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re: "Babes from days gone by (NSFW)" thread as per request by Kafka..
Posted by iglass on 5/25/26 at 6:51 pm to tigerinexile
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I was devastated when I found out about Randolph Scott
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re: Jackson Pollock painting sells for $181 million at auction
Posted by iglass on 5/25/26 at 3:06 am to evil cockroach
"You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece."
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
re: In honor of SBC coming back to LSU…Top 10 SEC nicknames?
Posted by iglass on 5/22/26 at 9:02 am to Crimson Wraith
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Rory Turner had a unique one.
"I pray he come my way... I wax dat dude."
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It doesn't exist, because girls don't fart.
Mebbee so... they just POOT instead.***
re: What was the wildest thing you witnessed at a wedding?
Posted by iglass on 5/19/26 at 12:36 am to wookalar1013
Was at a wedding once where the bride/groom had to kneel down and pray. When they did, someone had used whiteout on the bottom of the groom's heels - they said... HELP ME!
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I don’t see the point in comparing them. Neither team can actually play the other, so there’s no real way to know who would win on the field to truly determine who is better.
Correct. There is no REAL way although we do have computer simulations. Like this one at www.whatifsports.com/ncaafb.
I ran the simulation 10 times on a neutral field. I set LSU to a run oriented offense and USC to a balanced style. USC won 9 out of 10 simulated games. Only the LSU win (33-30) and a single USC win (21-19) were close games; most were USC blowouts.
Feel free to go to the website listed above and run your own simulatons. Your results may turn out significantly different with some minor weather changes, styles of play, etc.
Or even changes the teams and years up to fit another game of your interest. Explore pro match-ups. Maybe even change the sport altogether. Regardless, the statistical detail is thought provoking.
re: Your Compact SUV Favorites:
Posted by iglass on 5/13/26 at 3:38 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
There are a lot of good brands out there. I am partial to Honda/Acura or Toyota/Lexus but that's just me. No matter which one you choose, though, go back old enough to get one with a V-6. I would stay away from any compact SUV made in America or Nissan, VW, BMW, Mercedes. Too many reliability issues.
My wife's CR-V rides nice, and gets great gas mileage. Great touring or highway vehicle. But my almost identical Acura RDX with a V-6 just stomps it on power and driveability in town. I do get about 4-6 mpg less overall than her though but it's worth it. I usually average about 24-26mpg overall and she gets 28-32 depending on city/hwy mix.
My wife's CR-V rides nice, and gets great gas mileage. Great touring or highway vehicle. But my almost identical Acura RDX with a V-6 just stomps it on power and driveability in town. I do get about 4-6 mpg less overall than her though but it's worth it. I usually average about 24-26mpg overall and she gets 28-32 depending on city/hwy mix.
re: Did Layla move to BR or is she still in California?
Posted by iglass on 5/13/26 at 3:31 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
re: Interesting trivia
Posted by iglass on 5/12/26 at 9:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
Over 96% of all "internet statistics" are just made up at the time of posting.
re: Popular Brazilian influencer confirmed as athlete who died at Ironman Texas
Posted by iglass on 4/20/26 at 9:24 pm to duckblind56
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duckblind56
^^^
Finally, brethren, someone doing the work of the Lord to share His wondrous creations.
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That would be so awesome and terrifying at the same time if something like that, which actually happen
That's like your college dorm roommate (from Delaware) saying it would be neat to see a tornado up close.
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2015 Cherokee
Thermostat shermostat.
It is the Chrysler Gremlins that are causing your problems. Or the curse of the Dodge Brothers. Maybe the infamous quality control known all across the Stellantis group.
Take your pick. No matter, though, it is your own fault for owning a Chrysler product. Never again for me.
re: Jordan-Hare Upgrades
Posted by iglass on 4/17/26 at 9:55 pm to tylerdurden24
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Which isn’t to say Bama, UGA, and Texas can’t be loud stadiums. But the fanbases have to work harder for longer to match what more acoustically-able stadiums can produce.
Correct. BDS *can* get loud but the combination of gentle slope and higher-than-average percentage of blue blood old timers will make if difficult.
IMHO the loudest BDS has ever been was the 2005 Florida game. And that was when the seating capacity was 92K.
re: Does you know anyone who is a “traveler” or a “sovereign citizen”?
Posted by iglass on 4/7/26 at 3:49 am to Wolfhound45
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Wolfhound45
Thanks. I hate to admit it but I am hooked on this right now.
I have been watching bodycam clips for several months now. In addition to the sovereign citizen youtube clips, my other guilty pleasure are the ones involving people being denied flight boarding and/or getting dragged off an airplane.
re: Check in if your team won a championship this week
Posted by iglass on 4/6/26 at 9:58 pm to weagle1999
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weagle1999
Sixty-ninth in men's basketball?
re: Bring Us Your Favorite 2021 and Beyond Memes
Posted by iglass on 3/22/26 at 3:11 pm to kywildcatfanone
Both in the movies AND in real life.
re: Classes required for your major that you have never used
Posted by iglass on 3/19/26 at 8:57 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
Yeah, I should have listed that one also. I took BASIC in 1983 and Pascal in 1984 or 85. Cobol in 1989. Two different types of assembly language for the 8086 and Z80 sprinkled in there somewhere.
