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I used to fish the surf a lot. There was a spot on the Boliver side of the Galveston jetties that was usually always protected from the wind. It was a pretty dependable place to catch trout from July into September. I would put my fish in a donut. That worked well until one day I’m plodding along and suddenly I feel a violent tug on my donut and I turn around to see a massive fin. It was a pretty big Bull Shark and it scared the living shite out of me. I think it must of got tangled at first because it damn near pulled me over. It pretty well destroyed my donut and most of my fish were in pieces. I was scared to even try to touch it in the water thinking the damn thing would return. That encounter and having a friend get nailed by a ray along with the damn Vibrio has pretty well ended my wade fishing career.

I watched the first episode last Sunday. I agree it was not all that well put together. It started off ok with a general fill in on where everyone is at since Duck Dynasty but quickly went downhill with the whole Willie shows up at Duck Commander not knowing what is going on and the ending was terrible. The one thing Duck Dynasty had even though it was scripted and corny is at least it had some decent storylines and was genuinely funny. This spinoff, well, not so much. You would think that having most of the crew back outside of Jase and obviously Phil would make for at least a decent show but I agree, this show feels like it might not make the whole season and that’s sad cause all the spinoff podcasts are actually pretty good.

It might not pass through every room in the house but you are going to absolutely blow chunks out of drywall every time you pull the trigger along with any other collateral damage stuff in the way. All things considered that may not even matter in a home defense situation where it is life or death but just pointing out an AR or pistol is not going to leave you with a home remodel after the fact.

Sadly it’s the same song and dance to pretty much the same boosters. Not sure the school can tap much more money unless they develop a new fundraising strategy because ULM just doesn’t have the deep pockets like a Tech or a ULL has relatively speaking. I think it starts with courting Monroe area businesses but once again that puts the school at a huge disadvantage because the biggest area business is probably the school itself or St Francis. Maybe the new center being built could help since I would think they would pull a good of talent from the school. Obviously should be a focus to put them high on the radar,

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what is the actual ceiling for ULM football? They really stretched their budget to keep Vincent.

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Not even sure how to answer that question knowing the school is millions in the red and the president stepped down. How does a school even think about athletics when they are probably about to cut teachers and staff to the bone? On top of that, they seem to be in a wrestling match with the state on the former Century/Lumen property that was donated to the school on property I am not even sure they can even pay taxes on or maintain. I have no clue how this school just seems to perpetuate being a never-ending dumpster fire.

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I remember hearing a story of how Judy got caught running down the road nekkid fleeing some house after she got caught with someone

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I heard that story as well. I want to say it was some Neville dudes saw her and picked her up in a Jeep. Not sure how authentic the story is but it makes for some good Funroe urband legend but the person that allegedly did the catching is oddly enough mentioned in this thread already. She had a cooking show. RIP to her.

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Colombia” is in South America.

Columbia is in Caldwell Parish

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I honestly have to laugh at this. I moved back to Monroe from Houston in 2018 after a hurricane wiped out my house down there and I got a pretty good job offer in West Monroe, so I am kinda like the unicorn since most people that leave Monroe never move back. My daughter was going into 4th grade and she went to Sallie Humble. Pretty big culture shock moving from suburb Houston to Monroe City Schools. One of the first kids she met said she was from Columbia and my daughter asked if she was from South America and she said no, it's a town on the way to Alexandria. I actually heard that from her teacher who overheard this little bit of conversation and she about busted a rib laughing.

I also got to be on the Morning Show with Jack and June in like 5th Grade which would have been about 1982 or so. BMX racing was all the rage back then and I used to race out at Chennault Park every weekend. I guess they wanted to interview some random kids so some KNOE people were at a race and picked a few of us out and asked if we could come on the show. It was pretty cool. I think a few of my buddies actually saw the episode and asked for my autograph lol.

I’m over in Kingwood. We are members of the CC here and they have various Summer golf camps that are open to members and non members. I would think that there would be something similar in the Woodlands. When my son was that age we literally enrolled him in damn near every one of those plus they have weekly instructional sessions during the school year. The golf teachers here make them fun. However, I didn’t push golf though. Maybe I should in hindsight. I just prayed that he would somehow get attached to it like I did as a kid. I grew up playing golf too and luckily had buddies that played in high school as well so it wasn’t uncool to golf. That’s the key to them picking up the game. Friends playing or them being close enough to a family member to get them attached. Unfortunately it didn’t take for my son and he is 27 now. He played football and wrestled so golf became uncool since none of his friends did it. Now he is coming back to the game and wants to kick himself for quitting.

Yep 2000 was brutal. If I remember we went out and played UCLA and literally scored a TD on the opening kickoff then proceeded to get our arses handed to us and that Southern Miss loss was the worst Bama game I think I have ever watched. That season started the abyss into the wilderness before Saban even though fRan did have a decent season in 2002.

As a GM you would need nuts big enough to put in a wheelbarrow to take Milroe in the first. It would be a move that could legitimately end a career unless he morphed into a Super Bowl caliber QB. I have said all along that he could be a Taysom Hill kind of player and his football speed is legit. He has 4th round written all over him.