OffTheRails

I am planning a trip to the UK in late July or in August. Considering a couple days in Liverpool mostly to stop in and eat, as the photos on your site look tasty. My lone trip to Europe was 40 years ago, and I rented a car on the Continent.

Would you be able to recommend easiest travel from London (assuming train), any local accommodations nearby for a party of two at a reasonable price, and Beatles tour or other local events or activities?

The Matrix

Out in the country as a kid we played in the empty lot in front of our house with 8 cousins, and knew that a tackle game was on every time there was a good rain - was like Vince Papale in "Invincible".

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They are great to have when you lose someone you love.

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The best use of photos I have seen recently, unfortunately, has been photo displays (on a viewer or tv) at funeral services for the deceased of family or notable life events.

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I played college ball. I don't think I ever watched a fastball right down middle of plate with 2 stiles and not swing

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That's my one complaint with the Tigers' approach at the plate. I played ball with and against professionals for many years and I can actually remember two times I took a called third - one an elevated four-seamer that the ump missed and the other a back-door slider that was within inches. I still wear a t-shirt that says "Life is too short to take fastballs down the middle".

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I remember back in 11th grade American history our teacher was explaining how last names originally derived from a person's profession.

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English surnames generally derived from four elements: a person's profession (such as Wheelwright, Fisher, Farmer), father's name (Johnson, Jameson), appearance or association (White, Black, Green, Redd), or place of origin (Hill, Dale, Wood, Middle"ton" = "town").

Knew a hot young coed whose last name was Honeycutt, which we of course altered by changing one of the t's to an n.

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Besides more recent ones lsu early 80s beat a top 5 Florida team in Gainesville. Right around when eye of the tiger came out 1982.

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This. 1982. Introducing Dalton Hilliard. For you yutes who never saw Dalton in his prime, here is the screen pass that put LSU up 17-3. Full game also available on YouTube.

Could you give us more of them pixels?

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Did you happen to go to his presentation? If so, how was it?

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I was not able to go to his presentation, but he is always very engaging and has multimedia to share along with stories about meeting Ringo, George Martin and others, and about how he avoided approaching McCartney at an event he attended in L.A. He has even mentioned meeting Chas Newby, a guy who played bass for the group but did not want to return to Hamburg, causing Paul to switch to bass. I had never heard of the guy, so that's a better trivia question than Stu Sutcliffe.

Bruce is a tax attorney and I have consulted him about tax issues and for referral to a CPA because I had a complicated 2024 return to file. Turned out his CPA referral was the brother of a guy who played on a baseball team with me. Small world. Bruce publishes quality books, and has autographed a few for my daughter. He is such an expert that he was asked to review the re-issues on vinyl some years back and noticed that the first Beatles album was actually pressed at the wrong speed and each song was about a second too fast.

Bruce Spizer has just released his 17th and "final" book on The Beatles and is hosting a program at the Prytania Theater in NOLA today. I'm not going this time due to football, but may try to catch his presentation at the library Tuesday night.

1. European vacation with my daughter (tentative for next July), with an evening in a little obscure pub for a live performance by my favorite band.

2. Bring that band back for a U.S. tour, as producer/manager and they rocket from obscurity to sudden world-wide fame.

3. Visit Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields to see the places where my gggrandfather was wounded (Miller's cornfield and Peach Orchard), with a side trip to Williamsport for the Little League World Series.