I once called a secretary to make an appointment. She kept asking me my name, and I kept telling her, over and over. We finally figured out that we had the same name.
I met a couple recently that share the same first name. You could tell they were exhausted of running through the same story and getting the same reaction every time they have to introduce themselves. But not tired enough for one of them to adopt a nickname apparently.
At work, we have an Andrea married to an Andrew. The former goes by Andi; the latter, Andy. We also have another Andrea and two Andreases (as in, the individual is named Andreas, and there are two individuals)
Restaurant. I have mixed feelings. I haven't had anything there that I hated, but I also haven't had anything there that I loved. Cajun fries are a very good snack, though.
National Archives releases report saying that Trump sold favors to governments who paid by booking rooms at $10k/night. I mean, we already knew this, but still...
People have been skirting those foreign representative rules almost as long as they've been on paper, and I assume that will continue until there are meaningful penalties.
SCOTUS' temporary stay on J6C getting cell phone records for AZ GOP Chari Kelli Ward has dissolved. Naturally, Clarence Thomas opposes because his wife may be involved.
Chile's first lady/partner Irina Karamanos wants to eliminate the First Lady as an official office because the person isn't elected, doesn't necessarily have any qualifications to do important things, and is a Yankee tradition (thanks, Dolly Madison).
Plainly a lot of GOP leaders are ready to move on from Trump, but I'm not so sure they can dump him as long as his supporters are willing to donate money to Trump - he'll just emphasize "I'm the honest liar here" and people will double down. I know the GOP gets a lot of mileage out of billionaire money filtered through PACs and thinktanks and whatnot, but they have to be getting pissed about the amount of small donations being siphoned up by Trump.
Remember the Big Lie was born when trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz. Trump will claim voter fraud in the GQP primaries if he loses the nomination to Round Ron.
This election showed very clearly that Trumpism is not a good long-term strategy. You are bleeding voters from younger generations, and their numbers are only going to grow while your base shrinks.
But now their base is hooked on the Trump addiction and doesn't want to give it up. I don't see a way this doesn't end ugly.
The final competitive governorship election - Arizona - l looks like it is almost certainly going to the Democrats. Kari Lake's followers predictably react as such:
Looks like it will come down to the wire, but if there's someone to blame - it's Californian voters failing to carry districts that went for Biden may be the difference.
You don't blame Orange County for being red like they have been for as long as I can remember. You blame NY for screwing up their redistricting, and Florida for allowing DeSantis to carve up the blue districts to magically create 5 seats flipped out of nowhere.
I think we should make sure to allocate some blame to NY democratic party (Cuomo et al) for fucking up redistricting, they coughed up some seats they didn't have to.
The Oregon Democratic party gave away a seat that had been blue for 40 years, and may have given away the new district in the process. First, they Gerrymandered a district to Republican proof (they thought), and then torpedoed the multi-term incumbent that had considerable independent support and a lot of Republican support for being too willing to collaborate to get something done, and instead ran a extremist candidate that they thought had enough of the redistricted Californians to elect, who promptly lost badly.
The Washington Republican party returned the favor though, torpedoing a multi-term successful and bi-partisan supported incumbent who would have walked to victory because Trump wanted to punish her for voting for the impeachment. Instead of taking a guaranteed win, they ran an extremist candidate, against a Democrat that probably wouldn't have even run had they not torpedoed the incumbent. And the extremist got beat fairly soundly in a bright red district, turning it bright blue.
It was frustrating to watch both parties throw out actually effective representation for being successful at working to get actually beneficial to all work done, but there is some satisfaction to seeing this push for bizarre extremists (on both sides) getting rejected. Especially in an era where the prevailing attitude is the more extreme, the better, on both sides.
My Welsh is limited to mispronouncing “good morning” and “good afternoon” but in my defense we didn’t live there for very long and I was in the 4 - 5 age range
I think I was 5'10" when I was younger, probably closer now to 5'9" than 5'10". 2nd tallest in my family. No 2 is probably just shorter than me and No 3 is about 6'1". I just wanted one son to be taller than 6'. He was the longest when born. No 1 was the shortest at birth and is the shortest now, about 5'8".
