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Watched some Olympic hockey yesterday. The US backup goalie is about as solid as the Vikings QB room right now. That was ugly.
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Saw an interesting clip of Tiger where he was asked if after his most recent back surgery if the Masters was off the table this year. He answered with a quick “no”.
Believe there’s a difference between playing – participating – and that of a serious contender.
Tiger’s face was the most serious I might have ever seen in his answer.
Doesn’t matter, what does is how serious his game is
Have to say, if Tiger thinks he can win at Augusta… he can win at Augusta. He won the U.S. Open on a broken leg.
Tiger is finished on the PGA tour.
Age is real.
It’s hype and promotion imo.
Senior Tour is his future for golf.
Just got back from the Post Office.
Reminded me that coming back from Buc-ees traveling thru Wyoming on Sunday we came across an accident involving a USPS semi. It had drifted into the medium, flipped and busted open. Mail was all over the road, wind was howling and spreading it all over the prairie.
Man, what a cleanup that will be. Probably have to send teams to try and rundown all that mail and try to at least ID it.
It was traveling west so we didn’t have any mail on it we don’t think.
Did you just go up to Cheyenne and then take I-80 west?
Yup.
Such a lovely drive. You actually drove by one of my old residences about 40 miles before getting to Utah.
It had nice views. Not a lot in the way of development but enough truck stops to get by. Not much more than semis and some RVs on the road.
This ought to be interesting…
wish it was real.
It’s real. DOGE is using AI to track all federal dollars. Every single budget, every single line of accounting, every single expenditure. Massive win for us.
There’s black programs that are completely off the books, this is superficial tracking, and not much more imo. Do I have anything to back that up? No. Has our Government given me any reason to NOT believe that, also no.
I know all about black programs son. I ran a few in my time. You don’t really know how they work. Since Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs in 2013, much has changed in the black world budget process. There is much more oversight than ever before. Also fraud, waste, and abuse, where funds end up in politicians pockets or political campaigns, were never the problem with that money. It was about what it was being used for to collect information. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, along with CIA activities that were a bad problem. CIA lied, and they got caught.
I truly hope that is true. Would love nothing more then MY money ending up where I dont want it to go. It should either benefit me and citizens like me, or stay in my pockets.
The Dims/Woke/Libs will find a reason this is racist.
My wife found his podcasts, we listened to some of them while traveling on vacations, he seems to know his stuff, although he pushes advertiser products during the podcasts (Buy gold! Use this product to feel healthier. Stuff like that.)
My view of the transgender or gender dysphoria issue has always been it is a disorder similar to a “dangerously thin” person suffering anorexia who looks in the mirror and thinks they are “overweight.”
Their perception is their reality, but it’s a derangement.
Correct, and I’m under no obligation to participate in their derangement
Correct. We are realists, not irrational idealists.
Agreed. Completely.
Don’t tell me that l have to accept you the way you are when you couldn’t accept you for the way you were.
I can tolerate.
I don’t have to accept shit.
How I feel about it also.
Another useless (but fun) mock draft….
Part 2:
Grade – F for no gophers
Peter Woods, DT is in interesting prospect. I have seen him rated as high as Top 10.
He evidently flashes moments of ‘brilliance’ but he is very inconsistent so he is often drafted much later in the 1st round.
Trust in Coach Flo to know if he is fixable or not.
So Pablo Lopez has a tear of his UCL and maybe lost for the season.
Spring training has just started, Twins things are happening to the Twins it seems.
https://puckettspond.com/twins-latest-ominous-injury-could-mean-joe-ryan-s-days-are-numbered-01khp338n2rh
Don’t the Twins always shoot for being the worst in the league?
Should have just traded him in the offseason, along with buxton and Ryan, they are going nowhere until the pohlads are gone
Rhode Island tranny shooter.
Lola…..
But the Woke/Lib/Dims would have you believe that Trans don’t have a mental illness.
Any guy crazy enough to get his pecker cut off has serious issues.
Had an inmate do that a time or two while working at the prison, yeah they were batshit crazy.
