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Todd Donoho
In 1986, I lived in Kitchener for a few months. One of the stations on the cable was Financial News Network, (FNN), that, during the day, had a real time stock ticker scrolling right to left across the bottom third of the screen, and usually business and stock market talking heads talking about this or that. When they had commercials, they only filled the top section of the picture, and the ticker kept scrolling.
After the market closed, they ran some old shit in the evenings, but from six to seven PM was The Fan Speaks Out, a nationwide sports phone in show, hosted by Todd Donoho. For the entire evening, they ran a continuous ticker of sports, seasonally, also in real time, so the ticker would show something like BOS 2 CLE 0 Bot 4 (2 out, no on), AB Snyder 0-1 (0-2), then the line score to date, and we'd get an update on that game in about 2½ minutes, for every game in progress, to completion.
Todd had a jock face; every guy who looks like him is a jock. He looked a bit like Kurt Russell when he was doing Disney movies like The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, with a Richie Cunningham nose, and a Family Guy chin, you know the type.
This was the best picture of him that I could find online, from the same time period. I only ever saw him for those few months in Kitchener, and the later photos suggested he didn't age well.
There are probably better pictures of him on the Internet, but no one will find them because the guy who uploaded them spelled his name wrong.
Whenever a caller first said 'How are you doing, Todd?', his answer was always "Outstanding.".
Todd would field calls about any of a number of sports, Baseball, NASCAR, College Basketball, Rodeo, you name it, and he had detailed knowledge and opinion about all of them.
One time, a complete idiot came on, and wasted Todd's time for about twenty seconds, before Todd dismissed him with his catch phrase "OK, you're gone.", and then he said, very nonchalantly, "Yeah, I remember my first beer".
It was the greatest, most pure diss of all time. There is no comeback to that, you have to just turn around, and walk away, six inches tall, like when some young bird at The Pub tells off Andy Capp.
In 1986, I lived in Kitchener for a few months. One of the stations on the cable was Financial News Network, (FNN), that, during the day, had a real time stock ticker scrolling right to left across the bottom third of the screen, and usually business and stock market talking heads talking about this or that. When they had commercials, they only filled the top section of the picture, and the ticker kept scrolling.
After the market closed, they ran some old shit in the evenings, but from six to seven PM was The Fan Speaks Out, a nationwide sports phone in show, hosted by Todd Donoho. For the entire evening, they ran a continuous ticker of sports, seasonally, also in real time, so the ticker would show something like BOS 2 CLE 0 Bot 4 (2 out, no on), AB Snyder 0-1 (0-2), then the line score to date, and we'd get an update on that game in about 2½ minutes, for every game in progress, to completion.
Todd had a jock face; every guy who looks like him is a jock. He looked a bit like Kurt Russell when he was doing Disney movies like The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, with a Richie Cunningham nose, and a Family Guy chin, you know the type.
This was the best picture of him that I could find online, from the same time period. I only ever saw him for those few months in Kitchener, and the later photos suggested he didn't age well.
There are probably better pictures of him on the Internet, but no one will find them because the guy who uploaded them spelled his name wrong.
Whenever a caller first said 'How are you doing, Todd?', his answer was always "Outstanding.".
Todd would field calls about any of a number of sports, Baseball, NASCAR, College Basketball, Rodeo, you name it, and he had detailed knowledge and opinion about all of them.
One time, a complete idiot came on, and wasted Todd's time for about twenty seconds, before Todd dismissed him with his catch phrase "OK, you're gone.", and then he said, very nonchalantly, "Yeah, I remember my first beer".
It was the greatest, most pure diss of all time. There is no comeback to that, you have to just turn around, and walk away, six inches tall, like when some young bird at The Pub tells off Andy Capp.
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The Circle of Knowledge
In the mid 70's, I bought a book called The Circle of Knowledge at a second hand book store, and I eventually gave it to my brother-in-law, who collects old books. It's not a rare or valuable book, and a copy could probably be obtained online somewhere, for about $10. It's the one edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff for The Standard Publication Company. There were a number of editions published from approximately 1915 to the late 1920's. The one I had was hardcover, 1924, and I paid about $2 for it in mid 70's money.
