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What would be the rapper name for your city/state if based off popular convenience stores?
Jimmy Buccees
Jimmy Buccees
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Jimmy Rickers
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Jimmy Terrible.
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Jimmy Circle-K
I would like expensive whiskey.
We only have beer & wine...
What am I, 12?
We only have beer & wine...
What am I, 12?
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Mac Rabah
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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Big Van Vader
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Back in college, I had a roommate named Herb. After guys on my floor went out for the Rose Bowl, they gave him the nickname "Terrible." I never knew what the fuck that meant until we drove out to Vegas last year.
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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"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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Vinnie Paul, Pantera Drummer
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Which guy went by that name in that old blog run by Hood and Jerloma?
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"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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THERE’S NOWT WRONG WITH GALA LUNCHEONS, LAD!
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Robin Leach (of "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous" fame). Has also worked and lived in Las Vegas as a gossip columnist for the last 35 years.
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I'll take "People I Already Thought Were Dead" for $800 Alex...
I would like expensive whiskey.
We only have beer & wine...
What am I, 12?
We only have beer & wine...
What am I, 12?
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He was actually "only" 76. Which I guess means he was in his mid-40s when that show was on, which I thought he was much older than that then.
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A few years ago he showed up as the ring announcer for an HBO Boxing card in Macau of all places, complete with the "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" line, and it was one of the most bizarrely random celebrity appearances I can remember.
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Yeah, I would have thought he was like 60 during the heyday of that show.
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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That's one from the "Still Alive?" file.
Back in the 70s, he was the King of Comedy - movies, plays, everything.
Quite a career - a lot of schmaltz, but some good stuff in there too.
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Freddie Oversteegen - Dutch Resistance Fighter
What a woman!
What a woman!
With Hannie Schaft, a onetime law student with fiery red hair, they (Freddie and her sister) sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.
In perhaps their most daring act, they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to “go for a stroll” in the forest — and “liquidated” them, as Ms. Oversteegen put it, with a pull of the trigger.
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AmazingPruitt wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:32 am Freddie Oversteegen - Dutch Resistance Fighter
What a woman!
With Hannie Schaft, a onetime law student with fiery red hair, they (Freddie and her sister) sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.
In perhaps their most daring act, they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to “go for a stroll” in the forest — and “liquidated” them, as Ms. Oversteegen put it, with a pull of the trigger.
Totally Kafkaesque
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Nancy Wake has an amazing story tooPruitt wrote: ↑Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:32 am Freddie Oversteegen - Dutch Resistance Fighter
What a woman!
With Hannie Schaft, a onetime law student with fiery red hair, they (Freddie and her sister) sabotaged bridges and rail lines with dynamite, shot Nazis while riding their bikes, and donned disguises to smuggle Jewish children across the country and sometimes out of concentration camps.
In perhaps their most daring act, they seduced their targets in taverns or bars, asked if they wanted to “go for a stroll” in the forest — and “liquidated” them, as Ms. Oversteegen put it, with a pull of the trigger.
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They'd be called AnitFa today.
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hdo's (Steve Maitlen) mother passed away this morning. He's not on here much these days but know a lot of us are friends with him on FB, so might want to drop him a message or something.
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"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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NFL Hall of Famer Jim Taylor
Before my time, but my father used to go on and on about Taylor.
Sounds like a tough S.O.B.
Before my time, but my father used to go on and on about Taylor.
Sounds like a tough S.O.B.
“Jim Brown will give you that leg (to tackle) and then take it away from you,” Lombardi said. “Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.”
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When I was a little boy, I was a Packer fan. They were in their glory, my dad was a big Paul Horning fan, and they were on TV every Sunday. Through most of the 1960s, Horning and Taylor were backfield running mates carrying the ball in the highly successful Vince Lombardi power sweep. So, I have fond memories of Jim Taylor.Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:38 pm NFL Hall of Famer Jim Taylor
Before my time, but my father used to go on and on about Taylor.
Sounds like a tough S.O.B.
“Jim Brown will give you that leg (to tackle) and then take it away from you,” Lombardi said. “Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.”
One memory from Jerry Kramer's book Instant Replay that crystallized management/labor relations in football in that period:
After the 1966 championship, both backs left Green Bay, albeit in different ways. Jim Taylor became a free agent, as he had played out his team contract and declined to sign a new one. Paul Hornung was busted up and done, so he was exposed by the Packers to the expansion draft and taken by the newly formed New Orleans Saints. He never played a game for them. Ironically, Taylor signed with New Orleans and was their leading rusher for the season, then retired.
Kramer related that at the beginning of the 1967 training camp, Lombardi tearfully announced to the team that he had let "Paulie" go and it pained him greatly. He spoke for awhile about what a great guy Hornung was. After he was done with all that, he mentioned as an afterthought that they'd also be replacing the other (unnamed) running back. Kramer related the story as an example of how Lombardi viewed and valued a player's loyalty to the team.
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"What a bunch of pedantic pricks." - sybian
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Whitey Bulger was murdered in prison overnight.
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Whaaa. Legend.
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Whatever happened to those paintings though.
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In the least surprising news of the week, it’s being reported that Bulger was killed by a mafia hitman from Massachusetts.
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He and my dad are probably hanging out.
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Honestly kind of impressed the mafia still has that kind of reach. Reports of its demise might have been overstated.
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