Hot Fun in the Summertime: Lounge LC Thread
I had to invoke Sly.
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Hello, all! Long time, hope everyone had a great summer.
Stay well.
So I am a ballcapaholic. Probably not a real word 😀 But being folically challenged (ie bald) I wear a lot of ball caps. My collection is probably 300+. Anyway since it is football season I have starting dipping into my Bears collection. Today I grabbed a 2005 NFC North Championship hat. And I thought to myself DAMN! Thats 20 years ago and the last time they made it to the Superbowl. Then I thought hey, before that the only other Superbowl was the triumphant 1985 Bears.
Hmmmm? That means every 20 year the Bears go to the Superbowl! And guess what year this is 😀 It's practically a lock! Even if you go back to 1965 they didn't have a Superbowl yet but the Bears were 9-5 that year which would have put them in the playoffs where they easily would have advanced to the Superbowl had it and playoff football been invented.
Happy Friday and happy football season may all our rooting interests, bets, futures and fantasy players give us some enjoyment this season!
A good trivia question is what’s the earliest a Super Bowl was played. Without looking IIRC it was
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XI Raiders-Vikings.
I was born in 1965 and mentioned the last non SB seasons in the birth year thread. Bears had the fourth best record but got hosed due to the wacky geography; Baltimore in the West, Dallas in the East.
The last old school season, 14 games, 14 teams, every one playing in muddy ballparks or college bowls. Not a glamorous year historically, but definitely the last head in the sand/ fingers in your ears year for the John Wayne generation.
1965, the year I was born:The Beatles released the Help! movie & Rubber Soul album, and played at Shea Stadium Bob Dylan went electric The controversial Ali-Liston rematch was held in Lewiston, MaineThe last preSuper Bowl football seasons are played, also Jim Brown’s final seasonOperation Rolling Thunder commenced in Vietnam LBJ signed The Highway Beautification ActThe M
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A good trivia question is what's the earliest a Super Bowl was played. Without looking IIRC it was
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XI Raiders-Vikings.
I was born in 1965 and mentioned the last non SB seasons in the birth year thread. Bears had the fourth best record but got hosed due to the wacky geography; Baltimore in the West, Dallas in the East.The last old school season, 14 games, 14 teams, every one play
I remember watching the first superbowl (1967) KC vs GB. Stram vs. Lombardi. Dawson vs. Starr. That was football. A normal noon Sunday game with no pre game hoopla. It was wonderful! A shame to see what it has become.
When I teach Romantic Comedy, I tell my students that The Kinsey Report on female sexuality is published as is Playboy. Everest was conquered by Hillary and Norgay. And I was born.
How these events are related I leave up to them.
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Marcus Lattimore
one of the best to EVER tote a footbawl in his palm
dislocated himself from a spurious state of care, lying, and hate during covid
choosing instead relocation toward the oregon epicenter of George Floyd protests knowing the fit would suit him well
soon becoming running back coach at lewis & clark college for a year
and with this ample sound experience as a leader of men throughout the northwest
he quicly constructed for himself a stand up poet position with messages fully in the vein of Gil Scott-Heron
the following link instruction secluded for any potential boomer luddites
clique the [x] upper right
then quickly travel directly south for opportunity to unmute and receive your next instructions
what he describes as Oregon Therapy
i wholeheartedly agree
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG6iKizyn...
also this
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Marcus Lattimorewas like no otherone of the best to EVER tote a footbawl in his palmdislocated himself from a spurious state of care, lying, and hate during covidchoosing instead relocation toward the oregon epicenter of George Floyd protests fully knowing the fit would suit him wellfound himself soon assisting the running back coach at lewis & clark collegeand after a year wit
caught while editing
corrected version above
but turned in before the deadline
is free credit still available?
I like him.
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I have maybe the oddest writing class ever with two trans students, a former professional ballerina, and a Russian woman who told me she might intimidate other students.
I'm looking forward to reading their papers.
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Apology for Old Clothes
Cerulean tweed jacket, twenty years old, that blueprints
the pitch of my shoulders...Cardigan out at the elbows-
comfortable, unkempt,
familiar as memory's attic after fifty years of collecting...
I wear a shabby house,
as the lazy turtle does, disreputable and easy, dozing
in mud all winter.
Donald Hall
Apology for Old Clothes
Cerulean tweed jacket, twenty years old, that blueprints
the pitch of my shoulders...Cardigan out at the elbows-
comfortable, unkempt,
familiar as memory's attic after fifty years of collecting...
I wear a shabby house,
as the lazy turtle does, disreputable and easy, dozing
in mud all winter.
Donald Hall
surreal description of being classified somewhere between draughtsman for hire and dropcloth
your desk barely forward of the nasally amonia jolt persistantly burping from the blueprint machine
propped up all day on your elbows mindlessly tracing rectanglular templates with circular lead
those diazo machines used to drive me crazy
I remember watching the first superbowl (1967) KC vs GB. Stram vs. Lombardi. Dawson vs. Starr. That was football. A normal noon Sunday game with no pre game hoopla. It was wonderful! A shame to see what it has become.
I missed that first Super Bowl because I was visiting the jungles of South Vietam trying to kill the VC before they killed me.
Looks like I won!
lol jesus
one early job in an actual office setting included replicating multiple sets of what we called squats
imagine how a mascot might do a push up for every point the football team scores
bruh, now reproduce and convert that reflexive brain movement into the number of six square feet each sheets of paper waved from your wrists
then sorted and bound several times over to achieve the quantities required by your local authority having jurisdiction
and the only horizontal surface large enough to fit it all was the floor
My colleagues are planning a retirement party for a long time member of the English Department. They told me it's going to be on Dec. 9 for dinner and then going to see Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Every year I send an email to the entire department to remind them that "Dancing in September" is the official English Department theme song. (Yeah, they're used to me.)
I told them I couldn't go because my daughter had already bought tickets to go a couple months ago.
You know if you're going to have a daughter, have one like mine. I love that kid.
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In honour of the official end of summer, and this thread.
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You was expecting Don Henley?
“What do you take me for…?”
