PowerTool
| Favorite team: | Houston Astros  |
| Location: | The dark side of the road |
| Biography: | Conceived in sin. |
| Interests: | Houston, TX |
| Occupation: | |
| Number of Posts: | 23377 |
| Registered on: | 12/3/2009 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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OH CRAP HE'S SERIOUS!!!
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re: Relocating to Houston for work. Project in Deer Park - where do I live?
Posted by PowerTool on 8/19/26 at 5:27 pm to SchianoMan
EaDo or "East River" seem like the obvious 1st places to look.
Midtown ain't what it used to be.
You don't want to be much further West than that, or North of I-10.
Midtown ain't what it used to be.
You don't want to be much further West than that, or North of I-10.
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Other people involved in filming claim he was fired for acting like a tyrant on the set and demanding that the entire movie be re-shaped into a Kirk Douglas vehicle when he didn't realize he was past his prime and Stallone was the star.
That's interesting, considering what kind of movies Douglas was making in the 70s and early 80s.
Just saw "The Fury" the other night, Brian DePalma's second psychic teen movie after Carrie. I guess Douglas was more interested in being the lead than he was in being in quality movies.
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The architect of Nashville's branding as "Music City"
Bit of a stretch there.
re: FBI had evidence Swalwell got illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy
Posted by PowerTool on 8/17/26 at 9:24 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Rusty Thumbs is about to be the most popular internet handle.
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Obama was a relative unknown, but he rode the allure of possibly becoming the first black president.
Obama's '04 senate race got a lot of national attention because of the Jack Ryan sex scandal. He also republished his book that year and did the national book tour thing to raise his profile before '08.
So he got a couple years free ride in the national media talking about his "inspiring" version of his life story before launching the full scale campaign.
re: 'Avengers: Doomsday Trailer #2
Posted by PowerTool on 8/17/26 at 8:27 pm to Upperdecker
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For big F4 fans, are they making Doom too OP? I’m not into F4 so not sure but him blocking Thor’s axe at full strength with just a hand seems ridiculously OP
My comic book knowledge only goes up through the early 90's, but it seems as if Doom evolved into some sort of sorcerer, in addition to scientific genius & king. The over-powered Doom may be in keeping with more recent comic storylines.
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If you can two step you can pull poon in the country bars.
"If you dance, there's a chance."
Wish my knees and foot coordination were better suited to the task.
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Where’d you people grow up where this is so shocking lol.
WTF? I grew up amidst the beautiful urban diversity of Houston at the peak of white flight and the crack epidemic, and I can assure these "teen" mob scenes were not a thing before social media. Even the most diverse nights at Astroworld, I never saw anything like the teen rampages manufactured for social media or whatever the hell is going on now.
re: Group of teens attacks random people at Wisconsin State Fair
Posted by PowerTool on 8/17/26 at 4:04 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I think a dude kicks a girl on the ground right in the head at about :17. That should be attempted murder.
The instinct to run up from a distance and kick or stomp the head of someone already on the ground seems to be a growing impulse among "teens."
re: Galveston has over 1500 properties listed for sale right now
Posted by PowerTool on 8/15/26 at 7:49 pm to Upperdecker
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Air BnBs getting sold for losses
Was driving around the island this Fall for the first time since before Covid, and it was astounding how many of the old, rundown houses between Broadway and the Seawall got new paint and a giant beach chair in the front yard w/ a sign naming the house.
That Renovating Galveston couple made it look so easy!
re: 14 year old Ruston freshman in rough shape from heat stroke
Posted by PowerTool on 8/15/26 at 6:37 pm to LSUGrad9295
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If it truly is heat stroke and not an underlying condition, how does this even happen any more?
The worst case of heat stroke I saw in HS (in Houston) was a healthy kid who was really pushing himself and going running on his own in the morning before 2-a-days.
But, plenty of people do have undiagnosed conditions at that age.
re: Could Houston or DFW support a second pro sports franchise in the same league?
Posted by PowerTool on 8/15/26 at 3:24 pm to Cliff Booth
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This. Whole concept is a relic of the past IMO. Especially now that the money is in TV, not the gate.
The older franchises also developed before the era of modern publicly-financed palaces. It takes so much cooperation between city, county, and state officials to get a stadium deal done now that it's hard to imagine any metro outside of NY & LA ever wanting to jack w/ multiple teams in the same league.
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Billy Cannon became a convicted felon and managed to rehab his image with LSU.
It was more than just time with him, though.
re: Kingdom of Heaven
Posted by PowerTool on 8/12/26 at 6:22 pm to Shiftyplus1
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Another incorrect depiction of the Crusades. Depicting Christians as evil, backward invaders, and the Muslims as enlightened, friendly natives. A load of complete horseshite.
Did you watch the whole movie?
re: Started a Mad Men rewatch
Posted by PowerTool on 8/12/26 at 5:20 pm to hogcard1964
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...but I enjoyed watching Layne beat his arse in the board room.
Best part of that scene was the other guys instantly nodding, closing the blinds and clearing the furniture.
re: Started a Mad Men rewatch
Posted by PowerTool on 8/11/26 at 1:30 am to wildtigercat93
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If he didn’t assume a dead man’s identity and war medals, im not sure he’d so easily get a chance at a place like Sterling Cooper on a whim.
The war "record" was definitely important to Roger's ability to relate to Don. He said something to Don about other people not being able to understand them because they weren't in the war (even though they were in two different wars). So I think that was important to Roger helping Don get hired and stay with the firm after some embarrassments.
re: You think today's football players are soft? They're playing with snakes in their helmets!
Posted by PowerTool on 8/10/26 at 7:41 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Davis said the player had potentially been wearing the helmet for nearly an hour and was fortunate not to be bitten.
How is it possible to not notice that? Oversized helmet to accommodate big hair?
re: How is Roger Craig just now getting in the Hall of Fame?
Posted by PowerTool on 8/10/26 at 12:25 am to ragincajun03
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I was just starting to pay attention to football in 1988 as a wee young lad, so I basically got just a quick glimpse at his prime, and at that time, was too young to understand and appreciate.
Same. Guys from that era always seem like bigger stars to me than most who came after. Tecmo Bowl helped with that, I was playing them in their prime for years and years on the original system.
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50% - Sicilian with a bit of northern Italian thrown in.
Mine somehow came back at 47%. Very precise.
re: What is Your Ancestry?
Posted by PowerTool on 8/7/26 at 7:24 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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just don’t understand how a nation (man made entity) shows up in chromosomes (natural). Must be some inferential glue in that analysis. There is not even a race gene. Like a single gene that is Caucasian, Black, Hispanic, etc. Multiple variate to infer race so suspect something similar for national descent? Somebody splain it to me.
If you’re serious….it’s just based on geographic concentrations of similar DNA matches.
I was surprised my DNA analyses showed me being far less Irish than I expected, but I guess a lot of English and Scottish matches migrated into that part of Ireland. Or something.
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