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nfreeman, I almost feel embarrassed to bring my own brief bout of depression into this — because it pales in comparison, I think, to the kind of depression LTS is talking about — but getting outside and walking last winter and going skating did wonders for me. The depression literally lifted for that time I was moving, then settled back in at home.
I also just found out my Vitamin D level is low, and that's linked to depression. It could be one of those chicken and egg deals, though. If you're depressed you might not be eating well, and you might not get out into the sun much.
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Yikes, for someone with a pretty good imagination, my Internet handles are quite lame. I really choke when it comes time to create those.
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Now, for a limited time, it can be yours! But wait there's more... OK, there isn't.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221523017926
My only hope is that several Muffies get their panties in a wad and their Chets need to buy something to feel better about their lives, and the golf-capped, WASPy ###### start a bidding war.
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Yep, these causes get co-opted in the name of individual and organizational PR/marketing. My views on organized, publicized Sabres trips to pediatric cancer wards is well known. The counter-argument, which has some merit, is that no matter the motivation, some good comes of it.
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And the Frenchj love Jerry Lewis.
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LTS, thanks for sharing. That takes guts to open yourself up like that. It will help someone.
Dylan, I'm so sorry to learn about your brother. It's heartbreaking.
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Can you get the clubs out? Are the maker markings on the back?
It looks like I could get to them, but I don't want to mess with it. I'm the guy who gets things apart but can't get them back together.
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I really think they're all replicas. Check out the box of tees in the lower right of the item (upper right of the picture).
Hope I'm wrong and you're now worth $1B, so you can buy the Bills and meddle.
The club heads aren't replicas. They have holes where the shafts were inserted.
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They seem to be a pretty common item. I can't find any that look quite like that one though. Which doesn't bode well for it being valuable. There seem to be examples of them being an item you used to get with a set of golf tees.
Outside of the actual golf equipment the rest of it looks pretty chintzy. Like Eleven says, it looks like a man cave item. There's not enough branding on it to make it an item I'd expect to see in say a 1950s era pro-shop.
Well, yeah, it's a long shot that it's worth anything. But maybe it was slapped together in 1930 at some country club, and the individual components like the old balls and club heads have some historical value.
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It looks like something you'd see in a pro shop. It does look hand made.
The tees are Bobby Jones tees. Probably circa the 1930s.
The scoop with the golf ball on it is actually a shoehorn. It appears to match the bottle opener. Are there any markings or writing on either of those items?
No other markings on those items. Shoe horn, never thought of that.
You know, I've got a buddy who's an expert in golf-themed mirrors. Mind if I call him in to take a look?
More seriously: It's a low-res image that we're looking at, but that looks straight out of a SkyMall or Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue. You know, a gift for the man who has everything for his golf man cave but a mirror, so that he can stare deeply into his own soul and contemplate golf.
If you can get $100 on eBay, I think you should jump at it, because I suspect it's worth about $10.
I will, of course, defer to others who know more about mirrors, golf, and/or SkyMall catalogues.
I don't think it was mass produced.
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Well, Aud, nfreeman said that my views on Terry are personal attacks. Are they? Or am I just attacking the job he has done as owner, the work he has produced, just like my posts?
If you were Ville Leino, would you feel like you've been personally attacked on this board?
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I'm no American Picker, but something caught my eye at the local Goodwill, so I grabbed it. I really have no idea if it's worth anything (well, I bought it, so it's worth something).
It's 26 inches wide, 39 inches tall and 2.5 inches deep. It has old hardware on the back and no manufacturer information. There's sort of a corrugated cardboard backing on the back of the mirror, so of course the first thing I did was pull it back gently to see if there was an original copy of the Constitution or a Bobby Jones autographed scorecard or something tucked in there. No such luck.
Some of the items in the frame are intriguing. The doo-daddy with the golf ball handle that looks like a paddle might be a scoop they used a long time ago to mound up sand to tee your ball on (pre- golf tee). The balls at the bottom look very old. They're not dimpled like modern balls. One of the iron heads has curved grooves, another a textured pattern. There's a box with tees that says Bobby Tees. The medallion says Nice Country Club. The plaque (or little book) says Royal and Ancient Game of Golf. Some of the items look like they're lacquered (?).
It doesn't look like anything that would have been mass produced.
Any idea what I have here? I don't want to get 100 bucks for it on eBay and then find out it's a priceless treasure from St. Andrews worth millions!
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I post with my dick. Where do your posts come from?
You have a personal detective? Impressive!
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Loser post of the year.
Each post of mine spills out from deep within my loins. Just like yours, but different orifice.
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Beat me to it. I criticized the post -- which, btw, was itself full of (utterly ungrounded) personal attacks -- not the poster.
Huh? Now we can't personally attack the owner? Players? Really?
I make no distinction between an attack on my post and an attack on me. You attack my chil'ren, you attack me.
