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Title: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 21, 2017, 05:00:22 PM
I'm beginning to think that Nebraska has the same entitled expectations as does Texas.  Of course you've just heard that they fired their AD of 5 years.  For what?  Losing.  In Football.

Hmm.  Problem is - When compared to Texas, I'm not sure Nebbie has the same opportunity to right the ship.  And I'm not sure their fan base gets it.

Nebbie's best shot at recruiting was to go south, and supplement with corn-fed Midwestern boys.  And that whole "partial qualifiers" thing didn't hurt either.  But those days are gone.  Now the Huskers sit in the B1G, with little to no southern exposure, and fight to lure athletes to the corn fields and away from Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, etc.

This doesn't look good for Nebraska, and their passionate, but entitled fan base.  In the B1G, Nebraska serves the purpose of the Washington Generals, merely a helmet school to match-up against the aforementioned B1G blue bloods.  And yes, it pays well.  In the Big 12 however, the Huskers were the Globetrotters.  Winning pays well also.

Husker fans are going to need a realignment, or else they will be firing AD's and coaches till the cows come home.  The B1G holds no glory days in its future for Nebraska.  There's no room for it, and Nebbie will never get the players.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 21, 2017, 05:29:24 PM
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Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 21, 2017, 05:31:41 PM
This is my first time to post pics here, I'm glad it works.  Or at least it looks like it does, anyway. 

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Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 08:08:50 AM
Nebraska reminds me of Arkansas.  The Razorbacks once possessed the very unique identity of being one of the best teams in the Southwest Conference.  Then they made the smart decision to join a better conference and promptly became mediocre.  Sentimental old people like me hate to see them so mediocre and think it would be interesting if they could flare up and at least have one really special season, but they just seem to be destined for 7-6 or 8-5 seasons with blue moon 11-3 ceilings.

Say what you will about the conference strength and security.  It's sad to see once proud programs lose their identity.

Imagine all the chicken places banding together to form a coalition to make the same chicken.   No more Bush's Chicken or Popeyes.  Just chicken.

That's what conference realignment gives you.  Ubiquity.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 22, 2017, 08:58:08 AM
Pretty good analogy I think.  I don't much care about Arkansas anymore, it's just been so long since we played them regularly, but I do wish Nebraska were still good, and that they were still in the B12.

Speaking of chicken, have you tried Gus's?  It's really good.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 10:30:20 AM
No, Junior.  I haven't had the pleasure yet. I'll have to check it out.

I work on the Easide now, quite close to Reagan High School so I like to go to either Pollo Regio or Popeyes.  Back home in the LCP, I opt for Golden Chick or Pollo Rico.  If I'm at an LISD football game, I'm probably eating Bush's.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 10:37:34 AM
The thing I love about Golden Chick is the fact that they always give you extra tenders.  

I love the grilled onion and horchata at Rich Chicken (Pollo Rico).

Popeyes has the whole Easide harmless ghetto charm.  People be yelling and stuff.  They have a $1.49 special on Tuesdays and it's fun to just wade into the agreeable sea of poor people like myself looking for just a little something something.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 11:10:33 AM
If I'm at an LISD football game, I'm probably eating Bush's.
I tried a Bush's Chicken in Lampasas and quite enjoyed it as far as chicken joints go.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 11:23:20 AM
Lampassas has a Schlotzskys now and its thriving like a mofo.  Busiest place in town. 
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 11:24:11 AM
I like the Nebraska / Arkansas comparison.  But another thing that is becoming more apparent to me - that some of you have already bemoaned in the past....  conferences are getting too big!  I used to be all jazzed about the 16 team conference, but now I don't know.

Anything over 12 teams is just too damn many I'm beginning to believe.  I know many SEC fans that would happily give back A&M and Missouri to get back to 12 teams.  Hell, conferences used to be 8 teams.

I find myself hoping that the Big 12 actually survives these days, and that a Nebbie or an Arky will consider coming over.  Once Texas rebounds, and hopefully rebrands itself as a gracious conference member (unlike DeLoss), it's not out of the realm that we couldn't hook back up with more P4 schools.

