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re: House design features that bother you
Posted by BRich on 4/6/26 at 4:59 pm to Onyx Aggie
Before she moved out, my twenty-something daughter and I used to take after-dinner walks in the neighborhood, and look at houses both under construction and existing (there are a lot of tear-downs and newer replacement houses in Old Metairie where I live)
We both abhor:
1. Garages in the front of the house, regardless of which direction they face. On many newer homes it makes it look like the garage is IN the front yard.
2. The overworked look of a white/off-white house exterior with black/dark brown trim. Everyone is doing this:
3. Huge full-story roofs in the front unbroken by dormers or anything. When you are looking straight-on at the front of a house, from rooftop to ground, and more than half of what you see is roof shingles, you are doing something wrong.
Two odd architectural details that REALLY bug the hell out of my daughter for some reason:
1. Extraneous keystones on flat windows and doorways:
2. Quoins (squares which stick out on exterior wall corners). Not so much on brick homes if they are the same brick, but especially on stucco homes and extra-especially when they are painted a different color than the main part of the house:
We both abhor:
1. Garages in the front of the house, regardless of which direction they face. On many newer homes it makes it look like the garage is IN the front yard.
2. The overworked look of a white/off-white house exterior with black/dark brown trim. Everyone is doing this:
3. Huge full-story roofs in the front unbroken by dormers or anything. When you are looking straight-on at the front of a house, from rooftop to ground, and more than half of what you see is roof shingles, you are doing something wrong.
Two odd architectural details that REALLY bug the hell out of my daughter for some reason:
1. Extraneous keystones on flat windows and doorways:
2. Quoins (squares which stick out on exterior wall corners). Not so much on brick homes if they are the same brick, but especially on stucco homes and extra-especially when they are painted a different color than the main part of the house:
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re: Why can’t Louisiana have an MLB team? The Marlins are averaging 6k fans a game
Posted by BRich on 4/4/26 at 6:34 pm to ChestRockwell
quote:HAHAHAHAHA!
UNO basketball out draws the pels
You can't be serious.
UNO men's basketball average attendance this past season was 722.
Brute:
Brut:
Carry on....
Brut:
Carry on....
I had that Adam-12 lunchbox!
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Hard disagree with this. My wife excels at her career and still finds time to be very active in PTA, school activities, house stuff etc, and she isn't some feminazi shithead
They are rare but they do exist.
SAME.
Wife is a doctor and mother of two. Family is more important to her than work. Our two girls (now adults) turned out great; they had dad coaching them in sports and doing outdoor things with them; and then mom chaperoning at dance camp, shopping with them, and taking them to 'girly' movies and concerts.
I lucked out; we dated off and on for years, but got engaged when she was 23 (in med school) and I was 25 (had just got my master's). Got our jobs settled; bought a house. Then had our 1st child when she was 30 and our second when she was 33.
Like you said, rare-- but they do exist. :thup:
re: Atlanta Falcons release new uniforms
Posted by BRich on 4/2/26 at 10:07 am to red sox fan 13
That being said, this old school style (including silver) is how the Falcons should look:
re: "Babes from days gone by (NSFW)" thread as per request by Kafka..
Posted by BRich on 4/1/26 at 1:54 pm to Hangover Haven
New Orleans' own Dorothy Lamour:
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by Gordon Parks
And then after he took the picture, I bet he banged her like he did to Gloria Vanderbilt (for many years)...
Or Candace Bushnell, the woman who developed "Sex in the City". They were a couple when she was 18 and he was 58.
Gordon, you old dog...
That train was the inspiration for the name of the AAA baseball team in Denver that moved to New Orleans in 1993:
They were the Denver Bears up until 1984, when they changed their name to the Zephyrs.
Still one of the coolest caps ever, with the "Z". I still have mine...
They were the Denver Bears up until 1984, when they changed their name to the Zephyrs.
