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2.16.2016

Welcome to another 5k

OK. So you all have reached 5,000 posts, so THT has asked that I make a new thread. I'll gladly acquiesce. But first, a photo of the always-lovely Jenna Fischer to user in a new post. Please enjoy.

4999 Comments:

bubbs said...: Hey, that's my neighborhood!; 4:43 PM
THT said...: mjt, the cafe at the east end of the building serves really tasty maps.

I've just finished a new on line course. I'm now using mjt's tv to listen to the Eurasian Irony Committee's double secret meeting on this year's Irony Day parade route, while at the same time reprogramming bubbs's wife's car to go directly to Alaska the next time she turns on the ignition. Bubbs, there's your chance. All the while, everyone will be convinced E-Bro did it.; 10:18 PM
bubbs said...: She left the house without me today ... This could get awkward.; 12:12 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Well, I...er.... E-Bro can't do everything for you. Just go to the Wikileaks CIA page and click on the "return wife home" link. I'm sure you'll find instructions there.; 12:16 PM
bubbs said...: I think it might take a couple days worth of research to figure that one out, THT ....; 12:24 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Speaking of Alaska, I'm guessing their groundhog did not see it's shadow last month. It is currently 93 (yes, NINETY-THREE) degrees colder in Fairbanks than in Auburn.; 12:37 PM
bubbs said...: Sounds like the place to be. One of these days I'm gonna figure out how I can end up moving there.; 12:44 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: maybe we could start our own gold dredging reality show; spice it up by dredging right off shore of Big Diomede; 12:59 PM
E-Bro said...: bubbs, you just head to the west coast and real sudden like turn right. That's how you move to Alaska.; 1:06 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: 3 hockey games on my TV tonight, but none of them are Penguins @ Jets. AU basketball at ~9:40pm EST. I'll probably stick with hockey until I can't find any more hockey. Despite all the recruiting hype, AU still in bottom 4. SAD.; 1:26 PM
michael said...: FIRE PEARL!!!!; 1:48 PM
bubbs said...: What's wrong with the bottom 4?; 2:01 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I can't believe I wasted that opportunity at 10:18pm. I'm probably back on probation.; 2:01 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: good ol' bubbs, always seeing the glass half full. You have a point. There is no ua-t in the bottom four, so I guess it is a good place to be after all.; 2:02 PM
michael said...: bubbs is always such an optimist, it makes me want to puke; 2:14 PM
bubbs said...: Well, that should save you an extra poop tomorrow, MJT!; 2:27 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: puke story... I remember that time when LB and I were in the D.C. area for map-related stuff. We had spicy Thai food for dinner and then went to B&R for ice cream. We each got a pint. I got the usual chocolate chip. He got Gold Medal Ribbon, which is yummy but a little "richer" than chocolate chip. Driving back to the hotel, all that ice cream fat and Thai spice exploded without warning. He quickly rolled down his window as I was turning left at an intersection. The window didn't get down in time. I spent a lot of time (he was still puking in the bathroom at the hotel) cleaning up as much chocolatey puke from the inside and outside of my car, but never did get it all. When we got back home a few days later, Molly dog was able to get some off the inside of the car that I had missed. There were several permanent wind blown chocolatey puke stains on the inside roof fabric of the car.; 2:33 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: was he previously obligated to an extra poop tomorrow? Why wouldn't the standard poop quota be sufficient?; 2:38 PM
michael said...: Pooping is one of my great enjoyments in life. Thanks a lot, bubbs; 3:35 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Just part of your Eurasian heritage, michael. I don't want to give away all the details I learned from the double secret Irony Day planning committee (I'll save some for wikileaks), but one Irony Day celebratory contest will involve pooping with Herculean effort.; 3:42 PM
bubbs said...: If it's one of your great enjoyments then you should have enjoyed the puking earlier. Because, really, puking is just pooping with your mouth.