But for Texas to simply join one of the existing 14 team conferences, I'm not so crazy about right now.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 11:30:57 AM
Lampassas has a Schlotzskys now and its thriving like a mofo.  Busiest place in town.
Schlotzsky's sandwiches are like Lay's potato chips for me.  I can't eat just one.
I ate one of their big ass mammer jammer's one time.  You know the sandwich that you're supposed to share?
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 11:40:22 AM
You can make a passable imitation of a Schlotzskys sandwich at home if you put deli meats and veggies on a toasted English muffin.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 11:42:15 AM
The NFL has equal sized divisions structured for a systematic plaoff.

I like the arbitrariness of college football.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 22, 2017, 12:03:30 PM
I'm a big fan of Schlotzsky's too.  Addictive stuff.  


Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: 847badgerfan on September 22, 2017, 12:19:41 PM
I like the Nebraska / Arkansas comparison.  But another thing that is becoming more apparent to me - that some of you have already bemoaned in the past....  conferences are getting too big!  I used to be all jazzed about the 16 team conference, but now I don't know.

Anything over 12 teams is just too damn many I'm beginning to believe.  I know many SEC fans that would happily give back A&M and Missouri to get back to 12 teams.  Hell, conferences used to be 8 teams.

I find myself hoping that the Big 12 actually survives these days, and that a Nebbie or an Arky will consider coming over.  Once Texas rebounds, and hopefully rebrands itself as a gracious conference member (unlike DeLoss), it's not out of the realm that we couldn't hook back up with more P4 schools.

But for Texas to simply join one of the existing 14 team conferences, I'm not so crazy about right now.

Not to get too deep into the realignment thing.. I would like the B1G to go back to 11 and play 10 conference games and 3 OOC games. Obviously Maryland and Rutgers would be the first two to go since they didn't make sense to start with.

The you have to pick one of Penn State and Nebraska. For the good of the Big 12, Nebraska would be the choice.

But it would also be good for the old "Eastern Independents for PSU to anchor a new conference out there, with schools like WVU, BC, VT, etc. It would be a good spot for Maryland and Rutgers too. Even Notre Dame would make sense.

I don't think this high number of schools in one conference is sustainable.

So let's say all conferences go to 11 and the XII loses WVU and dumps Baylor (obviously). You're sitting at 8, so it makes sense that Mizzou and aTm return, along with one more addition between Arky and Nebraska.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 12:24:21 PM
What do you cats think about Schlotzskys selling Cinnabons.  Strange bedfellows.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 12:31:08 PM
I hate to not answer your question directly, but you opened up an old wound for me.

How in the hell do pizza and chicken wings go together?  We're over a decade into this now.

Who thought of this?  Why do we go along with it?  How come nobody said, wait, what?
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 22, 2017, 12:33:34 PM
B1G should go back to the Big Ten.  PSU belongs in the East with traditional rivals like Pitt.

I'm cool with Cinnabon in Schlotzsky's, makes sense to utilize that oven capacity when it's not producing the Schlotzsky's bread.  I'm not big on sweets so I never buy them, but they smell nice.

Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 22, 2017, 01:52:23 PM
I hate to not answer your question directly, but you opened up an old wound for me.

How in the hell do pizza and chicken wings go together?  We're over a decade into this now.

Who thought of this?  Why do we go along with it?  How come nobody said, wait, what?
I'm thinking the Super Bowl is responsible for this marketing ploy.   All snack foods go together at a SB party. 
However, do sometimes order both from our local family pizza joint.  And I use the ranch dressing not just for the wings, but to dip my pizza crust in (like the Papa Johns Garlic Sauce, but much better for breathe).  I am part of this problem, I can see now. 
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: 847badgerfan on September 22, 2017, 02:14:57 PM
B1G should go back to the Big Ten.  PSU belongs in the East with traditional rivals like Pitt.

I'm cool with Cinnabon in Schlotzsky's, makes sense to utilize that oven capacity when it's not producing the Schlotzsky's bread.  I'm not big on sweets so I never buy them, but they smell nice.