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And I could say the same about your hysterical, gibberish-filled post, but instead I kept it pithy. Full of pith. Hope you're not too pithed off.
Annnnnndddd... the personal attack. How many board rules are you trying to break in this thread?
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I never saw Mrs. Doubtfire.
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We were lucky to have his genius, and for so long. It's a minor miracle he lived this long.
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Way to add to the conversation, mod.
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The fact that I'm steering away from your world view and am instead advancing my view of the matter does not make the point a non sequitur.
What doesn't follow is the idea that if "everyone" in a certain class is engaging in a behavior, then that activity can't be a "crime" or just plain old "wrong."
PA(ngloss) again sees the world as it is, and does not seek to have events unfold within the immutable confines as they present themselves, but rather demands that the confines change, that fundamental realities shift. And at whose insistence should this occur? An idealistic message board poster's?
See, the fundamental reality shift occurred in the runup to Pegula's ownership, and in the glow of Day One. You want a fundamental shift? We were led to believe, and many still believe, that we had an owner who was a diehard fan, who didn't care about making money, who was willing to spend whatever, and whose only reason for buying the team was to win a Cup, and then another one. Boom, indeed.
I hold him to that standard to this day. He has fallen well short of it. The reasons for buying the team appear to be a hound's breakfast — for the Mrs., for the kids, to develop hockey in the U.S., to become a real estate developer in Buffalo, to influence the fracking debate (see the meeting of officials and political types in the arena), so Terry could play fantasy owner, and yes, I'm sure, to try and win a Cup.
Terry was going to be completely different, and I don't think I was being unreasonable in expecting that he would do everything logically possible to make the sole reason for existence of the franchise come true. One of those logical steps would be for a mere fan to get out of the way. It's what I would have done, and I bet it's what you would have done. Fans should be just as unhappy with Terry's ownership style as they would be if I, or Dwight, or shrader was behaving the same way. Terry's billions don't make him any smarter than the rest of us.
Thanks again, Aud, this feels good to get off my chest.
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If the Habs were going to be stuck with Subban on an arbitration contract as opposed to signed long term, then their owner's meddling worked to their advantage, not disadvantage.
Then either Molson should also name himself general manager, or hire a new general manager.
My point (if I had one) was to confirm the conclusion I'd reached somewhere upthread: That "meddling" is no more a "crime" on the part of an owner than signing paychecks is -- i.e., it's an activity in which all owners engage to one degree or another. The key, as with most things in life, appears to be the practice of reasonable restraint and some level of moderation.
Oy. Holy non sequitur. I don't care if every owner meddles. It's still wrong. And if every other owner meddles, and ours doesn't, advantage us. I'd love to see Terry's reaction if a non oil and gas man took over his beloved East Resources and started acting like he knew where to frack.
This is great! Thanks for bringing this thread back to life, Aud!!!!!!
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Geoff Molson: Admitted meddler.
http://sports.yahoo....diacontentstory
As are, apparently, Ted Leonsis, Jeff Vanderbeek, and Ed Snider.
A plain, unvarnished question. The owner of the Habs, not a hockey man, is meddling. If our owner, who also is not a hockey man, doesn't meddle, isn't that necessarily an advantage for us? Unless anyone can be a good NHL GM, it would have to be.
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Saw this at the Fair yesterday. Cracked me up.
It might be funnier if the pics were slightly different versions of his poopy face.
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The Lhasa Apso is also to die for.
I am a bad man who is going straight to Hell.
(OT) Robin Williams died today
in The Aud Club
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Shifting gears a bit... I watched Good Morning, Vietnam last night and Awakenings tonight. Good Morning, Vietnam fell a little flat — it's the first time I've watched it since it was in theaters. I loved the improvisational work Williams did on the air. It just seemed like that was the whole point of the movie, to see if his comedic genius would translate to the big screen. Then they slapped on a fairly weak plot, because a movie needs a plot. Williams' acting wasn't great.
It was great in Awakenings, and Robert De Niro was brilliant as well.
Mrs. Doubtfire is next, if it's available at our Family Video. Yes, there are places left where people go to video stores.
On a final note, there was a scene in Good Morning, Vietnam that brought me to tears. Kronauer, the DJ played by Williams, has his show reinstated, but he doesn't want to go back on the air. He and his assistant, played by Forest Whitaker, get stuck behind a convoy of troops headed for the front, and Whitaker tells the troops who's in his passenger seat in a ploy to play on the DJ's ego. Kronauer at first doesn't want to say anything, but then he stands up and starts working the crowd, asking where the troops are from, riffing, busting chops.
I took the scene literally, Williams as himself, the troops the nation that loved him, and the final moments of the scene so apropos: Williams says he won't forget them, and vehicle after vehicle passes by him, the troops waving and cheering. Williams looks a little overwhelmed. His job is done.
The scene, minus the troops passing by, is near the end of this clip.