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Yeah that's called remedial English.



I know that joke sets itself up, but I swear it's a 3000-level elective course within the English department.
I attended public school, but my mother still took issue with the books. The entire concept of witchcraft and wizardry didn't sit too well with her. She associated it with the occult, and her conservative Christian values got in the way of her objectively assessing it as a valuable piece of literature.

I didn't read the first book until I was 20 years old, and that was only because it was assigned reading for an adolescent literature course I took at LSU.

re: Celebrity worship

Posted by saint amant steve on 1/20/17 at 9:36 am
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Watching everyone lose their minds over Drew Brees showing up in houma yesterday shows how truly pathetic and weak we are as people. Discuss.


I think the OP is either a Cowboys or Falcons fan.
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Only the refugees are from America in the future — 250 years from now — when the country is in chaos.


Are they all going to be brown with no discernible trace of ethnicity or race?
Is the North Shore trying to outdo Kenner?
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mouint up


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I think you stand a fair chance of winning this case if you defend yourself in court.
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Maybe if the Falcons / Saints / Bucs defenses were comprises entirely of FCS defenses he would be able to perform otherwise I don't think it would be a good pick. Otherwise I think Alvin Kamara is the clear winner of a pick here.



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South Carolina Fan


20 carries 158 yards + 3 receptions 25 yards = 23 touches for 183 all-purpose yards and 1 TD

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Back when 93.7 first started in Baton Rouge they got great ratings.


I distinctly remember 93.7 starting out around 2004 or so. I was so frickin' stoked because it sounded nothing like any other station in south Louisiana.

For the first two years it was the shite.
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If I had to guess, it's roughly defined as mid/late 60s to early/mid 90s.
Could be wrong that but that's pretty much what I hear when I listen.


But that's only a recent transition. Ten years ago, you never heard any music from the '90s on a classic rock station. Now, all of the sudden radio executives are seeking to capitalize on nostalgia among Generation Xers and think that grunge, alternative rock, and metal fit with classic rock.


ETA: For the record, I agree with almost everything the OP opined about in his diatribe.
I worked for Clear Channel Radio/iHeart Media. If there was ever a company that gave a metaphorical "frick you" to rock and metal fans, it's that one.

Clear Channel in Baton Rouge had one half-arse effort to please rock fans...97.7 (Downtown Radio). However, it's nothing more than AOR and various songs from the '60s and '70s. It's not a terrible station, but it only furthers the mediocrity that is Eagle 98.1 and their putrid programming.

More and more stations seem to be abandoning the modern rock or metal format.

I would love to see some data on audiences across various demographics and determine how we can have sustainable stations that play only classical music but none of the other two genres of contemporary music.

Are we supposed to believe that classic rock, AOR, hip-hop, modern country, and the current Billboard hits are the only viable radio formats left in terrestrial radio?

I wouldn't give a shite about classic rock being so prevalent if it wasn't for two reasons:

1) There is still no clearly defined classification of what constitutes as classic rock. Bands don't simply become classic rock after x number of years have passed. Nirvana isn't classic rock. Metallica isn't classic rock. Tool isn't classic rock. Radiohead isn't classic rock. The intermixing of different genres of rock is frustrating enough. John Cougar, Tom Petty, the Cars, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Foreigner, and the Beatles don't necessarily belong on the same station.

2) These stations play the same handful of singles by each artist. When I was a dj for KLSU I went out of my way to play B-sides, live recordings, and rare-releases by various bands. If these stations actually made full use of the artist's discography, then we could have an almost infinite source of music to listen to.

But no. Instead we get the same five songs by REO Speedwagon until the end of time. We have entire classic albums which are glossed over and never heard from. Seriously, when is the last time that you heard a track from AC/DC's Powerage on a terrestrial "classic rock" station?
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Pho is a good one

I would probably love it, but I just don't want to be bloated for 3 days with a weeks worth of salt and MSG in one meal


I find that Vietnamese is much less bloating than Chinese food.

However, pho is a giant arse bowl of soup, meat broth, and noodles. That alone is going to be much more filling than your typical General Tso's chicken.
The only way this is legit is if there is at least a 50% chance that she will have exploding shits during intercourse.
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Escargot and caviar. Frick that.


Don't be such an uptight and boring rube. Escargot is fricking delicious.

It amazes me how anyone in this state can have the audacity to turn their nose up at any sort of food.

If you are willing to eat cracklin, nutria, or the majority of Soul food, then I don't see how a buttery snail is such a big frickin' hurdle.
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Wrong board monitor?




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This is a great time to be in the SEC, everybody’s got the same offense: run right, run left, play action.


I don't think anyone with half a brain would declare that Auburn, Ole Miss, Arkansas, LSU, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi State are running the same offense.

I would expect an offensive genius to recognize the minutiae and distinct differences of offensive playcalling.
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Floyd Mayweather, hand to hand, no gloves.


I've got a good 40 lbs on the champ.

I figure if I can some how grab a hold of him while mitigating the inevitable brain damage then I can choke him out.

Although, I don't exactly know how the frick I will catch him.