That would be great, but it's also about as likely as the SWC and Big 8 re-forming.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 02:23:57 PM
How in the hell do pizza and chicken wings go together?  We're over a decade into this now.
Probably diversification for outliers.
I never really understood the prevalence and disruptive nature of outliers, until the missus and I had our 4th son.  And the phenomenon was compounded by the fact that the older kids stopped being preschoolers and started being school kids along about the same time.   All I know is that a family of six has an outlier at all times.
You want to eat burgers and the youngest says "bleh.  I hate hamburgers."  Want to pizza, the oldest says, "bleh.  I hate pizza."  Want to eat Chinese food, the second oldest says, "bleh.  I hate Chinese food."  Want to eat chicken and third oldest says, "bleh.  I hate chicken."
It's always something  and so it was for about 13 years.
Now the oldest has moved out the next oldest is never there and we're finding that the younger two are mostly agreeable.  But for a while there, there was always an outlier.  Probably just a numeric law of probability kicking in.
So I can understand the wing thing.  And if you'll recall, I believe pizza places did try pasta for a while.   But who the hell wants pasta to go.  
Bleh.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 22, 2017, 02:36:24 PM
That happened in my family of only 4, 3 more or less, since dad usually wasn't in discussions like those.  

We had opinions, but mostly we got what we got, often with some speech about the starving children in Ethiopia.  Never did figure out what the hell they had to do with anything.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 02:39:26 PM
I'm thinking the Super Bowl is responsible for this marketing ploy.   All snack foods go together at a SB party.
I would say that the Super Bowl is as good a culprit as any.
But when did Pizza and Chicken Wings become "snack" foods?  Or maybe it's because we don't really have traditional family meals anymore, which of course went the way of the traditional family, while simultaneously ushering in the microwave oven.  We just graze here and there, on miscellaneous varieties of meat, cheese, bread, and processed foods.
Ever notice how veggies have gone by the wayside?  We eat like giant, finicky, 8 year olds now.  Every time I see a commercial for the latest, greatest hamburger, it's just some mound of meat patties, 3 different cheeses, and greasy buttered toasted bookends.  No juicy tomatoes.  No tangy pickles.  No zesty onion.
I thought the Ricky Bobby dinner table was supposed to be comedy, but this is our life.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 02:43:36 PM
Outliers.  A natural product of over abundance.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 02:58:18 PM
I go out to lunch with coworkers at least once a week and I have to dine out when I travel but the family and I generally eat at home, saving expensive restaurant dining for special occasions.  And I think we probably eat better nowadays than my wife or I did with our families when we were kids.

Growing up, it seems like we ate the same things every week: fried chicken; salmon patties; meat loaf; liver and onions; chicken fried round steak; frito pie; hamburger helper; spaghetti; other various cheesy casseroles.

Lots of frying.  Lots of cheese.  Lots of hamburger meat.  Lots of grease.

Nowadays we eat a lot of salads, grill a lot of different kinds of meat (chicken, salmon, pork ribeyes, skirt steak) and eat a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Some of my favorites are grilled corn, grilled peppers and onions, and carrots sliced and baked.  Those carrot sticks are AMAZING!

I like to think my family eats a lot healthier now than we did when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 03:11:19 PM
Growing up, it seems like we ate the same things every week: fried chicken; salmon patties; meat loaf; liver and onions; chicken fried round steak; frito pie; hamburger helper; spaghetti; other various cheesy casseroles.
True, but wasn't there a host of veggies on your plate as well?

And secondly, I think you probably do a better job on the nutritional front than most folks these days.  There is a lot more awareness in and around the ATX in terms of diet, but go outside the 10 mile radius and people are scarfing down 3 squares of fat and grease, with Cheetos and twinkies supplementing the down time.  And let's not overlook today's hydration craze.  Everybody's got a 44 ounce on their person.  And it ain't a V8.

But here's the proof for me - go dig up any 3rd grade class photo from when you were a kid.  Now look at a 3rd grade class photo today.