But I'm taller than anyone I've even met or seen a photo of from my dad's side of the family except for 1 cousin who is the same size. And I'm one of the shorter men on my mom's very large in number and height side of the family, and barely taller than a lot of the women.
At five seven and a half I'm three inches shorter than my wife, an inch shorter than one daughter and two inches shorter than the other. I am taller than most cats, though.
My tallest was so close to 6' that when I asked at regular physicals it varied from 5-11 & 3/4 to sometimes 6'....I'd get "fussy" with the nurses about it and often after adjusting my posture, I could get a flush 6' pronouncement.
>60yrs it's been 5'11.5 at physicals. After two years of regular yoga, I recently got a 5'-11.75.
Based on feedback in grad school and since, I'm 5'7" physical but 5'11" audio volume in height. My real problem is when we have neighborhood gatherings and I get roped into a conversation with three guys in particular who are 6'2", 6'3", and 6'9" (wtf)
We had our annual Cajun Pirate Tiki party for the sailing club. Great gumbo, king cake and frozen hurricanes. Fun costumes and lots of bad karaoke. Checked the score around 9pm, chuckled and closed my ESPN app for the night
It was my daughters birthday party so I mostly just cleaned up after the party while occasionally checking the game cast on my phone and had the Oregon and UCLA games on TV.
Good (all gameday experiences are good), but cold. It was around 50 in Corvallis mid-afternoon, but down to the mid-40s by kickoff in Corvallis. By the end of the game, it was approaching freezing.
As Bears know, it was a better experience for Beavers, though having 6 key players get knocked out of the game with significant injuries put a bit of a damper on the fun.
Finally, as I posted elsewhere, I wanted to give a shout out to the great job the Cal Straw Hat band did. Despite being stuck in a far away and high corner due to the construction at Reser, and the somewhat less than stirring Bears performance on the field, they soldiered on admirably.
And then made the hike down for a post-game show with the OSUMB that far too few Beavers or Bears saw or heard, or would have, due to the cold that sent droves of fans from both sides to the parking lot way early. Which was too bad, it was a tremendous show, and a great show of sportsmanship. Kudos to the Cal band, and thanks for making the trip up.
Garbage time with 10:00 minutes in the Fourth, left the room to get ready for bed and heard my son say, “It’s over.” Gotta wonder why OSU did not roll up more points.
Listened to the first half with Starkey & Pawlawski while making dinner. Turned it off during dinner (I didn't want to expose my entire family to that abomination of a game). Checked gamecast from there on. Also texted with my friends during the game.
Watched the politicos for awhile as I had DVR'd the game. I was also grilling ribeye steaks so didn't hear anything til an alert on my phone said 24-7 Beavs. Didn't watch it save for tuning in briefly to see Cal miss a field goal. How appropriate.
I would say his career is probably done and he should retire but white men tend to always land on their feet, if not fail up in coaching so he will get a job as an OC somewhere.
I dunno, he is old and runs an old offense that didn’t work for shit at his last stop. Maybe he gets a gig somewhere but I would be surprised if it were as an OC of a Power5 school
Oregon might be looking for a new OC as rumors out there that ASU might hire their current OC. I highly recommend they hire Musgrave to replace their current OC if he goes to ASU, especially since Musgrave is from Oregon.
Taylor Dome married Taylor Lautner of Twilight movie fame. They are now both named Taylor Lautner.
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1591842718367498243
I once called a secretary to make an appointment. She kept asking me my name, and I kept telling her, over and over. We finally figured out that we had the same name.
I met a couple recently that share the same first name. You could tell they were exhausted of running through the same story and getting the same reaction every time they have to introduce themselves. But not tired enough for one of them to adopt a nickname apparently.
My stepmother and I share the same name, same nicknames, different spellings - so that was fun.
At work, we have an Andrea married to an Andrew. The former goes by Andi; the latter, Andy. We also have another Andrea and two Andreases (as in, the individual is named Andreas, and there are two individuals)
I once had a dog sitter named Alexandra, who went by Alex and she was married to an Alex
Didn't MadBum date a MadBum in HS? I thought I remembered that story.
Don't know, but he is from rural NC after all.
we both got busy 😏
eventually stopped trying to coordinate a third date 🤕
Pottery
Used to go to one of those pottery painting places about once a year. Sort of a fun party thing.
Yes, quite a bit.
