@Barney

@mfladd

@mfladd @Barney

/giphy purple insult

@mfladd
STFU already.

The game on Sunday is enough. Unless one of the one of the teams is your special team.

In which case I guess you can’t help it, so guess ahead and make noise.

/giphy "still really hate you"

@f00l you’re just jealous cause the Cowboys imploded… again.

@Adios
They’re gonna implode as long as the current owner thinks he’s a general manager and coach.

Nothing I can do.

RE hating @mfladd

In some other thread it was pointed out that he had genuine affection coming his way.
So he rebelled, wanting to be hated.

I’m trying, I’m trying, @mfladd, you shithead.

That Motherfucker is damned hard to deal with and please.

Ok @mfladd! Calling @mfladd! Again! I hate you! Happy now? Feeling better yet?

Morherfucker.

@mikibell You are a true Pats fan, aren’t you.

@Barney nahhh…been a Kansas City fan since I was little… Not that I watch too much football…
The Pats annoyed me whenever they were playing in Foxboro…used to make my commute that much longer…
I hope it is a good game for all though…

@mikibell I knew there was a reason I like you.
/giphy go chiefs

@conandlibrarian
Kitty wins. You win. I win. We all win.

@conandlibrarian Cats. Meh. Puppy Bowl for the win. Cats are for Puppy Bowl half-time when the puppies and viewers are taking a break.

@conandlibrarian Score! I have my Friday cat video selected already. Thanks.

@RiotDemon

MY thoughts are that I don’t care at all.

@mfladd Where did Meh hide that downvote button?

@Barney

@mfladd It’s not that I hate the Patriots. I’m just
/giphy overflowing with indifference

@Barney But you already put your Falcon vote in below.

@mfladd About my vote…

@mfladd

Brady pull me closer.

I didn’t know you looked like Gisele.

/giphy Gisele Bunchen

@Barney Sides have been chosen, my purple frenemy.

@mfladd
I don’t think it’s technically possible to win out over purple.

/image purple glory

So, @mfladd, you lose.
/giphy loser

@f00l

@mfladd
What a loser thing to say

/giphy loser

@f00l ?

@mfladd
that’s you there on the floor in the corner in that dress.

You doing yoga.

Thanks for sharing your yoga pix with the world.

@mfladd
More loser @mfladd yoga

@f00l

@mfladd

More pix of you

@Barney @mfladd

@f00l

@mfladd
Stream it, Pats fan

Periscope.

@sammydog01 So basically like getting a fuku?

@IWUJackson

@sammydog01 So basically like getting a fuku?

MY auto drafts are more like getting fukos. Really vile fukos.

Love them all the same.

In one league (family) we draft by round robin group text message. An online chart next year will show who’s left and what positions are unfilled.

@IWUJackson Yes! Or a box of chocolates.

/giphy Forrest gump

@f00l I did the live draft in @christinewas’ league. Big mistake. I had fun though.

@daveinwarsh

@f00l

@mfladd
Some of us know what a great SuperBowl game actually looks like, bitch.

@f00l

@mfladd

Jerry Jones era. I can’t fix that.

/giphy sad

@mfladd
PS. Ticket prices are falling like a stone. That’s on the news everywhere.

Doubt me? Call your local broker and ask.

Tickets would, by broker estimate, be currently at least $1500 higher per seat and rising if the Cowboys were playing.

@f00l

Points and stars to anyone who knows which SB and who won without looking it up or guessing.

From an era during which football players actually played football, not “glamourball” and “marketingball” and “hype-ball” and “endless-commercials-ball”.

@f00l X and Dallas LOST!

@Adios
Dallas lost. wrong on which SB.

All answers: no guessing, no looking up. You know or you don’t.

@f00l Forgive me but I do believe you’re mistaken. If memory serves correctly it’s one of the top Super Bowl plays of all time and Swann caught the ball on the second try, tumbled with it and ran it for another handful of yards for a gain of over 50 yards.

