Recent content by donbosco

Yeah...I was commuting from Chapel Hill to Greensboro in 2008. About 600 miles a week. Bought a Toyota Corolla 5-speed that year. Gas was over $4 a gallon and inching toward $5 IIRC. I had nitrogen in my tires because they said that would improve mileage. I was getting around 37mpg.

I have always heard that there was a contest associated with the school kids going that involved the designing of county flags, i.e., school kids doing it and then parading on the field carrying them. Some counties in NC do actually have flags.

I turned 15 in 1973 and immediately got my “Learner’s Permit” for driving. Around that same time Deddy had his cataract operations. That kind of procedure, still a serious one, had, in the late 1960s taken great leaps through the application of ultrasound. Still, Deddy’s recovery period was...

Finally...the embargo bears fruit.

There were tunnels across campus...basically drainage but a person could fit, even stand up in some parts near the exits (South Campus). My cohort and I used to go into them...just exploring and the like but lore was that there were Secret Service agents in those tunnels during this University...

IYKYK If you wanna know, ask.

64 years ago a President spoke in Chapel Hill. His speech was short - 17 minutes - and remarkable in its praise of science specifically & education in general. The History of Progressive thinking & action which North Carolina had become identified with, albeit an observation that was made in the...

Kinda looks like the Brewers left a yellow shirt in the washer when they did their white uniforms.

There's a team down in Raleighwood that fits the bill.

When I tended bar I had this trick that I would pull out if I found myself with a group of guys who were getting too rowdy and I needed them to calm down some. Name Ten College Mascots that do not end with the letter 'S." Usually worked...sometimes they even asked for pens so they could...

Unfortunately, the trumpists will find takers eventually as they move on through the academic ranks.

...The Trump administration’s ideological cheerleading, and the riskiness of the bailout, have made it easy to ridicule, by both liberals and conservatives. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged Trump to stop “giving away our money to his corrupt buddies.” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley...

"Last month, Javier Milei, Argentina’s flashy libertarian leader, arrived in New York City not with his trademark chainsaw, but with his hat in his hand. He left with a stunning pledge from the U.S. government to loan $20 billion to stop a run on the peso that threatens to wreck Milei’s...

This Miami team in the ABA tried the gimmick of simply being ‘The Floridians.’ They did, however, introduce bikini ball girls to the game.