I personally started out with a BASIC cartridge on an Atari 400.
I personally started out with a BASIC cartridge on an Atari 400.
re: Classes required for your major that you have never used
Posted by iglass on 3/19/26 at 7:44 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
I have an Applied Physics degree, with a second degree in Management of Technology. Minors in English and Engineering.
Incredibly useful classes:
-Statics
--Dynamics
-Physics lab classes
-Mechanics
-Electrical circuits
-Financial management
Incredibly worthless classes:
-Calculus on up, particularly matrix theory, differential equations, and cyindrical/sperical integration
-thermodynamics
-Phonetics
-Cobol programming language
-Fortran programming language
-Basic programming language
-Assembly language
-Modern American Architecture (interesting to take but worthless overall)
I get that some of the classes are required in order to form a basis of understanding. But out of my two degrees, I use probably about 2% of my college material even though I work in an engineering capacity.
Ironically, one of the absolute most valuable classes I ever took was a continuing education class one summer while I was in high school. My parents suggested that I take a typewriting class, and boy has that been worth it.
Edit: I forgot to add in the Engineering drafting class I took. It taught lettering, orthogonal views, 3-d drawing, etc. That has been incredibly useful over the years. On a side note, I was in the last class at Alabama that was 100% mechanical drafting. The next year, they installed a ton of Intergraph CAD computers.
Incredibly useful classes:
-Statics
--Dynamics
-Physics lab classes
-Mechanics
-Electrical circuits
-Financial management
Incredibly worthless classes:
-Calculus on up, particularly matrix theory, differential equations, and cyindrical/sperical integration
-thermodynamics
-Phonetics
-Cobol programming language
-Fortran programming language
-Basic programming language
-Assembly language
-Modern American Architecture (interesting to take but worthless overall)
I get that some of the classes are required in order to form a basis of understanding. But out of my two degrees, I use probably about 2% of my college material even though I work in an engineering capacity.
Ironically, one of the absolute most valuable classes I ever took was a continuing education class one summer while I was in high school. My parents suggested that I take a typewriting class, and boy has that been worth it.
Edit: I forgot to add in the Engineering drafting class I took. It taught lettering, orthogonal views, 3-d drawing, etc. That has been incredibly useful over the years. On a side note, I was in the last class at Alabama that was 100% mechanical drafting. The next year, they installed a ton of Intergraph CAD computers.
re: Canada’s leading newspaper: the state of Alabama is zooming past us economically
Posted by iglass on 2/23/26 at 12:11 am to KingOrange
Most people who don't live in Alabama don't understand that there are THREE Alabamas.
1. Cullman up and the rest of North Alabama (including an enclave on the south side of Birmingham)
2. Baldwin County
3. Pretty much everything else in-between.
Two of those are areas in which I am willing to live (and I do). The fact of the matter is that Alabama is no different than any other state or major city. There are places you WANT to live and places you DO NOT WANT to live. Every state in the south is the same - Alabama has the Black Belt's economic disparity, Mississippi has the Delta, Kentucky has Appalachia, Birmingham has Bessemer, New Orleans has the Ninth Ward, so on and so forth.
Huntsville is growing so fast in part because of the booming manufacturing economy but also because people who get transferred in because of the military/NASA and they end up loving the area and come back for retirement. There are many cities in the south that have such merit.There are a few people who end up not liking Huntsville, but those people are few and far between. One of my fears is that Huntsville eventually turns politically because of all the influx, and thus fundamentally changing many of the things that make Huntsville great.
But that's just me.
1. Cullman up and the rest of North Alabama (including an enclave on the south side of Birmingham)
2. Baldwin County
3. Pretty much everything else in-between.
Two of those are areas in which I am willing to live (and I do). The fact of the matter is that Alabama is no different than any other state or major city. There are places you WANT to live and places you DO NOT WANT to live. Every state in the south is the same - Alabama has the Black Belt's economic disparity, Mississippi has the Delta, Kentucky has Appalachia, Birmingham has Bessemer, New Orleans has the Ninth Ward, so on and so forth.
Huntsville is growing so fast in part because of the booming manufacturing economy but also because people who get transferred in because of the military/NASA and they end up loving the area and come back for retirement. There are many cities in the south that have such merit.There are a few people who end up not liking Huntsville, but those people are few and far between. One of my fears is that Huntsville eventually turns politically because of all the influx, and thus fundamentally changing many of the things that make Huntsville great.
But that's just me.
re: Canada’s leading newspaper: the state of Alabama is zooming past us economically
Posted by iglass on 2/21/26 at 12:21 am to LegendInMyMind
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LegendInMyMind
Can anyone supply a link to an archived version of that article? I'd like to read it, but it is paywalled and I don't want to send any of my Alabama money to Canaderp.
Try using THIS TOOL. Use the black url window.
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