@Adios

Maybe you’re right. I thought it was XIII, which was a motherfucker of a game. Swann was astonishing in both games.

He had trained as a dancer.

@f00l B-E-A-U-TIFUL

@f00l He was the first NFL receiver to take ballet specifically as a means to help his balance. After that many other receivers did the same seeing how much it helped Swann.

@gak0090
@adios
@mfladd the one called organism
@everyone

Next quiz

No guessing, no looking up. You know or you don’t.

What’s special about these two?

Hint:

@gak0090
@adios/@jbartus

Re Super Bowl X and XIII

Still remember those plays from watching those games. We were in awe of what Swann could do. Some of his catches have been visually imprinted in my head all these years.

Losing those games hurt a bit less because the games were so insanely great - what football is supposed to be - that you just shook your head, glad you got to watch that even though you didn’t win.

At this remove of years, now get the two games a bit mixed up re what play came from what game.

Yes, it’s been a long time for the 'boys. The Cowboys will be great again when they get an insane draft, trade, or FA, or when Jerry Jones hands it off to his kids.

He won’t let a competent person manage, and he won’t hire a great coach he can’t control, and he’s such an egotistical asshole that he sucks all the oxygen out of the room and everything’s all about him.

We just have to endure this for now, and hope JJ’s kids will ether sell the team to someone like Murchison who will hire the best and then get out of the way, or his kids will keep the team amd hire great people and let them run with it.

Lynn Fucking Awesome Swann

@f00l

That was supposed to be
@mfladd the one celled organism

Fucking autocorrect. I blame the Goat.

And I hate one-celled @mfladd.
Motherfucker.

@Barney
Glad you’re going for the thrill.

/image “purple lint”

@f00l Much more exciting than watching the Pats lose.

@Barney
I was not being even a tiny bit sarcastic.

/image “sarcasm free”

@f00l @Barney

@mfladd I can see that yoga is working out real good for you.
(@f00l Great minds!)

@mfladd @f00l @Barney

(Knowing the context of the above video is helpful but unnecessary.)

DANGEROUS VERSION

@someRiverNoise

That’s @mfladd’s yoga relaxation music.

(The Dangerous Version is more his thing.)

@Barney @f00l @someRiverNoise Yeah, football does not work well into my relaxation goals. Especially, the Superbowl.

@f00l

@mfladd

You sing along to Taylor Swift while you’re “relaxing”, don’t you?

@mfladd
You have nerves?

Wow! You’re a more advanced life form than I realized!

/giphy amoeba

@Barney

Also… DANCING PENGUINS!!!

@f00l actually @mfladd likes to sing Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself” when he’s doing his yoga

@KittySprinkles
Somehow I knew that was another fav of @mfladd’s.

When he gets all sentimental I just know “Honey” is his go-to song:

You think when he sings along about “Honey”, he’s actually talking about himself?

@f00l But we’ve yet to see the “kinda smart” part.

When he’s in his spandex glory, all ready to yoga his limber little self up, I envision him setting up in front of a mirror, singing this one to himself…

@KittySprinkles
I can see the relevance. But since I actually like that song, it may be too good for @mfladd.

Perhaps this is his thing.

@f00l @KittySprinkles

@mfladd
Are you miserable enough yet or do you require more hate?

Cause I got more if you’re still not quite “there” yet.

@f00l

@mfladd

@jbartus

@mfladd
Taylor Swift for your yoga and football soundtracks.

And ABBA.

Sounds like you’re all fixed up for music.

@Barney

They’ll still get hurt. Is there anything safer?

@f00l
That commercial is brought to you by “referee blows the whistle”.

@f00l
This other commercials is brought to you by “did they get a first down? measurement”.

@f00l
This next commercial is brought to you by “We already gave you 20 seconds of color commentary. Now watch the commercial, sucker”.