My parents were friends with a famous pottery creating family in England, I was friends with their communist son for the last year there.
Pigeon Forge
Barn
Lazy dog
Restaurant. I have mixed feelings. I haven't had anything there that I hated, but I also haven't had anything there that I loved. Cajun fries are a very good snack, though.
I’ve never been and doubt I will since one of my major pet peeves are dogs in restaurants.
This is how I feel about people who bring their kids to restaurants
My pet peeve is people who complain about people who bring their kids to restaurants
WhyNotBoth.gif
What if they were hard working dogs?
Terence and I go to their Tri-Valley location sometimes, if our favorite bar* is closed.
*Whole Foods Hot Bar
as jumped over by the quick brown fox
Our Crumbling Democracy
National Archives releases report saying that Trump sold favors to governments who paid by booking rooms at $10k/night. I mean, we already knew this, but still...
https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1592214663085031425
People have been skirting those foreign representative rules almost as long as they've been on paper, and I assume that will continue until there are meaningful penalties.
SCOTUS' temporary stay on J6C getting cell phone records for AZ GOP Chari Kelli Ward has dissolved. Naturally, Clarence Thomas opposes because his wife may be involved.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/supreme-court-allows-jan-6-committee-to-access-arizona-gop-chairs-phone-records-00066746
"Freedom Caucus" to challenge McCarthy's House Speakership. Jim Jordan is favored to be their man.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/house-gop-leadership-elections-2022-elections-00066664
Chile's first lady/partner Irina Karamanos wants to eliminate the First Lady as an official office because the person isn't elected, doesn't necessarily have any qualifications to do important things, and is a Yankee tradition (thanks, Dolly Madison).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/13/irina-karamanos-chile-first-lady/
Pence: Trump ‘endangered me and my family’
Is the blind loyalty to DJT over?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/pence-trump-endangered-me-and-my-family-00066676
Look who found his balls
Mother must have given him the jar that she held his balls in for him to use again.
Plainly a lot of GOP leaders are ready to move on from Trump, but I'm not so sure they can dump him as long as his supporters are willing to donate money to Trump - he'll just emphasize "I'm the honest liar here" and people will double down. I know the GOP gets a lot of mileage out of billionaire money filtered through PACs and thinktanks and whatnot, but they have to be getting pissed about the amount of small donations being siphoned up by Trump.
Remember the Big Lie was born when trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz. Trump will claim voter fraud in the GQP primaries if he loses the nomination to Round Ron.
This election showed very clearly that Trumpism is not a good long-term strategy. You are bleeding voters from younger generations, and their numbers are only going to grow while your base shrinks.
But now their base is hooked on the Trump addiction and doesn't want to give it up. I don't see a way this doesn't end ugly.
The final competitive governorship election - Arizona - l looks like it is almost certainly going to the Democrats. Kari Lake's followers predictably react as such:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1591823911356076032
The American Taliban
Lake's brilliant strategy of talking shit about John McCain in Arizona doesn't seem to have worked.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/11/13/today-make-break-kari-lake-do-hear-john-mccain-laughing/10691172002/
I don't like guys who got captured....
Trump managed to turn solid-red Arizona into a blue state in just six short years. Incredible job.
aw gee that's too bad
WaPo says US House is currently 211-204 with 16 seat too close to call. GOP needs seven more to take control of the House. The too close to call are:
AZ-1: GOP in lead 50.1% vs. 49.9% with estimated 94% counted
AZ-6: GOP in 50.3% vs. 49.7% with 89% counted
AK-1: DEM in lead 47.3% with ranked choice released Nov 23 (DEM favored)
CA-9: DEM in lead 56.3% vs 43.7% w/ 47% counted (DEM slight favorite to win)
CA-13: GOP in lead 50.1% vs. 49.9% w/ 61% counted (DEM slight favorite)
CA-22: GOP in lead 52.5% vs. 47.5% with 53% counted (DEM slight favorite)
CA-27: GOP in lead 55.4% vs. 44.6% w/ 67% counted
CA-41: GOP in lead 51.3% vs. 48.7% w/ 74% counted (GOP slight favorite)
CA-45: GOP in lead 53.7% vs. 46.3% w/ 70% counted (GOP slight favorite to win)
CO-3: GOP in lead 50.2% vs. 49.8% w/ 99% counted (Boebert on edge of re-election)
CO-8: DEM in lead 48.4% vs. 47.7% w/ 98% counted.