Self castration is a whole other level though.
Yeah, that usually seems to involve PCP.
In prison it is more likely enough Pruno to dull the pain and lots of mental illness.
So the shooter from Canadia and this one were both trans and because of that it will get swept under the rug and instead they will tout the need for more gun control….
But it supports the Woke Narrative so that is more important-er.
But Obama just said the MAGA people were the folks of violence and aggression.
Well Duh.
MAGA says mean* things about Trans so that triggers reactions like this. So ‘obviously’ it is all MAGAs fault.
*Mean equals Scientific*
The left always accuses the right of doing what THEY are actually doing.
And blame people like us for not accepting trannies as normal people.
My first wife’s brother was seriously wanting to change his gender. This was over 40 years ago BTW, and he was always an unsettled child. Eventually he was entered into psychiatric care and therapy. He eventually dealt with his internal demons and came out the other side and made something himself. The family and I knew he was screwed up, and several physicians told us if we didn’t cave to his desires, he would kill himself. Thank God we didn’t do that.
I thought he was already gone.
Seems like he had the tools for the most part.
More of a head issue, don’t know if KOC could fix him.
Maybe motivate him with mayo.
If only Skolly was here to read your post……
Old skolly, had couple kids and disappeared, hope he’s ok in murderville
He’s got a rocket for an arm, but fundamentally, especially footwork, he’s trash
….and has weird eating habits.
putting ketchup on a steak is worser though, but Mahomes gets a pass because, well, he’s that good so people overlook what a weirdo he and his family are.
Had a Brother in law that was all about the ketchup. Had to have it at every meal and it had to be a certain brand or he would get upset.
Yeah, my ex had some strange family.
What a freak, was it “fancy” ketchup
Don’t know, I was in the military so I didn’t see him often. He owned ‘Barrel Of Fun’ a candy and vending machine servicing company in Minot.
300+ lbs and he passed pretty early, 50 or so.
I member their chips, haven’t seen them in quite a while though
I don’t think they kept the company long after he passed. I don’t know if they sold it or dissolved it. Maybe sold and merged into another company??
Old Dutch bought the brand I think.
Up to 2015 Barrel O’Fun was owned by KLN Family brands, a Minnesota based family-owned company with four divisions: Barrel O’Fun Snack Food, Kenny’s Candy Co., NutHead’s Chocolate Factory, and Tuffy’s Pet Food.
In 2015 KLN Family Brands sold Barrel O’Fun and all snack food activities to Shearer’s Foods.
In 2018 Shearer’s Foods Sold Barrel O’ Fun to Old Dutch Foods
They probably sold it to Shearer’s Foods or to a company that sold it to them.
I believe they sold off quite awhile ago, although my divorce from the ex was in the 90s. I got along with his wife Mary and the kids pretty well even after that.
Isn’t old Dutch a mn company? Loved their pickle chips
Yep. Dill Pickle chips are tasty. So are the Jalapeno Cheddar
Onion and garlic for me
yeah, those are amazing too.
Being honest, I love most junk food and ate way too much of it when younger. I have to pace myself now.
Earls cheese puffs are still the best cheese puffs.
Pop Tarts (especially brown sugar cinnamon) are better when toasted, and when coupled with Mountain Dew, made the perfect breakfast for me at 11 years old….
Yeah, gotta cut back a little as we age. When I do indulge, onion and garlic old dutch chips, caramello candy bar, and a sugary soda of some sort. Yum.
I have learned that once I start one of those bags of chips it is very hard to stop until they are all gone.
Easy fix is to just not start.
Eating an entire bad makes my stomach queasy now days.
Yes, whole bag usually gets eaten, gotta buy the smaller bag if you can. I can crush a bag of Funyuns also. Damn guilty pleasures.
I just remember the old Dutch baggie in right field at the old metrodome back in the day, figured they were mn
I don’t agree that it is worser.
But it’s crazy dumb.
Worser to ruin a $25 steak that a $5 cup of coffee
But maybe he eats the steak to make the ketchup taste better?
Lol
Legit source tho?
