Hang in there, the holiday season can be very stressful. Maybe try counting every other one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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Hang in there, the holiday season can be very stressful. Maybe try counting every other one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
They melted. Now I'll NEVER be able to count them.
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome; Time for this one to come home. Be just what you is, not what you is not. Folks what do this has the happiest lot."
Now they are one...Quote:
They melted
Where's that from?Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Tooter Turtle, 1960 cartoon. The saying was a common one by another character "Mr. Wizard the Lizard" who recued Tooter many times from his journeys in time and space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Well, I bought a new old car. 1964 American Rambler, Typhoon edition.
Is that a Hybrid???Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Yes, it runs mostly off of strong winds from the Pacific.
I live about 30 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico which is why I haven't been able to start it.
Did "tooter" have a different definition back then?Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I had a Honda Civic, Hurricane Andrew edition, for several years.
I'm surprised it lasted 60yrs in La climate. Must have been an indoor car.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
They don't salt the roads, but the sun is pretty brutal on paint and plastics.
The front floor pans are rusted through in some spots but everything from basically back of the front seat is still solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
The car still has the original inline-6 engine, all the trim pieces, and even the original radio and A/C.
What it doesn't have is any of the seats or carpeting, the steering wheel is a bit busted up, the gas pedal broke off, and the top of the dash is cracking really bad.
I only paid a thousand dollars for it though.
I was thinking more about the humidity. Rust.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Does that mean you can drive it like Fred Flintstone? Can your dinosaur poke it's head through the roof?Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
He could, but only if he's a good boy.
We had an old Rambler in the 1960s. The holes in the floor let us watch the road move beneath us back then. Maybe half the width of a pea, like screw holes.
That's quite practical. That way, when you spill your drink, you won't have to worry about soaking it up later. Also, to clean the car out afterwards, you can just use a hose.
Butter toast.
Peanut Butter Jelly
Sucks to get old, and it keeps on sucking.
Case 3643: You're an old guy and become friendly with a woman around your age who is way out of your league.
Thank goodness she is 800 miles away. And hope to heck it isn't really some kid in his room laughing his butt off.
That can happen at any age.
Just remember
That's a good statement.
Good advice.
Good that advice is.
Well Jayden Daniels won the Heisman and Malik Nabers got screwed out of the Biletnikoff.
To be honest, I would have understood it if Daniels didn't win the Heisman. The points "for" was that statistically he was the best. The only game he struggled in was Florida State and he was doing really well in the Alabama game before a targeting penalty that wasn't called knocked him out. The points "against" was that he was part of a 3 loss team whereas Pennix put up great numbers and his team is undefeated.
But Malik Nabers getting screwed out of the Biletnikoff has everything to do with Marvin Harrison Jr.'s name. When you compare the two, the only thing that Harrison Jr. has close to Nabers is the touchdowns (they're tied at 14) and yards per reception (Harrison Jr has 18.1 vs Nabers' 18.0), everything else Nabers blew him away.
I think the biggest stat (outside of total yards) is the efficiency. Nabers had a 69.4% completion rate compared with Harrison Jr.'s 58.77%.
Another thing to look at is the team effort.
At LSU, these are the top 3 receiver's stats:
- Malik Nabers: 86 receptions for 1546 yards
- Brian Thomas Jr: 60 receptions for 1079 yards
- Kyren Lacy: 24 receptions for 463 yards
At Ohio State, these are the top 3 receiver's stats:
- Marvin Harrison Jr: 67 receptions for 1211 yards
- Cade Stover (TE): 41 receptions for 576 yards
- Emeka Egbuka: 35 receptions for 452 yards
So not only does Nabers have more yards than Harrison Jr but Brian Thomas Jr is only 132 yards and 6 receptions away from Marvin Harrison Jr. Compare that to Ohio State's next best receiver being a tight end who only has 113 yards over LSU's 3rd best receiver.
In other words, the only reason Marvin Harrison Jr won the Biletnikoff over Malik Nabers is because A) he went to Ohio State and B) his dad is Marvin Harrison.
Let's see if I upset homer enough to get him to post back in the post race :afrog:
Perhaps, but I'm not sure whether homer cares about the Ohio State. In that state, there are the three cities, and people tend to be partial to their city. The Ohio State would be Columbus, whereas I think homer is Cleveland. Not sure whether there's a school up there, though.
I would say that yards and catches are both potentially misleading stats. The percentage is telling, though. After all, you can rack up the yards and catches simply by being targeted a lot, which will happen to a big fish in a small pond. If there are several good receivers, no one of them should do that much better than the rest. However, catches per target would tend to show effectiveness more than just total catches or total yards.
I don't know whether that last sentence makes sense, I got distracted while writing it. I'm not going to go back and look, though, because this is the post race, so just adding a post saying I won't go back and look is more effective.
Yeah, it's quite telling that Brian Thomas Jr did almost as good as Marvin Harrison Jr while being the #2 WR at LSU.
Number 2 receivers can always benefit if the number one is really good. The number one draws the coverage to them, which will end up enhancing the stats for the rest. Not sure how much I'd read into the stats of a #2.
I will say growing up in the 90s when LSU was a terrible team with no offense to show for, this year has been bitter sweet.
On one hand we had an absolutely explosive offense with a deep WR and RB core and now a Heisman trophy winning QB.
On the other hand, every game was the mindset "we need the ball last because our defense literally cannot stop anyone".
I mean, I grew up watching Booger McFarland and Glenn Dorsey. When I was a teenager LSU had Patrick Peterson and Tyrann Matthew.
Now watching LSU play is like watching the Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma circa 2016.
I'm fine with a managerial style quarterback like Matty Mauck or Jared Lee that has no shot of winning the heisman. But I am not fine with a defense that is so bad that it looks like it belongs in a FCS team.
So...your defense is offensive?
When I was growing up, football, and most other sports, were too far away to think about.
So I was born in August of 1991. My first ever LSU game was September 21, 1991 against Vanderbilt, aka the first home game of the season. My Maw Maw Toni snuck me in her purse back before they checked bags.
My parents have held season tickets since 1982 so growing up I was always at LSU games.
So I remembered growing up that Mike the tiger would go in his mobile cage out on the field before games, but something that I forgot was that at the start of every game they'd provoke him into roaring.
PETA kind of put a stop to all of that though.
And I was in grad school.
Nobody snuck me in anywhere. I was too big from day 1.
Still haven't been unceremoniously kicked to the curb!
Might have to work on my communication skills though:
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Ok, laugh now, cry later. I'm not anywhere near 90. And some men think I am very pretty. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea. Why do guys think anyone they can't see is a dog. Ugh.
Is that related to anything? It's a good Post Race post, but what is it in reference to?
Calback to https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....=1#post5625245Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Not quoting anything posted here! :p
That's the thing about the Post Race: There are many threads intertwining, some of them even make sense.
Well, not that one.
It was purely randomness because it was getting too quiet in here and I don't follow "Mike the Knife" or whoever that was.
No no no, its "Mack the knife".
@dday9 - Please will you finally squat that irritating buzzing fly....
It buzzes? I have yet to hear it.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Verb To Buz - To move around quickly and busily. No sound need be involved.
:rolleyes:Quote:
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Gaslighting? Me? Nooooooo.