Pediatric care will soon involve stents.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 22, 2017, 03:22:27 PM
I would say that the Super Bowl is as good a culprit as any.
But when did Pizza and Chicken Wings become "snack" foods?  Or maybe it's because we don't really have traditional family meals anymore, which of course went the way of the traditional family, while simultaneously ushering in the microwave oven.  We just graze here and there, on miscellaneous varieties of meat, cheese, bread, and processed foods.
Ever notice how veggies have gone by the wayside?  We eat like giant, finicky, 8 year olds now.  Every time I see a commercial for the latest, greatest hamburger, it's just some mound of meat patties, 3 different cheeses, and greasy buttered toasted bookends.  No juicy tomatoes.  No tangy pickles.  No zesty onion.
I thought the Ricky Bobby dinner table was supposed to be comedy, but this is our life.
I guess I'm part of many problems.  My "family" is a happily-childfree-by-choice DINK couple with dogs. Not quite traditional but who is these days!?  And I hate pickles in general, especially on sandwiches or burgers.  ChickFilA is terrible for putting pickles on a chicken sandwich, that's just preposterous!  
As far as snacks go, I don't see why chicken wings aren't a snack if you say Beef Jerky or Meatballs can be considered a snack.  
We didn't even eat a salad with our lasagna last night at dinner.  Although I did have a salad for lunch that day, I obviously am not pushing veggies as a main concern when I prepare dinner.
Problem Causer right here!  :67:
At least I'm not bringing kids into my bad habits, though 
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 03:34:00 PM
True, but wasn't there a host of veggies on your plate as well?

And secondly, I think you probably do a better job on the nutritional front than most folks these days.  There is a lot more awareness in and around the ATX in terms of diet, but go outside the 10 mile radius and people are scarfing down 3 squares of fat and grease, with Cheetos and twinkies supplementing the down time.  And let's not overlook today's hydration craze.  Everybody's got a 44 ounce on their person.  And it ain't a V8.

But here's the proof for me - go dig up any 3rd grade class photo from when you were a kid.  Now look at a 3rd grade class photo today.

Pediatric care will soon involve stents.
We ate a lot of canned vegetables growing up.  And yep.  My 30 years in public health probably make me more health conscious than a lot of men my age, I guess.  My wife's always been a veggie hippie.
But you know... the ATX is not immune to poor eating habits.  A lot of my wife's friends in the LCP remind me of the sea lions on Pier 39.  
Sometimes somebody will bring Round Rock doughnuts to church and those of us who aren't particularly tempted will watch in revulsion as those who are particularly tempted snarf as many as they can as quickly as they can as if they're the first Round Rock doughnuts they've ever seen and are likely to be the last they will ever see.  It's as if that brown and yellow box is ample justification to dismiss any thought of shame and turn grown adults into snorting pigs.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 03:46:12 PM
Mentioning my wife and food reminded me of a couple other things.  

My irrepressibly sweet cute and adorable wife feels compelled for some reason to listen to contemporary Christian music.  I don't think she actually likes it.  I don't see how anybody could.  But I think she feels obligated.  Like maybe God'll give her extra credit and apply it to one of our ne'er-do-well kid's accounts or something.  I don't believe any religion describes faith and grace working like that, but oh well.

Any way, every song on her radio station sounds like either Garth Brooks or Nirvana, which leads me to believe most contemporary Christian music must either sound like Garth Brook or Nirvana.   Turrible.  Just turrible.  I like Kirk Franklin's stuff but that's gospel instead of contemporary Christian and you know how churches and believers are.  They're still waiting to hear everyone and everything else has integrated first so they can be the last.

The other thing about my i s c & a w.   She likes me to take her to these dinner wine bars that are popping up everywhere.  You get there about five and buy a couple of glasses of wine at $5 each, order an appetizer on happy hour for another $5.  Do another round and another appetizer and get the check.  By my count it should be about $30 but somehow it's always around $60 but the wine has numbed me too much for me to give it any thought or let let alone argue about it.

But I"m thinking it's all part of big scam to rip people off.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 22, 2017, 03:49:04 PM
DC Talk is where it's at for Christian music.  Are they still around?  I remember jamming out to them as a teen and thinking they were super cool for religious pushers.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 03:57:02 PM
I wouldn't know about DC Talk.  My oldest listens to country, next oldest to pop rap, second oldest to '80s rock and the youngest to crazy stuff like 1950s and 1960s French and Italian popcorn jazz.  

As for me the closest thing I listen to that sounds like Christian music is Charlie Wilson.  He's blessed.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 22, 2017, 04:19:15 PM
That would be great, but it's also about as likely as the SWC and Big 8 re-forming.
Heh, NONE of it is likely, or even possible, at this point.  It's just a dream now.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 22, 2017, 04:28:11 PM
Mentioning my wife and food reminded me of a couple other things.  