I think he was on tape a couple of years ago saying this.
Whether he is to be believed is another question though.
As he was cut by the Fins he can come here cheaply if he really wants to play for us.
I guess we will see if he puts his wallet where his mouth is.
It’s always about the money.
It’s never about what it represents.
for Big Ern McCracken it represented the ability to buy his way out of anything
Stats are also a tool to help understand the game and what works and what doesn’t.
It is certainly not a measure of success for teams.
No shit, scoreboard is all that matters
Yeah… Belichick says this, while having a top 5 defense, a top 5 O-line, and a top 10 rushing game for most of Brady’s 20 seasons in New England. Those stats don’t lie.
Saw a super sad post on social media.
It essentially said that we only see pedophilia as wrong because of Christian morals. If we remove Christian morals, then we’ll see that it was accepted for many years in the past and we’ll revert back to normal pagan morals. Seemed that people were applauding it?
Yikes. That’s a scary post.
It was considered normal in ancient Greece and lots of other places.
Of course so was slavery and ‘rape and pillage’ of places that were inconvenient for them.
Like to think we have evolved since those days.
Destroy the moral compass… destroy the country. The Dems only desire is to rule us… by any means necessary. Socialism gives the Government virtually universal power over the citizens. Rights are gone, property is gone, everything controlled by the Politico. We must stand for faith, family, and freedom above all else.
Its social media, odds are it was posted by a bot or a paid (foreign) agitator and 90% of the comments and likes on it are fake too. I think the stat from a few years ago was that over 75% of the “Christian” posts or pages on any social media site were confirmed fake/manufactured by foreign countries and or bots from foreign countries. This is why I REALLY REALLY push for people to just ditch it all together. You cant use it for news, you cant use it for really anything except pushing someone else’s propaganda or brainwashing yourself.
I still have a twitter / X account but rarely log into it.
No facebook for almost two years. Best decision ever.
I had my app deleted for over a year but now im managing our bands Facebook page so Im on it a lot more then I would like to be
Tim Walz actually put into MN legislation that it was a viable sexual choice.
It’s just being neighborly to these deranged **ckers, who should be dragged on a paved highway for 5 miles behind a vehicle on a hot summer day going 60MPH.
At age 26, Edgar Allan Poe married his 13 year old cousin…they were married for 11 years until her death. This was in 1835. Caused a stir back then, but would be diabolical today. Not to advocate such things, but history has taught us that even in the western world teenaged women marrying men in their 20’s or 30’s was common due to the financial and societal norms of the day.
I guess it depends what you define as pedophilia. A girl less than 16 with anyone more than a year older than her? A 14 year old boy with a 24 year old teacher?
You a card carrying member of nambla?
Damn, you found me out.
Seriously, though, what is the definition? I’m not googling that on a work computer. I know NVF said his first time was with an older woman, guess that means he was pedophilized (is that a word?)
Yeah I’m not sure how you define it, but over ten years difference with someone not at the age of consent is probably around that range, Poe was a pedo
In Texas they allow ‘within 3 years for teenagers under aged 18’. Some states are pretty extreme I think, a least to me.
Within the culture I think the definition is evolving. Traditionally I thought pedophilia referred to the attraction to pre-pubescent children.
Also, do you know much about lower bundle branch block and causing fluid accumulation around the lungs and heart and how to treat it?
Honestly, no. I would guess pacemaker and diuretics.
That’s what I was told, an aggressive medication regimen, then if that doesn’t work, a resynchronization device
I think that falls under the MAID program.
RIP…..
I have an RBBB.
Cardiologist has told me that it’s just the way I am.
Nothing will help it.
i have the lbbb, it must make a difference which side because the cardiologist said I’ll have to take meds, if that doesn’t work do the device, and if that doesn’t work have a transplant, I’m still in the meds stage, take 10 pills a day
Shocked. Not Shocked.
One of those athletes that were given a pass thru life because they could play at a high level. Never became a functional human being.