The Circle of Knowledge was like a one volume encyclopedia of facts and opinions, approximately 1,000 pages long. I had the impression that it may have been used as a text book in rural one room school houses, because some sections were for young children, and other parts covered various branches of science and mathematics.
There was a page titled Physical and Mental Characteristics of the Primary Human Groups, in which there were columns of information about the Caucasian, or White race, the Negro, or Black race, the Mongolian, or Yellow race, and the Indian, or Red race.
They would list statistics about average height and weight, hair and eye colour, finger and toe relative lengths, etc., and the last column was Temperament. The following is quoted almost exactly from the text, for Temperament:
White: Serious, steadfast, solid and stolid in the north, fiery, impulsive, fickle in the south. Active and enterprising everywhere. Arts, science, letters highly developed.
Yellow: Sluggish, sullen, capable of little initiative, but high endurance. Moral standard low. Art, science moderately developed.
Red: Moody, taciturn, wary in presence of strangers. (I don't remember the rest).
Black: Indolent, improvident, passing easily from comedy to tragedy. Little sense of dignity, hence easily enslaved. Some mental development after puberty.
On the following page, there is a paragraph heading, in bold type, that read The Caucasian, the Real historic race. The first sentence was "The only race whose history is important to us is the Caucasian, or White race, to which we ourselves belong".
He who writes the text books, controls the following generation. Most people believe for life what they are told before they are ten years old, when they still believe that everything told to them by an adult is true.
In the mid 70's, I bought a book called The Circle of Knowledge at a second hand book store, and I eventually gave it to my brother-in-law, who collects old books. It's not a rare or valuable book, and a copy could probably be obtained online somewhere, for about $10. It's the one edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff for The Standard Publication Company. There were a number of editions published from approximately 1915 to the late 1920's. The one I had was hardcover, 1924, and I paid about $2 for it in mid 70's money.
The Circle of Knowledge was like a one volume encyclopedia of facts and opinions, approximately 1,000 pages long. I had the impression that it may have been used as a text book in rural one room school houses, because some sections were for young children, and other parts covered various branches of science and mathematics.
There was a page titled Physical and Mental Characteristics of the Primary Human Groups, in which there were columns of information about the Caucasian, or White race, the Negro, or Black race, the Mongolian, or Yellow race, and the Indian, or Red race.
They would list statistics about average height and weight, hair and eye colour, finger and toe relative lengths, etc., and the last column was Temperament. The following is quoted almost exactly from the text, for Temperament:
White: Serious, steadfast, solid and stolid in the north, fiery, impulsive, fickle in the south. Active and enterprising everywhere. Arts, science, letters highly developed.
Yellow: Sluggish, sullen, capable of little initiative, but high endurance. Moral standard low. Art, science moderately developed.
Red: Moody, taciturn, wary in presence of strangers. (I don't remember the rest).
Black: Indolent, improvident, passing easily from comedy to tragedy. Little sense of dignity, hence easily enslaved. Some mental development after puberty.
On the following page, there is a paragraph heading, in bold type, that read The Caucasian, the Real historic race. The first sentence was "The only race whose history is important to us is the Caucasian, or White race, to which we ourselves belong".
He who writes the text books, controls the following generation. Most people believe for life what they are told before they are ten years old, when they still believe that everything told to them by an adult is true.
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My cat doesn't pay much attention to television. Sometimes he watches bits of Formula One races, but only for a couple of minutes, before licking himself. When I got the 50 inch Plasma TV in 2011, he was a bit nervous when he saw some of an episode of Trailer Park Boys, in which Steve French, the cougar, (cat family), that was eating Ricky's weed crop appeared, but he figured out that the big cat on TV wasn't real in about 30 seconds.
There was, however, one show that he watched intently: Oz, the HBO drama set in the fictional maximum security Oswald State Penitentiary. He watched every episode from the first few seasons, but lost interest after Kareem Said killed Simon Adebesi in the last episode of season 4.
He also really, really, likes, or really, really hates, the song Europe Endless by Kraftwerk. I can't be sure; he doesn't use emoticons.
There was, however, one show that he watched intently: Oz, the HBO drama set in the fictional maximum security Oswald State Penitentiary. He watched every episode from the first few seasons, but lost interest after Kareem Said killed Simon Adebesi in the last episode of season 4.
He also really, really, likes, or really, really hates, the song Europe Endless by Kraftwerk. I can't be sure; he doesn't use emoticons.
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My eldest sister had tickets to see The Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1964.
When the Fab Four took the stage, she fainted in all of the excitement, and missed the whole performance. In those days, there were like five different acts at a Rock concert, and the headlining band was on stage for about twenty minutes.
Thirteen years later, she saw The Rolling Stones at the El Mocambo. In 1967, at Expo '67 in Montreal, she rode on the Gyrotron with Paul Revere and The Raiders.
My next oldest sister dated my former high school gym teacher for a little while, while I was still in high school. She didn't know that we knew each other when she introduced us. He was looking at me with this silly grin on his face, and I went up to him and said "Hold still", and I touched the palm of my hand on his forehead, and said "There. You have my blessing, but from now on, your name is Steve whenever I see you, when we're not on school property". He thought that was pretty funny, and she did, too, when he explained it to her.
My youngest older sister never once went longer than four hours without having a boyfriend, once she turned thirteen, but in her entire lifetime, she probably didn't go out with ten different guys. There was one guy, Andrew, that she dumped after less than two days. Rumour had it that it was because he had a really small dick, but I think that rumour was started by the guy she went out with, before him.
She was really pretty, as a teenager. She looked facially sort of like a cross between Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday and Jodie Foster, when she was attending Yale.
That sister had a Frank Frazetta woman body:
with a large, natural C cup. She never wore a bra, until after she was 30, and even then, rarely.
When I was in high school, she used to do the house cleaning wearing a thin neglige that left little to the imagination, and a pair of white panties. My friends from school would always ask me what day that week she was going to be vacuuming, and I would tell them, because she was quite the bitch in those days towards my brother and I, probably in part because she was, by then, the oldest, living at home. She mellowed with age, and has been happily married to the same guy for about 35 years.
Both of their sons are in the Canadian Army. One of them was or is in Special Ops. I saw a picture of him dressed and made up as a local while on an assignment in Afghanistan, and he pulled it off a lot better than that puppet Gary did in Team America: World Police.
When the Fab Four took the stage, she fainted in all of the excitement, and missed the whole performance. In those days, there were like five different acts at a Rock concert, and the headlining band was on stage for about twenty minutes.
Thirteen years later, she saw The Rolling Stones at the El Mocambo. In 1967, at Expo '67 in Montreal, she rode on the Gyrotron with Paul Revere and The Raiders.
My next oldest sister dated my former high school gym teacher for a little while, while I was still in high school. She didn't know that we knew each other when she introduced us. He was looking at me with this silly grin on his face, and I went up to him and said "Hold still", and I touched the palm of my hand on his forehead, and said "There. You have my blessing, but from now on, your name is Steve whenever I see you, when we're not on school property". He thought that was pretty funny, and she did, too, when he explained it to her.
My youngest older sister never once went longer than four hours without having a boyfriend, once she turned thirteen, but in her entire lifetime, she probably didn't go out with ten different guys. There was one guy, Andrew, that she dumped after less than two days. Rumour had it that it was because he had a really small dick, but I think that rumour was started by the guy she went out with, before him.
She was really pretty, as a teenager. She looked facially sort of like a cross between Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday and Jodie Foster, when she was attending Yale.
That sister had a Frank Frazetta woman body:
with a large, natural C cup. She never wore a bra, until after she was 30, and even then, rarely.