@f00l

The next commercial is brought to you by " sorry you didn’t get to watch the play".

The one after that is brought to you by “we know you like commercials more than you like football, so suck it up”.

The commercial after that is sponsored by “it’s been more than 10 seconds since the last commercial break, so stop whining and buy whatever’s on the screen, losers”

@f00l
The next commercial is brought to you by a quick shot of a coach who needs to lose weight followed by a slightly longer shot with of some cheerleaders.

The commercial after that is sponsored by “not enough commercials yet, and don’t think if going to the fridge.”

The following commercial is brought to you by “we decided we want more commercials in the first half.”

@Pixy

You’d like Australia.

They play rugby here too

@f00l Hey, our women’s rugby team ain’t bad.

@Pixy whose?

@jbartus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_women's_national_rugby_union_team

@mfladd

@mfladd At least they’re not the Cowboys!

@spcial_snwflake I prefer the Cowboys.

@sammydog01 where’s that downvote button Meh?

@jbartus
The ticker buyers would prefer the Cowboys too.

Amd you gotta admit. Even when the team sux the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are just right.

@f00l

@mfladd The Cowboys are more fun to hate than the Pats.

@sammydog01 that goes without saying.

@sammydog01 I’m pretty sure Alexa just has a generic list of burns and fills in the appropriate names. Everybody knows Alexa’s a Patriots Fan.

@sligett
Cheer!

@Barney

Purple

@Barney Are you normally a Ravens fan??? They have purple as their team color.

@CaptAmehrican Nah, Chiefs. I just haven’t convinced them that purple is their color.

@Barney

@MrMark Thank you for the first actual post talking about the game tomorrow! I find that score lopsided though.

@mfladd Yeah, about that lopsided score- it’s 21-0 Falcons at the moment. What were you saying?

@jbartus OMG That is just fucking sad.

@Barney

@Barney
Having purple fun?

@Barney

@daveinwarsh @f00l Great game, ain’t it?

@f00l I think @Barney is red for the evening.

@sammydog01 Barney will be any color for the evening if it helps the Patriots lose.

@Barney yup!

@sammydog01 Pats have started to pay off the refs.

@Barney Woohoo!

@sammydog01 Aww, Poor lil’ Tommy.

@Barney
Party time?

@Barney So sad.
/giphy sad kitty

@f00l I saw your post. You must be watching futurevision TV.

@Barney @f00l is just confident about the second half.

@sammydog01
@Barney

I have a really fancy radio.

Seems that the Atlanta pass rush is just way better and faster than anyone planned on.

Just catching bits of it. Is that correct?

@f00l Correctamondo and they have lil’ Tommy so confused.

@Barney Drinking heavily?

@sammydog01 Barney doesn’t drink. Barney is just happy because football season is almost over.

@Barney That was the answer to where are Pats fans are. Go grab a root beer.

@Barney

And I thought you were such a sweetheart.

This current offensive NE drive is looking half decent.

@sammydog01 Ahh, sorry. I crushed my last root beer can.

@f00l NE is gonna need a LOT of field goals to catch up.

@f00l Only half decent. Well, 3/7ths decent.

@sammydog01
@Barney

What is Atlanta doing right on offense?
Is it that they have both a ground game and an air game?

@f00l Let’s face it, Atlanta is just a better team. New England has just gotten fat and lazy.

@f00l It’s their defense- they scored one of those touchdowns.

@Barney Well, I’m a Pats fan, too. Not a happy one right now.

@sligett But… But… The Pats just scored. (And I forgive you.)

@sammydog01 not drinking heavily, holding the faith and actually watching the game instead of talking crap on the internet.

@Barney I want a can of Pringles. How did I miss a contest with food prizes?

@Barney
Sounds like a damned fun meal it’s a one-off. Unless blood glucose or something.

