SwampD
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35 years ago I went down to Daytona beach with 8 friends. I spent $10K I had saved up on beer, goldschlager(?) and coke. We invited every girl on the beach into our block of rooms. At one point we had over sixty girls in our room including 4 girls from the front desk that were sent up to stop the party. God knows how much easier it would have been with the Internet.
When we got back home we were broke but had the time of our lives. We all started our careers because we had little choice. If I had had $20 million, I'd probably still be down there selling maps on the beach. It's just not a big deal.
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This guy's a MFer. Almost 8 million hits and I've never heard of him until tonight,... I'm old.
It's a slow burn and really pays off starting at 3:20.
Not a bad soundcheck, either.
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No to Buff in Buff. You're essentially guaranteeing that you've acquired Winnipeg's problem because everybody says it was either Kane or Buff.
I'm confident we got the non-issue player. Let's keep it that way.
Also, if we are looking to acquire players, can we pick ones from teams that were actually good?
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!!! Ack !!!
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I was already married two years, had moved across the country to take a professional job, and my first son was on the way. I got that idiocy out of the way during sophomore year of college.
This post does nothing to change my mind that "We are all idiots at 24."
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It's tough. I saw the news this morning and it hit me pretty good. In years past it would have hit me harder but I've grown away from football quite a bit and a lot of it started when Van retired. It had nothing to do with him retiring mind you, but being 17-21 during a run of 4 straight Super Bowl losses really changed my outlook on sports and football especially.
That said, his calls are my primary memories. I worked in a sporting goods store (Laux) through high school into college. I routinely worked Sundays and as such we always had the radio tuned to the game. As would be expected around those great years there were few to no customers traveling the malls during a Bills game. There was no traffic, people were home. So I had plenty of time to dust the shelves, rearrange inventory and listen to Van Miller paint the picture of what was happening on the field.
Thought the great Houston game was not on television the crowds were still quite light. I suspect people still held out hope and were listening at home. As half-time hit and it was apparent the Bills were going to lose the foot traffic in the mall picked up volume. In the days of no cell phones word didn't travel as fast but I remember the air in the store as the Bills began scoring. It seemed that someone was always running out into the mall and yelling they scored. Every time that happened more and more people seemed to appear. Being situated right inside the mall entrance we also were a first stop for many shoppers. Perhaps they were just checking in to see how the game was going.
By the end of the game the store was loaded with people. The atmosphere was unbelievable and the radio was cranked. All we had were each other and Van Miller to call the game.
That's what I'll remember.
There are few left these days. The regional broadcaster is being phased out as the national contracts are available to be streamed across any screen at any time. There are a lot of great play by play announcers who do those national games but none of them are tuned to deliver a message to a particular geographic area. They are stripped of their fandom and their emotions are engineered to deliver excitement regardless of the teams playing.
Announcers like Van Miller had an entire fan base flowing through them. He lived in our community and channeled that energy into his calls. That's nothing any national voice could ever capture.
Great post.
Listen to nfreeman. That was a great post.
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No one could call a Bills loss like Van.
People don't realize that when we were losing Super Bowls, we won a sh!t ton of games. Yes, the last game of the season was a loss, but out of 19 or 20 games each season, we only lost like 4 or 5. I wish I would have realized how good we had it then.
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TMZ is the spawn of Satan.
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It was a good ban. It was a good post,… worth a three day ban.
Kudos to all involved.
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I'm actually surprised by how much this news is affecting me.
RIP.
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It's borrowed. Can't remember where I heard it, but it's not quite original.
Good, cuz I already stole it from you.
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As long as we hear it a whole friggin lot more next season than we have the past two, they could use this horn and I wouldn't care.
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So I get home from work at 3am. I'd like to have a beer and then go to sleep. I'm out of beer, OK. I open the fridge to find only my wife's reds apple ale. I look in the freezer, only Disorono. I look in the liquor cabinet and I find a bottle of twizzler flavored Vodka, a bottle of peach schnapps, a bottle of bailey's Irish Cream and a bottle of wine that a homeless person wouldn't cook with.
I decided that the NyQuill in the medicine cabinet was the best option. Good night.
Great line.
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When Dad goes into the bathroom with the paper for 30 minutes?
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Wait... are we supposed to stop acting like drunken ###### at some point?
Nope. Just stop driving when we do.
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Sooooo, we are all a bunch of drunken degenerates. Not really news I suppose. :lol:
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Not in 95 or 2000
And I would know.
I'm confused. Are you agreeing with me or countering it?
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In the 90s it was dui
Nope. At least, not in '96.
And I would know.
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when did nys stop using dui?
I don't remember them ever having it. Blowing over a .05 was a DWAI and over a .10 was a DWI. Don't know if it still is.
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Eid al-Fitr.
Ramadan ended at sunset today with confirmed sightings of the crescent new moon.
I miss Ramadan already. When it ends it's a bit of a let down in a way.
Eid prayers are tomorrow morning and we celebrate for three days.
It's good to be back, but am not sure how much time I'll have over the next few days to read and catch up.
Thanks to all for the good wishes and I will try to address them in the coming days.
So, did I miss much?
Salam / Peace.
Good to have you back.
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Today, a song came on the Ipod (Classic) randomatizor from an album I was really into for a while. Now this song is stuck.
Parts would make a good goal or entry song.
... might have to steal it.
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I just don't get recent college grad job hunters. I graduated in 2006, and did everything the career folks at my school told me to. I don't get these kids nowadays. They bitch about not being able to find a job, yet the people I've interviewed for an entry-level sales position just don't get it. They do nothing to try and stand out, have resumes filled with spelling and formatting errors, and don't follow directions.
I specifically ask for a cover letter, yet most don't submit one. I had one kid tell me they're "not necessary anymore." I explained to him that the whole reason we ask for one is to see what kind of writing skills an applicant posses. Is it cut and paste or original? Can they sell themselves? By not even submitting one it shows you can't follow directions. When I explained this to him he just looked at me and said, "oh."
With three of them I came away from the interview feeling "meh." Not bad, but no wow factor. They easily could have gained some favor with a simple thank you email. Nothing, so they stay in the "meh" pile.
We've been advertising the position since mid-May, and I've had two out of maybe 20 candidates that did what I expect a serious applicant to do (I offered the job to one of them, but he chose another offer). The other one I met with yesterday, and while her personality was spot on, again, her resume was replete with spelling errors (a graduate of one of the SUNY schools FWIW).
This whole process just leaves me baffled and wanting to band my head against a wall.
I find this somewhat ironic. :lol:
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Huh?
Really? You've never heard that theme song?
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Maybe Billy Madison wasn't as dumb as we were led to believe.
Around the NHL: 2015-2016
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It also has to be noted that those Cup winning teams were before the salary cap and the last time they won it they had the 4th highest (IIRC) payroll in the league, I think it was around $52 or 54MM, while the Sabres were in the low $30MM range. I remember watching the Sabres playing them and thinking,"ya know, if we had a $9MM goalie and 2 more $5MM forwards (which was a lot at the time) we would be just as good as them."