Recent content by 05C40

Synopsis for next week's "Storage Wars," "You're not gonna believe what was in this storage locker that sold for $20. From the outside, it just looked like a bunch of old VCR cassettes, DVDs, and some photo-albums." ETA: Would be interesting to see what would happen if such a hord were...

Because too many men in the United States just can't bring themselves to vote for a woman. You know, just like 1996. As long as significant sectors of the Democratic Party refuse to vote for a woman, we will deserve EVRYTHING that happens to us.

OMG! I will be forever grateful that my parents were not the 1950's versions of the head-in-the-sand MAGA's who believed they didn't have to spend the money or run the risk of vaccines as long as everyone else's children got vaccinated. And that was sort of the way that my parents explained it...

Link: The St. Louis ABA Team? -- Total payout about $800M, because of a term that gave them 2% of the NBA's TV revenue, in PERPETUITY. Needless to say, this deal greatly increased in value once the NBA boomed. But in 1976, 2% of TV revenue was all but an afterthought. And the NBA realized...

The last ABA game--in 1976--New York Nets vs the Denver Nuggets, was pretty much a match-up of Julius Erving's offense against Bobby Jones' defense. Jones played great, but Erving may have had the greatest game in basketball history when taking into consideration who was guarding him and that...

I remember watching the Ed Sullivan show when Oliver was a guest. After Oliver's performance, as usual, he walked over to shake Ed Sullivan's hand. Then Ed motioned the camera to swing out to the audience and Ed identified Oliver's parents and his younger brother, John. At this point in time...

There is a third option. Perhaps he is, maybe as I type this, sitting at his computer, scrolling through the responses to his comment with one hand and abusing himself with the other hand.

By happenstance, yesterday I saw a YouTube video on the range of a 12-gage shotgun shooting slugs. The guy was shooting at a barrel approximately 100 yards away. It took him three shots before the actually hit the barrel. He indicated his aiming point was approximately ten feet above the barrel.

CAUTION: Sucker bet! Until we know whether this particular aid has "private" information on someone either rich and powerful or a member of the Trump administration, no way to set a betting line.

Not accusing anyone of anything. Not making a self-confession. But anytime the topic of Israel arises, the issue of antisemitism also arises. I honestly don't know how to deal with this. As such, I seldom comment on Israel. But I really dislike Netanyahu. I think Netanyahu is bad for...

Never saw any professional wrestling in person. But on Saturday evenings my brothers and I would go over to our grandparents' house and watch professional wrestling on WRAL, Channel 5 in Raleigh. (Because we didn't have a TV in our house.) Same channel as Jesse Helms was on. Professional...

Andrew, the pedophile formerly known as Prince. ETA: If Andrew gets sent to prison for "Official Misconduct" regarding trade information rather than being a pedophile, then that is a win for the House of Windsor.

Why would people flood 911 with calls offering opinions on how the Sheriff's Dept or the FBI should be handling this case? What the "F" is wrong with people? I'm retired and I don't have that kind of time on my hands to waste it calling 911. Could the person who did this at least had the...

I wonder if Ken Paxton has an opinion on whether state funds should be used to support the upkeep of state employees' mistresses or he just believes state employees' salaries should be increased so they can keep a couple of side-pieces on retainer?

Just replied to a LENGTHY on-line check-in for an doctor's visit next week. One question asked me to self-identify my ethnicity. There were easily over 100 choices. Would it have killed the person who complied the list to have added "Tar Heel!" to it?