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And in her eyes, you see nothing
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
No sign of love behind the tears
Cried for no one
A love that should have lasted years
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re: What Roman builders added to their concrete to make it last centuries has been identified
Posted by cgrand on 12/26/25 at 4:27 pm to AllDayEveryDay
quote:of course they were they had the exact same brain. A few thousand years ago is a blink in evolutionary time.
I've never thought they were any less, or any more intelligent than we are today.
in a fraction of the time you took to type that you could have had all of your questions answered
thanks brother that is excellent info
re: The Odyssey Trailer #1 - Releasing Summer 2026
Posted by cgrand on 12/25/25 at 10:51 am to JasonDBlaha
quote:if the iliad and/or the odyssey were written to be "hyper-realistic" to the people/culture of the time they were set, you would not recognize them. and those two poems are generally speaking the best account we have of the events of the time. so a hyper-realistic account of those same events would be pure speculation anyway
Give me a hyper-realistic, mid budget historical film about ancient Greece shot with Mel Gibson-style cinematography and in the ancient Greek languages.
merry Christmas cuse
working on a road map for a February road trip right now while I wait for my daughter to arrive. Travel is a blessing and a gift of freedom
working on a road map for a February road trip right now while I wait for my daughter to arrive. Travel is a blessing and a gift of freedom
re: The Odyssey Trailer #1 - Releasing Summer 2026
Posted by cgrand on 12/25/25 at 10:14 am to SlowFlowPro
A. You can’t help being a douchebag it’s in your DNA. May as well embrace it
B. I too was in the honors program at college (Loyola) and there were two semesters on epic literature…classical epic (Iliad, odyssey, Aeneid) and modern epic (Pynchon and Joyce). Of all the many classes I took only those two both kicked my arse and stayed with me the rest of my life
In classic, the final exam was to choose one of the three and illustrate (that’s right) the narrative. It was a four hour exam. In modern, the exam was to compose your own epic, you had the whole semester to do it
B. I too was in the honors program at college (Loyola) and there were two semesters on epic literature…classical epic (Iliad, odyssey, Aeneid) and modern epic (Pynchon and Joyce). Of all the many classes I took only those two both kicked my arse and stayed with me the rest of my life
In classic, the final exam was to choose one of the three and illustrate (that’s right) the narrative. It was a four hour exam. In modern, the exam was to compose your own epic, you had the whole semester to do it
re: Sister’s jackass boyfriend just told my kids Santa isn’t real
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 8:42 pm to TheTigress
quote:let your husband take out the trash
OT, what would you suggest in this situation?
re: Cheers to those of you spending the Eve alone…
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 8:19 pm to TexasTiger08
wife is in Virginia tending to her mother who has had a very rough year (stroke, death of spouse, move to assisted living) and her equally impaired but still at home aunt. They are all the family she has left.
My daughter is in town from Rhode Island but is with her mother tonight I’ll see her tomorrow for a few days.
My parents moved to Arkansas my sister and brother are up there with them.
so, solo tonight. Beer is cold, music is groovy, dogs are cool. Could be worse but definitely could be better
My daughter is in town from Rhode Island but is with her mother tonight I’ll see her tomorrow for a few days.
My parents moved to Arkansas my sister and brother are up there with them.
so, solo tonight. Beer is cold, music is groovy, dogs are cool. Could be worse but definitely could be better
re: Can we get an alter check on retired_tiger?
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 8:14 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
snowflake alert
one idea is a rather large detour north to see mammoth cave NP...:dunno:
re: bryson city/sylva/dillsboro NC february 2026
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 3:30 pm to tigerrage08
the whole road trip is home>athens>asheville>nashville>home.
we've decided to spend a couple nights in highlands NC between athens and asheville, if anyone has any lodging or dining suggestions for highlands i'd appreciate it. still undecided what to do between asheville and nashville...three nights MON/TUE/WED 2/16-19. need to be in nashville on 2/19
we've decided to spend a couple nights in highlands NC between athens and asheville, if anyone has any lodging or dining suggestions for highlands i'd appreciate it. still undecided what to do between asheville and nashville...three nights MON/TUE/WED 2/16-19. need to be in nashville on 2/19
re: Question for mods: I have a serial downvoter/stalker.
