Recent content by hedge

Oh, pooh. Let the man regale us with tales of brave Ulysses and how his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing. You can't get this kinda thing just anywhere...

In fairness, my MIF has been peddling some version of this for years...

Gotta give a general upvote to nycfan for doggedly offering an on-topic, "just the facts, ma'am" post in the midst of the super's ribaldry and subsequent replies to the same...

Could go several directions with a quip on this one...

I've still got some Wachovia checks, the account number didn't change when Wells Fargo swallowed them up so the checks still work, I just don't write very many...

Yeah, I just saw the segment about his Amazon trip (actually, it was the River of Doubt that they traveled, subsequent renamed Roosevelt River). Evidently he (barely) came back from that trip a shell of his former self. He was only in his early 50's but friends said he was an old man after...

You guys are funny...

I'm watching a doc on the Roosevelts right now, Teddy got shot in the chest before a campaign speech, dude refused to go to the doctor and proceeded to give an hour long speech with the bullet still lodged in him. Tough ass motherfucker. Crowd had seen the whole thing and then just stood there...

The whole thing about the Roosevelts is fascinating. Some odd similarities b/w Teddy and Trump, but of course disastrously bespattered in this current iteration...

Speaking of Teddy, I've been watching the Ken Burns doc on the Roosevelts, I'm at the part where Teddy took his trip down the Amazonian River of Doubt. Didn't @superrific (or some past moniker thereof) have some connection with a similarly incredible South American boat journey? Something...

That's going to happen regardless..

I'm agog. Or asea, one. Maybe both...

Well put. My gratitude for UNC hoops and UNC in general and what both have meant and continue to mean in my life is off the charts. It's kinda like being a Deadhead. Or, to a somewhat lesser degree (but more and more lately) a Democrat or dare I say liberal...

I agree with all of this. Hell, 24 was a banner year by my lights, as was 06. I'll gratefully nibble the humblest crumb. But yet and still, the pinpoint thru the transitive nightfall of diamonds is the national championship, however awkwardly or triumphantly achieved. Certainly an...

Of course the armor and robes of multiple Final Fours, tourny appearances, ACC titles, #1 tourny seeds, Dean and Roy, the whole "Carolina Way," etc, etc, are salve and comfort and yes, pride and glory during the long hibernations b/w national titles, but banners are what matter at the end of the...