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  1. D. Hocking
    It really should be the tagline next to your avatar - although it is pretty obvious that it does not need to be spelled out.
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    My hometown only had a cafe and an A&W (which was only open in the summer). That is why we had to do our fine dining in Ely or Virginia. I think Andy Griffith also might have been our sheriff.
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    I am hoping the offense is not at their mid-season form.
  4. D. Hocking
    That describes evenings out in the big town of Virginia. That also was where the nearest McDonalds was and their movie theater was open on weekdays unlike Ely's, so you had more than two days to see a movie before it was replaced by something else. Although to be fair, I think Star Wars might have played in Ely for more than one weekend.
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    I remember when Ely got a Pizza Hut (back when you ate at the Pizza Hut) it was a really big thing. There was already a Dairy Queen so it was living large when you had two choices of where to go after the movie (there was a theater too - although the movie often broke down, and I think there might have been rats - in the theater not Pizza Hut).
  6. D. Hocking
    I bet Morrison is jealous.
  7. D. Hocking
    I remember watching the repeats after school growing up. Some really clever stuff - loved Fractured Fairy Tales as well.
  8. D. Hocking
    It was actually a ménage à trois.
  9. D. Hocking
    I do 62 at night and have it turn up to 65 about an hour before I get up. Depending on what I am doing, will either leave it at 65 or put it up to 68. I am in an older place with radiators, so no central air, but window unit keeps it to 80ish if necessary so the fish don't die a horrific death. At this point I am not sure it is going to be above 50 again, so that might not be an issue any longer.
  10. D. Hocking
    I have posted this before - but for a long time I read RiverBrian as RiverBrain, which I suppose is fitting in its own way.
  11. D. Hocking
    I am sure 99.99 % of Mauer wants Morrison to do well to help the team, but I wonder if there is a very, very small part of him thinking, maybe they will ask me back to play first base next year.
  12. D. Hocking
    Eddie McClurg was everywhere for awhile. She was really good in that type of role. Although I just realized recently she was in Carrie, playing the oldest teenager this side of late seasons Richie Cunningham.
  13. D. Hocking
    I am pretty good at being in denial a lot of the time.
  14. D. Hocking
    WKRP for the Thanksgiving episode alone is worthy of a mention. They just started playing it again on one of the antenna TV channels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
  15. D. Hocking
    I was really thrown when occasionally he would go "Book him Kono". It was on after my bed time, but I loved the wave, so I would sneak out of my bedroom when I thought they were about to have a commercial break to watch the wave from down the hall way. I am now starting to think my childhood was perhaps a little pathetic.
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    Sadly, I still have a flip phone, but when I flip it I can pretend I am on the original Star Trek getting ready to beam up, so it is not completely a bad thing. I remember when I thought the people who had push button dialing had fancy phones.
  17. D. Hocking
    Poltergeist would be a lot less of an effective movie today. I wonder if they would know what this is: http://mcnally.cc/wfpgtv/INDIAN.jpg
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    I think Bob Newhart, MTM, MASH, All and the Family, and Carol Burnett were amazingly all part of the same Saturday line up. http://www.tvhistory.tv/1973_TV_Programs.JPG
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    "Friend group" is that what the kids call their friends now days, or is that some sort of artificial intelligence for you to socialize with? Seinfeld was probably the better showing writing wise etc., but the more I watched it in repeats the more it stuck out what horrible people these characters were. Friends was a bit more of a comfort food that I could watch multiple times (and I was basically in the same age as them and same stage of life - without the huge Manhattan apartment and unlimited free time). Cheers was probably my favorite show from the 80's early 90's. Watching old repeats, the original Bob Newhart Show, MTM, and the Dick Van Dyke show hold up pretty well. Speaking of Burns and Allen, I used to listen to their old radio show (repeats years after the fact, I am not Chief's age), and they held up pretty well - same with Jack Benny.
  20. D. Hocking
    I am hoping we have a similar problem at the end of the season when they are worried about cold fall temps as we are playing deep into October.
  21. D. Hocking
    There are families and then there are families.
  22. D. Hocking
    I have sadly had work interfere with being able to check the game thread, but looks like you are get a nice quantity of posts for an afternoon game. I have only read a few of the posts, but am sure the quality is up there was well.
  23. D. Hocking
    In your case, stone tablet.
  24. D. Hocking
    Yes - I never posted there, but stopped reading their boards a few years ago for the same reason. Even worse was the KFAN boards. I am amazed they lasted as long as they did.
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    Dogs

    D. Hocking replied to Vanimal46's topic in The Sports Bar

    The backyard was not a good exercise for my dog, because she would patiently sit under the tree and watch the squirrels. If one came into the yard she would run after it, but she was not one just to run in circles (if she was in the woods, then she would run around looking for things). She would also quietly hide under a bush by the walk and then playfully pounce (but not bark) at people when they walked by - often startling them (she was behind a fence). She was also not a fan of jogging. She loved to run loose or go on long walk, but if you tried to run with her in the city on a leash she would grow bored (not enough sniffing time) and was strong enough to stop on a dime even if we were going at a good, steady pace. She was always looking around on he run, so it was only a matter of time before something distracted her. I usually felt like I needed a chiropractor afterwards from the sudden stops. I am over-generalizing, but I do think certain breeds such as shepards and terriers tend to be smarter, or at least tend to get bored if not properly stimulated, and then cause more problems if they do not get the proper attention.
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