My irrepressibly sweet cute and adorable wife feels compelled for some reason to listen to contemporary Christian music.  I don't think she actually likes it.  I don't see how anybody could.  But I think she feels obligated.  Like maybe God'll give her extra credit and apply it to one of our ne'er-do-well kid's accounts or something.  I don't believe any religion describes faith and grace working like that, but oh well.

Any way, every song on her radio station sounds like either Garth Brooks or Nirvana, which leads me to believe most contemporary Christian music must either sound like Garth Brook or Nirvana.   Turrible.  Just turrible.  I like Kirk Franklin's stuff but that's gospel instead of contemporary Christian and you know how churches and believers are.  They're still waiting to hear everyone and everything else has integrated first so they can be the last.

The other thing about my i s c & a w.   She likes me to take her to these dinner wine bars that are popping up everywhere.  You get there about five and buy a couple of glasses of wine at $5 each, order an appetizer on happy hour for another $5.  Do another round and another appetizer and get the check.  By my count it should be about $30 but somehow it's always around $60 but the wine has numbed me too much for me to give it any thought or let let alone argue about it.

But I"m thinking it's all part of big scam to rip people off.
Yeah, this happens to us, too.  We hit happy hours and eat/drink what should be about $30, and then the check comes and it's $50 or $60 out the door.  Tax and tip add to that of course, but even if you calculate that at 30% total, it should still only be $39 total.
But sure enough, I'm doing the math and writing dowb $55 after tip.  Crazy.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 04:38:11 PM
Much Christian (or "religious") music tends to exist as an alternative.  Does that make sense?

In other words, it's not really there to be the cutting edge of musical innovation, but almost as a knock-off without the secular lyrics.

I feel guilty sometimes that I don't dig Christian music a bit more.  I did get into Petra at one time in life, and I still listen to some of their stuff now.  But a lot of it is just bland to the nth degree, and seems to run low on creativity.  And many of the lyrics are just buzz phrases like "lift your name on high"....  how do you lift something "on high"?  Yet "on high" is a catchy phrase in contemporary Christian music.  Sometimes I feel like these artists are just mimicking each other.

But with all that said - more power to anyone who truly enjoys Christian music, and perhaps they're better for it.

For me, I'd rather listen to old timey church hymns, which I can find soothing at times.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 22, 2017, 04:51:19 PM
DC Talk is where it's at for Christian music.  Are they still around?  I remember jamming out to them as a teen and thinking they were super cool for religious pushers.  
I remember getting into Stryper.  Well sort of - it didn't last long until it dawned on me that they kind of suck.  They had huge talent, but struggled in areas like tone, song writing, originality, etc.
Plus it later occurred to me that a Christian band was wearing spandex?  I mean, you could see the outline of their wankers.  But I won't judge.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 04:52:25 PM
Yeah, this happens to us, too.  We hit happy hours and eat/drink what should be about $30, and then the check comes and it's $50 or $60 out the door.  Tax and tip add to that of course, but even if you calculate that at 30% total, it should still only be $39 total.
But sure enough, I'm doing the math and writing dowb $55 after tip.  Crazy.

You know... we wouldn't stand for anybody else up charging us like that but there's just something about the dulling effect of wine that makes us too listless to put up a fight.
It's a scam, I tell ya.
Last time the missus and I went to The Grove we started off with one of those flight thingies where they bring you three little glasses with scarcely a swallow in each so you can try three different kinds of wine.  We were close enough to the bar that my wife was watching and she swears the bartender poured all three out of the same bottle.
I'm thinking we need to break this terrible wine bar habit.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 22, 2017, 05:00:59 PM
Much Christian (or "religious") music tends to exist as an alternative.  Does that make sense?

In other words, it's not really there to be the cutting edge of musical innovation, but almost as a knock-off without the secular lyrics.

I feel guilty sometimes that I don't dig Christian music a bit more.  I did get into Petra at one time in life, and I still listen to some of their stuff now.  But a lot of it is just bland to the nth degree, and seems to run low on creativity.  And many of the lyrics are just buzz phrases like "lift your name on high"....  how do you lift something "on high"?  Yet "on high" is a catchy phrase in contemporary Christian music.  Sometimes I feel like these artists are just mimicking each other.

But with all that said - more power to anyone who truly enjoys Christian music, and perhaps they're better for it.

For me, I'd rather listen to old timey church hymns, which I can find soothing at times.
That's a pretty good commentary.

I go to one of those inoffensive churches where you walk into a dark room where everybody is dressed like they're going to the lake and you stand and mumble along at the words on the screen while 50 year old rockers jam out on stage with three or four big white girls with soul.

Every now and then we visit other churches just to see what friends and family have to contend with.  Sometimes we'll go into a church that looks just like it probably looked in 1965 and we'll grin like chimpanzees when they make us open a hymnal and sing an old hymn we remember from our childhood days.

But invariably some sadistic worship leader will ruin the enchantment by making you sing all fourteen verses of every damn hymn they selected, plus the completely unnecessary aaaaaaaaaayeee-meeeeen at the end, so that by the time you leave you hate all the old hymns and remember why you worship at the slip in on the way to the lake church.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 24, 2017, 06:17:31 PM
DC Talk is where it's at for Christian music.  Are they still around?  I remember jamming out to them as a teen and thinking they were super cool for religious pushers.  
Bruh.  You're like, waaaaay out of the loop.  DC Talk hasn't done anything together in nearly 20 years, though they are all still around individually or with other bands.  One of them is the front man for the Newsboys now.  
The rest of you must just be listening to crap.  Probably Christian radio.  Probably K-Love.  Of which there are some good songs, but most of it gets cookie-cutter real fast.  Like everything else, you just gotta look around.  Plenty of good stuff out there, unless you're just one of those people who like to gripe about how everything sucks.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: DevilFroggy on September 24, 2017, 09:59:43 PM
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Hank Hill sums up my thoughts on Christian rock.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 25, 2017, 09:29:43 AM
unless you're just one of those people who like to gripe about how everything sucks.  
I'll have you know there are a few things that do not suck.  Precious few.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 25, 2017, 09:39:01 AM
Bruh.  You're like, waaaaay out of the loop.  DC Talk hasn't done anything together in nearly 20 years, though they are all still around individually or with other bands.  One of them is the front man for the Newsboys now.  
The rest of you must just be listening to crap.  Probably Christian radio.  Probably K-Love.  Of which there are some good songs, but most of it gets cookie-cutter real fast.  Like everything else, you just gotta look around.  Plenty of good stuff out there, unless you're just one of those people who like to gripe about how everything sucks.  
Yeah, I had said I was a TEEN when I listened to them, but I did enjoy their tunes and listened because they appealed to me, and not to get extra credits from God or whatever.  It was a helluvalot better than Amy Grant, even with questionable teenage taste in music for that time period.  Glad to hear they are still alive and in the biz, even if they are not a group anymore.    I will say I had occasionally listened to Michael W. Smith as well but more by force than by choice, as the other peers that I attended church with seemed to have a religious hard-on for him, but I was def more into DC Talk personally.

It is interesting to me that Josey Scott, the former lead singer of Saliva, is now a Christian rocker.  I got to see him with Saliva in one of their last shows before he quit the band to do his thing in the Christian music world, though I have no idea how he's done since then.  

I do not keep up with Christian music at all, for the record, and only did for a brief 3-5 years in the 90's before moving on to music that reaches my soul much more deeply.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 25, 2017, 09:39:37 AM
I go to one of those inoffensive churches where you walk into a dark room where everybody is dressed like they're going to the lake and you stand and mumble along at the words on the screen while 50 year old rockers jam out on stage with three or four big white girls with soul.
I guess "offensive" or "inoffensive" is in the eye of the beholder.
The inverse of the above would be to say that a well-dressed congregation singing piano-accompanied hymns, and foregoing the need for washed up wannabes from failed iron maiden and motley crue cover bands to hammer out irreverent amounts of decibels = "offensive"?
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 25, 2017, 03:12:00 PM
My girlfriend is from Beaumont and is a Longhorns fan.  She's never been to a game, so it's up to me to take her sometime, I guess.

This weekend she brought me some food, one dish being a pot of chili I'll be meandering my way through this week.  It has no beans.

There is a connection here, I can feel it, though I can't quite put my finger on it.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 25, 2017, 03:16:16 PM
I've never heard of DC Talk. Is Stryper still around?

