The Swamp

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

One of those players you inexplicably like as a kid ...



And one who either got suspended the day we were going to see them play or came back that day ... I don't know. One of those kid memories I wouldn't wager much on being accurate ...

Otis Nixon looks like Otis Redding sounds

Don't forget Oatis, the Holland Oats mascot. He was a horse that everyone thought was black but was in fact very white.

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:23 pm Otis Nixon looks like Otis Redding sounds

That is hilarious and true.

The rescue where we got our last dog (based in Syb’s town) just added a post for a pup named Otis who is up for adoption. One of you local guys make it happen.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:34 pm The rescue where we got our last dog (based in Syb’s town) just added a post for a pup named Otis who is up for adoption. One of you local guys make it happen.

Right, I noticed him and thought it was a great name for him (pug puppy), but didn't make the connection. Otis is a great dog name.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:34 pm The rescue where we got our last dog (based in Syb’s town) just added a post for a pup named Otis who is up for adoption. One of you local guys make it happen.

I had a Westie named Otis. A very good boy indeed.

Can’t believe I never looked this up before but Bryan Adams was only 10 in ‘69. All that emotion poured into singing what really was just a big 69 joke? Me and my baby in 69. Oh.

Weird timing - I was just on the Wiki for major music events in 1994 (because everything good is turning 30 this year) and the first entry is Bryan Adams becoming the first star to play in Vietnam since the end of the war.

(Jar of Flies just turned 30 a couple days ago. Sigh.)

Ryan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:28 am Weird timing - I was just on the Wiki for major music events in 1994 (because everything good is turning 30 this year) and the first entry is Bryan Adams becoming the first star to play in Vietnam since the end of the war.

(Jar of Flies just turned 30 a couple days ago. Sigh.)

I was the HS class of ‘93 so all these ‘94 markers turning 30 are unambiguously related to college memories. Fucked up, and making my oldest’s final semester of HS a little rougher for me. Plus she turns 18 next month.

On the plus side she was bugging me for song suggestions a couple of weeks ago and No Excuses stuck with her.

Yeah just realize 30-years ago was smack dab in the weirdest part of my life. Dad loses job a month after junior year started and I’m forced to move with him to California. Had to leave the town where I spent every grade mainly because my mom and I couldn’t get along. His attempt to start a company out there was floundering when he got an offer at Kraft in Chicago. So right now in 1994 I was living with my brother and his family (including my one-month old nephew) for a couple months before moving to Chicago for a couple months. Plan was to live with my brother the summer before senior year until I graduated, but I got into some trouble at the beginning of the school year. My Mom being amazing moved back down here for 8 months and we lived in a small one bedroom apartment so I could graduate high school with all the friends I’d known my whole life.

rass wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:55 am

Ryan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:28 am Weird timing - I was just on the Wiki for major music events in 1994 (because everything good is turning 30 this year) and the first entry is Bryan Adams becoming the first star to play in Vietnam since the end of the war.

(Jar of Flies just turned 30 a couple days ago. Sigh.)

I was the HS class of ‘93 so all these ‘94 markers turning 30 are unambiguously related to college memories. Fucked up, and making my oldest’s final semester of HS a little rougher for me. Plus she turns 18 next month.

On the plus side she was bugging me for song suggestions a couple of weeks ago and No Excuses stuck with her.

I’m a year younger and my son is the same age, so all these 30 year anniversaries coincide with his graduation year.

Just last night he mentioned having to go into Spotify to listen to Paul Revere, as it was stuck in his head and he couldn’t stop singing it. He was surprised when I knew all the words. I told him it was the first album I ever bought. He just said “you were into License to Ill?” I was shocked, as he doesn’t listen to old music much. And when he says he listens to something old, it’s from like 2015.

I was part of a team Friday night at a trivia contest. One question asked in which state Washington and Lee University was located. I was the only one on the team who had heard of the school and knew the answer. All because of wlu_lax and the Swamp!

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:51 pm I was part of a team Friday night at a trivia contest. One question asked in which state Washington and Lee University was located. I was the only one on the team who had heard of the school and knew the answer. All because of wlu_lax and the Swamp!

I’m not even sure I know for certain but isn’t it Virginia?

brian wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:04 pm

sancarlos wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:51 pm I was part of a team Friday night at a trivia contest. One question asked in which state Washington and Lee University was located. I was the only one on the team who had heard of the school and knew the answer. All because of wlu_lax and the Swamp!