Is there gonna be a Sisyphean effort level poop contest? Because it sure seems like regardless of the quality of poop I have, I always need to do it again before long.; 4:22 PM
bubbs said...: Does B&R still exist?; 4:39 PM
michael said...: In Eurasian Mythology, Hercules is famous for turning into a rushing stream with chunks of corn in it, and Sisyphus is famous for eating whatever materials are used in any contest, so you guys are painting some vivid pictures.; 6:52 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: there are a few B&Rs here and there. Not one near us but the local grocery store carries my chocolate chip pints.

I'm looking forward to the home run derby where they'll see who can hit the longest home run. Instead of tape measure home runs, they have tapeworm home runs, measured with tapeworms extracted from unsuspecting fans.

I can't find all those hockey games I thought were going to be on my TV.. only the Red Wings losing to the Bruins. Rats. Not a RW fan, but the Bruins are right up there with the Ovechkis and Flyers on my dislike list. I may have to switch to basketball. Or just go to bed.; 7:35 PM
bubbs said...: Hope you went to bed, THT.

FIRE PEARL!; 8:15 AM
E-Bro said...: Hey MJT, how come you've never told me about your fellow West Tennessean, Valerie June?

This is so good I may consider claiming that area as part of the state again.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/02/517916942/first-listen-valerie-june-the-order-of-time; 8:41 AM
bubbs said...: Starting the article out with a Madeleine L'Engle quote is promising. I'll let you know what I think.

BTW - she doesn't look Eurasian to me.; 9:22 AM
michael said...: Ebro, I didn't tell you about Valerie June because I don't want you to be happy.; 9:29 AM
E-Bro said...: Oh.

Welcome to the post-racial Eurasia, bubbs.; 10:06 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I listened to Hall of Famer Mike Lange on the Penguins radio broadcast. Pens won 7-4. Evgeni Malkin had a Gordie Howe hat trick and Nick Bonino got a regular hat trick. Sidney Crosby continues to play in cloaked mode.

I tried to watch AU vs Mizzou on line but, thankfully, it would never load. Panthers and Deacons also lost yesterday. Rough day for my schools :(

I will not be taking the 4 train to Barclays Center tomorrow night or Saturday, though the thought had crossed my mind. A UNC loss today to the team that stomped them a few weeks ago would render it moot.; 10:15 AM
bubbs said...: You over sold Val, E-Bro. She's not bad at all, but not to the level of making me think it's worth redeeming Memphis over.; 10:37 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Something interesting to view this weekend; 10:51 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: More fake news...SAD
the article linked above states
What is believed to be the first map to credit Henry Hudson with navigating his eponymous river — 130 years after the fact — will be on display... it took until about 1740, long after the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the English in 1664, for a British cartographer to honor the explorer

The map world, including the dealer who owns the above map, are all well aware of this 1625 British map, naming Hudson's River forty years before Britain possessed Manhattan.; 11:04 AM
bubbs said...: Did you email the author, THT? You should.; 11:20 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I know the map dealer, so I emailed him. Even the non-political stories in the NY Times can't be trusted. The only reason I found the article was the dealer emailed it to everyone.; 11:30 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I'm just about ready for AU to get rid of men's basketball. What a waste of money. That money would be better spent on the Equestrian and Soil Judging teams.; 12:01 PM
bubbs said...: Let us know how the map dealer responds. Sounds to me like he's trying to prop up the price of a map. Get some unknowing schmuck to think it's something it's not.; 12:14 PM
bubbs said...: You could almost say the same for the football team. Also, are we that good at soil judging? I mean, Toomer's corner has revolving oaks these days.; 12:15 PM
michael said...: You could almost say the same FOR YOUR FACE!; 1:03 PM
bubbs said...: Your ... Your face has a shell on it.; 2:14 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: The 2015 soil judging championship was Auburn's sixth, with the five others coming in 1978, '79,'80, '86 and 2003. In the last half century, only the University of Wisconsin–Platteville has more first-place finishes, with 10. Auburn also has won five Southeastern regional championships since 2000.

