real turf fan
| Favorite team: | Tennessee  |
| Location: | East Tennessee |
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| Occupation: | Retired geologist |
| Number of Posts: | 8567 |
| Registered on: | 12/22/2016 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Israel taking out Iranian nuclear sites right now
Posted by real turf fan on 4/18/24 at 9:24 pm
[quote]fortuitous lagniappe[/quote]
In other times, that would be a great name for a chamber music quartet.
In these times, if you can both pronounce it and spell it, you can continue drinking....
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re: Dairy Queen Raises Ice Cream Prices 50%
Posted by real turf fan on 4/18/24 at 3:57 pm
You can call it ice cream but is it made from a custard? The eggs and cream can justify some price rises.
But Dairy Queen just doesn't taste like a true frozen custard....
re: “Do not lose your life over a f***ing car!”
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 7:53 pm
Yell, loudly, smile m.....f....ers.
Your pictures are on the way to the local tV stations.
And never, ever, have a great car that is that vulnerable....
re: Hammond man killed when 24 year old runs red light
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 4:14 pm
[quote]State Police did not say if Reid will face charges or be ticketed.[/quote]
Did she or did she not run a red light? Or was she just sitting behind the steering wheel as the car drove itself?...
re: People who went from nice older home to newer one
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 3:25 pm
Well when 2x4s were true 2x4s and not a lot less than two inches.
Molding : a friend paid several hundred thousand for a place outside of Denver. I was surprised to see that all the esterior molding was glued together pine and the glue was failing on the sunny side of the house.
Hardware: hing...
re: What experiences from your past would you bring back for today's kids if you could?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 1:33 pm
When my girlfriends and I entered the 8th grade, all of our parents gave us phones. Nope, not at all what you are thinking.
Each of us got a plug in outlet for our room and we could take the family land line phone into our rooms and talk to our friends in private.
I wish they could visit my Go...
re: Shocking stat in the last 19 seasons Tennessee is 4-34 vs Alabama and Florida.
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 11:12 am
We can't thank Jimmy Sexton enough for leading us to many of those hires, and for his client, our former AD, who shared that misery.
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re: Have you ever been electrocuted?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 11:05 am
In the country, you learn which farmers run really hot fences and which ones are just hot. (Johnny ran his fence so hot that you didn't want to walk on wet grass near it.)...
re: Where can I find / buy some Japanese plums (loquats) around Ascension?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/17/24 at 10:43 am
And the sweet wine that the Japanese make from them is excellent over ice as a desert....
re: Have you ever been electrocuted?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/16/24 at 7:49 pm
My Father rewired a floor lamp with a metal body. I went to move the lamp, got shocked, pushed it away (and bent the lampshade) and got chastised for pushing it away.
Then it shocked Father. Last time I saw that lamp....
re: What’s the most obvious inflation item?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/16/24 at 10:59 am
Food.
Something we're reminded of several times a day. ...
re: Vikings stadium going vegan
Posted by real turf fan on 4/15/24 at 10:49 am
Good joke, now tell us another one....
re: Has furniture gone up much?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/15/24 at 10:48 am
I continue to buy pieces of solid hardwood furniture from Clore Furniture in Madison Virginia. The prices have gone up, and I don't begrudge their workers getting more for the excellent products they produce.
When it comes to chairs and sofas, we reupholster what we have. (Just like my Father d...
re: Spam callers
Posted by real turf fan on 4/15/24 at 9:34 am
I've posted this before about wasting their time.
A NOLA friend tried this and just said un huh multiple times. He got to a second home he owns in another state and found that one of his uh huh's had been used as an affirmative to transfer his electric bill to a different provider. He eventual...
re: Brittney Griner and her wife are expecting their first child
Posted by real turf fan on 4/14/24 at 5:49 pm
But not her first child with a wife.
BG's first wife had twins.[quote]Johnson said that she was impregnated via in vitro fertilization with her egg and a donor's sperm. She married fellow WNBA player Brittney Griner in May, and the Phoenix Mercury center filed for an annulment after Johnson annou...
re: One vendor's food offerings at the Strawberry Festival in Ponchatoula
Posted by real turf fan on 4/13/24 at 10:30 am
My husband's in a club that has/ had always sold Fried Green Tomatoes at a local fair. They were good enough that people sought them out year after year.
Then the fair upped the price of their spot to $500. Then after covid reduced the length of the fair from 2 1/2 days to one day.
And the econo...
re: Ok, the comp. for POS of the week over. Police search for man in blowtorch sexual assault.
Posted by real turf fan on 4/12/24 at 10:56 pm
Channon Christian and Cris Newsom were both tortured AND murdered, in that order.
None of their perps got the death sentence....
re: is a power of attorney for aging parents a good idea?
Posted by real turf fan on 4/11/24 at 8:14 pm
[quote]POA ends at death
you need to have you name on the account before the parent dies.[/quote]
In Virginia when my parents died, they had made their account labeled,
his name, her name or my name. So the transfer to my solo account was simple....
re: Dance Team Forced From Seattle Show Because Uniforms Were Offensive—They Depicted the Amer
Posted by real turf fan on 4/11/24 at 6:46 pm
We were in Seattle when a young boy was found almost dead with his penis cut off. They caught the perp because he was out of jail having done it before. The Washington State resident Mother of the boy said, "The next time he's released he needs to be monitored more closely."
That convinced us tha...
re: The OJ verdict was when I realized how tribal blacks are.
Posted by real turf fan on 4/11/24 at 6:41 pm
Well said. We were living in NOLA then, and it impressed us in a really frightful way....
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