He was always the biggest, strongest kid… got by on that even in the NFL early on. Emotionally immature though. Over celebrated himself when he won, then was a very poor sport when he lost. Eventually his physical attributes no longer made a difference and that was it. Then he became this freak show trying to garner attention. Just ridiculous that the entertainment industry bought into his clown act.
Happy Ramadan
Chinese new year I can support.
I am certainly “Islamophobic” because I have no patience for what they believe and the agenda they push.
That is because you are an ‘infidel’.
Same.
‘Nuns don’t randomly explode’
I went to a Catholic elementary school and was in the boys room once using the urinal. A nun burst in dragging another boy by the ear and proceeded to wash his mouth out with soap at a sink.
Traumatized me it did.
My wife went to Catholic school and her nun stories are pretty scary.
I do remember in PE the teacher had a slipper. If you misbehaved, you could either elect to get the slipper (slapping your clothed ass) or go to the principal’s office (and have your parents contacted). I never got the slipper because I was the opposite of a jock. Several guys did, though, and said it was no big deal.
They were known for their ‘Tough Love’, some tougher than others.
Rulers, clickers, ear dragging, ‘sentence writing’, lots and lots of traumatic things going on.
Eh, mouth washed out with soap isn’t that big of a deal
It was more me standing at the urinal with my junk in my hands when she burst into the bathroom and started washing out the boys mouth just a few feet away.
I was an impressionable youth at the time.
Both are scary, but yeah, the one on the right I would be worried.
Charles DuVall
Jesse Jackson
Next up…….
Robert Duvall?
LOL.
Yeah. Probably.
We have a Charles DuVall at work.
I think you may have just admitted to murder……
someone do a welfare check on Chucky Duvall…..
LOL.
CharlesRobert DuVallJesse Jackson
Next up…….
Joe Biden, well officially anyway since he actually died a few years ago.
I’m actually surprised he hasn’t officially died yet.
I figured that there was no more need to pump him up with whatever kept him alive, that he would go quickly.
Just waiting for the right time to roll out that distraction.
He’s gotta be close to looking like Jimmy Carter before he died.
Well, brain dead and actually dead are technically different
I think weekly threads are fine this time of year.
I agree.
No need to get overly bothered by it.
Agreed, unless they become unwieldy which occurs at about 300 posts for me on this old computer.
Get a new computer…..
I have a new computer. They are set up side by side on my desk. I use the new one for most things and the older one for simpler things like keeping Skoloholics open.
I’m bothered
When i first saw the gif, I assumed it was………
Smae
Good morning and SKOL!
FTP!
This site will sometimes cause one a brain spasm.
Last week’s post had a HOFer saying Cousins shouldn’t come back. And then today another says the same.
Last weeks got me thinking so I checked around some – too much free time. Came across a little similar video with Shannon Sharpe and Ocho Johnson on the subject. And Ocho had just talked to Justin Jefferson about it. In sum, all three including Jefferson thought it was a good idea for him to come back.
So, two HOF defensive lineman say no, and three elite wide receivers ( one a HOFer and one on his way). say yes he should.
What a conundrum – do I put more weight in defensive lineman or wide receivers.
‘Opinions are like A-holes, everyone has one and they all stink’.
It will depend on his willingness to accept whatever role they envision for him and what his cost would be. I could see it working on a short/cheap deal. Would KC come in for a short cheap deal?? No clue.
Reminds me of the Zach Brown story. In October 2019, then-Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Zach Brown publicly criticized former teammate Kirk Cousins, labeling him the “weakest part” of the Minnesota Vikings offense before their Week 6 matchup. Brown suggested defenses should force Cousins to throw, yet his comments backfired when Cousins threw for 333 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-20 Vikings win. Brown was released by the Eagles immediately following this performance.
When asked about his comments in the post game presser, Cousins claimed that he had no knowledge of them, and Zach had been a great teammate in Washington.
BTW Zach never played another game in the NFL. Cousins effectively retired him.
Mock….
Part deux….
Final pick….
Calab Banks, DL lasted to number 32?
What ranking option did you use?
whatever was standard, refuse to pay for these sites.
traded down with Seatte to 1.32 and went from there.