So, yes, we're that good. That doesn't mean the soil is good, just the judging of it. In the case of Toomer's corner, I'm pretty sure they've judged it to be awful.; 2:19 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: maybe we should just compete in NAIA. We could certainly boast the biggest stadium in the NAIA. We would dominate in football and might even be competitive in basketball... or not.; 2:22 PM
bubbs said...: You think it's hard to get a ticket to the soil judging competition?; 2:25 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: in 40 years, AU ticket office has not ever sent me tickets, so yes, I'd say they are hard to get.; 3:15 PM
michael said...: Did they send you tickets 41 years ago?; 4:42 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Objection... relevance. bubbs's question was strictly present tense, so my response was above and beyond to emphasize the difficulty of obtaining said tickets at the present time. The fact that soil judging tickets were more plentiful 41 years ago than complaints about AU basketball are now is irrelevant.; 6:57 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 7:02 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Someone deleted my comment about the doctors who shop at the Buy More. Oh well.; 9:41 PM
bubbs said...: Probably JayG. He can be pretty strict about the comments around here.

RIP Feng.; 8:41 AM
michael said...: There used to be a guy named Tim who posted a lot too. JayG banned him. It was sad. Sad!; 8:54 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Snowing like crazy! I love it! Supposed to change to rain soon :(; 10:25 AM
bubbs said...: Rained good last night ... that's all I got :(; 10:27 AM
Jimmy said...: Boom!!! Robert Leff with a 28" vertical.; 10:28 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I have a cousin named Tim; he lives in Wright, WY. I don't think I've seen him in about 42 years. I wish I had known that was him posting here. I just figured it was a blogger alias for someone named Mit.; 10:30 AM
bubbs said...: How about that? I haven't seen your cousin Tim for at least that many years, either.

Leff is sandbagging.; 10:32 AM
michael said...: He's so tall he probably hit his head on the ceiling after jumping 28"; 10:37 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I miss the vertical days. My current vertical is probably 6", 8" tops. The only thing I can dunk on now is my indoor nerf hoop, only requiring tippy toes. That's a lot sadder than anything the POTUS tweets about.; 10:39 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: There is no ceiling for Leff; 10:43 AM
bubbs said...: JJ is slow. But I think you guys already knew that.; 11:20 AM
michael said...: He's faster than you.; 1:46 PM
bubbs said...: Well, there's really no way to know, MJT.; 1:50 PM
michael said...: Nah, I know. I am a great judge of speed. If there are two things people say about me, it's that I have a tremendous palate and a tremendous judgment of speed.; 2:07 PM
bubbs said...: I demand a recount!

Set up a footrace in the parking lot of a Chili's between me and JJ.; 2:59 PM
michael said...: I thought you were banned from all Chili's parking lots?; 3:12 PM
bubbs said...: And? It motivates me.; 4:43 PM
bubbs said...: Hey THT,

What do you think about dropping men's bball and getting into the cheese competition?

http://usccc.myentries.org/contest/results/top-three?event=60; 4:48 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I'd rather eat dirt than most cheeses, so I'll stick with the soil judging team.; 5:15 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: cheese is deadly
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/03/10/at-least-2-dead-in-multi-state-listeria-outbreak-linked-to-cheese.amp.html

Dirt? Not so much.; 5:24 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Fire Roy Williams!; 9:14 AM
michael said...: Figured you would be immune to listeria by now from all the blue bell you eat.; 10:06 AM
Jimmy said...: Just released

2017 Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2704OHdFVew; 11:53 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: had no internet in prison yesterday and went to bed as soon as I got home. What did I miss?

oh... and I have no youtube at Buy More satellite office.; 7:17 AM
bubbs said...: I dunno. Sounds like we had somewhat similar days. Left before dark. Got home after dark, and pretty much went straight to bed. Today may be similar.; 9:24 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Penguins keep losing personnel every game. At this pace, will be nothing but minor league call ups by the end of the season.; 11:23 AM
michael said...: I bet you my house that you're wrong.; 12:22 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I'd bet you a 1996 4Runner since I know you need some wheels, but it doesn't belong to me. So, I'll bet this bottle of stale room air I just trapped in my Contigo that I'm right (and no, you don't get to keep the Contigo, just the air).; 12:36 PM
bubbs said...: Not to mention I've already scheduled the 4runner to be towed at a pre-determined time. It's not going to be available for you, MJT.