I’m not even sure I know for certain but isn’t it Virginia?

Yup. Lexington, VA

Thanks to her opening monologue and this skit I now know Dakota Johnson is Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith's kid. It all makes so much sense now.

Had you never seen her before?

I have, but I never thought "Man, she looks like Don Johnson."

Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:33 pm I have, but I never thought "Man, she looks like Don Johnson."

Maybe it's because he was one of my mom's crushes growing up so we never missed Miami Vice, but I have never not seen it. Obviously our timelines are off by about that right amount of pop culture.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:34 pm The rescue where we got our last dog (based in Syb’s town) just added a post for a pup named Otis who is up for adoption. One of you local guys make it happen.

He got adopted yesterday

rass wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:06 pm

rass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:34 pm The rescue where we got our last dog (based in Syb’s town) just added a post for a pup named Otis who is up for adoption. One of you local guys make it happen.

He got adopted yesterday

This makes me very happy

Carrie Bradshaw, a professional writer, also uses the floating ellipsis.

The reason that pitchers get hurt so often is simple: The human body is not meant to do what pitchers do. I present this with a caveat, though, which is that I would argue that the human body is literally built to throw things. There’s evidence that thrown object hunting is actually a crucial point in human evolutionary history, and the human shoulder joint is capable of ranges of external rotation not seen in any of our nearest primate relatives. There’s a very common adaptation that occurs in the human shoulder joint that only occurs if you throw things a lot from a young age, called humeral retroversion, that actually changes the joint to allow for more external rotation at the shoulder, which generally allows you to throw things harder. This is why you can almost always tell which celebrities throwing out the first pitch at the ballpark played when they were younger and which ones didn’t. If you didn’t, your arm doesn’t have the room to “lay back” and the resulting throw looks awkward and pushy.

https://defector.com/a-pitchers-view-on ... n-epidemic

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:43 pm The reason that pitchers get hurt so often is simple: The human body is not meant to do what pitchers do. I present this with a caveat, though, which is that I would argue that the human body is literally built to throw things. There’s evidence that thrown object hunting is actually a crucial point in human evolutionary history, and the human shoulder joint is capable of ranges of external rotation not seen in any of our nearest primate relatives. There’s a very common adaptation that occurs in the human shoulder joint that only occurs if you throw things a lot from a young age, called humeral retroversion, that actually changes the joint to allow for more external rotation at the shoulder, which generally allows you to throw things harder. This is why you can almost always tell which celebrities throwing out the first pitch at the ballpark played when they were younger and which ones didn’t. If you didn’t, your arm doesn’t have the room to “lay back” and the resulting throw looks awkward and pushy.

https://defector.com/a-pitchers-view-on ... n-epidemic

Wait, so the "throw like a girl" thing is biological?

No. At the shoulder not the elbow.

The linked article is kind of crazy.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:41 pm

I'm curious what new think you learned from this story. That calling in bomb threats is a crime?

Shirley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:39 am

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:41 pm

I'm curious what new think you learned from this story. That calling in bomb threats is a crime?

That I fucked up and thought it was the Twitter thread.

I just heard of this mineral and I’m shocked to learn it is a real thing. I’m guessing the guy who named it had a big evening planned!

Cummingtonite!

Imagine stumbling upon a rich vein of that?

sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:13 pm I just heard of this mineral and I’m shocked to learn it is a real thing. I’m guessing the guy who named it had a big evening planned!

Cummingtonite!

Too true

TIL that Cameron Brink, the All-America star of the Stanford women’s basketball team, is the goddaughter of former NBA player, Dell Curry - the father of Steph Curry. Her godmother is Sonya Curry, Steph’s mother. All four of the parents attended Virginia Tech together, where the mothers were roommates.

Cameron? They really did want a baller

Didn't know this before today:

I'm trying to figure out where the 4th foot is. And the logistics of two sets of functioning genitals. Did he pee out of both? Did both drain the same bladder? I guess his brain was able to figure out how to control all of that?

Shirley wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:40 am I'm trying to figure out where the 4th foot is. And the logistics of two sets of functioning genitals. Did he pee out of both? Did both drain the same bladder? I guess his brain was able to figure out how to control all of that?

If you Google the dude the 4th foot looks like excess flesh on his knee on his right leg. It's under the sock.

Your other questions...I have no idea.

How'd I miss this one?

Just recently learned that Paul Giammatti is Bart Giammatti's son.