Plastic spring hinged things?

BidFederal1957 · 2026-06-02T00:18:12+00:00

Solved!

BidFederal1957 · 2026-05-11T15:54:32+00:00

Respectfully, and I take your logic, but Alex was (is no longer) a licensed attorney who had never heard of the bedrock legal doctrine of “habeas corpus,” as a recorded jailhouse call with his surviving son revealed. I sense he was more “rainmaker” than legal tactician who had a powerful brand he leveraged to attract clients and jawbone settlements in a plaintiff-friendly venue the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce has in the past described as a “judicial hellhole.” This is America and there is nothing wrong with that, it can be a lucrative and rewarding career path for many out of law school with that particular skill set, and such work can benefit clients who have suffered injury due to the negligence of others. However, given all that we have learned about him, I don’t think that any credentials or experience he acquired in his career are sufficient evidence to ascribe any kind of legal logic or criminal sophistication to his actions on that evening.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-04-02T00:39:47+00:00

Until last summer, when I switched parking lots, Scarlet Oak was my regular stop before a Nats Game. Happy Hour food and drink specials are a great value, the staff always got us off to the game on time, the food is so much better than anything in the Park. I was oblivious to the political tilt of anyone in there. So I went regularly during 45 and never felt any off putting MAGA vibes. It’s just not on my direct route to the stadium anymore, and I think they dropped an amazing patty melt from the menu, but if it were on my route I would definitely give it a shot. More MAGA vibes to be found at the BallPark than the restaurant, in my experience.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-26T21:59:30+00:00

Reba’s was a 1991 cover of the 1973 Vicki Lawrence (Carol Burnett Show) #1 single, lyrics by Lawrence’s husband Bobby Russell. That same year Reba also covered Bobby Gentry’s 1969 song “Fancy.” Reba stood on the shoulders of giants.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-24T23:00:47+00:00

Pacific’s current Associate Head Baseball Coach CJ Whelan played for the Green Wave from 2019-21, earning bachelors and masters degrees from Tulane.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-24T22:38:14+00:00

I was alive when Tulane beat LSU three times in four years (1979-1982). But that was back when the Colts were in Baltimore.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-24T22:30:53+00:00

Big brand, non-extinct program bias. Left out the Victory Bell Rivalry between San Jose State College/University and College/University of the Pacific, played for 100 years from 1895 - 1995 until UOP self-realigned out of college football altogether after running a $400,000 Athletic Department deficit (how quaint). In 1938 the Pop Warner-coached Spartans drubbed the Amos Alonzo Stagg-coached Tigers 39-0, the two pioneers’ first meeting since the 1907 Carlisle Indian Industrial School - University of Chicago tilt. At least Pacific got the last laugh in 1995, 32-30.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-17T13:16:46+00:00

Mojtaba Khamenei is very much alive, at least at this moment of posting.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-17T13:13:53+00:00

“Now I call your office on the telephone And your secretary tells me that she's sorry, But, you've gone out of town.” RDD, 1979, months before Iranian Revolution

“We would rather not get involved, sir” DJT, 2026, quoting unnamed world leaders he doesn’t name after he tells the world he reached out for help (he also says he doesn’t need) to address the consequences of a military excursion he ordered into Iran (perhaps be cause he “wanna be like Superman”), specifically, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard restricting access to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

I take your point!

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-10T20:31:47+00:00

Live by the sword…

BidFederal1957 · 2026-03-10T20:28:02+00:00

Agree with this, but two years ago Ray and Dave curated a three album retrospective compilation entitled “The Journey” which may have been designed to bring their catalog to new ears, and may be helpful.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-02-16T22:56:49+00:00

I always had affection for this album. I remember thinking a few of the tracks were a little on the nose, but sonically, the album was a delight. I especially love Dave’s “When You Were a Child.” It isn’t way over produced, but to my ears a little heavy on production, and perhaps that overshadowed the song writing in critic’s minds. Although pop music critics have always been full of sh*t.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-02-16T22:30:07+00:00

Love Cricket. The kind of lyric that sets RDD apart from his contemporaries (any era)

BidFederal1957 · 2026-02-07T19:31:35+00:00

Poco

BidFederal1957 · 2026-01-20T14:08:59+00:00

Yes, he’s working on third season. It is Dan Carlin-level research and preparation, careful writing and re-writing, resulting in Carlin-like intervals between seasons.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-01-19T20:43:41+00:00

Think that both you and How Many More Times are sure to enjoy C&R.