Pro Football Network allows you to pick from 5 different options at no extra charge. Pro Football Networks own, PFF, Concensus, ESPN and The Atlantic.
I rotate thru them to see how much difference there is.
Hey Mjolnir, I saw your uplifting weight loss story last week. That is awesome. Congratulations!
Thank you doc…..
So yes, I have been down for the count since Thursday with a bad cold. I was living on Dayquil and Nyquil. Didn’t eat anything until today. I ate about a half a bowl of cereal. Been feverish and just slept mostly. Today I feel marginally better. Also I lost my internet service from Friday at 3 p.m. to Saturday at around 3:30 p.m. It’s interestingly quiet without the internet. I get my TV and everything else through it. What was odd was my phone couldn’t get internet service either. Bother.
Strange, couldn’t even use your phones ‘personal hotspot’ to get internet/wifi?? I was able to use mine out in the middle of Wyoming this weekend. Just a thought.
Glad you are on the mend. When I had the Norovirus it took longer to recover my strength and energy then I had the symptoms. I suspect recovery is effected by age and fitness.
My wife has a very new phone, and she couldn’t get it to pull in the internet as a hotspot either. My phone is only 3 years old, so it should have worked too, but it didn’t. The phones came back on line around 10 a.m. Saturday, then we got our full internet restored about 5 and half hours later.
I definitely was not feeling well with the cold. When you don’t want to eat anything for four days, you’re sick. Age and fitness definitely play a part.
With the weather we’ve had down here, easy for one to get sick.
It’s either that or too much sex, but I choose to believe it’s the weather at this point.
Seriously, glad you’re doing better.
Thanks… I’m thinking it was my wife, bringing something home from the gym. She has had a couple instances of getting sick there and I suspect her immune system is likely better than mine at this point. She hasn’t had any symptoms but I sure got whacked.
The Teacher was very concern with catching the Norovirus from me as she is normally more susceptible to that type of thing than I am.
Luckily it did not happen and we are taking extra precautions at the gym now, Wiping down equipment before using it and not just afterwards as the rules require. We are still avoiding crowds when possible, although Buc-ees was packed on a holiday weekend.
Gyms are notorious for germs galore. Not sure one can wipe enough though.
I mostly just power walk so no wiping needed.
I started using a bike once I got a blister on my foot to reduce stress on it.
I am over that (#nojinx) so hopefully no wiping in my future.
Eww!
Or just going bidet?
A coworker sent me an article about the rapid development of AI. In summary, the writer suggested that one get a paid version of one of the AI’s and start using it, every day. That way, you will become facile in its usage and position yourself to use it in ways that give you a leg up over your competition.
I purchased the $20/month subscription to chatGPT the next day. True to form, I am using it every single day. I’ve used it to analyze a 300 yard shooting group, reformat a database to make it easier to input and display data, analyze a powerpoint I am giving to med staff and jazz it up, put our dog in an old picture of my wife and I, give me a ten minute dissertation on ureterolithiasis and sepsis management, give me a packing list for an upcoming cruise, and give me recipe ideas for meatloaf.
It is getting much much better than it was when I last tried using it two years ago.
I use it everyday. Didn’t want to at first but it’s a handy tool to have for touching up emails – it’ll write anything you want based on tone, which is nice as I work at a University and the chances to offend anyone are extremely high.
Wonder if it puts Radiologists out of business?
Eventually it’ll put all physicians out of business. I don’t see radiologists being even close to the first to fall, though. However, I guarantee that every month AI is getting better and better and better, never sleeping, never taking a break. It can write hundreds of lines of code in minutes, test an app, rewrite the code, test the app, and be ready to publish an app in hours.
Hope not – watched too many Terminator movies.
I’m not sure who I am in competition with.
I have found that the best, most meaningful competition I can have is with my current self. Working to improve/advance myself is a constant goal.
If you count yourself in the book business, you don’t see ways competitors can use AI to put you out of business?
I wasn’t even thinking of my book business. I was mostly being a smart alec.
John Randles take on possible QBs seems pretty simplistic.