When I was in high school, she used to do the house cleaning wearing a thin neglige that left little to the imagination, and a pair of white panties. My friends from school would always ask me what day that week she was going to be vacuuming, and I would tell them, because she was quite the bitch in those days towards my brother and I, probably in part because she was, by then, the oldest, living at home. She mellowed with age, and has been happily married to the same guy for about 35 years.
Both of their sons are in the Canadian Army. One of them was or is in Special Ops. I saw a picture of him dressed and made up as a local while on an assignment in Afghanistan, and he pulled it off a lot better than that puppet Gary did in Team America: World Police.
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When I was a kid, my mom used to serve turnip three or four times a year, even though none of us kids liked turnip. We would all scoop it up with our hands, when she wasn't looking, and feed it to the dog, under the table.
Anyone who has ever done this, as well, knows that the worst smell in the world is the smell of a dog's fart after the dog has eaten turnip. If you haven't done that, and don't know the smell, imagine a smell so bad that a dog tries to run away from the smell of his own ass.
Later on, she tried to fool us by mixing turnip together with mashed potatoes, and that worked once, for about one bite. Nobody had seconds, and nobody heated up the leftover mashed potatoes and turnip when it was in the fridge, so the next time she served turnip, the dog wasn't allowed in the dining room, and we had to plug our noses with thumb and index fingers blocking our nostrils, so we could eat it, but not have to taste it. The kids at school the next day knew we had eaten turnip the night before.
Anyone who has ever done this, as well, knows that the worst smell in the world is the smell of a dog's fart after the dog has eaten turnip. If you haven't done that, and don't know the smell, imagine a smell so bad that a dog tries to run away from the smell of his own ass.
Later on, she tried to fool us by mixing turnip together with mashed potatoes, and that worked once, for about one bite. Nobody had seconds, and nobody heated up the leftover mashed potatoes and turnip when it was in the fridge, so the next time she served turnip, the dog wasn't allowed in the dining room, and we had to plug our noses with thumb and index fingers blocking our nostrils, so we could eat it, but not have to taste it. The kids at school the next day knew we had eaten turnip the night before.
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You could publish a great book of anecdotes bob. :good:
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Sarah said:
I thought I was doing that already, just not charging people money to read it.
You know who does like to eat turnip? Ms. Femme Fatale. She said she likes the taste of turnips, on another board. I don't know anyone else. She pretty much has a whole vegetable, all to herself. Most women who pretty much have a whole vegetable all to themselves are also primary breadwinners.
I wish they sold lima beans at No Frills. Oh, and Our Compliments small peas? They're exactly the same as Le Seur, even the juice. Only an idiot would pay an extra 60 cents a can, just for the silver label. The cans themselves may even be the same. Perhaps they make them all in the same factory, and set some aside for silver labels, to go to upscale grocery chains, that cater to people who want to pay extra for the labels.
Catsup is not Ketchup, however. Catsup makes things taste worse, instead of supplying a symbolic blood colour to purchased meat, plus a lot of sugar to aid in weight gain.
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Well guess who else likes turnip? Mashed with tons of butter, salt and pepper. :biggrin2:
Incidently - I learned **** survival skills from observing MFF and MJL.
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What the whole side of the building went down, just from a car crashing into it? Was it hollow on the inside? :SayWhat?:
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Sarah said:
MJL is a favorite of mine, though we've never met. MFF and I share differing opinions on a great many subjects. Some of #708 was an intentional segué to tie the post to Todd Donoho, (last paragraph), from #701.
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Greeter said:
I saw one in an SEC game, a couple of years ago, that tops my list. I believe the receiver was playing for Alabama. There's probably a YouTube clip of it somewhere, most likely from 2011 or 2012.
There was man-to-man coverage in the end zone, the defender was in front of the receiver, and the ball was slightly overthrown. The receiver and the defender were both facing towards the line of scrimmage as the ball was arriving, and the receiver reached around the defender's body, and caught the ball blind, behind the other guy's back, as if he was 'hugging him', around the waist.