That Contigo air is something, alright. You may need to put something in addition to your house up for the bet.; 12:50 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: bubbs is right. But don't even think about adding small children to the wager.

Come to think about it, I can balance the wager. I'll add two "children" to my my side of the wager.; 1:17 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Oh, and I'm now wagering that the Penguins roster will be nothing but call ups from the Atlantic Youth Hockey League.; 1:19 PM
bubbs said...: As the arbiter of this bet, I'll throw in 2 children to the winner as well.; 1:52 PM
michael said...: Fine, I'll put in 2 as well.

THT, you may end up with 6 kids at your house if you win the bet. Good luck!; 3:30 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: You want to see what else I'll throw in?; 3:30 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: well rats, michael. I had 36BEASLEY!!! at the end of my last post but erased it for this one and now it's gone to waste completely.

So instead, you'll get a few bags of grandpuppies dog poops thrown in with my wager instead of an invaluable 36BEASLEY!!!; 3:32 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: grandpuppies dog poops Not sure why I had to specifically specify what type of poop is going to come out of a dog.; 3:34 PM
bubbs said...: Well, it implies that your grandpuppies have other types of poops. I'm afraid to ask.; 4:07 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Four weeks from today, the quest for Lord Stanley's Cup begins, the greatest spectacle in sports. The downhill race in skiing would be up there if it wasn't over so quickly.

Today is the 236th anniversary of the Battle of Guilford Court House, where the awesome Nathanael Greene inflicted a devastating "victory" upon Lord Cornwallis.; 8:10 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Laramie 61
Chapel Hill 37

I LOVE Chapel Hill!!!; 1:49 PM
michael said...: Ah yes, the Battle of Guilford Court House. A very significant part of the greater Battle of Midway.; 3:09 PM
THT said...: what do Vinegar Bend, AL, and Midway, NC, have in common?; 7:12 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Wilmer Mizell, of course.; 8:37 AM
michael said...: Well duh. You didn't give me time to answer.; 9:50 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: You only needed 12 hours based on a standard typing rate of 1 letter per hour. So I gave you an extra 25 minutes. No prize for you.; 10:34 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: there must have been a time zone change in there somewhere. that 25 minutes morphed into 1hr25min

I'm pretty sure we were hoping Bruce Pearl would take the team to the tournament, and not just himself

He says, Our program is in a great position... Our program is in really, really good shape... after losing in the first round of SEC tournament to the #14 seed.

I didn't watch a lot of AU basketball, but the little I saw made me suspicious that AU's 5* recruits were graded on a curve compared to Kentucky or Duke's 5* recruits.; 10:47 AM
michael said...: THT used bold, italics, and hyperlinks in that post. You truly are the greatest, THT.; 1:45 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: It's a pretty slow day in the Buy More satellite office; I had time to put some lipstick on that pig.

I love these bird's eye views:
San Antonio
Denison

Based on the 10-fold difference in estimates, I wonder, why does everyone hate Denison?; 2:25 PM
michael said...: Everybody knows there are no birds in Denison. That picture is a fake.; 2:41 PM
michael said...: Also, I just spent 10 minutes determining which building was the Alamo on the San Antonio one, so maybe they are onto something.; 2:56 PM
michael said...: I also just researched why the river isn't shaped the same way anymore and it's because they messed with it back in the 20s because of flooding.

