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....

[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...

This is like the Zapruder film....

[quote]59 Kaiden [/quote] #59 on the list, #1 in the batting order....

[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 ...

[quote]the heart of the fieldhouse was the pool. [/quote] Truth....

I have a case of the Mondays....

You would hope, but kids can be incredibly callous....

I'm replying to this post while sitting in traffic....

Daily Mail reads the OT. I'm not even joking....

Why does he care. He'll be occupying a chair on the College GameDay set in two years....

It all went into building the Loop....

[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...

Camping at Toledo Bend one Easter. The fabled "Easter Cold Snap" came through and we nearly froze....

Also didn't look like the boat was moving fast or at all, contrary to other reports....

Your post also reminds me how the SEAL mafia tried to derail Chapman's MoH recommendation because it made them look bad....

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....

It's on Reddit. Easy to find using the most likely search terms....

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....

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. ...