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« Reply #2296 on: June 09, 2024, 09:15:03 AM »
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« Reply #2297 on: June 09, 2024, 09:46:18 AM »
World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2024 revealed | CNN

Ah yes, one of my favorite rankings, just behind wine rankings and points.

I'm fairly certain these places serve "art", more than food.  You get a bite or two of something elegantly presented.  Whether it tastes good or not is a bit of an aside, I suspect, and if you like it a lot, never fear, something different is about to appear and you may never get to taste that item again.

My experience at a "3 star" was of course a major disappointment, and I didn't expect all that much.  I'd rather go to Fox Bros. and have pulled pork and Brunswick stew and fried okra with a slice of loaf bread.

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« Reply #2298 on: June 09, 2024, 10:01:22 AM »
OK, I clicked on it.

Just to see how many were in the US

2??

NYC isn't high on my list of places to visit
I suppose I could make it to Healdsburg with the daughters in January, but won't be spending that type of change on a meal.
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« Reply #2299 on: June 09, 2024, 10:05:32 AM »
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« Reply #2300 on: June 09, 2024, 10:22:04 AM »
We attended a pretty neat concert last night.  It was well received by the audience, I thought, my wife said she enjoyed it as much as any she'd ever attended.  I was musing about this versus some fancy restaurant.  In a concert of this ilk, you might hear a passage you really like, and usually there is a reprise, maybe in a different key or with different instruments, a change, but the same, and you get to enjoy it again, and maybe several times through the piece.

With these fancy restaurants, you might get a bite or two of something you really like, and then, it's gone.  You get another bite of something very different that you might not like nearly as much.

In contrast to a "regular" restaurant, if you order steak, or fish, or chicken, and it's really good, it's really good for the next 30 minutes or so, maybe it gets slightly cold, whatever.  Of course, if it's not good ...

We stopped off on the way back at a place we like and I had a clam linguini meal, it was good, and there was a nice portion size.

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« Reply #2301 on: June 10, 2024, 04:24:34 PM »
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« Reply #2302 on: June 10, 2024, 04:48:52 PM »
Florida had something like 33 straight seasons of .500 or better. 
Those were the days.
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« Reply #2303 on: June 10, 2024, 04:55:31 PM »
Solich spoiled a helluva run in 2002

started in 1962
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« Reply #2304 on: June 10, 2024, 09:42:57 PM »
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« Reply #2305 on: June 11, 2024, 07:23:06 AM »


These are kinda funny to me since we really don't know for sure how good their opponents will be, so it's kind of a preseason ranking obviously, and based on "FPI" (which seems useless to me).  I'm curious why no B1G teams warranted inclusion, nearly all of these are SEC teams but one.  Maybe 9 is a mistake?

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« Reply #2306 on: June 11, 2024, 07:47:00 AM »
no big 10 teams because the 4 PAC teams joining watered down the scedules

Maybe #9 is a mistake - the guy doing the ranking might not be aware that #9 is NOT an SEC school
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« Reply #2307 on: June 11, 2024, 09:03:36 AM »
GT's schedule is hard because it doesn't get to play GT.
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« Reply #2308 on: June 11, 2024, 09:29:28 AM »

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« Reply #2309 on: June 11, 2024, 09:31:09 AM »
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