Dan T.

55 minutes ago, redskinss said:

 

And most people probably wouldn't even notice that in this picture the motor is facing the wrong direction. 

If the steering column were supposed to face this way you'd have to stand in the lake to steer your boat.

You underestimate Wiley B. Coyote's handyman skills. With a few nuts and bolts from ACME, he could easily alter the motor to reverse the handle.

The way Ohtani's story changed after it first broke was suspicious and leads me to believe we are not hearing the full scope of what went on.

31 minutes ago, balki1867 said:

OJ, Aaron Hernandez, Junior Seau and Mike Webster are the Mount Rushmore of CTE.  I really hope they get to scan his brain. 

22 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

90% of the 300 or so brains studied of former NFL players had CTE.  Yes, it was biased towards people with symptoms.  But only 1 out of 152 brains scanned from everyday life had CTE. 

 

Shhhhh.... "big football" wants us to ignore this.  

The only issue with including OJ in this group is he had a history of violence long before he was in the NFL.  Growing up in a tough section of San Francisco and was in a street gang as a teen and - as he himself said - he was violent back then, getting into a lot of fights. 

So CTE wasn't the reason for slaughtering two innocent people.

On 4/10/2024 at 10:31 AM, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

If you want to blame Garland, may as well blame Biden. And also the way our judicial branch is set up. 

 

Lots of blame to go around but if you wanted a more proactive AG, y

On 4/10/2024 at 10:34 AM, China said:

 

Garland could have appointed a special counsel sooner.  They are independent, and so could have avoided having his hands on or off decisions from the beginning.  He did nothing.

 

And sure, Biden gets some of the blame for picking a crappy AG.

The irony is that Merrick Garland has a temperament better suited for a Supreme Court justice than an A.G.

Reading his obit in the Washington Post, I didn't remember that Nicole Simpson had called the police multiple times in the years before the murders because of Simpson's violent assaults on her.

Simpson met her when she was an 18-year-old waitress right out of high school and moved in with her the next year while still married to his first wife.

O.J. Simpson, football great whose trial for murder became a phenomenon, dies at 76 - The Washington Post

Where's the choice of a brand-new Miata to show off to my TikTok and Facebook followers?

Cancer didn't kill him.  They're looking for the real killer.

^^^ Well that sucks for you tshile.  Our situation wasn't disruptive in any way that I could tell.  I surmised they picked the spot precisely because it wouldn't cause any issues.  Clearly not the case for your situation.

17 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Seems like they'd be setting themselves up for a lawsuit though if someone followed the fake part of the map and drove across the lawn/in to the house.

I suppose. But it was a fake short street within a small neighborhood that no one would really need to use. And nothing looking like a street was there. 
 

Reading up on the practice of traps, mapmakers actually inserted a fake hamlet called Agloe in upstate New York as a trap. 

from Wiki:

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In the 1920s, General Drafting founder Otto G. Lindberg and an assistant, Ernest Alpers, assigned an anagram of their initials to a dirt-road intersection in the Catskill Mountains: NY 206 and Morton Hill Road, north of Roscoe, New York.^[2] The town was designed as a "copyright trap" to enable the publishers to detect others copying their maps.

In the 1950s, a general store was built at the intersection on the map, and was given the name Agloe General Store because the name was on the Esso maps.^[3] Later, Agloe appeared on a Rand McNally map after the mapmaker got the name of the "hamlet" from the Delaware County administration. When Esso threatened to sue Rand McNally for the assumed copyright infringement which the "trap" had revealed, the latter pointed out that the place had now become real and therefore no infringement could be established.

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Agloe, New York - Wikipedia

17 hours ago, China said:

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw who is sponsoring the Rolling Stones 2024 tour:

 

 

 

 

I notice they made the sponsorship logo so small that olds couldn't see it without their glasses.

On 4/5/2024 at 6:04 AM, balki1867 said:

i used to work for a competitor to Google maps and

 

Off on a tangent, but Google Maps used to show a non-existent street right across from my house. The map showed it going right through my neighbors' yards to the next street over.  It was a big "WTF?" to me, then I learned that they did this in various places as a "gotcha" so as to catch competitors using their proprietary maps for their own use. 

18 hours ago, Always A Commander Never A Captain said:

Something to look at as the season progresses. We have the 2nd most stolen bases in MLB and we're tied for 3rd fewest GIDP (grounding into a double play) in MLB. There has to be a correlation between this. It makes sense at least, fewer forced outs as more stolen bases means a runner on 2nd can choose not to run, or turning the double play from 3rd to 1st is that much harder than 2nd to 1st.

Add 3 from last night in the Nats 5-3 win - all from Jacob Young....

Washed up MAGA actor gets his hat handed to him…

2 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Gotta be a parody account, right?

It's hard to tell any more. 

Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a parody Member of Congress?  

Is Fox a parody news organization?

Is Donald Trump a parody millionaire?

Can someone explain the toy car one on the prior page?

This girl pulled one over on her mom:

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung