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Trout Bandit and Nawlens Bandit, the WWL link quoted:

“Ray McClain, LSU AgCenter crawfish researcher at the Rice Research Station near Crowley says the straight tailed mudbugs were actually more likely to be alive before going into the boiling pot.”


"Research at the LSU AgCenter has shown that the addition of salt to the wash water provides no significant advantage in cleansing crawfish despite the numerous claims to the contrary," McClain insisted.”

Did Germany actually prove and publish this first? Seems to me that this would have been researched long ago.

"Most 65+ guys I see at the gym spend most of their time working out their jaw muscles talking to some other 65+ year old guy while sitting on a machine or bench I'd like to use." -Cwill

OR they're sitting on a reclined exercise bike, reading the paper pedaling at about 2 mph.

So there you go - get after it!


Hey Cwill-- I really don't see this at my gym. These guys are really missing out. If I miss the gym for a week or more, it becomes harder to go up stairs and do other physical every day stuff. I'm in it for the long haul, so staying in shape makes this ride much more fun. Look, I ain't old and 'mI gonna make the most out the next 30+ years.

Just back from the gym (Anytime Fitness, Lakeview, N.O.). and got to thinking. Seems to be a pattern to this working out stuff.

At 9 or 10 I started noticing the neighborhood kids’ big brothers in their garages, on those cool naugahyde benches, bench pressing 300+ lbs.

At around 12 and beyond, we had class periods every year, and one with PE. It was there where my buddies and I started messing around with those barbells made with galvanized plumbing pipes attached to one-gallon coffee cans filled with cement. It is also when many boys’ right arms got bigger than their left arms (and maybe 5% of them had larger left arms). Good question for a kinesiologist. And how’s about the naked showers, and how strange it was that the coach had that window overlooking the locker room.

By high school we all had our garage gym routines, which mostly consisted of seeing how much weight we could lift- once. Or course, this came back to bite us in the arse years later.

At 18 or so it was off to college. frick the gym. Girls, booze, and some cool fraternity initiations (I DID inhale). During the late ‘60s and through the mid-‘70s we were at our peak physical capacity. For me, that helped to get my arse off the shag carpet in Tiger Town after a night of pink Floyd, Chicago, and maybe some Martin Mull.

In my case, as a college distraction, it was also a time of some boot camp fun and some Vietnam era stuff. Didn’t need any gym to stay in shape.

In my late ‘20’s it was off to a career and back to the gym (a real one). Years of some fine workouts. And then, just after Katrina, bong!, both ulna nerves blew out. And now, here I am, seven years later, after several intermittent gym memberships. I’m back into a good, solid, three-day-a-week gym workout; healed ulna nerves and a regimen of creatine and HMB. Feels so good.

So my point here, and after this story telling annoyance, what are you guys at-and-beyond 65 years old doing gym-wise? How did you crank up again? Did you push too hard at first and get discouraged? How’s about some machine, weight, and cardio suggestions. Let’s talk.

Hi No Tiger. Not flippin' out at all. Maybe a little "emotion sticker" would help with such comments (winky face?).

This is a fun board. I'll probably start hitting more new restaurants just to post here and get y'all's comments on the places. I DO so much want to be like my idol, Mr. Tom Fitzmorris. :lol:

Sad about the "class distinction" comments. Don't want to open that can of worms here, but I'll go to any restaurant anywhere, regardless of the "clientele." I grew up in a dirt poor family and neighborhood and, well, I’m no longer there.

Gee, about the only things that I consider when choosing restaurants is location (ease of getting there and parking), general theme of their food (ethnic, "Creole,” Steak, etc.), and, prices. Long as lead is not flying and Mr. Montezuma hasn’t been there lately, I’m in.

Hey Gaston, I spent the last five years of my college career there; saddest day of my life- graduation day, that it.

Might just work. They don't really big like oaks.

They are slightly less freeze tolerant than citrus trees. I remember some trees in the past that made it four or five years and got zapped by temperatures in the low '20s or teens. This is where having them next to a big house and near a south wall helps. Or get a really big tarp... .

It's fun for kids to stick toothpicks in and grow a tree-- Sort of like doing the same with a sweet potato.

It is a common misconception that avocados are diecious; that is, that a tree is either male or female. They are monecious, whereby both sex organs are on one flower. There is avoidance for any given tree to self pollinate. TMI for this discussion. So, the bottom line is that if you want to get a avocado tree, buy one that is grafted to a different tree’s rootstock.

No, that is a quote from the paper menu that I brought home (I live in Lakeview). I have no interest in the place other that checking out a decent West End place to eat Seafood.

I remember most of the joints in West end from the '50s and '60s. I'm waiting to get really hungry so that I can get the stuffed flounder.