Still one of the coolest caps ever, with the "Z". I still have mine...
quote:Yep. In my case, a 59 yr. old woman (come this Saturday) :thup:
60 yr old women
Others:
-- Modern Jazz (Brubeck, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi, Horace Silver, etc.)
-- Steely Dan
-- Ancestry
-- Cigars
-- Old Fashioneds
-- Intense pride in (and love for) all things "Southern" including Pimento Cheese, Pecans, the Allman Brothers, and as someone above posted, greens.
-- Pub Trivia (that wasn't even a thing when I was younger, though)
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Landry-Walker Chargin' Bucs
Funny as hell logo for a merged team:
L.B. Landry Buccaneers (blue and athletic gold/yellow)
+
O. Perry Walker Chargers (blue and orange)
=
Landry-Walker Charging Buccaneers (blue, orange and atheltic gold/yellow) with a Buccaneer riding a charger.
Except in 2020, after only 7 years under a merged name, the late O. Perry Walker name got canceled because he was a segregationist, along with the merged team name and mascot. They are back to being the Buccaneers under the old Landry colors.
And that's not the West Bank's only merged team name. When girls Catholic schools Immaculata (the Pandas) merged with Archbishop Blenk (the Doves) the new merged school (Academy of Our Lady) decided to pick a new mascot. Adapting the black and white coloring of the Panda with the avian nature of the Dove, the new team name is the Penguins (which is ironically a somewhat derogatory nickname for nuns, and the school is run by the Salesian sisters):
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north Alabama
Fort Payne has Little River Canyon. It's very similar to the Smokies
THIS AREA IS THE ONE. Ft. Payne, Mentone, Little River Canyon. Cool stuff on the plateau extension of Lookout Mountain. Little River Canyon view:
DeSoto State Park has really nice cabins; some log, some woodframe, some chalet style:
We stayed in a chalet one time when we were up there for a wedding, just outside the cabin you could hike down to a nice creek that was great for swimming:
LOTS of cool things to see and do in that area-- waterfalls, hiking, etc.
Link to the state park website.
DeSoto State Park
Their are also a lot of private AirBNB/VRBO cabins for rent, too.
re: Mu Alpha Theta State Convention
Posted by BRich on 3/27/26 at 1:54 pm to Stadium Rat
quote:
In the early to mid 70's, East Jefferson dominated MAO. After Bonnabel spun off to another school in 1975, EJ and Bonnabel together created a voting bloc that ruled MAO politics. Credit to Jacqueline Dilman, the EJ advisor for that.
Yep, I remember Mrs. Dillman, who I had for geometry in my only year at EJ (79-80). And MAO was a BIG deal at EJ during that time.
EJ also kicked butt at the Foreign Language Fest at USL in Lafayette at that time. They won overall in 1980 (I went for French) and in 1981 when I went representing Grace King.
I can still remember every line of those two French poems I had to recite... :lol:
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Then again, the Beatles stayed at a hotel/motel on Chef Highway when they played Tad Gormley.
The Congress Inn. Beatles management had them booked to stay way out in the sticks instead of a ritzy hotel downtown (like the Monteleone, Roosevelt, or the old St. Charles Hotel) because it might be easier to keep mobbing fans away. It didn't work.
re: WW Return to LSU receiving national negativity
Posted by BRich on 3/27/26 at 9:41 am to Fat Bastard
Need Kim Mulkey in there as well. The national hate/dislike for her is tangible.
re: Mu Alpha Theta State Convention
Posted by BRich on 3/26/26 at 9:39 pm to LSUguy2023
quote:
Mu Alpha Theta State Convention
Man, that's something I hadn't heard of or thought of in many, many years...
Went to the one in 1981; was held at the Hyatt in New Orleans. Biggest thing I remember about it was the dance/social; it was just before Mardi Gras time so it was a costume deal. I went as Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick. Our school had a version of Sheldon Cooper-- he was only about 13 and had already been taking classes at Tulane for a couple of years. I lent him a black robe costume of mine and a piece of rope for a belt, so he was a monk.