@sammydog01 Do you have Kroger grocery stores near you? Anyway, it was listed under their promotions this past month. Every day, those with digital accounts, could enter and choose one of four football plays. With a little luck (I’ve used up all of my luck for this year, I guess) and picking the right play, you become a winner.

@f00l Hey, except that I’m restricted on salt and sugar, it will be great!

@Barney I shop at Kroger. I guess I need to check the promotions. Today was free large fries day at McD’s and I didn’t bother to go.

@sammydog01 I’m a thinking today is the last day for Krogers because with any luck, football will be over.

@Barney I think they were threatened with bodily harm in the locker room.

@sammydog01 Yeah, and Belichick also threatened to take away their binkies.

@PlacidPenguin
It’s a weird inflated ball.

And a great symbol of the true American spirit.

Just ask any fan.

@f00l

Balls are round though.

@PlacidPenguin For NE, it’s something you bounce off the goalposts.

@PlacidPenguin

Some balls aren’t round. Sorry.

@f00l

/image balls

/image baseball

/image tennis ball

/image soccer ball

/image jai alai ball

/image racquetball ball

/image volleyball ball

/image bowling ball

/image Cricket ball

/image wiffleball ball

@PlacidPenguin
I said

some balls aren’t round

In order to disprove that you have to prove that all balls are round.

And you have to first give a comprehensive definition of the term “ball” that does not include roundness as a criteria. And your definition has to match up with the common street usage of the term, or the whole thing is meaningless, since we don’t even agree on definitions.

A string of counter examples is meaningless as evidence that my statement, as quoted above is incorrect.

What you would have to do is to prove that there could not possibly exist a ball that is not round.

@f00l I like football. I just don’t like it that my Chiefs are not in the Super Bowl. I’m a sore loser.

@Barney
How do you think we feel?

We were truly great.
Then we got Jerry.

@Barney You and Rob Riggle.

@Barney

@Barney
/image purple

@Barney Woohoo!

@f00l

@conandlibrarian

@conandlibrarian I don’t think the Patriots heard you.

@Barney @conandlibrarian @mfladd

/image Bluetooth purple stubborn mule

/image Bluetooth stubborn mule

@shawn @narfcake

I’m really getting frustrated with /image at this point.

/image Bluetooth purple frustrated

@conandlibrarian I am speechless.

@Barney Gostowski needs to do fewer commercials and more practicing.

@Barney
I’m learning a whole new side of you.

@f00l I guess that’s bad?

@f00l

@Barney
Naw. Just didn’t see it coming.

It’s cool. Hi, Purple People Eater.

@f00l Well, if you want to know the truth, half the time you scare me.

@Barney @f00l

Only half? That’s more generous than I am.

/image Bluetooth purple generous

@daveinwarsh It makes you feel warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it?

@f00l Shut your mouth.

@f00l Nope.
/giphy nope

@sammydog01
@Barney

I love a good game. I love a great game better.

Doesn’t sound like NE pulled it together yet.

@f00l Oh, crap. You may get your wish.

@f00l your wish was their command

@Barney As a Pats fan, I think the high point of the game so far was Lady Gaga’s show. (And right now, my Fox streaming is busted. )

@sligett Pats are on their way back.

@OldCatLady Edelman’s? We’re not dead yet.

@Barney @sammydog01

@Barney @sammydog01

Come over and I’ll treat you both.

---

@mfladd

/image Bluetooth purple shoo

@mfladd No, no, no, you can’t come here now, you fair weather fan. Where were you when the Pats were losing? You only show up when they’ve made a comeback!

@Barney He was scared of us. Now can I go away for a while?

@Barney @mfladd

@jbartus is doing something right.
Although I guess his TV could be broken from the first majority of the game.

@Barney down in the restaurant watching the game (I am travelling). You have become very quiet with your play by play now.

@mfladd I’m looking for something to drink.

@Barney Send me some when you find it.

@Barney Sorry, I finished all the ginger ale already.

@sligett I’d prefer root beer.