I mean how many playoff wins did Sam have prior to this SB run?
https://thevikingage.com/minnesota-vikings-legend-warns-team-about-pursuing-two-potential-free-agent-quarterbacks
Weather you agree with him or not, you now have two hall of fame Vikings saying No to bringing back Kirko.
I obviously agree with both of them.
That does not mean I am against improving the QB room. But do that in a smarter way than throwing money at an established vet and hoping for magic.
Oh there are good reasons for not bringing in KC or any other Vet if taken individually. They have to find the best fit despite the warts.
The other option is finding the best one that they can find and throwing the farm at his team to try to pry him loose (Burrows).
My point was/is eliminating QBs due to playoff wins would have eliminated Sam from the jump.
Robert Duvall dead at 95
RIP Tom Hagen…
Great actor
RIP
NVF would certainly say the Vikings cap situation would preclude them from signing even vet minimum contracts, but maybe there is a future Viking here
There are lots of options out there this offseason.
But first and foremost they have to address the QB Room. Once that is figured out and addressed then they can see what is left and prioritize resources. If they ‘go big’ then harder choices will need to be made with the rest of the roster. If they go small then they will have more to tinker with and can add different players.
So we don’t have a HoF QBOTF in the room???
Unknown at this point.
But given the odds and injuries, not having decent options would be epic level dumb. And they couldn’t blame KAM any more this time.
Since it’s so slow a little story that sort of ties Ben’s story from last week about Bird and Magic, and today’s about lack of trying by today’s athletes.
This as best as I remember it.
It goes back to the Dream Team at the Olympics. According to Bird, Magic was really having a hard time accepting that MJ was now the man. So the practices were set up mostly by Magic to be mini games with Bird and Magic against MJ and Pippen, and the rest of the sides were split up with the other players (all were great players).
Each mini game was like to 10 buckets. And no matter what, MJ always beat Magic and Bird. Finally, Bird told Magic, time to just accept there time had passed and there’s a new King..
Later, Charles Barkley would say that was the most intense, competitive basketball that he ever played in his life.
And it was done without one cent on the line.
As I recall Bird was dealing with back issues during that Olympics so I wonder how ‘hard’ he could have gone in practices.
That could have been a later Olympics that I recall though since I suffer from
Yes, Bird was having back problems. But even at their best, MJ was too much for them.
Since it was Bird’s story, I just sort of figured he saw the writing on the wall.
Just thought it was pretty special, that some of the best basketball players of all time, were going at it like that just for bragging rights.
‘even at their best, MJ was too much for them’
Respectfully disagree. Age and injuries + MJ were too much for them.
That was birds last, he retired right after
Sometimes it is real hard to realize that time always wins.
Yes. This. This is what made the 90s great for the NBA, MLB, NFL, and NHL.
I remember reading about that as well
bird knew long before that how good MJ would likely become, I don’t remember what year but sometime early in MJs career during warmups for a game Micheal’s ball bounced over to Larry’s side, Micheal made some sort of gesture for the ball and Bird just threw it away into the stands to send a message. He would later admit that he knew what Michael could become and wanted any edge possible, then a few years later he called him god disguised as Michael Jordan when mj dropped 60 on Boston
Seems like it has been quiet for a several days now.
Truly we are in the middle of the NFL doldrums.
Have you ever wondered about some old saying? For example, some people use the phrase, It’s like kissing your sister. How would they know what kissing their sister is like? Would they have had to kiss their sister to be able to know what it felt like to say that statement?
Like, on the mouth? Eww. I don’t need to experience that to know what the phrase means. Same with hotter than Georgia asphalt.
Agreed.
Don’t need to stick a thermometer up a ‘well diggers ass’ to know how cold it is.
Don’t knock it till you have tried it.
Can’t trust a fart either
I am getting older….but I have not yet experienced a “wet” fart….I am hoping my rectal workings remain 100 percent competent through my old age.
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Looks like every major sport is actively killing their All Star game. NBA….yikes.
Why did all All Star games go down hill around the same time? They used to be so fun to watch.
