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Thanks, baw , to you and all the dads here, the same...

Yep. And dhillip reinstated him :(...

It has been a great while, but I used to re-read [i]Red Storm Rising[/i] every summer. I tend to go back to the[i]Chronicles of Brother Cadfael[/i] every so often, usually in the late spring or early summer partly to get my mind on planting herbs. :lol:...

One of the best ever "written," [i]The Glory of Their Times[/i] by Lawrence Ritter....

[quote]Somewhere between a 1.25 or 1.3 multiplier would probably make things a lot more equitable. [/quote] How would this work in the case of boys-only private, um, select schools? They already have a multiplier, yes?...

Country song, and it should be by an accomplished Nashville or Texas musician, not Jason Aldean. Hey, howsabout Robert Earl Keen?...

You even line dance, baw?...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Given the histories of both of those newspapers, I have no problem believing they publish almost in lockstep....

That's more technical than my ability to understand. It would depend upon the forum software. On ours we get to choose which thread to make the final thread, and the posts are merged in by post times by the board software....

[quote]“The two-day meeting closed Tuesday with past president Niles Riche of Assumption High School making a motion that charges Executive Director Eddie Bonine and his staff to develop at least two proposals to bring LHSAA schools back together or prevent expansion of the split beyond the sports a...

[quote]yeah.. but when a kid gives auntie's address and actually resides one parish and 3 school zones over and it never gets questioned..... if you think that doesn't happen - rest assured it does[/quote] This does not happen solely for the purpose of athletics, either. Certain academically elit...

[quote]The super wealthy and neocons have created this mess. We shouldn’t be in perpetual war around the world and corporations should have considered the long term implications of sending millions of jobs over seas. [/quote] Well, this may be, however, their customers have demanded, with their p...

[quote]Wealth shouldn’t be redistributed [/quote] It should not be, except by the choice/benevolence of the individual. This entire argument that we hear for outsiders and progressives "how can the richest country in the world...." Read our founding documents if you want to know that answer. Ch...

That's how long it has been since I last looked in here. I would hope that means things are good on TD, at least from my perspective....

Ferry machine broke....

No, no, no, no. I work two jobs already, there is no way I could moderate a bbs that is even one-fourth as busy as this one. Like so much lately, I am perhaps too curious, it seems....

I hate to 1. Complain ; 2. Resuscitate an old thread. I am, however, genuinely curious. My thread on the Rant of a few moments ago was deleted. I asked a question concerning media coverage, this morning, about Coach Manieri's and Coach Martin's first post-game encounter last night that was caught ...

[quote]Have you seen NOPD response times lately? [/quote] They are still investigating where she went INTO the River, they will get to Algiers later in the day....

My dad, from Algiers Point, and his uncles before him, used to swim in the river all the time when they were kids....

[quote]That bend is the river is one of the strongest currents throughout the entire river [/quote] This is true, but as you pass the mid-point of the river approaching Algiers Point, the current is not downriver the way it is near the east bank. The point actually turns the current upriver neare...