Your “Welcome To Texas!” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

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Fifty-seven years ago today, John F. Kennedy visited San Antonio & Houston. He gave some speeches & was reported to have had a generally wonderful time. He retired for the evening in Fort Worth, Texas, and expected to give some more speeches after a comfortable ride in an open-air car

Your “What’s Old Is New Again, Again” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 7, 2020November 7, 2020

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It's funny that Halloween was last Saturday, because one of my old story topics is making a return appearance to an NFL roster. That's right, 41 year-old Josh McCown is getting the phone call he wasn't waiting for to return to the league. The Texans have apparently signed him to be

Your “Weekend At Donnies” Saturday Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - October 3, 2020October 3, 2020

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The fact that I now know this means Seamus is still trying to inflict his musical stylings on me from beyond the grave: Apparently, it's a "thing" for newbie idiot Green Day listeners to tweet at Billie Joe Armstrong on October 1st. Because September ended. GET IT?! (h/t Cracked) https://youtu.be/R1JXYgwwDeY Of course,

Beerguyrob - September 12, 2020September 12, 2020

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I want to share with you two of the best stories I read this week, both of which appeal to my vile nature. The first is from Scotland. A father named Pete Robson, starting in 1992, set himself the task of buying his son a bottle of 18 year-old Macallan every

Beerguyrob - September 6, 2020September 6, 2020

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Well, it's the final weekend of the summer. As an "essential service", it's back into the actual classroom. You've no doubt heard stories in your own region about people freaking out about cohort groups, expanded bubbles and COVID clusters. We have them here too. And while most of my colleagues

Beerguyrob - July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

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It's just been a crappy start to the summer so far. Nothing terrible has happened to me so far, but the weather hasn't exactly been...summer. If there had been a baseball season, I would have lost 1/3 of the games so far to rainouts or cloudy & cold knocking down crowds. But

Beerguyrob - July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

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You know those situations that you confront on a daily basis? The ones that, upon reflection, had you made a different choice, would not be following you years, even decades later? Well, I made one of those terrible, unfortunate errors this week that I may not be able to go

DFOing Good

Beerguyrob - June 20, 2020June 20, 2020

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I think today has marked the first "real" day back from the depth of the COVID-19 scare. Sure, there were a whole bunch of people in Tulsa ignoring black history in their quest to suckle at the teat of a sentient orange-hued McDonald's patty. https://twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1274352557956247556 And there were other problems in the world

DFOing Good

Beerguyrob - June 6, 2020June 5, 2020

I was bored thinking of something to type up for tonight's Open Thread, so I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole on Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68&t=60s When the sidebar gave me something I didn't know I needed to watch at that moment, https://youtu.be/HNNU8yv5sDw Which then led to at least something Saturday night related, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLLbv9sXEGI Because while looking up

Beerguyrob - May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

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It's Saturday night, so you know what that means?! Cartoons! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3uq1b8 Okay look - there's not a lot on these days. So I figured, why not go deep down some rabbit hole & find a historical artifact that, when viewed with today's eyes, seems wildly out of place, and the act of just

Beerguyrob - April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

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I find the results of the first three rounds quite confusing as a fan of the Packers & Seahawks. The Packers look like they have just initiated the Favre Protocol again; if Aaron has any sense of humour, he'll show up to camp wearing a #4 jersey. And at least they

The “You Say Today Is. . .Saturday?” Evening Open Thread

Beerguyrob - November 16, 2019November 16, 2019

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I missed the video party last night, but I'll take "Modern covers I'm unsure about" for $500, Alex. It's fine. It's not "drags me back to my childhood" good, but it'll do, donkey. As for the original - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3Lkc6Gzlk I'll cut anyone who disrespects it. A reminder - the original was written by Paul Williams, who