat before we get to that point.
My son got his permit two years ago ... never bothered to go through with getting his license, mostly because the driver's ed class at his school was a massive clusterfuck.

I guess you can get a license at 18 without having taken a driver's ed class. So that's his plan now, since he'll be 18 in six months.

The other thing that makes me feel old is that my son will be 18 in six months.
I'm younger than you peeps, but my stepson is 20. That's just bananas to me. My wife is older than me by a fair bit, but still.
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Johnnie wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:06 pm
Brontoburglar wrote:
Ryan wrote:Why are we all guessing when we can j...oh right
not gonna lie, I felt really fucking guilty about that when it got bombed about the time of the Tiger Woods TMZ thing and my comments helped fuel that fire.

(but y'all can't say I was wrong about the TMZization of internet sportsball blogging so take that haters)
I'm fairly certain I still have that podcast...and all 20-ish of them, really. We were PMT before PMT.

August '05 for me, btw. Terrell Owens being mad about the Eagles not giving him money and dressing up in military camo made me join. Had been lurking for some time before because MemBengal invited me to drop by the Swamp with a thought or two at the end of his blogs on this archaic thing called a "Front Page."

The first thread I read was about Karrine Steffans' (nickname Superhead because she was good at sucking dick) book, Confessions of a Video Vixen. In it everyone was entertained by Chris Brown's reaction after getting blown by her: I'm Transforming!
Shit, I think I first joined around '03, but could be off. I moved to Alabama in August of '03, and think I joined prior to that via Bill Cross pointing me to a Wink and the Gun article that linked to the swamp. Left in the second or third great rift. About when every thread turned in to the same crap and it just frankly got boring. Life was too busy and the world was too big to have to stress about that bullshit. But this place was social media before social media.
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Ryan wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:47 am The top cornerback recruit in the country just picked Alabama - Patrick Surtain Jr.
Dear lord.
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Square Rob wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:39 am
Johnnie wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:06 pm
Brontoburglar wrote:
Ryan wrote:Why are we all guessing when we can j...oh right
not gonna lie, I felt really fucking guilty about that when it got bombed about the time of the Tiger Woods TMZ thing and my comments helped fuel that fire.

(but y'all can't say I was wrong about the TMZization of internet sportsball blogging so take that haters)
I'm fairly certain I still have that podcast...and all 20-ish of them, really. We were PMT before PMT.

August '05 for me, btw. Terrell Owens being mad about the Eagles not giving him money and dressing up in military camo made me join. Had been lurking for some time before because MemBengal invited me to drop by the Swamp with a thought or two at the end of his blogs on this archaic thing called a "Front Page."

The first thread I read was about Karrine Steffans' (nickname Superhead because she was good at sucking dick) book, Confessions of a Video Vixen. In it everyone was entertained by Chris Brown's reaction after getting blown by her: I'm Transforming!
Shit, I think I first joined around '03, but could be off. I moved to Alabama in August of '03, and think I joined prior to that via Bill Cross pointing me to a Wink and the Gun article that linked to the swamp. Left in the second or third great rift. About when every thread turned in to the same crap and it just frankly got boring. Life was too busy and the world was too big to have to stress about that bullshit. But this place was social media before social media.
I thought I was March '03, but that couldn't be right if Bobby Fivesides joined then. You were an elder statesman around here long before I joined. Maybe I was March '06? When was Hood to Coast? I'd been around long enough before then to seriously consider joining you guys.
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H2C was 2008(!).
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I bet I was March 06 then.
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According to my math, my youngest kid who was born that summer will be 10 this summer.
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may of 2003 here. tampa bays qb situation brought me in
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In my head I remember Pentagonz and I joined the same day from that link that Grant Wahl shared. (Along with one or two other people still around.)

But that was literally like 15 damn years ago or some shit.
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Gino Bona in 04 for me in think.
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brian wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:34 am In my head I remember Pentagonz and I joined the same day from that link that Grant Wahl shared. (Along with one or two other people still around.)

But that was literally like 15 damn years ago or some shit.
Me too, I think. February or March 2003.
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I think I plucked a gray chest hair. I plucked a gray nose hair a couple years back. Since I am not allowed to have facial hair, I may have grays there too. (It's a stout red and blonde and changes in the light, so the world is missing out on that.) I have yet to have any gray hair on my head though. Still waiting for that to happen.
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Johnnie wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:48 pm I think I plucked a gray chest hair. I plucked a gray nose hair a couple years back. Since I am not allowed to have facial hair, I may have grays there too. (It's a stout red and blonde and changes in the light, so the world is missing out on that.) I have yet to have any gray hair on my head though. Still waiting for that to happen.
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Justin Long is playing the parent of a middle school aged kid in a soon to be released movie.
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My most recent choice in the album draft is 24 years old.
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Government has proclaimed May as "Jewish Heritage Month" in Canada.

Guy on the left is the M.P. (like a Representative) from my riding (district). He's just guaranteed himself re-election in this neighbourhood.

But the woman on the right is Linda Frum. David's sister and a member of our unelected and unimportant federal senate. She was in my year at McGill and was in a few of my Poli Sci courses. And I had a big crush on her. And she looks her age.

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Maybe you're a harsh grader because you knew her when, but based on that picture you're a harsh grader.


Anyway:
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I was looking for this thread yesterday and now can't remember what I was going to post.
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P.D.X. wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 11:47 am I was looking for this thread yesterday and now can't remember what I was going to post.
Ha. Now, you should quote that and put it in the Irony thread.
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rass wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:22 am Justin Long is playing the parent of a middle school aged kid in a soon to be released movie.
This is how I feel watching Mandy Moore play a mother of triplets.
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