I like traditional churches with traditional hymns, I'm really old-fashioned.  I stopped going to a church because they changed the timing of the services and starting doing a "contemporary" service during the time slot they'd previously done the "traditional" service.

I like chili.

Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 25, 2017, 03:20:59 PM
My girlfriend is from Beaumont and is a Longhorns fan.  She's never been to a game, so it's up to me to take her sometime, I guess.

This weekend she brought me some food, one dish being a pot of chili I'll be meandering my way through this week.  It has no beans.

There is a connection here, I can feel it, though I can't quite put my finger on it.  
Blowmont.  I've never been there that it didn't rain the whole time.  Stinging rain that smells of gasoline.   I used to think it was the sphincter of Texas.  Then I did an audit in Wichita Falls.
Wichita Falls makes Rio Grande City look like a great place to live.
I'm happy for you, Amos.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 25, 2017, 03:37:50 PM
This weekend she brought me some food, one dish being a pot of chili I'll be meandering my way through this week.  It has no beans.
If you have a girlfriend that brings you chili then stop shopping now and wife the broad.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 25, 2017, 05:23:37 PM
Unfortunately things are never quite that simple.

On the one hand, she's a total cutie, loves to cook and is very good at it, has a great job, is one of the lowest maintenance women I've ever met, has the sweetest personality that my entire family loves, and she loves, loves, loves college football.  

On the other hand, she uses a lot of emojis when she texts, and I find that really annoying.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 25, 2017, 05:34:04 PM
Unfortunately things are never quite that simple.

On the one hand, she's a total cutie, loves to cook and is very good at it, has a great job, is one of the lowest maintenance women I've ever met, has the sweetest personality that my entire family loves, and she loves, loves, loves college football.  

On the other hand, she uses a lot of emojis when she texts, and I find that really annoying.  
You should have been on Seinfeld.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CousinFreddie on September 25, 2017, 06:04:50 PM
(https://www.cfb51.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FkujsU.jpg&hash=1b6bfb5b2cc77f1646f1f9b978871526)
Hank Hill sums up my thoughts on Christian rock.
Eggsackly
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 25, 2017, 09:24:38 PM
Unfortunately things are never quite that simple.

On the one hand, she's a total cutie, loves to cook and is very good at it, has a great job, is one of the lowest maintenance women I've ever met, has the sweetest personality that my entire family loves, and she loves, loves, loves college football.  

On the other hand, she uses a lot of emojis when she texts, and I find that really annoying.  
Must not be that hot if you'd let something like emojis bother you?
Did I ever tell you about Bekah-2?  She was a dancer at Sugars in 1992 and she was so unbelievable drop dead gorgeous I can't even begin to describe her and for whatever motives she took a liking to me and I was smart enough to hop onboard to ride that mustang as far and long as she'd let me ride.
We got to the house and she had a kid.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.  Kid's father was there watching the kid and generally just lingering forever undefoot like a big lazy hound dog.    Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
She smoked crack.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.  Her house was a hovel filled with dirty laundry, empty dishes and fastfood waste.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
She was fascinated with death and loved to pore over a coffee table book filled with black and white photos of dead people.  Her favorite was Benito Mussolini who had a swollen pumpkin head cause apparently everyone in Italy took a kick at his corpse.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
Her mom was in prison for killing her dad by stabbing him 53 times with a butcher knife.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
She had her momma's raging destructive temper.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
She was an active Satan worshipper who slaughtered goats and drank blood to put evil curses on her best friend because her favorite belt was missing and the friend might've taken it.  Didn't bother me.  She was gorgeous.
She eventually ran off with Johnny Depp who was in town filming Gilbert Grape.  She had to leave me.  I never would've left her.  She was gorgeous.

I mean she was really gorgeous.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 25, 2017, 10:33:27 PM
In the mid 90s, like 93-96, did you ever encounter a dancer at Sugar's who danced under the name Camille but whose real name was actually Tiva?  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CharleyHorse46 on September 26, 2017, 09:23:40 AM
In the mid 90s, like 93-96, did you ever encounter a dancer at Sugar's who danced under the name Camille but whose real name was actually Tiva?  
Oh.  I'm sure I did.  I can't specifically recollect her off the top of my head but I have a lot of good mamories of that place back in the day.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 26, 2017, 12:13:08 PM
I believe up to 35% of that story.  I really wish this guy I used to know in Austin were still around here.  These are exactly the kinds of things he used to talk to me about.  

