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You’ve just never had them cooked right😀 I never had them until I was an adult. My dad had to eat them every morning when he was in military school and he hated them.

Sure, I remember looking up your number and calling you to encourage you to not quit. Felt like the right thing to do at the time.

I’m not much. You have publicly quit here twice. Why are you here?

I follow a few forums and none of them has the nonsense this one does. It’s not heavy-handed daily moderation that keeps things in check on those, it’s an acceptance by the members of some basic rules, respect for others, and an understanding and acceptance of what’s good for the group as a whole. Common sense stuff, really. This won’t be popular, but in my opinion the moderation here is weak, because it tolerates the junk here. The three things that are stated no-no’s: politics, religion and language come up almost every single day here. Personal attacks are tolerated. Members have called others liars. It’s not always blatant, but it’s always here. Things are allowed here that other successful forums simply don’t. Not just through tough moderation, but also through the group’s intolerance of it. Moderation isn’t censorship. It’s keeping the peace. It’s a shame what this place has become. It used to have real camaraderie, a wide range of interesting topics, and … even more fishing reports. But the BS just drowns out the good things, often creates animosity among us, and drives people away. This really could be a better place with some effort. Better that the Facebook crap. Or it can go down the tubes like most forums have. Now I’m off to cook some ~~ shrimp and grits, god darn it!

Very cool stuff!!

Bounce that last check!

Gotta be Justin Wilson, right?

Wow! Either that’s a helluva coincidence or ol’ uncle Red did write that song. If so, he cleaned the story up a bunch. Anyhoo, the old man saw I had knack for getting people to cry and cough up money, so he ran a new fundraising idea past me. I can’t get into details too awful much due to pending litigation, but I’ll say it involved Christmas and some shoes for momma.

I was Teddy Bear. We lived right off US 50 and I used to have a blast talking to the truckers. To keep things interesting, I started screwing with them by telling them my dad was a trucker. Soon I was telling them I was crippled, my dad was killed in a wreck, mom had to work to make ends meet; whatever came to my 4 year old mind. Those suckers started yakking back and forth, then they got a thing going and soon the cash started rolling in. Lines of trucks backed out onto the highway waiting to make little Teddy Bear's life easier. My dad's brother Jimmy, who we all called Uncle Red, was a dreamer trying to make his way in Nashville. Said he was going to write a song about it but as far as I know he never got around to it.

Bees and beekeeping are fascinating to me. The bank was briefly in the bee business through a foreclosure a few years ago. Undeveloped land we found some manmade hives on. The CEO was happy to get a little income off that property 😀

I go around 14-16 hours. You can do too much light; plants need dark too.

Oh, my! Please don't disrespect Saint Viola and her creamed peas (or, her pancakes, sour cream raisin pie, rhubarb cream pie, or wilted lettuce!)

Like the wise man said, 'You've just never had them cooked right.'

I’m with lovey on this one 😀

PVC hoops and plastic. This particular year I was getting lettuce into November, likely until I was pretty sick of it. Mr. @BilletHead??

I clearly don't fit the target audience anymore. God Bless America and the Anthem were both good, but not great. The Rock's thing before the game was just stupid. I was waiting for someone to jump into the ring and smash a chair over his head. Didn't really care about the outcome, but kinda hoped Burrow would do it. Also would have preferred to see Kroenke lose, but I guess I'm happy for Stafford. The last hip-hop/rap song I cared for at all was Rapper's Delight. That's a genre that I dislike and have no desire to explore. The crotch grabbing, hip thrusting, booty shaking and all that just comes across as silly. My music taste has evolved over time to include Country, Blue Grass, Blues and some classical, so it's not that I'm just a fuddy duddy. I found myself Googling for a list of past half time shows and longing for folks like Petty, McCartney, The Who, Prince or even a marching band. Game was dull. I didn't see a lot of the ads, but Tommy Lee Jones and his, 'Whoever you are' did crack me up. I have never really cared for Collinsworth. Never seems to add much to the conversation. We were at my brother's and much enjoyed the company and food. But, everybody in his garage/man cave was either smoking cigarettes or cigars except the missus and I. If the crowd had started the food earlier, we would have left at half time but we ended up leaving early in the 3rd. We got home, stripped down and... ... threw all our clothes in the laundry and took showers

It's Missouri. Everything leans right

I was pretty confident through the first half. To my just got beat in the second half with great play by them, flat play and a handful of bad plays by us. Agree they look good for next year. But as always, there are some key players going into free agency. Matthieu, Ingram, Pringle.

I’ve thought that for a while now. The way he’s limping it makes me think he’s got a joint problem, and those are relatively routine to fix. And dropping weight would obviously make the things better.

Holy smokes - what a great day for that little guy! And on his own fly. So big he needed a little help hoisting it up for the picture. Congrats!

Hah! Good memory! Found the pics: Ruby doing hard time: It was 1½ lobster tails to be precise! Made Lobster Newburg with the remaining ½. Roasted a chicken once. We heard a thump in the kitchen and I turned to Kathy and said, 'That sounded exactly like a chicken hitting the floor!'

Ruby Sue Age: 8 Turn ons: Food, birds, squirrels, rabbits, bird hunting, food Turn offs: Lack of food, people who scream during football games Max A'Million Age: 13 Turn ons: Barking at the neighbors, bird hunting Turn offs: None

Was just reminded today by a friend about this one: https://www.nps.gov/articles/mcbaine-burr-oak-lewis-and-clark-national-historic-trail.htm Need to go see it the next time we're riding the Katy Trail down that way.

Speaking of travel, I see you're from the land of Guy and Mae's! I have traveled for that!

Maybe I'm thinking about something else. Anyhoo.