OR-5: GOP in lead 51.1% vs. 48.% with 94% counted.
OR-6: DEM in lead 49.8% vs 47.9% with 85% counted (DEM slight favorite)
NY-22: GOP leads 50.8% vs. 49.2% w/ 97% counted
Looks like it will come down to the wire, but if there's someone to blame - it's Californian voters failing to carry districts that went for Biden may be the difference.
You don't blame Orange County for being red like they have been for as long as I can remember. You blame NY for screwing up their redistricting, and Florida for allowing DeSantis to carve up the blue districts to magically create 5 seats flipped out of nowhere.
I think we should make sure to allocate some blame to NY democratic party (Cuomo et al) for fucking up redistricting, they coughed up some seats they didn't have to.
This is the right answer. NY is much more to blame than California voters.
The Oregon Democratic party gave away a seat that had been blue for 40 years, and may have given away the new district in the process. First, they Gerrymandered a district to Republican proof (they thought), and then torpedoed the multi-term incumbent that had considerable independent support and a lot of Republican support for being too willing to collaborate to get something done, and instead ran a extremist candidate that they thought had enough of the redistricted Californians to elect, who promptly lost badly.
The Washington Republican party returned the favor though, torpedoing a multi-term successful and bi-partisan supported incumbent who would have walked to victory because Trump wanted to punish her for voting for the impeachment. Instead of taking a guaranteed win, they ran an extremist candidate, against a Democrat that probably wouldn't have even run had they not torpedoed the incumbent. And the extremist got beat fairly soundly in a bright red district, turning it bright blue.
It was frustrating to watch both parties throw out actually effective representation for being successful at working to get actually beneficial to all work done, but there is some satisfaction to seeing this push for bizarre extremists (on both sides) getting rejected. Especially in an era where the prevailing attitude is the more extreme, the better, on both sides.
Net neutral overall, but a waste of time (and also seniority, which people lose sight of in terms of value of a representative)
Yeah, much worse performance in NY than anywhere else.
Welsh
Rarebit.
YouTube old Gomer Pyle episode where eats it regularly.
Corgis.
Matthew Rhys is Welsh. He starred along with Keri Russell in The Americans which I finished watching last night, after a two-month binge.
We found The Americans to be very, very good.
As did I.
My Welsh is limited to mispronouncing “good morning” and “good afternoon” but in my defense we didn’t live there for very long and I was in the 4 - 5 age range
Height
5'10" but I slouch about 2 inches shorter
someone told me that they gained an inch or so in height just being constrained to bed for 6+ months because of some surgery.
i guess posture and gravity take their tool. but not irreversible.
still. an inch seemed like a lot
I’m 5’6.
6'
Same here. And the poll is flawed because it doesn't give 6' as a choice. It's rigged against those of us who are at the perfect height.
Ditto
I think I was 5'10" when I was younger, probably closer now to 5'9" than 5'10". 2nd tallest in my family. No 2 is probably just shorter than me and No 3 is about 6'1". I just wanted one son to be taller than 6'. He was the longest when born. No 1 was the shortest at birth and is the shortest now, about 5'8".
6'. About as average as possible.
Well above average! The average height for a man in the United States is 5'9".
https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men
But I'm taller than anyone I've even met or seen a photo of from my dad's side of the family except for 1 cousin who is the same size. And I'm one of the shorter men on my mom's very large in number and height side of the family, and barely taller than a lot of the women.
6'3"
Generally the men in my family come in above 6 feet, so this was no surprise for us.
I'm not 5' 9", but I'm as tall as men who say they're 5' 9"
My man
Fun fact: Napoleon was average height for the time, but always looked short next to his Imperial Guard.
5'10. By age 12-13 I was already 5'8 or 5'9", so I was quite tall for most of my adolescence until regressing back towards the mean
I'm 5' 10.75" tall. Once, I was the tallest in the family. Now, I'm third tallest.
At five seven and a half I'm three inches shorter than my wife, an inch shorter than one daughter and two inches shorter than the other. I am taller than most cats, though.
