
alajones
| Favorite team: | LSU |
| Location: | Huntsvegas |
| Biography: | North Louisiana, Huntsville, and various other stops around the world. |
| Interests: | LSU, Saints, Cubs, hiking, woodworking, working on cars, camping, beer drinking |
| Occupation: | Educating the utes of America |
| Number of Posts: | 35775 |
| Registered on: | 10/23/2005 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Top 25 expensive movie flops
Posted by alajones on 12/29/25 at 7:31 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:The OP needs to highlight the "adjusted for inflation", because I think most posters are missing that. Also, I didn't click, but there must be an historical cap. Heaven's Gate would absolutely be on this list.
Maybe they're doing the extreme high end of the inflation-adjusted? If that's what they're doing, where is Heaven's Gate
re: Ideas for how to make AI give you better answers
Posted by alajones on 12/29/25 at 7:22 am to hawgfaninc
That’s kind of funny. Those are the same kind of prompts that are used in writing to force students to get past basic make a claim/defend your claim essays.
Prompts like that force higher order thinking skills.
Prompts like that force higher order thinking skills.
re: Men over 50 and napping on the weekends
Posted by alajones on 12/29/25 at 7:11 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
2 hours isn’t a nap. That’s a lack of sleep at night.
Intentionally or unintentionally, if I’m sitting down on the couch between 3:30 and 5, I’m likely going to knock out a 25-30 minute power nap. It doesn’t happen that often. Maybe a few times a month.
If it’s a later nap, like after 7, I will be up until 11. Besides that, I don’t have issues falling asleep after 10.
Intentionally or unintentionally, if I’m sitting down on the couch between 3:30 and 5, I’m likely going to knock out a 25-30 minute power nap. It doesn’t happen that often. Maybe a few times a month.
If it’s a later nap, like after 7, I will be up until 11. Besides that, I don’t have issues falling asleep after 10.
The defense is down 17 starters!!! What do you expect!?!?!
The longer this game goes the less starters LSU has on defense.
A Les Miles coached team would have 140 yards rushing by now.
re: Does Blake Baker have a chance to be the best DC in LSU history?
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 8:51 pm to tigertracts
Not if the defense can’t stop running QB.
re: Holy penalties
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 8:50 pm to AlldayTiger

re: White Men & Television Shows + What Happened?
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 7:44 pm to WheyCheddar
quote:It's funny that you say that. I read Barbara Tuchman's book on the Middle Ages last summer ( A Distant Mirror) and it is pretty amazing how the same complaints about women today (nagging, attention seeking) were made in the 14th century.
I wonder if, had tv shows existed in say 1300, that the portrayals of women would be different than now?
I think that TV has been very forward thinking in its portrayals of sex and race over the years.
re: LA Governor wants to fix CFB
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 7:13 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Why do football coaches have to guarantee money? Why can't they just hand the recruit/student athlete a business card of an agent?
I feel like the NCAA (who used to limit the amount of texts that a coach could send a student athlete), could regulate this.
I feel like the NCAA (who used to limit the amount of texts that a coach could send a student athlete), could regulate this.
re: LA Governor wants to fix CFB
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 7:04 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Doesn't the NCAA have the "power" (I realize they have very little) to say that athletic programs can't double as sports agents?
re: Landman on Paramount
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 6:53 pm to BurningHeart
You are correct. We are caught up now, and Landman is waaay better than Yellowstone. This board is too miserable for its own good sometimes.
I'll drink a lot and eat my gameday nachos while watching a bunch of players whose names I've never heard before get beat by 4 touchdowns.
Geaux Tigers.
Geaux Tigers.
re: Predict the Score: LSU v. Houston - Texas Bowl
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 6:48 pm to otowntiger
What is left of the LSU Roster 10
Houston 42
It'll be a repeat of KSU and LSU.
Houston 42
It'll be a repeat of KSU and LSU.
re: LA Governor wants to fix CFB
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 6:45 pm to TheDeathValley
Okay, serious question...
Why does college football have to be a business?
Why can't the student athletes transfer at will (like every other college student on campus can), and the universities athletics dept. will just figure it out?