I don't have time to search for it, but it has to be on YouTube somewhere. People post hour long clips of the tailgate barbequing from a Tide game, and get a million views.
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Not a Tide fan but this catch made me take notice when I first saw it.
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Cardinal Fang said:
That's a nice one Fang. I looked on YouTube to try to find the one I was talking about, but I wasn't successful.
I may have the year wrong. I think Greg McIlroy was the Alabama QB, but I'm not positive about that. It could have been the guy before him. The other guy who was watching the game I'm talking about might have some additional details, regarding when this happened. If he remembers whether we saw it on the old or the new TV, that would help a lot, in determining the time frame. It was later than Vince Young's career at Texas, I'm sure of that.
As you get older, things that seem to have taken place only a couple of years ago often took place four or five years ago. He probably doesn't remember the receiver's name, either. I do recall that 'Bama was wearing the red jerseys that day.
There was another play that piqued my interest, a long time ago. It was a high school or minor college game, and one of linebackers only had one leg. The other was amputated at the hip. This guy was like a human pogo stick; he hopped really fast, and the play that caught my attention was when he 'hopped down' a scrambling QB, and sacked him from behind for a big loss, well outside of the 'hash marks'. It was like an 80's video game. Someone may have better luck finding that one.
I was disappointed by the result filtering options at YouTube. The keyword choices I used should have filtered out many of the extraneous results, and I dodn't have two hours to look through all the ones that might be the one I'm talking about, for the 'behind the other guy's back' catch mentioned in #713. I'm sure it's on there somewhere, but probably in the middle of a poorly described compilation.
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John Madden told this story about one of his former players, Ted Hendricks, on an NFL broadcast. I saw the game, but not the incident, but I don't believe that John made it up. He isn't the kind of guy who would have to.
Ted Hendricks was combing his hair over a toilet, and accidentally dropped thirty-five cents into the toilet. Hendricks starred at the money, and started to get angry. He reached into his pocket, pulled out a wad of bills, took a fifty dollar bill, crumpled it up, and threw it in the toilet.
Madden, watching this, asked Ted why he had done that, and Ted said: "You don't think I'm going in there for thirty-five cents, do you?".
Ted Hendricks was combing his hair over a toilet, and accidentally dropped thirty-five cents into the toilet. Hendricks starred at the money, and started to get angry. He reached into his pocket, pulled out a wad of bills, took a fifty dollar bill, crumpled it up, and threw it in the toilet.
Madden, watching this, asked Ted why he had done that, and Ted said: "You don't think I'm going in there for thirty-five cents, do you?".
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Stone age axe found with wood handle
The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project. The axe seems to have been jammed into what was once the seabed, perhaps as part of a ritual offering. The lack of oxygen in the clay ground helped preserve the wooden handle.
The find was made in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland, which is to be connected to the German island of Fehmarn via the tunnel link.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30197084
The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project. The axe seems to have been jammed into what was once the seabed, perhaps as part of a ritual offering. The lack of oxygen in the clay ground helped preserve the wooden handle.
The find was made in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland, which is to be connected to the German island of Fehmarn via the tunnel link.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30197084
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Stone age axe found with wood handle
The 5,500-year-old Neolithic axe was found during archaeological surveys ahead of a multi-billion euro tunnel project. The axe seems to have been jammed into what was once the seabed, perhaps as part of a ritual offering. The lack of oxygen in the clay ground helped preserve the wooden handle.
The find was made in Rodbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland, which is to be connected to the German island of Fehmarn via the tunnel link.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30197084
If you look closely at the picture, it looks like a guy's face, with one eye winking, and the axe head is the nose, and the squiggly white line at the bottom is supposed to be a mouth, trying not to laugh, so I have some serious doubts about the authenticity of this post.
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The BBC doesn't make stuff up like CNN and FOX does. :don'twantto-see:/
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