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The Carousel pitch, Mad Men:

This episode was actually taking place Thanksgiving week-- Don didn't want to drive to his in-laws house out of town for the holiday.

Such amazing writing, acting, and attention to period detail.

Love how Harry Crane, who has been having issues with his wife; essentially kicked out of the house and sleeping on his office sofa, gets choked up and has to leave.

And the episode's ending--As Don rides the train back to suburban Ossining, he imagines arriving home as his wife Betty and the kids have finished packing for their trip. "I'm coming with you," Don says. Betty, emotional, watches as he picks up the kids, kissing their heads. But when he really does arrive home, he arrives to find the house already empty. He sits on the steps and holds his head in his hands.

Some of the best television ever.

For what it's worth, found this on the WKU football website. You may be right about us wearing the senior night whites. Good thing I washed my gold shorts and white polo today.

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GPG should NEVER be worn at home, thanks to the abysmal performance by LSU football in that scheme during the NCAA mandate during the period of 1983-94. We went 2-5 at home in Stovall's last year, leading to his dismissal, and 9-16 in home purples during Hallman's four years, leading to his firing. So no.

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Very selective in your choice of coaches and years. You conveniently leave out Arnsparger's 3 consecutive winning seasons, 1984-6 (including an SEC championship and two Sugar Bowls) as well as Archer's 1st two winning seasons, 1987-88 (which included an SEC co-championship).

Conversely, LSU primarily wearing white jerseys didn't do very well at the end of DiNardo's tenure, nor in the mid-70s lull under Cholly Mac when they had back-to-back non-winning seasons.

Actually zoomed in and read this in its entirety.

I find it very interesting that the age cohort being described in this article as "the beat generation" is essentially the same as the one dubbed (many years later) as "the greatest generation":

"the generation which went through the last war, or at least could get a drink once it was over"..

"brought up during the collective bad circumstance of a dreary depression, weaned during the collective uprooting of a global war "

"they grew to independent minds on beachheads, in ginmills and U.S.O.'s, in past-midnight arrivals and pre-dawn departures"

"The same face, with a more serious bent, stared from the pages of Life magazine, representing a graduating class of ex-G.I.'s"


Note that Kerouac himself served (briefly) in WWII in the merchant marine, and his stand-in character from On the Road (Sal Paradise) was described as going to school on the GI Bill.

Yet, when we think of the "Beat Generation" most of us think of beatniks, sitting around in coffeehouses and bars reciting beat poetry, wearing black and playing bongos, listening to modern jazz, etc.

When we think of the "Greatest Generation" we picture kids going hungry in the Depression, then serving as young adults (either overseas in the military or on the homefront) in WWII, then almost immediately starting families ( the baby boom) and becoming dads and moms in the new suburbias during the 1950s.

Two very different images of what is essentially the same generation. I guess the key is that the whole beatnik side was more of a subculture, which I don't think that John Clellon Holmes made clear (or foresaw) in this 1952 piece. Maybe he thought MORE of that generation/age cohort would be more "beat" or "beatnik" as the decade wore on.

But more likely, it is that urbanized, city-focused east- and west-coast focus and bias. None of his anecdotes are from middle America or suburbia. It's all California, Los Angeles, the Bronx, Illinois (no doubt Chicago), bar on Third Avenue.

Same as it ever was...

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This has been the case for 34 years, the last kickoff before 6pm EST was 1991.

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Not sure where you got your data from, but it was NOT the case in the 1990s. Here are kickoff times in the time zones they were played in during that decade:

Super Bowl XXIV (1990, Louisiana Superdome) — 3:05 PM CST
Super Bowl XXV (1991, Tampa Stadium) — 3:00 PM EST
Super Bowl XXVI (1992, Metrodome, Minneapolis) — 3:00 PM CST
Super Bowl XXVII (1993, Rose Bowl, Pasadena) — 1:30 PM PST
Super Bowl XXVIII (1994, Georgia Dome, Atlanta) — 3:30 PM EST
Super Bowl XXIX (1995, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami) — 5:00 PM EST
Super Bowl XXX (1996, Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe) — 3:00 PM MST
Super Bowl XXXI (1997, Louisiana Superdome) — 2:35 PM CST
Super Bowl XXXII (1998, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego) — 3:35 PM PST
Super Bowl XXXIII (1999, Pro Player Stadium, Miami Gardens) — 4:05 PM EST
Super Bowl XXXIV (2000, Georgia Dome, Atlanta) — 3:30 PM EST

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We don’t deserve to dawn the name

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Two lesser-known ones from SNL that cracked me up:

Jackie Rogers Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad

He INTRODUCES the acts!

Mouse Trap Seminar

But what if you REALLY wanted the cheese?

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The Dog Army of Cat Island: K9 Troops at their kennels off the coast of Biloxi Mississippi. They were part of a US Army plan to train dogs and then drop them on enemy-held islands where they would attack Japanese based on their smell. (1942)

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I go out to the Mississippi gulf coast islands often on my boat, and go to Cat Island at least once a year. Back in spring 2005, we found the path/trail to the island interior where there are still some ruins and remnants of the old dog training facility. I usually check that out on my trips to Cat each year. Some older photos from our visits to the ruins:

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this was an old bathroom building (you can tell by pipe holes in the slab, water heater still there).



We surmised this was the old veterinary office; a few rooms and 15 kennel slots with the kennel slabs are all sloped to the outside walls and there is a hose bib sticking up in the middle-- hose out the dog poop to the outside.



speaking of "pictures from days gone by", those two little girls are now 28 and 25 yrs. old...

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lyrics to the Casablanca/Bogey-related Bertie Higgins song:

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Bogey related film? yes.
Casablanca related film? NO

Totally different Bogart movie:


Key Largo is in Florida, Casablanca is in Africa.