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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
Looking how small that is and how many people are packed on it, mostly rip roaring drunk, if you had a fire or other emergency it would be at least dozens killed, if not a lot more....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
[quote]s the pirate boat a real boat or a gussied up barge with engines? The only picture I've seen sure didn't look like any multihulled cat I've seen. [/quote] More than a barge, less than a cruise ship. Looks kind of like they build a party barge superstructure on top of a typical oil indust...
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
This is like the Zapruder film....
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re: Introducing 2022's Most Popular Baby Names! - Jim Rockford
[quote]59 Kaiden [/quote] #59 on the list, #1 in the batting order....
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re: Uhigh rabbit hole on state subsidies - Jim Rockford
[quote]And are the academics actually “great”? There are behind St. Joe, Catholic, Episcopal, and Baton Rouge High. Possibly behind Dunham.[/quote] IDK about academics, but you rub elbows with the right sort of people while paying a lot less than you would at those other schools. As others have ...
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re: TulaneLSU's Top 10 memories at LSU - Jim Rockford
[quote]the heart of the fieldhouse was the pool. [/quote] Truth....
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re: a thread about all the bitching on the OT - Jim Rockford
I have a case of the Mondays....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
You would hope, but kids can be incredibly callous....
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re: Sick of people who constantly complain about Traffic - Jim Rockford
I'm replying to this post while sitting in traffic....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
Daily Mail reads the OT. I'm not even joking....
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re: Saban was all for a 9 team SEC schedule... Until - Jim Rockford
Why does he care. He'll be occupying a chair on the College GameDay set in two years....
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re: Traveled from North TX area to South LA; holy batman the roads - Jim Rockford
It all went into building the Loop....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
[quote]I think humans generally have a desire to determine what happened and how it happened during a terrible tragedy/accident.[/quote] And to say to themselves "that would never happen to me/my kid because I would never make that mistake, I've taught them better," etc. It's a means of coping wi...
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re: What are some memories from your young vacations to Grand Isle and other Louisiana areas? - Jim Rockford
Camping at Toledo Bend one Easter. The fabled "Easter Cold Snap" came through and we nearly froze....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
Also didn't look like the boat was moving fast or at all, contrary to other reports....
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re: TD is a total disappointment on Memorial Day - Jim Rockford
Your post also reminds me how the SEAL mafia tried to derail Chapman's MoH recommendation because it made them look bad....
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re: TD is a total disappointment on Memorial Day - Jim Rockford
Not sure how long you've been around here, but TD has a lot of veterans, many of whom have lost comrades. Other TDers have lost friends and family in wartime. Not everyone wears it on their sleeve....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
It's on Reddit. Easy to find using the most likely search terms....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
It's clearly some kind of large-ish aquatic animal. Actually it may have been more than one. If I see a fin sticking up I'm not hanging around to confirm whether it's a shark or a curious porpoise....
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re: News reporting U-High kid fell overboard - Jim Rockford
The video shows what appears to be sharks, which answers the question of why he swam away from the life ring. He starts swimming toward it, sees the sharks and swims in the opposite direction. ...
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