@Barney I couldn’t handle the caffeine right now.

@Barney Ditto.

@Barney (giggle)

@mfladd I’m happy for you. I’m unhappy for everyone else in the world.

@sammydog01 thanks Amazing game.

@f00l Yep, it’s all your fault. I’ll never forgive you.

@Barney
I didn’t make those plays. And I ain’t goat.

Just sayin’.

@Barney

@mfladd You are such a good winner and i don’t believe for one minute that you were traveling. Coward!

@f00l We can change the goat rules…

@Barney
I think piling onto those to pile on is more than fair.

Where were they in the first half?

/giohy “pile on”

@Barney
Love you.

@Barney Finally, something good has happened.

Congrats @sligett, you deserve it. Drop dead, @mfladd.

@Barney Sore loser?

Sammy wasn’t a sore loser.

@mfladd I’m sorry, I’m traveling and I can’t listen to your drivel (shit).

@daveinwarsh double shit

@PlacidPenguin not until that asshole Roger Goodell hands that trophy to Tom Brady. It has been said he did not want this moment to happen. He looks like an ass.

@mfladd
Has he been named MVP yet? Although I can see a case for it.

@f00l

Have never understood how you can physically have more than 100% of something.

@PlacidPenguin
It’s a fancy trick w with metaphors.

@f00l My bestest internet friend is insane, so I can deal with insanity. No, you scare me because even though I think of myself as being reasonably intelligent, you leave me in the dust with your thoughts. You make me think and it hurts.

@f00l

/image Bluetooth purple meta four

@Barney
I’m not sure whether it’s intelligence or just dazzling bullshit. Hard to tell.

Esp for me.

Mebbe I jus tawk gud.

@f00l don’t talk much??? ROTFLMAO

@Kidsandliz
I was referring to not talking much during ye olde daze on Deals.Woot.
I would say stuff for a few posts and then get all shy and vanish or something.

Then I acquired some sort of brain eating parasite.

And now you get all this drivel from the brain-eating-parasite; typing using what used my be my fingers.

I know everyone loves it. Want some parasites? I’ll share!

@f00l Oh. In club talk. : ) Although I have a woot account was not on those forums so presumed here. So when is it projected that the parasite will finish off your brain? We can elect you goat again then and you won’t remember you have already been goat.

@Kidsandliz I don’t know what you’re talking about, @f00l was never goat. We’re gonna get her for April after @mikibell in March. nudge nudge

@jbartus

@jbartus Ooohhhh we can start a conspiracy with alternative facts to make @f00l doubt the past. I like it. : )

@Kidsandliz
@mikibell
@jbartus

Funny thing about my brain. I think the parasites finished if off about the same time I started making a lotta noise here. But then they took over the functions/fictions, and you see the results.

That’s why I want to share my beloved parasites with everybody.

Oh yeah, they have a good memory re being Goat because that was them. Or us if you wanna get tech about “realtime”.

Goat me again and I’ll revenge-post more and longer snippets of lit. Worse lit.

@f00l There is a delete button for a reason when we are flagged via here… revenge only works if someone pays attention LOL

@jbartus
Have some mercy on those of us who didn’t talk shit about NE.

If you do that we innocents have to listen to it and we don’t really deserve that.

@jbartus NOW you show up. You’re a worse coward than @mfladd. GET OFF MY LAWN!

@Barney BooHoo.

@mfladd
@Barney’s got a point.

@Barney sorry I was too busy watching the game, enjoying good food, good company, good commercials, and keeping the faith to bother getting on the forums and dealing with people talking shit who had no skin in the game but their hatred of the Patriots.

@jbartus No, I don’t hate the Patriots. I’m just not too fond of some of their fans. I @sligett.

@Barney

@jbartus

But what about those of us who have never understood hand egg?

I don’t understand games which involve balls or eggs.

Never have, and probably never will.