Good times.
re: Official crow eating thread.
Posted by BRich on 3/26/26 at 1:34 pm to TigerFanatic99
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Xavier McDaniel "The X-Man"
re: What was your favorite horror, Sci fi or fantasy movie when you were just a kid under 12?
Posted by BRich on 3/23/26 at 10:28 pm to Dawglovertoo
Under age 12? Shoot, that puts it as stuff I watched before late 1976...
which really narrows it down... King Kong would be up there; I had a sleepover night at my childless aunt and uncle's house to watch that with them on the local "creature feature" when I was 7 years old. I loved it.
But in the end, I think I gotta go with the one I saw summer of '75 with my mom and stepfather at the downtown Joy (only place it was playing in town). The first-ever summer blockbuster that scared everyone...
which really narrows it down... King Kong would be up there; I had a sleepover night at my childless aunt and uncle's house to watch that with them on the local "creature feature" when I was 7 years old. I loved it.
But in the end, I think I gotta go with the one I saw summer of '75 with my mom and stepfather at the downtown Joy (only place it was playing in town). The first-ever summer blockbuster that scared everyone...
--full disclosure-- big WFL geek--
OP graphic is showing ALL teams that played the 1st season; four helmets represent only two franchises.
The first is the Houston Texans/Shreveport Steamer (not "Steamers" - singular, not plural. The league had a lot of singular names: Steamer, Bell, Fire, Sun, Storm, Thunder, Express). That situation of the mid-season move was well-presented by earlier posters. :thup:
The other is the Charlotte Hornets, who started the season as the New York Stars (helmet right above Charlotte). They drew so poorly playing in a high school stadium on Randall's Island (think Tad Gormley in New Orleans), they moved to Charlotte DURING THE SEASON.
At first they were the "Charlotte Stars"; the equipment manager got some Chicago Bears "C" logos for cheap, cut off the wishbone tip and the two edges of the "C" with an X-acto knife and slapped them over the cut-out "N-Y" portion of the star logo:
Before the season's end, they officially changed their name to the Hornets, got rid of the star decals, and used a basic block/generic "C" for the rest of the season, as shown in the graphic.
The following year, they had their own new logo for the helmet (which switched to yellow/gold) and slight uni changes:
Kinda like that look. But the New York Stars were also neat because their home "dark" jerseys were actually gold/yellow, and they wore black pants full time:
OP graphic is showing ALL teams that played the 1st season; four helmets represent only two franchises.
The first is the Houston Texans/Shreveport Steamer (not "Steamers" - singular, not plural. The league had a lot of singular names: Steamer, Bell, Fire, Sun, Storm, Thunder, Express). That situation of the mid-season move was well-presented by earlier posters. :thup:
The other is the Charlotte Hornets, who started the season as the New York Stars (helmet right above Charlotte). They drew so poorly playing in a high school stadium on Randall's Island (think Tad Gormley in New Orleans), they moved to Charlotte DURING THE SEASON.
At first they were the "Charlotte Stars"; the equipment manager got some Chicago Bears "C" logos for cheap, cut off the wishbone tip and the two edges of the "C" with an X-acto knife and slapped them over the cut-out "N-Y" portion of the star logo:
Before the season's end, they officially changed their name to the Hornets, got rid of the star decals, and used a basic block/generic "C" for the rest of the season, as shown in the graphic.
The following year, they had their own new logo for the helmet (which switched to yellow/gold) and slight uni changes:
Kinda like that look. But the New York Stars were also neat because their home "dark" jerseys were actually gold/yellow, and they wore black pants full time:
re: Why are they closing the LSU golf course?
Posted by BRich on 3/23/26 at 4:27 pm to fallguy_1978
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9 of the holes were on the other side of Nicholson at that time.
That's the way it was the ONLY time I played that course: registration day August 1984, with my roommate from North Stadium dorm that year... :thup:
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