Also, why does an athletic dept. have to promise any sort of monetary guarantee too said student athlete? If said student athlete wishes to make money off of their own brand, the athletic director simply needs to say "That sounds great, you should do that."
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Why does college football have to be a business?
Why can't the student athletes transfer at will (like every other college student on campus can), and the universities athletics dept. will just figure it out?
Also, why does an athletic dept. have to promise any sort of monetary guarantee too said student athlete? If said student athlete wishes to make money off of their own brand, the athletic director simply needs to say "That sounds great, you should do that."
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re: White Men & Television Shows + What Happened?
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 6:40 pm to ShotGunGordan
I think this goes back waaay farther. In 90s TV, almost every dad was portrayed as inept and a buffoon. By the 2000s, it was a punchline. Somehow, the same man that could hold a 100k+ annual salary, became a moron the second he stepped into his own home.
re: Another "Good movies you just don't get" thread
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 6:24 pm to stuckintexas
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Give me an example of the distinction between “Everyone likes this movie except me” and “the movie people say this is a great movie, I think it stinks” if you think I'm off base.
"everyone likes this movie but me"
People, as in normal movie fans, love these movies, for my own reasons, they didn't resonate with me
For me, that would be Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, and No Country for Old Men. I'll expect downvotes, etc. Those were movies I watched with high expectations after a lot of hype, and was very disappointed. Other examples (not mine) usually include A Christmas Story and The Big Lebowski.
“the movie people say this is a great movie, I think it stinks"
High on Rotten Tomatoes, the Academy loved it, etc.
For me, some recent examples would be Moonlight, where I legit fell asleep in the third act, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO, where I was eye rolling at what a bitch Frances McDormand was, but glad Sam Rockwell won an Oscar, because he stole the movie. However, I am still flummoxed at this movie winning 7 Oscars.
It seems like you are more in the former than the latter. For the purposes of this thread, I will say The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard with Jeremy Piven. I watched it after much praise from this board. I may have lol'd once. I'm pretty sure it was when the gospel choir sings "it's not even motherfricking Fresno". Also, The Invention of Lying. Once again, I was let down by this board's recommendation. I could handle the blatant attack on Christianity (isn't it sooo odd that this same type of movie doesn't exist for any other religion). However, this movie just wasn't funny. Truth telling doesn't mean that everyone has to be shallow and unempathetic. This board let me down.
re: Another "Good movies you just don't get" thread
Posted by alajones on 12/27/25 at 8:57 am to stuckintexas
Is this an “Everyone likes this movie except me” thread or a “the movie people say this is a great movie, I think it stinks” thread?
The distinction is important.
The distinction is important.
re: LA Governor wants to fix CFB
Posted by alajones on 12/25/25 at 9:06 am to TheDeathValley
“Fix the business…preserve this game”
The current state of CFB in one quote.
The current state of CFB in one quote.
re: Landman on Paramount
Posted by alajones on 12/25/25 at 6:59 am to hogcard1964
Well, reading this page doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy. The wife has been wanting to watch this for a while, and I’ve hesitated, because I knew that it being a Sheridan show, it would eventually devolve into full retard. And it sounds like it has.
We are up to season 2, episode 1. So far the dumbest thing was the national guard side quest. One morning, a guy has breakfast with the governor, within a couple of days the army is plopping bombs on civilian property…ok.
I was hoping to see Demi Moore as the sweet Texas lady who could be assertive when needed, not another Sheridan bitch. Does he just hate women or have no concept of what a strong female means?
I always give Sheridan props for using the scenery. No matter what the production is, the setting is just as much of a character as the people.
We are up to season 2, episode 1. So far the dumbest thing was the national guard side quest. One morning, a guy has breakfast with the governor, within a couple of days the army is plopping bombs on civilian property…ok.
I was hoping to see Demi Moore as the sweet Texas lady who could be assertive when needed, not another Sheridan bitch. Does he just hate women or have no concept of what a strong female means?
I always give Sheridan props for using the scenery. No matter what the production is, the setting is just as much of a character as the people.
Zion Williamson’s next professional goal.
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