@Barney say what you like it’s fine. All I know is my Discord app on my phone was exploding with the anti-Patriots chatter all through the first half and it got conspicuously quiet as we got into the fourth. This thread slowed down too by the looks of it. Talk about fair weather fickle and hiding.

I think the real complaint here is that @mfladd and I had the class to let our team do well without talking shit to the other team’s fans.

@jbartus I think you are so full of it.

@Barney think what you like. I’m gonna go count rings and records.

@jbartus
Sorry to hear you were too busy for us.

@Barney :barn: :knee:
:smile_dog:

@PlacidPenguin that only worked with teletype recreations.

@PlacidPenguin
Don’t you think the betting public and sports books would have figured out how to make $ off that if they could?

@f00l

They don’t understand logic.

Forget time machines, just call a different time zone.

@PlacidPenguin
Actually I think they kinda do. Understand logic I mean.

Just go thru some practical cases and work it out.

@f00l @narfcake

So… After a careful analyzation of time zones thanks to the Animaniacs, I’m still confused.

So even though it’s Sunday here, but Monday on the other side of the world, they aren’t in the future?

But it’s the 6th there.

This just adds to the confusing mess my mind is in.

/youtube Animaniacs time zones

@PlacidPenguin
I think you might need to experience and work thru some practical examples of time zones to get it.

@f00l

Have never left my time zone at any point in my life.

Honestly, the thought of doing so is slightly intimidating.

@PlacidPenguin
Its a good drive from there if you’re driving.

You could do a there-and-back over a weekend tho. With a little stamina.

@f00l Ahh, they must hang out at Meh.

@Barney
I think it’s just that we talk like pro football players.

@carl669

Wait… What do you mean by “now” ?

@carl669 Nuthin left to say

Ok, maybe some things. @Barney is going to pay.

@PlacidPenguin
Indeed.

@mfladd
@Barney has a point. Where were you when you should have been here moaning?

You don’t get to hide out when it looks bad and then just show up for the gloating.

@f00l Please. I already stated I was in the restaurant watching the game. You people are amazing. All the shit talk and when the tide turns - excuses.

@f00l real fans don’t moan they keep the faith and cheer their team on.

@jbartus @f00l

That’s why we only hear good things about the NY Jets.

@mfladd
@kbartus

Ok then if you didn’t wanna moan during the bad moments, fine.

But where were you? Coming to gloat now when you were absent when it looked bad for the Pats?
Hmmm.

Btw I didn’t trash talk your Pats. I said i wanted a good game, or better yet, a great one. And I got one. So I win.

Furthermore, at that start of the 4th quarter, I said what the Pats would have to do to win. I never thought they couldn’t, just that it would be really tough and they’d have to play like hell to do it.

Well they played like they heard my advice. And they played like hell. And I got a truly great game. And both teams were amazing. And the Pats deserved to win that game, the way they played. And Brady deserved his MVP. And Atlanta has nuthin to be ashamed of, tho I know it prob hurts more than they can stand right now.

And I don’t mind that Goodell looked like an ass one bit.

And I never said or implied otherwise.

Happy?

@f00l with my fellow fans watching the game. I don’t know that our faith and support from thousands of miles away manifests itself in the game but I don’t care. My team is my team and when they’re on the field I’m gonna sit there and cheer them on and support them. People who left or gave up and shut the game off aren’t fans in my book.

@jbartus
I don’t do that - leave early. Lose faith. Not when I cared in the first place. My family might leave a game early if neither team is our team and we just came because we wanted a little football. But even then, for us to leave early, we’d need a powerful reason.

But we never never never leave early if it’s our team.

We stay to the bitter end and beyond and we damned well sing “The Eyes Of Texas” with the billion other Longhorns present. Or the 5 other Longhorns present. Or if we are the only Longhorns present then we sing it loud and proud.

Burnt Orange Blood is the best blood to have.

And our 'horns will be back into greatness soon.

@mfladd
Didn’t see that. What happened?

