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Re: March Madness Bracket Time..... (Probably Not what you think) - Yesterday

The Final will be Netflix vs Disney+ with Netflix hammering out a win

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Re: Tiger Woods injured in rollover car crash, extracted with 'Jaws of Life' - 2 days ago

Given his history, hopefully, he wasn't impaired.

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Re: Unusual real estate deal? - 2 days ago

I would actually suggest TWO inspections, independent of the other. Manu inspectors are going to miss anything beyond the obvious. If you get the first inspector's report, tell the second that you already saw some issues with whatever the first found), tell them what it was but not that another inspector was involved. Ask them to confirm your findings and to look for anything you missed. The seco

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Re: Chief of Cherokee nation objects - 2 days ago

The Aztecs would have really been upset if they had ever seen the Pontiac named after them.

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Re: Whatever happened to Small Dog? - 2 days ago

I completely forgot about them. they were good folk too, very helpful.

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Re: the writing is on the wall?!....M1 Mac users report excessive SSD wear..... - 2 days ago

that certainly bears watching and gives me pause before getting a new M1 mac.

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Re: Bloodbath - 2 days ago

I assume you are looking at the stock markets this week? It sucks when you lose more in one day than you make working for a year.

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Re: How to eat 40kg of chocolate and not get obese - 3 days ago

Since I can only row in circles, I plan to circumnavigate the world

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Re: Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to block Manhattan prosecutors from getting tax records - 3 days ago

Any word on the vote count? I wonder if his picks threw him under the bus. just found it - no noted dissent or comment. So it could have been 5-5 or 9-0, we'll never know.

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Re: "It's déjà vu all over again." - 3 days ago

Ted Williams lived near me in a retirement community (he was paid to live there for marketing). He was widely known to be a pompous, sexist old bastard. The developer built a museum for him and once a year they would bring in all these hall of fame ballplayers. They even had President GWH Bush one year; John Glenn another (he was Williams wing man in Korea). that all being said, as much as a

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Re: Spring college football? - 4 days ago

There have been spring games for years, but those are usually just a single game not a season. This year most of the FCS conferences skipped the fall season. They moved all games to the spring hoping that things would be back to normal by now. There will even be a FCS Championship tournament.

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A Trump Party would draw off nearly half of GOP voters - 4 days ago

In a new Suffolk University–USA Today poll of Trump voters released on Sunday, nearly half of Trump voters — 46 percent to 27 percent — say they’d ditch the GOP for a political party lead by the twice impeached former president. Go ahead GOP, split into two parts. I can think of nothing better for the future.

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Re: Thermostat problems - 4 days ago

In case it comes to it - call the AC company

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Re: Blackbirds have taken over the bird feeders - 4 days ago

I don't worry about the birds, it is the squirrels that clean us out.

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Re: "It's déjà vu all over again." - 4 days ago

I once rode with Berra on the way to see Ted Williams and Dom Dimaggio. He was a great guy, but was very aware of every word he used. In case you wonder, Dom was very soft-spoken while Ted was full of himself.

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Re: My Arkansas nieces are sometimes speaking with an English accent - 4 days ago

"I'm a good girl, I am"

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Re: OK, I'm lazily speculating here about Texas electricity... - 4 days ago

I believe most understood that rates could go up and were willing to take that risk - no one thought it would go up as high and as quickly as it did. It was unreasonable to ever expect a normal person to foresee what took place. That is not to say that a safe stop should not have been in place. At the very least, part of the enrollment process should have included a max-rate that someone would be

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Re: 500,000 dead - 4 days ago

Even more amazing, he will get 74 million plus votes if he runs again. There is a very large segment of our society that is afraid and dissatisfied with the current USA. They see the destruction of the nation as the best way to retain the view of the nation. These are people who will not change their view, and scarier is that more will likely join them as time passes. They will remain a mi

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Re: How far are you from the nearest TRAIN station? - 4 days ago

Amtrack - 80 miles Local Rail Service - 235 miles

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Re: 0 to 200MPH in 4.8 seconds (on a bicycle) - 5 days ago

Seriously? This far into the thread and no one has referred to it as a Crotch Rocket?

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Re: If you were given $1 million, what would you do with it? - 5 days ago

Pay the taxes on it (essentially $350,000), of the $650,000 remaining, $100k goes to my wife's family, $100k to my son (he'll invest it). The rest would be a new pickup, replace the wife's car, $50k mad money, a medical procedure that insurance deems elective, and the rest into investments.

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Re: Thursday in Texas - 5 days ago

The jacked up electric prices could send many off the grid. I could see a spike in solar for individual homes.

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Re: New house... 40 days out - 5 days ago

Congrats. Still those are some serious price gouging add-ons.

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Re: RYF: Five Pound Fix for you sugar junkies! - 5 days ago

But the colors are from "real" sources. kind of begs the question - what is an unreal source?

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Re: Joe Manchin tanks Biden's OMB pick, Neera Tanden - 6 days ago

This could just be Manchin making sure that leadership knows that everything goes through him. His support will come at a cost.

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Re: older daughter will be moving to tampa, fla! - 6 days ago

Which hospital? That will help with the answer as the area is really spread to (she WILL need a car)

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Re: Bad bear bites butt - 6 days ago

Toilettes tend to work better with a Bear Butt

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Flags ordered to half mast for Limbaugh - 6 days ago

Florida Gov. Ron "I'm a compete *uckup" DiSantis ordered to state flags flown at half-mast to honor conservative radio commenter Rush Limbaugh following his death. (* - insert either an S or F, your choice)

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Re: Biden rejects emergency aid for poorly run Republican states - 6 days ago

If I was Biden I would still toss a roll of paper towels to Abbot as I left.

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Re: Reminder: NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars @ 3:55 PM EST - 7 days ago

WOOHOO Amazing technology

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