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 3:19 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
quote:heroes are made, not born
I will be permanent downvoter #2
quote:not if that $40MM guarantees
And his value might be higher in the off-season,
re: Which Rookie is better?
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 2:34 pm to Safety Blitz
if fears could/can learn to shoot there is potential Murray/Jokic vibes with queen. If he can’t then there will have to be a shooter next to him that probably can’t defend either. If you could only have one you take queen
which is why they should have taken queen at 7 if they felt so strongly about him (and rightly so it appears) and taken the best shooting PG in the draft next year. Que sera. I like fears but if he does wind up being tony Parker 2.0 they need shooters and they need a rim protector.
I still think herb can be a better shooter. Without a draft pick next season they are going to have to find shooters and defenders o. The current roster. Which means better coaching than we have had in the past. At least the plan should be clear with the options available and not available
which is why they should have taken queen at 7 if they felt so strongly about him (and rightly so it appears) and taken the best shooting PG in the draft next year. Que sera. I like fears but if he does wind up being tony Parker 2.0 they need shooters and they need a rim protector.
I still think herb can be a better shooter. Without a draft pick next season they are going to have to find shooters and defenders o. The current roster. Which means better coaching than we have had in the past. At least the plan should be clear with the options available and not available
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when you ask Vince Gilligan how long it might be until we see a second season and find out why Carol wants an atom bomb in her driveway. “Longer than I would care for it to be,” he replies with a deep sigh, because the show takes a lot of time to get as precisely calibrated as his other shows—if not more, considering the scope of things. “It’s gonna be a while.”
re: Do you think Chicken cuts some of us longtime posters slack from being banned?
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 1:42 pm to RummelTiger
quote:i guess this is the reinstatement thread now? keep OMLandshark in the penalty box at all costs
Done.
Don't make me regret this.
quote:above quotes from a very good recap on the ringer today
Pluribus isn’t appointment viewing in the same sense: it’s a more contemplative, and less propulsive, sort of series. Pluribus, Sepinwall writes, has “invited more speculation than Gilligan’s other series, as viewers keep trying to read nefarious motives into the Others’ actions, even though we know they are pathologically honest.”
That’s probably a recipe for short-term disappointment. Chekhov’s nuke may be sitting outside Carol’s house, but Hitchcock’s “bomb under the table” analogy barely applies to Pluribus, which rarely lets us see something Carol can’t. Complaints about the quiet parts of Pluribus, or the pace of its plot, may stem from a misconception about what type of TV it is, but for both better and worse, it’s unquestionably a slower burn than its mystery-box brethren.
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quote:perhaps explains some of the disappointment here
The sci-fi material is merely a means to an end: Like the alien system itself, it’s a mechanism for bringing about the desired conditions. Although there’s a wide range of opinions on what Pluribus is “about,” it’s crafted to be a thought-provoking character study more so than a plot-delivery device.
re: 'Pluribus' Vince Gilligan’s new sci-fi show now streaming. Spoilers Allowed
Posted by cgrand on 12/24/25 at 12:25 pm to YumYum Sauce
quote:
“I don’t think Pluribus is a mystery-box show,” Gilligan told Vulture after the finale, dispensing some wisdom he acquired while working on X-Files mythology episodes: “An ongoing mystery in a show that is indefinite versus finite, that is the hardest kind of show to do. You see that with X-Files, you see that with Lost. If you’re trying to go forever and you have an ongoing mystery—even before X-Files, I remember loving Twin Peaks and then went, Wait a minute, are we ever going to get answers for this thing?” “The lesson I learned is not how to do a better mystery-box show. The lesson I learned: Don’t do a mystery-box show. You may already know everything you need to know about Pluribus, in terms of mystery.”
merry christmas all
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