@f00l He talked about everything that has happened the last two years (deflategate) and that he did not to say it but everyone knew what he was talking about. He then said that is why this win was soooooo sweet.

@mfladd

Not gonna give specific details, but you may be able to find a use for the logic in this video:

@mfladd

i did see that. I thought you were talking about something that happened after that.

Goodell can just get over it.

@mfladd

I’d prefer to use onion rings.

@mfladd did you see the Shields MRI commercials in your neck of the woods?

@mfladd Hmmm… The Pats pulled it off. I don’t like 'em, but I have to say it was a hell of a comeback. Amazing.
I wasn’t really happy with the Falcons either, after they got Dan Quinn from us…

@mfladd That. Is. Amazing.

@jbartus

@Barney

@Barney
/giphy happy dance

@Barney yes it is…

And the Patriots are the Champions!

@jbartus

@Barney yep, and I plan to remind you guys for at least the next six months.

@f00l your video is already blocked.

Nice going @ELUNO!

@jbartus
So click thru and watch it on YouTube.

The commentary is not to be missed.

@f00l

@Barney

Sarcasm?

/image Bluetooth sarcasm

@Barney

These catches cost us Super Bowl X.

And I loved them then and I love them now.

https ://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsJ-P7SQq14

Remove the space after the “https” when you paste the URL into the address bar.

Credit when greatness occurs.

@PlacidPenguin You got it.

@f00l And I thought I was old…

@Barney

/giphy PURPLE VICTORY!

@Barney
I rode dinosaurs to school and back home. And this was so long ago that there were no purple dinosaurs back then.

Later, the next generation come along.

@Barney

@f00l And I thought I was old…

Barney said 5 minutes ago

Super Bowl X

Dallas Cowboys (NFC)
Pittsburgh Steelers (AFC)
Final 17 Dallas - 21 Pittsburgh

DAL 7 3 0 7 17
PIT 7 0 0 14 21

Date January 18, 1976

Stadium Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida

MVP Lynn Swann, Wide Receiver

You are too young to remember the Bicentennial Year and you think you’re old?

If you had been born in 1970 you would still be under 50 years old, purple one.

@f00l I am older than you and I still have all most some of my memory left, thank you very much.

@Barney @f00l

I believe that this site only has 2 old mehmbers.

/image Bluetooth old mehmbers

@Barney

And I think you still possess decent judgment. Is that true?

I hear it’s a plus to have around. I’ve never tried it myself.

PS how do you know you’re older than me? Don’t think I’ve ever outed my age here?

@f00l I’m not sure about the judgment part, but I’m pretty sure I am older than you, however, I’m not as old as @Shrdlu. Nobody is that old.

@f00l

It’s not that hard to extrapolate that data.

@Barney
Hint.
I remember Eisenhower as President. Was not alive for Truman.

Was too young to be much aware of politics until the Nixon-Kennedy debate.

Remember the Missile Crisis rather vividly. FW is as much or more defense industry as it is oil or cattle.

Duck And Cover. Ha ha ha.

@f00l I was made to stay after school for drawing a mustache on Kennedy, who was on the cover of our Weekly Reader.

@Barney

My parents were anti-Democrats.

So they voted for Nixon.
In Texas. With LBJ running for Veep.

That was, shall we say, quite a minority position, locally.

@f00l My dad was a Republican, mom was a Democrat. Their votes cancelled each other out.

I was not born when Truman was President.

I think we may be pretty close to the same age.

@Barney
Yeah sounds that way. Pretty close.

Given your data as offered, and what I know of your birthday, I think I am a few months to a few years older than you.

I have not “acted my age” since I was about 5.

Re Nixon vs Kennedy
We had yard signs. In my neighborhood, for us kids, that was mortifying.

@f00l I said the same age, not the same level of maturity.

@Barney
Goes without saying.

