Recent content by dwm74

Maybe, maybe not. I took Spanish all four years in high school, and when I moved out to Arizona, I figured I'd fit right in. Uh uh. HUGE difference between 'book' Spanish and what is actually spoken around the Southwest. Plus, like I'd always said to my Latina wife and her family, "Y'all talk...

November 2009. For some reason, my profile always says my posts are around 660, even though in reality I've posted probably over 10,000 posts here over these past 17 years. :meh:

Just wondering if they serve Orange Whips there, and how much they cost. They really need to promote that a little more..

I'm going to guess every NHL GM has a dartboard with Danny Briere's picture on it. He singlehandedly upset the financial apple cart by offering a 0.7 ppg player a whopping $18M, which in turn lead to every other player in the category of "pretty good but not quite a superstar" to think they're...

That would be a good topic for a whole 'nother thread. I may have posted this before, but as a kid I thought the music we heard on the radio was from bands playing live at the radio station, that they'd all just be standing around waiting until it was their turn to play their song.

Well, after many long months of Jason Robertson repeatedly turning down $12M and asking for $14M, he ends up signing a one-year $12M deal. What he gets long-term may well be $14M or more, but this was such a long and drawn out tug of war that was all for naught.

Reminds me of the time we picked up a construction permit from a major city where I worked. I sent our runner down to City Hall to pick it up (with a blank check), and he'd fill it out for the amount when he got there. Problem was, somebody dropped a decimal point and we were charged 10x what it...

Cheap Distortion pedal. Didn't really lose it, but it has been gone forever. What happened to it? Back in the early 80s as a guitarist, I ended up with several distortion pedals. One day, a friend of my little brother asked if he could borrow one, and since it wasn't my main player, I let him...

Sheesh, the only one I didn't recognize were the little springy things in pic #7. All the rest were very familiar.

I didn't really have a strong tie to either finalist, and was leaning toward Spain as I'd posted earlier. But as I watched the match, I quickly became 100% on Spain's side, due to the overall tactics of the Argentine players. Big difference between playing with intensity and playing dirty. Their...

Nyah-ha-ha! Still remember his trademark saying all these decades later!

England. Sigh. Despite Tuchel's strategy of playing all defense in the latter stages of the match, he's supposedly still in good standing with the powers that be, as the FA is still backing him to continue on as manager. Hopefully he learned something from yesterday's backfiring of that...

Yeah, I must be ancient because I remember seeing paperbacks for 59 cents and then they jumped up to 79 cents. Would have been in the late 60s, if my memory serves me correctly.

I'm almost finished with Celebrity Traitors UK...not sure which season but it has Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross, Kate Garraway, and company. definitely one of the better seasons, and light years better than the American Celebrity versions. :thumbsup:

Anthony Mantha finally signs with the Devils. After a career year, heard he was seeking 5 years @ $6M per, he ends up in NJ on a 2 yr, $4.75M per. Penguins shoulda/coulda kept him for that price.