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Location:Delta State Univ. - Fightin' Okra
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I don’t. But my wife does. It’s called my office.
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Mine is exactly the same as last year.
Same here. I believe that's due to our union's contract specifying that there would be no change in 2026. Not sure what happens in 2027. Damn sure not coming down, although it was nice to see no rate/coverage change on renewals last month. Actually the first time I've seen that in the past decade or more.

re: Louisiana needs a “Tim Tebow” law

Posted by FCP on 10/31/25 at 9:41 pm to
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while the home school kid mom just giving him A’s …
Dang, where was this mom when I was in home school? Mine worked me harder than just about any professor I encountered in college.

As a home schooler back before it was cool (1980s), I can sympathize with folks wanting to let them participate in high school ball. Would have been great to have that as even a possibility back then.
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even had a mini lunch thray
<- - May have been there. :cheers:
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My dad was on Bill’s staff. We had to spend Christmas on Memphis and it sucked!
Dang, that brings back memories of my childhood. That was the Christmas that we moved my grandparents to somewhere out in BFE New Mexico. Finally got them out there, unloaded, and started heading home.Whatever night that game was played, we stopped and spent the night at a Motel 6 somewhere in west Texas.

They were a super economy motel back in those days. It was like $0.25 to have black and white TV or $1.00 to watch in color. Since the Tigers were playing, we splurged on color TV. :nana:

Honestly, it was the only time in my 5+ decades that I was ever in a hotel/motel without free TV. IIRC, that Motel 6 had TVs which required a cartridge to turn on, and the front desk would rent you one for either B&W or color, depending on your budget.
May be around 4-H Club overpass. I was on River Road in DS this AM, and DSPD were flagging traffic at the 4-H Club and Florida intersection, not letting anyone go towards I-12. And, yeah, traffic was backed up already at 8:15.
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Just curious as to peoples thoughts now.
Bannon is trolling. BUT, if there were a workaround, it would have to be along the lines of parsing the language of the 22nd Amendment:
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No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. ...
There's a two-election limit, and an implied ten year limit (4+4+2). So, DJT could handoff to JD Vance just before the start of year 3 (at 1 year, 364 days) and get around the ten year limit. There would still be a limit on being elected a third time, so the argument would have to be that the Amendment actually relates to consecutive years/terms and not to a person's entire career. Again, my belief is that Bannon is just trolling.

Irregardless, as Frank Maraist used to say, and just for funsies, I would think the plan would be to swap the ticket and have Vance run for POTUS and Trump for Veep. Couple that with either an implied or express promise to have Vance step aside and allow DJT to take back over, and that would get a third DJT administration.

re: I've got a big problem

Posted by FCP on 10/22/25 at 8:28 pm to
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$8.25 for same brick where I live.
I would assume you'd get multiple cups from a single brick. Say, ten cups from each brick? In that case, you'd be talking $0.82 per cup. Half of that if you get 20 cups. Half again--about 20 cents--if you get 40 cups. Obviously more than pre-shamdemic, but still not exactly breaking the bank.
El Chicos. They had a queso dip that I’ve tried unsuccessfully to replicate for years. Probably not as good as I remember, but nostalgia is a helluva drug.
Gonna be a no from me, Dawg
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Youngster.

2000 here
Youngster.

(Married to a) 1994 grad here. Home schooled myself, but I shopped WHS for female companionship pretty hard in the early 1990s.

re: The reason your team lost

Posted by FCP on 10/9/25 at 9:18 pm to
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Bill Buckner, of course
That's the first one that came to mind.
IMO, when (not if) the NFL goes to 18 games, it may somewhat reset the benchmarks in relation to the past. IIRC, they've played a 16 game regular season since at least the early 80's. Before that was 14, so it's not like they've added a whole bunch more playing time--from 14 to 17 games.

Sort of the same story for the NCAA. Eleven games in a regular season in my childhood (early 80's). Twelve games now. Of course, we've added like 4 more championship games, but I'm not sure those count in official statistics.

re: Slump buster - yay or nay?

Posted by FCP on 10/1/25 at 2:32 pm to
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Yeah, your legs.
:lol:
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unless you go all the way to Hopper Road.
Nothing says The Advocate like misspelling a well-known roadway.

***ETA: In my old, feeble brain, WBRZ and The Advocate are synonymous. Not sure if that's still the case, but I still have a bookmark (that does not work) for "2theadvocate.com"
Working in California a long time ago I bought a very nice blazer for like $7 from Goodwill.

We were living out of a suitcase, working on a criminal case. It was supposed to be a fact finding trip, but we ended up needing to appear in court. Freaked out thinking I was gonna have to pay premium dollars to get a suit. Saw this place near our local coffee shop and ended up with a blazer and tie for under $10. Sent it back home via our courier who made the trip on a train. He was afraid to fly, but it worked out because he could haul all our files (and my jacket) on the train. Blazer hung in my office as an emergency backup until I got too fat. :wah:

re: Where were you on 9/11/01?

Posted by FCP on 9/11/25 at 4:43 pm to
Law school. Second year. No class that AM. Had planned to work a few hours in my law clerk position before afternoon classes, but ended up oversleeping. Awoke and turned on TV to see pandemonium. Don’t exactly recall where it was in the sequence of events, but I got dressed and headed into the office. Once there, everyone was assembled outside my office watching the only TV. Eventually got word that classes were cancelled, so I went back home and just huddled up with my new wife.

We had just started visiting Parkview Baptist a few weeks earlier. We would sit in the back. Unrelated, we usually sat behind Vernon Roger. Anyway, attendance for the early service was usually sparse. I remember going back the following Sunday, and it was packed.
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..with ads...
I've been watching it for the past couple of hours, and I don't remember seeing any commercials. Granted, I've been doing some other stuff with it playing in the background, but I must have missed it.