OffTheRails

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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.

Ellen Alaverdyan and Melissa Moriskova did it at age 10 - guitar, bass, keys and drums.

In one of Sina Doering's vids I counted her playing 12 different instruments, including "tapping" an electric guitar with her drumsticks.

Mayte Levenbach says she never met a musical instrument she didn't want to play, and she was a world class violin prodigy. Can also catch her playing piano and electric guitar and singing in multiple languages.

Didn't know about that board. Thanks, and for the responses. Piersall was also on my radar.

Beyond the first rounders like Chase, etc., who do you value later in the draft. Sleeper pics and why?

I suggested 3rd RB or flex - rookie TreVeyon Henderson NE, explosive, speedy and ran a kickoff back for a TD in preseason. May quickly become the starting RB there.

So you want a 30 year old man in New Orleans? Just put on a Freddie Mercury imitation mustache and costume and head to the quarter.