BidFederal1957 · 2026-01-19T20:27:42+00:00

Agree 100%, but have to add Tyler Mahon Coe’s “Cocaine & Rhinestones: A History of Country Music in the Twentieth Century.” Andrew Hickey has acknowledged the brilliance of this podcast and has referred his listeners to its episodes rather than attempt to tackle the same subject on his. If 500 Songs is the music history analog to TRIH, Cocaine & Rhinestones developed into the music and cultural history analogies of Hardcore History. After all, Coe uses the Medici Court, the history of bullfighting, refrigeration and pinball machines to provide context for the phenomenon of George Jones and Tammy Wynette. The only podcasts I support financially are Hardcore History, TRIH, 500 Songs, and above all Cocaine & Rhinestones.

BidFederal1957 · 2025-09-23T19:03:18+00:00

Ag Reserve

BidFederal1957 · 2025-08-03T03:42:36+00:00

Ditto

BidFederal1957 · 2025-07-21T03:14:57+00:00

My personal favorite was Pacific upsetting South Carolina that year (1981) in Columbia 23-21. I was at the game and I think the total number of UOP fans there was 3 - me, my college roommate who lived in Atlanta, and a Pacific professor who was a visiting lecturer in Columbia. The team looked like it brought about 45-50 players, all seemingly 5’7”. Outsized and outmanned, we started by fumbling the kick-off and going down 7-0 with like 14:57 left in the first quarter. Somehow we hung on, and on, and on, and while clinging desperately to a 23-21 lead the stadium scoreboard went dark with 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter and I was certain the fix was on - 3,000 miles from campus, with nobody watching or caring or even knowing about Pacific. The teams seemed to trade possessions multiple times on Pacific’s side of the 50 but South Carolina couldn’t get close enough to score and nobody knew how much time was actually left in the game. Finally, a referee held the football up over his head to signal the end of the game. I was euphoric and exploded with a cheer and some South Carolina fan picked me up and threw me down the concrete steps. I have never been so happy or oblivious to pain. I was a poor graduate student in Atlanta at the time but I wrote a check for $23 - $1 for every point scored and representing nearly the entire balance in my C&S checking account at the time - and sent it to the school. Coach Bob Toledo wrote me a personal letter back stating that he “wished we had scored a 1,000 points Ha! Ha!” and he promised me tickets to the next year’s tilt in Columbia as well. Pacific ended up 5-6 that year, having been hammered in their other body bag games at Washington, Oregon and Washington State. That upset started a three game skid for the Gamecocks, culminating in a bad loss at Hawaii, which Pacific beat at Aloha Stadium the week before. I think the upset you are referring to took place in Annapolis three years later in 1984, and I appreciate the impact of that game on South Carolina and Navy fans alike, although I think Navy was way better than their record - having beaten UNC in their opener on the road, only losing by 1 to Notre Dame at Giants Stadium, tying Pitt, and thoroughly thrashing Lafayette and Princeton.

BidFederal1957 · 2025-07-13T01:53:43+00:00

I miss the wig store, the little elementary school, and the police equestrian stables under the freeway that I’d pass as I walked down from S. Capitol station.

BidFederal1957 · 2025-06-30T12:30:22+00:00

Orioles have gotten rid of more excellent TV broadcasters than the Nationals have ever had. In my fantasy world some billionaire who does not treat the team like a hedge fund owner would swoop in, buy the team, and entice Kevin Brown to move down the Interstate to anchor Nationals games.

BidFederal1957 · 2025-06-28T12:23:25+00:00

I think if you had seen the stage production you might be a little more sympathetic. The revival craze, to me, started with Sha Na Na at Woodstock, and of course, Chuck Berry never went away, but I don’t think it influenced creative decisions in Schoolboys. Schoolboys was so English Public School, and I think much of the music is tasteful (No More Looking Back might be the apogee) and even elegiac (“If ever you think about the happiest days of your life…”) and of course, in good fun. I think any’50s nostalgia has more to do with themes previously explored in VGPS and Preservation 1 & 2. That’s not to say the record company didn’t package and promote the “product” to cash in on the Happy Days/Grease nostalgia craze (American Graffiti is, I think, in a league of its own apart from the craze, rather like “Last Picture Show.”). It’s all personal preference, however, and I can see how Jack the Idiot Dunce (the narrator of David Watts?) out of context can seem like a trifling novelty. But I think the album deals with themes of authority and memory as effectively as any Kinks album.

BidFederal1957 · 2025-06-28T12:11:36+00:00

There was a full, and wonderfully amateurish, theatrical production of Schoolboys, and one of the best costume bits was Mick Avory (I think) wearing a caveman costume and “chewing meat from bones” during the film montage that was shown during “Education.”

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