I have to admit, old maps are kinda interesting, no matter how much THT hates them.; 2:59 PM
bubbs said...: FAKE MAPS!; 3:05 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I got sidetracked for a different reason. I was looking southwards on the San Antonio map towards the future home of Brooks Air Force Base, then went to Google maps to drive around it on street view, only to realize it's completely gone!; 3:51 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: no time for lipstick today :(; 11:15 AM
michael said...: What bitter disappointment.; 1:03 PM
bubbs said...: It could take several gallons of Blue Bell to recover from that.; 1:33 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I haven't had Blue Bell in over 1 week. I was out of town and now I'm waiting for my gallbladder to quit misbehaving. That's the definition of bitter disappointment.; 2:27 PM
bubbs said...: Let me get this straight. Your gallbladder is preventing you from eating ice cream, and you haven't gotten rid of it yet?!

What the hell is going on in here?; 2:39 PM
michael said...: More like a gall-durn-bladder, am I right?; 2:42 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Gallbladder gets huge and painful due to spasm of duct. But no one knows if it is gallbladder duct or bile duct that is the problem. If bile duct, removing gallbladder may not be a cure. Who knows, my liver could EXPLODE! Liver pâté everywhere!; 4:53 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I have no idea why Fleury isn't the Pens #1 netminder. He's been much sharper than Murray over the past month or so.

Oh well, now that Pens are losing (again), I can get back to the endless task of stocking shelves here at the Buy More.

p.s. Jimmy, do you think the Kings cursed themselves by acquiring Iginla? I like the guy a lot, but he apparently is destined not to win a Stanley Cup.; 6:21 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Survived the Buy More double shift only to have the pleasure of another tomorrow. I wish I was brave enough to retire.

UNC continues to look awful. You can count on them going stupid in the 2nd half, throwing up a variety of long-range bricks and completely abandoning their bread and butter inside strength. If we were in Eurasia, Coach Roy could threaten the next outside shooter with getting shot.; 11:11 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: While some conservative groups may wait years for tax-exempt status, the IRS swiftly 10 days! gave approval for a Satanic cult that sponsors an "After School Satan Club,"; 1:11 PM
bubbs said...: I dunno. I mean, I've never bothered paying any taxes and the IRS has left me alone just fine. So ...; 2:18 PM
michael said...: Is this your way of telling us you are in a satanic cult, bubbs?; 4:16 PM
bubbs said...: I've said too much.; 4:59 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: no internet this morning at the Buy More. It was as though I had no brain. I had to go digging through some 20 year old books. I'm traumatized. Where is my safe space?; 11:39 AM
michael said...: bubbs told me his after school club is a safe space.; 12:15 PM
bubbs said...: Yeah, my club is real safe right where it meets your face at 300 fps.; 12:29 PM
michael said...: You guys meet at 300 Fort Pierce Street in Palm Bay, FL? Who lives there?; 1:03 PM
bubbs said...: If you did your research you'd know that it's empty lot right before Ocean Ave.

But I'm not telling you what we do there.; 1:27 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: the level of stupidity that comes out of the Buy More health training facility these days absolutely astounds me. But I do admire their incredible magic trick that makes it appear as though I have an overabundance of common sense.; 1:35 PM
michael said...: Oh I did my research, bubbs. I was about to nail you if you said someone had a house there. But I guess your story checks out.

THT, do me and bubbs make you feel smart in comparison, too? Is that why you hang out here?; 1:54 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: No, I hang out here to balance the equation.; 4:23 PM
bubbs said...: How do you feel about PBJ sammiches, THT?; 4:39 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I ate my first PBJ sometime in the past 10 years. I love 'em, but I don't eat 'em anymore cause that would be impolite. About 3 years ago, 2.0 suddenly developed a severe peanut allergy.; 5:40 PM
michael said...: You know her peanut allergy may be a mental thing. You should sneak some peanut butter in her food without telling her and see if she reacts to it.; 6:06 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: ...maybe after I find her EpiPen. Or maybe not at all. Yep, I'll choose the latter.; 6:09 PM
bubbs said...: I choose the ladder ... to PBJ greatness!

I'm egalitarian with my PBJ. Smooth or crunchy is fine. Grape, strawberry, apple ... They're all good. Really, most jellies are fine by me. I like variety.

But that mixed PBJ in a jar. No. Not happening.; 8:05 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I love crunchy peanuts. I love smooth peanut butter. I will not eat the two mixed together. It violates the laws of nature and I am a law-abiding citizen.

