Favorite team:Montana
Location:Mexican Home
Biography:I'm not dead yet.
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Occupation:Part time Expert
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Registered on:7/17/2005
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[quote]caught cheating on college exam? [/quote] Not caught exactly. A dick that lived in the same dorm as me smacked me on the shoulder during an econ. final until I let him see my answers. So of course I shifted my answers up by one spot from the correct one (multiple choice). He finished, a...
[quote]We get formal letters because people can tell how much acreage we have and they are interested. We just sit back and wonder at the increase in price per acre almost annually.[/quote] I used to get letters offering 20 cents on the dollar for the land I own around my house. Lately I've gott...

re: John Denver vs. Emmylou Harris

Posted by Tigris on 5/13/24 at 12:00 pm
[quote]Denver was always rooted in folk music while Harris was rooted in country.[/quote] Emmylou was very much rooted in folk, it was what she mostly listened to while her brother liked country, so she did hear it. But she played at folk clubs in NYC and Washington DC. Then two of the Flying B...
I was going to be on an Antarctic trip that included a solar eclipse on the ship - 2021 I think. Covid wiped that out. It would have been pretty stunning, the weather was perfect for it. But I did have a great trip to Antarctica a year later. I may go to Australia in 2028 and see the eclipse the...
[quote]I have zero clue what is meant by a furnace.[/quote] Could be a reformer for hydrogen production....
I sold my Oldsmobile Intrigue in 2015. The car was 15 years old, 229k miles. Bought it new because my GM card rebate took $6k off the price. It needed a new transmission at 79k miles, but after that the maintenance was pretty minimal. I was a bit surprised at what a good car it turned out to be....
[quote]That silver Dodge truck, on the right, back window imploded. Also lost the other windows by the looks of it[/quote] Dodge truck - rear window 0.27, driver window 0.28, rear left passenger window 0.35. From OP - "The vehicles in the parking lot narrowly missed a direct hit, and most made...
[quote]Italyperu-[/quote] Probably 3 months - the internal flights are really long and expensive. The whole country is very interesting and spread out. I'd visit the northern hemisphere in one part of the trip, and the southern hemisphere in the other. You don't want to be flying Lima - Milan -...
Happy endings are great I guess, but I've gotten to where I prefer something like No Country or [img]https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/penguinteen-wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/17115116/brazil-terry-gilliam-star-wars-the-force-awakens.png[/img]...
[quote]1995-Jimmy Buffet[/quote] That was his Fruitcakes tour and he had a big band along with horns and extra vocals. Excellent show, the best Buffet concert I ever saw. It was flooding around Baton Rouge at the time and he closed with Louisiana 1929 which was perfect. ...

re: Favorite Fictional Band

Posted by Tigris on 5/1/24 at 3:26 pm
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ&t=42s[/embed] [img]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KkeUzfaPL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg[/img] [quote]In 1970, soon after the release of eponymous album and their arrest following the rooftop concert, there was nothing left to save the gro...

re: Arrested Development - Franklin

Posted by Tigris on 5/1/24 at 11:58 am
Clip also has "Get rid of the Seaward." at the end. :bow:...
Neko Case - Mood to Burn Bridges at Crocodile Café. I really like a lot of her early country/rockabilly/punk stuff. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AJtJtJW-38[/embed]...

re: Take a trip to the mall in 1977

Posted by Tigris on 4/27/24 at 5:35 pm
[quote]I get it.[/quote] No, you literally don't get it. At all....
[quote]The dutch were one of the big boys right along side the Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French.[/quote] They were, and they blew it....
[quote]Genghis Khan. He had the largest empire in terms of square mileage and total land[/quote] His navy did poorly against the Japanese. But I'll agree with the Mongols at #1, what they did was incredible. And it's amazing that they could have conceivably taken Japan without poor luck wit...

re: Great Songs that are also Movie Titles

Posted by Tigris on 4/26/24 at 10:49 am
[quote]2) movie titles that were inspired by songs[/quote] I always liked this Zevon song, but I don't think got much if any radio play. It seems a bit obscure for a movie title, but I guess the movie was a bit obscure too. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfsT_c-PZXg[/embed]...
[quote]This was from a home that just missed a direct hit from the Smithville, MS tornado, it still took some damage. The curtains were visible outside the home, tattered, but flapping in the breeze.[/quote] That happened to the house we had just moved from in Tulsa. Tornado lifted the roof, suc...

re: Southwest leaving IAH

Posted by Tigris on 4/25/24 at 8:41 am
[quote]Hobby is miles better than IAH for a Southwest flight.[/quote] My work was roughly equidistant from IAH and Hobby and I picked Hobby every single time. ...