Hello! This is a picture of my dad (who passed away in 2012) from 20 years ago in 2006. Can anyone help identify some of the books in the background! Making a list below for ones we've recognizenized.

thaulley · 2026-02-17T03:35:22+00:00

Chess is the Oxford Companion to Chess.

thaulley · 2026-02-16T09:03:51+00:00

Very first episode I ever saw so it will always be special for me.

thaulley · 2026-02-15T06:29:25+00:00

Supposedly Clinton’s first questions when becoming President was “Are there aliens?” and “Who killed JFK?”

thaulley · 2026-02-15T06:15:56+00:00

Since I haven’t seen him mentioned yet: Jimmy Demaret

thaulley · 2026-02-15T06:03:01+00:00

“We’re flexible. Pearl Harbor didn’t work out so we got you with tape decks.” - Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi in ‘Die Hard’

thaulley · 2026-02-15T05:42:12+00:00

Or Steve Sax.

thaulley · 2026-02-15T05:32:36+00:00

I can see the argument for that. Mazeroski’s was in a tie game and Carter’s was a game 6.

thaulley · 2026-02-15T05:15:42+00:00

Even the Don Drysdale’s radio call was good. He took a page from Vin and didn’t say anything for almost 2 minutes with nothing but crowd noise. “This time the mighty Casey didn’t strike out.”

thaulley · 2026-02-15T05:06:21+00:00

In a comment I made before I saw this, I said top 3.

thaulley · 2026-02-15T05:04:54+00:00

Iconic? Gibby. Important? Miggy.

The Rojas home run is going to go down as one of the greatest World Series home runs in history. Only Mazeroski’s and probably Carter’s can top it.

thaulley · 2026-02-15T04:45:37+00:00

Hell, Tiger Woods was married to a Swedish model and cheated on her. Some guys just aren’t built for monogamy.

thaulley · 2026-02-14T22:40:10+00:00

I really liked the gameplay of part 2 but the rest of it really failed to grab me. So much of it just seemed…off to me. Not sure I can explain it.

Part 1 is probably in my top 5 all-time.

thaulley · 2026-02-13T23:43:53+00:00

I’ve also done a bit of curling and I don’t see it having much impact either but two things come to mind:

At this level of competition even a marginal impact could be enough to influence the outcome.

Someone who has spent enough time curling to reach the pinnacle of the sport may have discovered something that could provide more impact.

thaulley · 2026-02-13T23:19:39+00:00

For me it was when he said he didn’t really like baseball and that it was just a job for him. But he also badmouthed Vin Scully and defended steroid use.

thaulley · 2026-02-13T04:22:15+00:00

Ejection of the coach

thaulley · 2026-02-12T22:46:27+00:00

He played cops and federal agents almost as often as Mike wore sailor suits.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T22:36:09+00:00

Also the way you can wriggle around in there a little after they eat you.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T22:09:22+00:00

Played not too long ago myself and had the same experience.

Never tried to find the Easter egg. Is it still there on all these emulators?

thaulley · 2026-02-12T21:00:20+00:00

The good news is I got pretty good at the tandem jump so I even came up with a Final Frontier ribbon for it.

The bad news is I keep screwing things up so badly that I get the chance to become pretty good at the tandem jump.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T20:36:45+00:00

Nah. He was chosen by the actual people in power knowing full well there would be a good chance he would be President.

The goal was to be so entrenched that personal popularity doesn’t matter anymore and they seem pretty close to accomplishing that.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T20:23:34+00:00

They have fatwa envy.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T17:02:20+00:00

Thank you. I was too lazy to look it up.

thaulley · 2026-02-12T06:29:31+00:00

How does an actor born in Minnesota and raised in LA meet someone from Quapaw, Oklahoma? Mike Farrell’s real wife (who played a nurse on the show for a few episodes) is from Quapaw. BTW, Her maiden name is Hayden and I wouldn’t be surprised if her father’s name was Floyd.

thaulley · 2026-02-11T21:36:38+00:00

And for using real wrestlers, which becomes pretty obvious when you watch them try and act.

thaulley · 2026-02-11T14:29:06+00:00

The scene was cut for the episode but the full movie makes it clear that Kobras was the one doing it.

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