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Sabres where the better team bye far. It's the best I have felt about a loss other than the one that secured McEichel. This one has cemented in my mind we have turned the corner as a franchise* on the rise. Can't put my finger on why it took a loss for me, it may be because now when they lose I know the are good enough they shouldn't.
* not only as a team, but sum of their parts, coach, GM, owner.....
I felt this way as well. A few lapses, but the dominant team IMHO. Time to put on my sunglasses the future is so bright.....
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Had that exact bike. I modified it heavy eventually putting 10 speed handlebars on it. Thanks for posting. Haven't thought of it in years. My mind is over 50.
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I drop in every couple of weeks to see what you kids are up too.....always entertaining. Seeing so much sadness makes me sad. I'm sorry and I wish you all some smiles. My complaints seem silly.
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The most effective commercial I've ever witnessed because holy ###### does it play with my feelings ... every. single. time.
Don't read the spoiler until you watch.
As somebody who has lost a brother this is damn good.
Hoss....thanks. Sorry for you. I know I'm gonna cry every time and I watch it anyway. Penny, Jane, Mom, Dave........you are all still alive.
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Is it OK to just proclaim "no cell phones" because that was the thing that best makes my youth better than today's. "Get off my lawn" indeed!
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Come of age in the Schony era. I wanted to grow up and be just like him. Even had that hair style in HS.
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I'll add that I like him simply because he isn't Darcy. Apparently his fax machine works.
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Semantics. See what kas23 wrote just upthread.
Back off. I saw him first.
Can I say that I was having a crappy day and this and the comment that inspired it made me laugh out loud. Well done and especially thank you.
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Sidney Crosby scoring the game winner in the first winter classic was just so right for the game.
Rob Ray is just so cerebral.
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I moved into my house right before the Dallas SC finals. I left my wife every game night with my 1 year old and watched the game on one of those big crappy projector TVs at the local bar. Two or three beers and dozen wings and life was really good. I highly recommend this as an alternative to high cable bills. I'm not sure how my wife feel though.
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As a veteran I have no disrespect for his standing up for his beliefs in fact I admire his courage in doing so. I served during the Vietnam war and it is with regret that we ever got into that war. Wave your flag if you want.
This. I was just reading an article about Vietnam this morning and its horrors. I was born in 61 so I grew up in its shadow but I remember the evening news and the protests and body counts. Thank you for your service anyway.
Some of you have said nice things about my post. Thank you, most sincerely. You know how I value your views.
I want to acknowledge DirtDart's post. His sentiment was absent in my mine, but it captures another very real aspect of America's visceral reaction to Ali. My union steelworker/bricklayer family felt it. I was raised in a family where racism didn't exist, but the core values of duty, honor, country did. I didn't hear the "n" word, but I did hear "draft dodger". My grandfather, and his brothers and cousins, left their families on December 9, 1941, to board ships and fight in the Pacific. I ate dinner, went to church, and did homework under the supervision of The Greatest Generation, a description they'd never use themselves. They left new wives and young children at home. Imagine Ali in their eyes. I had to ask myself "who's right?". The sixties and seventies were a cultural spasm where disparate people were learning how they fit together.
Ali challenged instututions of the heart and mind as organized into society and culture. He was scary because he demanded change while recognizing the personal consequences. Ali was complicated. He touched me as a boy, in my teens, and as a young man. I'm better for it.
And This. The neatest thing is to hear my own father who I had heard use the words "draft dodger" when I was a boy say to me from his nursing home how we had lost a great man in Ali. That is the greatness.
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Just read this entire thread. Jeesh.
"Humanity is always going to be humanity, by that I mean, any chance to have a party/parade will be exploited to an extent because as a society that is our human nature."
Is this the time to ask if a moose knuckle is like a camel toe?
Thanks for your service everybody, especially those we memorialize.
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Great discussion. The reason I loved Schoney was he was an awesome leader. Anybody roughing up the french connection was going to only do it once. He played hard all the time. Those 70s were some fun times.
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It took me far too long to find Scotch. It's now my go to beverage. Just a glass or two, sipped over the rocks. Not having to get up to pee away beer all night especially when I'm camping and dealing with much less cooling needs (yes you can drink it warm) are all pluses.
"try an islay, namely Lagavulin or Laphroaig or Ardbeg" - This. Ardbeg is my fave. The other two have a slight "tire fire" ruggedness that isn't for all, kind of like a seriously hoppy IPA isn't for everyone. I like them both, but if you want to go down the islay road, start with Ardbeg.
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Rent a bike at Fishermans Wharf if the weather is nice and ride across the GG bridge to Sausolito instead. It's not hard and really fun. Put bike on Ferry and ride back past Alcatraz. Usually if you haven't pre-bought tickets to Alcatraz they package other stuff to make it really expensive or are sold out......I could be wrong. Bike ride is awesome.