Trying, so far unsuccessfully, to track down the name of a person (for which I only have a nickname of QV) who lived in Glenwood, AL, in the early/mid 20th century, one Google hit made me laugh. I'm guessing MapQuest really isn't familiar with Glenwood... traffic?! flights?! hotels?!

Get directions, maps, and traffic for Glenwood, AL. Check flight prices and hotel availability for your visit.; 10:06 AM
michael said...: Crunchy peanut butter is gross.

Blackberry makes the best PBJ. Raspberry is the second best. But those jellies are for rich people.; 10:17 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: According to americantowns.com "Thousands of people die in Glenwood each year" (Is this web site run by Donald Trump)

Given Glenwood's population of less than 200, I'm curious why so many people go there to die. Maybe the artesian well water has gone bad.; 10:19 AM
bubbs said...: Glenwood has changed a lot, THT.

You're ignorant and you've proven it, MJT. In reference to the crunchy peanut butter, that is. Your jelly preferences are well within the bounds of sane.; 10:21 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Blackberry? So their cell phone business dries up and the convert their factories to jelly making?

I don't eat blackberries or raspberries; aren't they a little fuzzy or prickly on the outside? And before you ask, I don't eat the peach skin either. I will eat apple without peeling it; it's smooth. I love strawberries; so I'm a hypocrite. Go ahead and sue me! I've got Judge Napolitano on retainer (he came real cheap this week); 10:23 AM
bubbs said...: I'm not sure Judge Napolitano is licensed in Eurasia. That could be a real misstep. What's the penalty for inconsistent fruit preferences? Hanging? Chinese handcuffs? Onion consumption?

I'm concerned on your behalf.; 10:34 AM
michael said...: Peach skin is weird. I've eaten the skin before, but usually I eat around it. I prefer a good nectarine.

Blackberries and raspberries can have tiny little fuzz like things, but you don't really feel them while eating them, so they eat good. The jelly is not fuzzy at all.; 10:36 AM
michael said...: If someone in Eurasia is accused of inconsistent fruit preferences, we skip the trial and send them straight to Glenwood.; 10:38 AM
bubbs said...: Take it back, THT! Take it back!; 10:57 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I'm not afraid of Glenwood. I have ghost friends in high places there. I wonder if I can talk MrsTHT into taking the week off between the Mississippi games in early October so we (i.e. I) can go see Glenwood one last time before I get too old to travel. It's been more than 20 years seen I've visited that holy shrine, birthplace of The Original THT.; 11:45 AM
bubbs said...: What is (was) the address of the original in Glenwood? I wanna see what's there now on google maps.; 11:50 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: He was born in this house during WWi

He grew up (mostly) in this house, right down the street. A ginormous live oak, one of the biggest I've ever seen was where that garage/carport thing is now, or just behind it. A very large magnolia that I would climb was where the patio now is between the rear addition and the shallow end of the pool. The large fire ant hill I stood on to get a better view over the fence was about 40' behind where the pool is... no, that did not end well. I haven't stood on one since. The front room on the right is where I would sleep.; 12:52 PM
michael said...: Cozy looking places. Why did the original THT leave Glenwood?; 1:46 PM
bubbs said...: I bet he started eating blackberries so they let him leave.; 2:09 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: michael - college. Although he went to school in this building on College Street in Glenwood, there was no college in Glenwood. He went to Troy for a year and then to API.

bubbs - I don't know if he ate blackberries, probably so. I do know that, while he was a toddler, he ate a lot of wallpaper paste in that brick house.; 2:26 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Well, at least I never tried to sell tickets for the JFiii Express or TQ Express.

The sweep of the Gators by AU baseball last weekend was impressive. Let's hope the softball team can do the same this weekend in Gainesville. Equestrian heads into SEC championship in Auburn this weekend as the nation's #1 ranked team. I wish I had more interest in keeping up with the sports we're actually pretty good at. I just hope there are 5 trips to JHS in my future this Fall and not 2... or 1.; 3:40 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Spring has sprung. It's only supposed to get down to -18 degrees in Fairbamks tonight .