6' 5/8" usually gets rounded up to 6' 1"
i am about the same w/ the rounding.
When people guess, they usually guess I'm six feet. I'm very close but have never claimed it. Actually about 5' 11 3/4".
My tallest was so close to 6' that when I asked at regular physicals it varied from 5-11 & 3/4 to sometimes 6'....I'd get "fussy" with the nurses about it and often after adjusting my posture, I could get a flush 6' pronouncement.
>60yrs it's been 5'11.5 at physicals. After two years of regular yoga, I recently got a 5'-11.75.
I am short everywhere except my house
Based on feedback in grad school and since, I'm 5'7" physical but 5'11" audio volume in height. My real problem is when we have neighborhood gatherings and I get roped into a conversation with three guys in particular who are 6'2", 6'3", and 6'9" (wtf)
Oh, my voice far outstrips my size.
o/
\o
Your game day experience
We had our annual Cajun Pirate Tiki party for the sailing club. Great gumbo, king cake and frozen hurricanes. Fun costumes and lots of bad karaoke. Checked the score around 9pm, chuckled and closed my ESPN app for the night
mostly stopped watching after the punt return TD and being down 21-0.
flipped to other games like UW-Oregon
It was my daughters birthday party so I mostly just cleaned up after the party while occasionally checking the game cast on my phone and had the Oregon and UCLA games on TV.
Good (all gameday experiences are good), but cold. It was around 50 in Corvallis mid-afternoon, but down to the mid-40s by kickoff in Corvallis. By the end of the game, it was approaching freezing.
As Bears know, it was a better experience for Beavers, though having 6 key players get knocked out of the game with significant injuries put a bit of a damper on the fun.
Finally, as I posted elsewhere, I wanted to give a shout out to the great job the Cal Straw Hat band did. Despite being stuck in a far away and high corner due to the construction at Reser, and the somewhat less than stirring Bears performance on the field, they soldiered on admirably.
And then made the hike down for a post-game show with the OSUMB that far too few Beavers or Bears saw or heard, or would have, due to the cold that sent droves of fans from both sides to the parking lot way early. Which was too bad, it was a tremendous show, and a great show of sportsmanship. Kudos to the Cal band, and thanks for making the trip up.
I have YouTubeTV so could not watch as it was only on P12. I checked GameCast a few times, saw it was going as expected, and stopped checking.
Cal game relegated to the laptop as Oregon-UW then Zona-fUcla were on the tv. Laptop closed some time in the middle of the second quarter.
Garbage time with 10:00 minutes in the Fourth, left the room to get ready for bed and heard my son say, “It’s over.” Gotta wonder why OSU did not roll up more points.
With 8 regulars out, and a backup QB, the strategy was to get the game over, and get in out of the cold without getting anyone else hurt.
Listened to the first half with Starkey & Pawlawski while making dinner. Turned it off during dinner (I didn't want to expose my entire family to that abomination of a game). Checked gamecast from there on. Also texted with my friends during the game.
No 3 and I went to the Fourth Bore in Orinda to watch and eat. We left around halftime so he could drive back to UCSC
Watched the politicos for awhile as I had DVR'd the game. I was also grilling ribeye steaks so didn't hear anything til an alert on my phone said 24-7 Beavs. Didn't watch it save for tuning in briefly to see Cal miss a field goal. How appropriate.
I checked Gamecast just in time to see a punt return for a touchdown and 21-0. That's the last I checked.
Last check for that game? Last for the season? Last for, forever?
My BIL and SIL flew down from CT on Friday and I spent all weekend with them. Why? What did I miss?
Fired
Wilfox need to go next.
4 weeks too late
But with a golden parachute. I wonder what team will be next for Musgraves two year learning curve?
He will go to Sac State next year when Troy Taylor leaves with his OC and they will need a new OC
I would say his career is probably done and he should retire but white men tend to always land on their feet, if not fail up in coaching so he will get a job as an OC somewhere.
I dunno, he is old and runs an old offense that didn’t work for shit at his last stop. Maybe he gets a gig somewhere but I would be surprised if it were as an OC of a Power5 school
Oregon might be looking for a new OC as rumors out there that ASU might hire their current OC. I highly recommend they hire Musgrave to replace their current OC if he goes to ASU, especially since Musgrave is from Oregon.