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I wasn't trying to get on the stat sheet, but I had that story to share for years and the good reading of this thread inspired me to drop it. Last night I was sitting at my Dad's retirement home having dinner with him and a bunch of seniors. Some lady that looked like she could have been old enough to be Seymour Knox III's wife blurted out "who's watching the Sabres tonight?" from another table. I yelled "I am!" much to the annoyance of the others. After dinner was over I saw her and we talked hockey before I raced home to catch the Sabres/Rangers. Being the Myopic fan I texted a buddy when we were down 3-1 "We got them (Rangers) right where we want them". I was jacked when they tied it, but then my phone lit up shortly after.....ha! The romance of hockey for sure.
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He was great when teamed with RJ. A true gentleman with great hockey knowledge. I miss him on the broadcast.
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Great thread. What is it about the romance of hockey........
I was ten when the Sabres were an expansion team. I was lucky as I had some new neighbors who had moved from Chicago and were giant Blackhawk fans and were passionate about hockey. The family had four brothers and I was between the ages of the two youngest. They had a farm pond about one hundred yards from their house. By the time I was 11 or so, lead by the older brothers, we were stringing every extension chord we could find together and running a little pool filter pump so we could flood the ice at night. That hard fresh ice the next morning was magic. I was a lousy skater but I didn't take crap from anyone. Often my skates would get so froze up with slush I'd put my runners on and walk all the way home crying. My mom would put me in the laundry tub and spray hot water on the laces so she could untie them. She would put my skates on top of the furnace. I can still smell that combo of leather, sweat and fresh outdoors rising off the drying skates.
The neighbor kids all started playing organized hockey, but our family didn't have enough money. That didn't stop me from playing hard and one of the kids would work with me on skating backwards and gave me pointers he had learned from his coaches. Meanwhile, we had a WT Grant department store in East Aurora and I got a little transistor radio there. I listened to as many games as I could and often fell asleep only to run upstairs in the morning to ask my grandfather to read me from the Courier Express what the final score was. When Terry had bought the Sabres and was talking about listening I sat in my office at work with the door closed and I couldn't stop the tears.
I especially remember the Montreal Canadiens Ken Dryden pad measurerment game. I was watching the game on a black and white TV and remember feeling every emotion of sports in that one game. I couldn't sleep that night. I was hooked. Meanwhile I hadn't been to a game. Our family was happy, but in looking back there is no doubt we were hardly wealthy. Four kids, Dad working two jobs, mom making my sisters clothes, wasn't the recipe for seeing the Sabres. My Dad wasn't a sports fan, but my Mom loved the Bills, and while she never found the love of the Sabres I did, she grew up off Hertel Ave and was as true a Buffalonian as you can get. My Dad had just started a new job with NYSEG. They were running new electrical service in the Aud and his contact gave him two tickets to game 4 of the SCF against Philly. He let my mother take me.
So yes, my first Sabres game was the fog game. We had a crappy Polaroid camera and film was expensive so my mom only let me take three pictures. The quality is bad but to me they mean everything. I'm 14 and I am sitting with my mom on the ice right next to the players entrance.
I loved Schoney and I tried to take his picture as they walked out of the players entrance. I obviously missed.
But I got a picture of him on the ice.
Lost in the accounts you read is that the Sabres were down two goals, tied it up at 2, again at 3 and 4. It was almost too much for me. When Rene Robert scored in overtime it was absolute bedlam. I've been to some great games played over the years but nothing will ever eclipse that moment.
I remember they had a monitor on top of the TV cameras and they had frozen the goal on it and people were nuts. We sang the "Ooh Ahh Sabres on the Warpath" chant (kids, remember it starts real slow and gains speed) and I could have cared less that I was with my mom. I thought we would win a Stanley cup many times in the next forty years but it matters to me little. I've watched nephews play the game and made the trip from Rochester to see the Sabres many times and I go to my share of Amerks games and I still feel the passion.
I get frustrated, but the game is always beautiful. Go Sabres.
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I have a sister who drove my parents crazy and the music she listened to at the time included Bowie. I couldn't like him because I thought somehow he was a bad influence on her and it was tough to see my parents suffer from her bad choices. And then I saw him on TV doing Little Drummer Boy at Christmas with Bing Crosby when I was about 15. This was a time when music was filled with over produced music that begged for the real rock and roll of the Clash, Ramones, Television, Brian Eno, Nick Lowe, Buzzcocks, Joe Jackson, Pistols, Elvis C and so much other stuff I loved. In reading many interviews at the time I was struck how many true artists mentioned Bowie as an influence. I started listening. And hooked I became.
In a world of formulas and invented stars, there are very few true artists that just don't fit any mold.
