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Outhouses sucked. So did taking a winter bath in a number 2 tin tub in front of a coal stove that was glowing red in an uninsulated house. You'd literally be freezing on one side and burning on the other.

I don't know which combination I'd hate to see breed the worst.

Whatever springs out of it should have the coliform levels tested.

Don't bet more on that than you can afford to lose. :rolleyes:

Put it in terms of something they might could do which is render the earth uninhabitable for humans. The earth itself will just shrug it off again. That always makes me laugh at the Save the Earth people. The supporters don't realize it doesn't need saving and the opponents and about half the...

Wonder what their response would have been if it were a Bible?

I'll take that in the spirit offered and promise not to think anything less of you for it.

I played percentages, assumed that you didn't have one and used you as a set up.

Where, when and who is that from?

Oh, I know the reality of luck, match ups and all that. I was just doing an old man rant on the focus on the fine details of the seedings. I understand that the best time doesn't always win and that you take advantage of every edge. I still can't get too excited about them.

Kyrie Irving for one although that might have been more than ten years.

Maybe sooner. I heard they had a concept for a peace plan already.

I know favorable seeds give you a better chance but I'll be damned if I can get too upset by a place or two. You have to be ready to face every team in the tournament once you qualify. I take about as much satisfaction out of playing well and losing to a one seed in the Sweet 16 as I do getting...

There is tradition. The first Shah was a non royal put in place by the British, voted out by the people, restored by the Americans and even with the aid of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, interrogators and torturers trained at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning overthrown by the...

The "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees" thing as viewed by a different facet of religious fanaticism.