It happened when these guys all became multi-millionaire’s. A small monetary prize plus going to Disneyland becomes somewhat meaningless when you can afford to buy whatever you want, whenever you want.
I think that’s part of it. It also seems that they “don’t want to risk getting injured in a ‘meaningless game.'” I feel the competitiveness of the players in the past wanted nothing but to show they’re the best of the best. They wanted to win a game because it was competition.
Maybe I’m romanticizing the past, but it seemed the players tried much harder, which made it fun as a fan because you got to see the very best compete against each other for one game.
I agree with all of that. Also, now, with so much player movement and with so many off-season activities, these guys are around each other so much that many of them become friends. I don’t know if that makes them less willing to hurt one of their friends in a “meaningless” game or what.
True
‘They wanted to win a game because it was competition’
All Star Games are more of a Social Event for competitors now days.
Be seen, get on TV, get endorsement deals, not so much about playing hard/well.
exactly
Business Decisions.
Sean Taylor certainly didn’t care about injuries
My favorite pro bowl play of all time…
It’s kind of slow on here with SoCal being on his Buc-ees pilgrimage and no sign of NLNVF (maybe they are alternate personalities).
Yes, those two are particularly strong contributors.
I’m posting this so there’s another post exactly 58 minutes apart for 3 consecutive posts.
yes, I am high.
In support of NLNVF, the pro-am was fun to watch. Some nice clutch shots, plus i like pros hitting the tee shots into the ocean
We just got back after an almost 10hr drive.
I read that NLNVF is down with a cold.
Makes for a quiet weekend looks like.
He is a baby…..
Yea, I used to think he was tough.
He fooled us all
Well he is a senior citizen.
We have to worry more about upper respiratory illnesses as we ‘get up there’.
Like the Dr told me when I got pneumonia the first time ‘It is serious, it killed Jim Henson after all’.
I’m more senior than he is.
So he shouldn’t worry about Upper Respiratory Illnesses because you are older???
I worry about them and I am a little younger than you both. Having had Pneumonia 2X just means I am more likely to get it again.
What a Pansy
What do you know? It is Sunday.
The wife and I have been sick with some kind of cold. We missed our Valentine’s Day celebration and just stayed at home all day. We didn’t want to kill anyone at church so we stayed home and watched church online today. I took a nap yesterday and today. I feel like I’m retired or something.
I still don’t understand curling, but it is fun to have it on in the background.
USA/Germany hockey is on right now. I forgot how intense and frantic hockey can be.
Sports are pretty much dead right now, slow part of the offseason for the nfl and mlb, nba all star week and no hockey. Winter Olympics going on, but hard to get excited for cross country skiing or the penis enhanced slalom jumpers.
Not wrong.
And I’ve watched everything already.
Just now starting to rewatch Vikes games from last year on NFL+
I don’t know why – not a mystery as to how the season ended.
Sundays without foosballs feels unnatural.
That seemed like a long Thursday.
Ftp recs to all
Yeah, I am sorry for the sporadic posts. I blame Ponder.
Just a slow time of year, and there is nothing really to argue about yet.
The amount of comments does not really warrant a daily thread right now, so I am being lazy.
Just having fun with ya! Although i do rely on this site to tell me what day it is@
Watching golf now. Lotta bad shots like my game but these guys know how to recover
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
Daytona 500 day…
25 year anniversary of losing #3.
Still pretty amazing that that accident killed him. I’ve often wondered if he had a heart attack or something that caused the vehicle to sway before that crash.
Nah, it was just pre-Hans Device and I don’t know if there was a safe barrier. The crash snapped his neck. They’ve been fighting similar issues in the current car with concussions. The Hans Device is keeping them from breaking their necks, but they had to redesign the cars a bit mid season from all the concussions. The way they handle concussions compared to the nfl makes me think the nfl is seriously lacking. Nascar has a lot more tests and drivers are out for multiple weeks and usually 1-2 months for a concussion. There will be another round of nfl lawsuits in 5-10 years.
Great race and what a wild finish.
I guess I’m first?
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