Ashes to Ashes, Funk to Funky.
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Things that are awesome......the last two pages of this thread. In this day and age of negative media and doom and gloom, reading this just puts me in a happy place. Happy New Year to all you kids.
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Can't emphasize this enough. Do not buy into all the hype about "owning for less than you rent" without crunching some numbers of your own. Those statements normally only factor in your base mortgage payment, and do not account for homeowners insurance (which costs far more than renter's insurance, especially depending on where you live) and property taxes (which can vary a great deal by locale, so do your homework). I don't necessarily regret buying my house because I wanted a permanent place I could do what I wanted with after moving around apartments for several years prior, and I went into it with the mindset that I was only aiming to break even by the time I sold, which should have been reasonable given I was there for 9 years. But in hindsight (which is always 20/20), I would've been better off financially renting all those years because what had been disposable income I could use towards debt became nonexistent, and things will always break and need repair with a home, and like Matt, property values in my area declined to where I sold my home for LESS than I paid 9 years prior.
So buyer beware: rates are excellent right now and if you can find the right place at a price that allows you to retain some flexibility and breathing room in your budget, go for it, but with eyes wide open.
This. I was shocked when I bought "Home buying for dummies" 20 years ago and it talked of the folly of home ownership. For years all my elderly relatives were pestering me about throwing rent away. What the Dummies book said was that home ownership was only good investing strategy in hot economic markets, and even sometimes that was fleeting. Google "Is home ownership a good investment". And don't read the answer from Realtors or banks (or property tax collectors).
You need to look at it as an expensive hobby and not an investment. I love our house and I have made many improvements, but unless I was married with a child on the way it would be the last thing I'd invest in. I'd be renting and enjoying my free time which you will give up when every problem becomes yours, every home and garden show ill make you feel inadequate until you upgrade, etc. When ever I'm working on something instead of relaxing I humor myself by saying "Ah yes, the American dream!"
You two are some of my favorite posters as I am mostly a lurker........I don't want you to take this as negative. My wife with child and one on the way moved into a house in 1998 and it's almost paid for (get a 15 or 20 year mortgage if you can) and it's been an excellent adventure. But think it through. You've got some excellent advice on PMI and other stuff.
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Y'know, I think maybe yeah.
Isn't that a liger?
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Been waiting to officially post the news (although I kind of let it slip in another thread). Mrs Menace and I are expecting to add 2 new Buffalo fans to world. expecting fraternal twins around playoff time (late March early April). Still haven't announced on Facebook yet, but we've told all of our family and our closest friends. I still need to reach out to a few far off friends (service members and others). Couldn't be more excited. Completely unexpected (the twins aspect that is). Going for our second ultrasound on Nov. 3rd. I've already talked to work about getting every doctors appointment off. There was nothing more fantastic than seeing both of the little ones move around on the screen. Not going to lie, I shed a tear.
I don't post much, but I always enjoy visiting this thread at Friday's end, just to read about all the good. It's like backing into your parking space. It just makes me leap into the weekend positive. Anyway, I missed last Friday and seeing this post today just opens a flood of emotion for me. I have three kids and my oldest is heading to college next year and reading this post brought back all those "I'm gonna be a dad" emotions. I was out in Denver earlier this week and I got home late Wednesday and I looked at my kids sleeping faces when I got home and I was so happy to think about the great young adults they've become and how much fun we've had together.
When you get sick of people saying "It goes by so quick", just play along. You won't get it until your kids are about to walk out the door. Anyway, Congratulations!
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Just as long as she knows that we're not all like that. I worry that posts like that one paint the picture that the vast majority are like that. I don't know where the true numbers fall, but I'd venture the guess that most aren't. If women are being objectified, this feels like the male version of that, whatever you want to call it.
Most people are decent. That is clearly born out in this lengthy thread. The thing that makes this thread so powerful is it's not written from one point of view, but by many.
I remember drinking (1979) with a group of my college buddies at a bar. This was in the days when the drinking age was 18. I met a girl who joined us and we were having a great time. I would even say there was flirting and more drinking. A few of her girl friends showed up and took her away to "protect" her. They were way more sober and I was totally offended at the insinuation that she was in a bad situation. I didn't see it that way at all. But they weren't going to leave her with a bunch of guys when she was drinking. She was clearly annoyed to be taken away. The next day I had a talk with one of her friends who gave me a version of what Josie wrote and it was an eye-opener. I'll never forget that.
Former All Star/Sabre Legend Retires
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"All Star fiasco" - Ha!.......Matter of perspective.
Some of my favorite Sabres played every game like it was going to be their last (see Adam Mair, Patrick Kaleta, etc.) with marginal NHL talent. John should be proud of his career and I hope he does wind up in a broadcast booth.