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OrangeAfroMan

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« Reply #3892 on: May 05, 2025, 09:24:59 PM »
If you haven't tried Peruvian, give it a go.

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« Reply #3893 on: May 05, 2025, 09:26:04 PM »
Ethiopian would just be an empty plate
It's actually good, and you use that flat bread to pick everything up with.  Gets REALLY filling when every bite has some 'injera'.
“The Swamp is where Gators live.  We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous." - Steve Spurrier

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« Reply #3894 on: May 05, 2025, 09:54:45 PM »


That's often my downfall at the Indian place, with the naan bread. 

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« Reply #3895 on: May 05, 2025, 10:06:55 PM »


How do you rank the Planet of the Apes movies? 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA

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« Reply #3896 on: May 05, 2025, 10:14:26 PM »
"Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport."

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« Reply #3897 on: May 05, 2025, 10:36:10 PM »


Even though they are including the Pac 12 hires, you guys still managed to land two in the top five. 

Impressive run. 

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« Reply #3898 on: May 06, 2025, 08:02:15 AM »

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« Reply #3899 on: May 06, 2025, 09:58:46 AM »
If that's accurate, I'm shocked that with TX and FL producing 45 and 25 respectively, CA only produced 15.  Surely the overall trend has got to be more on par with the other populous states.  

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« Reply #3900 on: May 06, 2025, 10:05:07 AM »

I don't think Ryan Walters deserves the #1 slot. 

This is like the anti-CotY argument. I.e. that to win CotY, you have to perform significantly above expectations. If you're the OSU football coach, or the MSU basketball coach, your expectations are already so sky-high that it's basically impossible to go beyond them enough to win the award. 

Purdue is the opposite. Purdue coaching failures are the norm. Historically, we've hired a decent one who experienced "success" maybe 1/4-1/3 of the time. But even then, "success" for Purdue would be failure for a helmet team. "Success" for Purdue is consistently being above 0.500. 

Walters was bad, yes. But Purdue is the kind of place that to be #1 on this list you'd basically have to have a negative win total AND leave the school saddled with a massive scandal that reached national news. He was bad, and he failed. But being bad and failing was pretty much meeting expectations. 

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« Reply #3901 on: May 06, 2025, 10:12:00 AM »
But being bad and failing was pretty much meeting expectations.

There's a joke about weather-men in there somewhere.  

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« Reply #3902 on: May 06, 2025, 10:14:12 AM »
The weather forecasts here seem reasonable to me.  Folks still make fun of them because folks seize on when they were wrong and ignore all the times they were pretty much dead on.


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« Reply #3903 on: May 06, 2025, 10:21:23 AM »
The weather forecasts here seem reasonable to me.  Folks still make fun of them because folks seize on when they were wrong and ignore all the times they were pretty much dead on.



Depending on the region though, being right most of the time isn't necessarily all that impressive.

For example, from June through September in Austin, Texas, predicting 95 degrees and sunny with no rain at all, will make you right about 92% of the time.  Bump that up to 103 degrees and sunny for July 20-August 20 and you'll be right 98% of the time.

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« Reply #3904 on: May 06, 2025, 10:25:43 AM »
Sure, it may not be impressive, the weather here if fairly consistent, we get a lot of rain this time of year, but folks still will claim they are "always" wrong, which of course is wrong.

We get more rain here than any large metro area except Houston, quite bit more than Seattle.  In the summer, it comes fairly often around 4-5 PM for 30 minutes or so.

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