I survived another trip to the dentist today.; 7:46 AM
bubbs said...: I want to be in Fairbanks. Or Fairbamks. Wherever that is.; 11:04 AM
michael said...: Fairbamks is in New Jersey, bubbs.; 12:32 PM
bubbs said...: We talking coast or in state?; 1:07 PM
michael said...: It is nestled in a number of bamks.; 1:34 PM
bubbs said...: mmmm. Okay, I can live with Fairbanks or Fairbamks, though, I prefer the former.; 4:32 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: NW NJ is very pretty.

BIG game tonight.

GO PENS! Oh, some boring basketball games tonight, too.; 6:39 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Penguins stink :(; 9:32 PM
michael said...: bball games watched good last night; 9:45 AM
bubbs said...: Back of my eyelids watched good last night.; 9:46 AM
E-Bro said...: I had Arizona, WVU, and Michigan all advancing last night in a pool I'm in with a few of my buddies. All teams had leads inside the final couple of minutes of the game and lost. Went from having a comfortable lead and being minutes away from just about clinching the thing and now if Kentucky loses to UCLA tonight I'm pretty much done.

So no, MJT, the bball games did NOT watch good last night.; 10:18 AM
michael said...: I hadn't checked my brackets in awhile and didn't remember who I had picked, so that made the viewing more enjoyable.

Turns out I did pretty well though. I had Oregon moving on in all my brackets... which is funny because I was rooting for Michigan during the game.; 11:42 AM
bubbs said...: I have no clue where my brackets stand. I suspect they're in horrible shape. But I don't have anything riding on them, so it's cool.

I would check to see and let you guys know. But I forgot where they are and how to get to them. I'm counting on someone else in those pools to let me know at some point.

If you can't tell, I take March Madness very seriously. It's my world.; 11:52 AM
THT said...: I have no brackets. But I do have some kind of upper respiratory infection that finally game me some symptoms today other than the unexplained udder exhaustion I had been tortured with for 2 days. Now I have udder exhaustion and a runny nose.

Mooo; 12:30 PM
bubbs said...: I think they make a cream for that.; 2:22 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I think Kentucky will need that cream more than me.; 6:28 PM
michael said...: Where is everybody??; 4:46 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I was busy sleeping this afternoon. Bizarre dreams... as usual.; 10:06 PM
bubbs said...: I was off yesterday, so I was hiking, lazing around, prepping some stuff for paint. Three day weekends should be the standard.; 8:55 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Buy More all day and night today. Y'all come by for a special deal in our specialized camera department.; 10:20 AM
bubbs said...: Do you have any cameras that accurately represent the blue of a Blue Footed Booby?; 11:40 AM
michael said...: like anyone could ever make such a camera.; 11:41 AM
bubbs said...: Space travel gave me hope that it would one day be possible.; 11:53 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: when did you travel in space?; 11:56 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: did you see perfectly blue Blue Footed Boobys in space?; 11:57 AM
michael said...: I don't think he's actually been to space, THT. I think maybe bubbs was doing drugs.; 12:32 PM
E-Bro said...: Where'd you go hiking, bubbs?; 1:07 PM
bubbs said...: MJT/THT, it's a fact that I was high. What does that mean? ... there's really no way to know.

E-Bro, it was with the fam. Girls road their bikes (only one "major" wreck) while me and the Mrs. walked it. Red Mountain Park in Bham. Nothing special, but it was good to get out and get some fresh air.; 1:12 PM
bubbs said...: I can't say if there are BFBs in space or not. There's no color up there. Surprised you didn't know that, THT. I thought you would have been around to watch the walk on the moon. It's all black and white up there.; 1:16 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I was at boy scout camp watching on a tiny portable tv. I thought it was just the tv.; 2:20 PM
Cincytiger said...: THT:
" I just hope there are 5 trips to JHS in my future this Fall and not 2... or 1."