/giphy "you don’t say"

@f00l I remember very little of the Eisenhower years. I do remember the Kennedy-Nixon campaign (the one that got me in detention for a week. I thought Kennedy looked good with a mustache.)

Kansas (otherwise known as Brownbackistan), is a very Republican state, except for a few metro areas with liberal leanings (Democrat).

@Barney

Texas was solidly Dixiecrat until Reagan.

My Always-Right Grandmother, who thought LBJ was half-pinko but voted for him anyway; and wore a rhinestone American Flag pin every time she went out.

She also romanticized the Confederacy. And had Jim Wright running scared. And owned the Letters To The Editor section of the local paper.

Sometimes it’s best not to try to make sense of local attitudes. Just go with it.

For more info, see a writer that @OldCatLady introduced me to:

Florence King

Start with
Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Ladies-Gentlemen-Florence-King/dp/0312099150

Do not allow someone to read this book aloud to you while you are driving.

Laughing to the point of blindness and a heart attack while behind the wheel could be dangerous.

I have no idea how my parents managed to resist the local prevailing hurricane-strength political winds of that time. No doubt this weirdness in them affected my sanity for the worse.

@f00l @Barney

Personally, I find it interesting to talk to people about things which for me would be considered “history”, but for the other people, it was “current events”.

But… That’s the way that the world works apparently.

Although it’s different when the aforementioned thing is compared to the fact that events which have happened in my life are considered history for other people.

Although, it’s different comparing things from decades ago to say… 15 years and 5 days shy of 4 months.

Speaking of which, this month is the 24th anniversary of the 1993 WTC bombing.

Don’t remember it. I was alive, but…

@PlacidPenguin
@Barney
One of the deepest regrets of my life is that I did not ask people much older than I - parents, grandparents, other adults I knew when young - to tell me story after story. So that I could see life thru their eyes.

There was time. But I was too young and way too into into exploring what I thought of as the world, given my youthful lack of understanding.

Now the chance is lost to me, at least for me to ask those whose memories I would most like to hear.

If you still have that chance to ask those you revere (esp family, who are a generation or more older than you) to tell you of their lives and times, don’t let that chance go unexplored if you can help it.

@f00l

When I was younger, I found out that those who came before me owned a (literal) castle.

I don’t think it’s standing anymore.

/image Lack of Bluetooth in the castle

@f00l On the topic of southern women…when I lived in Southern Virginia my dean (old money and 60’s) told me I wasn’t a good southern women. She told I would hold up a knife and tell someone I was going to stab them if they didn’t quit, give them some warnings and then stab them. She told me a good southern woman would put their arm around the person, sweet talk them, dip a curved knife in sugar and when they weren’t looking stab them in the back and twist the knife on the way out. I told her I didn’t think I wanted to be a good southern woman.

@Kidsandliz

Being a southern women, in the sense your Prof meant it, is an art form. A real one.
And everything that Prof described that Southern women might do, they would do. And they would be sweet as sugar and gorgeous to boot, esp while twisting that knife. They would twist with a beautiful flourish and be ever so dainty while opening their victim like that person was a fish being gutted.

And they would manage to attract the affection and sympathy of every handsome hetero male nearby, while they were doing it.

But that’s fading, tho it continues among society women to some extent.
My only female cousin, my step-sister and her offspring, my niece and my nephews’ wives are not like that at all

And my Always Right Grandmother, who was one, was always completely dignified, but ruled all within her reach quite openly, and was considerably less subtle than a battleship.

And my Mom, who was one also, had all the “sweet” and none of the “knife”.

And moi: /FLUNK.

But southerners are big on family, so they keep me.

@f00l pro tip, click the youtube icon when watching an embedded video to be taken to that video on YouTube

@PlacidPenguin What? There are 2 people on here 104 and older? I have it on good authority (my mother) that you aren’t old until you are 104.

@Kidsandliz

I believe we’ve gone through this before.

Nevertheless, these are old.