Strippers and bricks.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: BrownCounty on September 26, 2017, 12:23:24 PM

I dare you to find another thread in the history of interwebs that progresses from Christian music to strippers.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 26, 2017, 02:48:04 PM
Frighteningly more common than you suspect, I'd think.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: MikeDeTiger on September 26, 2017, 02:52:01 PM
hey utee, 

any idea why the Cowboys have put La'el Collins out at RT?  Most of us thought he projected as a guard in the NFL.  iirc, before he was hurt I did see him play LG for the Cowboys and he was KILLING it.  I keep hearing that he struggles with speedy edge rushers...moving him to RT seems like a strange move.  


hey Erin, 

Deshaun Watson looks pretty promising.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: CousinFreddie on September 26, 2017, 07:27:06 PM
I mean she was really gorgeous.  
As was this post ... good to see you back in form, primo
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: UT-Erin03 on September 27, 2017, 07:50:02 AM


hey Erin,

Deshaun Watson looks pretty promising.  
Shhhhhhh, don't jinx us!  
We've never had a legit QB in the Htown, why would you think we would start now!?   It's all a mirage, nothing to see here, everyone should assume we have nothing better than we did before in that spot.    
(yes, I'm hopeful so far, but we are seriously cursed in that dept so I'm trying not to get my hopes up TOO high this early!)
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: FearlessF on September 28, 2017, 02:26:21 PM
sound a wee bit like a story that Hooky Hornstein told back in the day........ on a website far far away
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: FearlessF on September 01, 2023, 12:41:54 PM
couldn't find the PI thread

(https://i.imgur.com/1Ri5DnJ.png)
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 01, 2023, 01:01:03 PM
B1G should go back to the Big Ten.  PSU belongs in the East with traditional rivals like Pitt.

I'm cool with Cinnabon in Schlotzsky's, makes sense to utilize that oven capacity when it's not producing the Schlotzsky's bread.  I'm not big on sweets so I never buy them, but they smell nice.


Wow, look at this quote from 6 years ago.  Sounds exactly like what I typed this morning.

I'm nothing if not consistent...
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: Gigem on September 03, 2023, 12:35:58 AM
RIP Hooky, but what the heck happened to Brown County, Coisin Freddy, and UTErin ?  Anybody keep in touch with those guys ? 
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on September 03, 2023, 09:34:18 PM
Erin comes around every now and then, we're Facebook friends and I see her active there.

Cousin Fred used to come by at the beginning of each season, but haven't seem him this year.  I hope all is okay with him.

And I haven't seen BrownCo in several years now.  Maybe he got sick of hating himself and his alma mater all the time? Sure seemed like a miserable way to live life, to me.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: Bonfired on November 21, 2023, 06:41:50 PM
Haven't been to Schlotzky's in years.

I might have even posted on this site since my last visit to Schlotzky's.

Nebraska hasn't been on a seven-year skid like this in over 60 years...if they lose to Iowa Friday, they will have posted a 19-43 conference record from 2017 to the present.  

Time will tell, but their trajectory is analogous to what has happened to Indiana basketball...formerly a gold standard, but have been to one Final Four in the last 30 years.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: longhorn320 on November 21, 2023, 06:49:54 PM
Blast from the past

Welcome back
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on November 21, 2023, 07:55:15 PM
Hey Bon!
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: FearlessF on November 21, 2023, 10:01:28 PM
Bonny!

Glad it was UNL's misery that caused a post

gee whiz
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: Cincydawg on November 22, 2023, 05:48:02 AM
Erin comes around every now and then, we're Facebook friends and I see her active there.
Mike the Tiger came back and now posts here pretty often, so there's hope.  Did I see a post recently by Razorchique?

I too am on FB with her and Erin and L'ilDawg47.  
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: utee94 on November 22, 2023, 09:47:05 AM
Bonny!

Glad it was UNL's misery that caused a post

gee whiz

Tough crowd.
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: FearlessF on November 22, 2023, 10:12:43 AM
gotta draw them in the the 2024 Board Meeting in Nashville!
Title: Re: Nebbie
Post by: FearlessF on March 02, 2024, 08:21:32 AM
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