Me, too! You did not come often enough last year. This is going to be a good, good year.; 2:42 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Hey Cincy! I'm so confident (or faking myself into being confident) that I just turned down an opportunity to talk about maps on day of Ole Miss game in AU. I wonder how much longer before AU Ticket Office lets us order our National Championship game tickets.; 2:54 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: look people, I don't got all day.; 3:14 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: got to get this done now; 3:14 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: RIGHT NOW!; 3:14 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: (BEASLEY!!!)(43); 3:15 PM
bubbs said...: I wonder how far back Cincy reads. I feel like she might be missing a lot of context for our conversation and misunderstand someone's position.; 9:26 AM
THT said...: She knows how I feel about ua-t. That's all that really matters.; 9:35 AM
michael said...: I wonder how she feels about Sullivan to...; 10:41 AM
michael said...: 37BEASLEY!!!!!; 10:42 AM
THT said...: Cincy is only 39, so she probably wasn't around back then.; 10:47 AM
bubbs said...: Well, MJT, there's really no way to know.; 10:48 AM
THT said...: I have a list of about 6 places I'm supposed to go today, one of which is Costco. I'd be willing to trade my assignment for a case of dengue fever, should someone have one available.; 12:19 PM
E-Bro said...: Well, for that, I think you'd have to add the Airport and some Tropical locale to your list of places to go, so I'm not sure it's worth it, THT.; 1:11 PM
michael said...: Costco is a glorious place when they have the samples out; 1:42 PM
bubbs said...: Costco sample eating has, like, its own culture: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-costco-free-samples-etiquette-20150924-htmlstory.html

You're very in the box thinking, E-Bro. I keep quite a few communicable diseases in my office fridge. THT doesn't have to travel far to contract dengue fever. I really think Ebola is the way to go, though. It has a nice oozy effect. He'll keep not going anywhere for weeks on Ebola.; 2:09 PM
E-Bro said...: He'd get there faster in a plane and Alabama is basically the tropics. Apparently there's room for two in this box.; 3:45 PM
bubbs said...: Who said it couldn't be flown to him? Or that I don't have connections in NC that could help out?

Don't try to put me in your box!; 4:19 PM
E-Bro said...: Well, you haven't said yet that it could be flown to him or that you do have connections in NC, so I don't really know what to believe.

And it's all a moot point anyway by now, I'm sure. THT is probably already home resting comfortably when he could've had Dengue Fever. We have failed him miserably.; 4:54 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Yep, I'm back and it was only 110% as bad as I anticipated. But at least I saved the dengue fever play for later.

I have never partaken of any Costco sample eating. Afraid I'd get something worse than dengue fever.; 5:29 PM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: Penguins are limping to the finish line and a first round playoff exit with a makeshift roster that probably couldn't win the Frozen Four, much less a Stanley Cup. The injured list looks like a NHL All-star game roster. I guess I should start turning my attention towards Sept 2.; 9:21 AM
bubbs said...: Softball is still looking good. Plus the baseball team has been exceeding expectations. Not really sports I'm naturally interested in, but with them doing well I don't mind giving them a look.; 9:32 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: BOOM!!! goes the baseball team on ua-t.

I love it when the good guys stomp the bad guys.; 11:23 AM
michael said...: Well those of us who are hardcore baseball/softball fans don't need your fairweather attention, bubbs. Go find another bandwagon.; 11:53 AM
michael said...: Also, nice page flip THT.; 11:54 AM
Tar Heel Tiger said...: I learned the art of page flipping from Art. More specifically, Art taught me how not to page flip.; 1:16 PM
E-Bro said...: That reminds me, THT, that Denver is into the Frozen Four a second year in a row.

And the skiing team finished third in the country (albeit they couldn't defend their national championship from last season).

(pulls out University of Denver t-shirts and sweatshirts for the first time in years)

Go Pioneers!; 1:20 PM
E-Bro said...: Your post from the previous page that is, THT, not the one about learning page flips from some guy named Art.; 1:21 PM