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Post#1241 » by payitforward » Mon Sep 30, 2024 9:08 pm

Funny!
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Post#1242 » by dobrojim » Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:32 pm

Not that I really mind but when we lost out of the tourney, how was it that we
ended up having to play the 2 best teams in the league? Seems gratuitously punitive.
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Post#1243 » by pancakes3 » Thu Dec 12, 2024 1:55 am

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Post#1244 » by dobrojim » Thu Dec 12, 2024 3:08 pm

Not on instagram but curious what you posted there...
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Post#1245 » by pancakes3 » Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:27 pm

dobrojim wrote:Not on instagram but curious what you posted there...


it's a clip of Brendan Haywood on a podcast telling a story about Kwame's rookie year where they went to Philly, and after the game, an "unnamed player" got on the bus and said that the Philly team doctor approached him and told him he wanted to work with him on catching the ball and finishing strong, and it turned out to be Doctor J
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread Part 4 

Post#1246 » by penbeast0 » Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:28 pm

Maybe the league is trying to help our tank.
“Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination,” Andrew Lang.
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Post#1247 » by dobrojim » Thu Dec 12, 2024 4:50 pm

^ Maybe. But we don't seem to need much help.

(thanks 'cakes) Pretty funny. Dr J was reported to have huge hands. Kwame, not so much.
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Post#1248 » by Chocolate City Jordanaire » Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:12 am

It's a new day.
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Post#1249 » by dobrojim » Fri Dec 27, 2024 1:15 am

I wonder if anyone at Monumental Sports has ever
bothered to explain to Chris Miller the meaning of FT
*extended* ie that it cannot mean inside the FT
circle. It is an imaginary line from the FT line from
the edge of the circle to the sideline.

I know I shouldn't obsess about it but its meaning is
clear... visualize the FT line extended to the sideline.

*That* is FT line 'extended'.

If someone shoots from the circle, just say the circle.
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Post#1250 » by dobrojim » Wed Jan 1, 2025 3:12 pm

2 upcoming games vs NOP could be decisive in the Tank Race.
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Post#1251 » by dobrojim » Sat Jan 25, 2025 3:23 pm

I don't normally think like this but this first
week of new Admin has me wondering if there
is an opportunity for marketing about to open wide.

In response to "trump will fix it", offer yard
signs and bumper stickers saying things like:

Trump will eff (or screw) it up

or

Back to the 1850s - (thanks MAGA).

The possibilities seem almost limitless.
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Post#1252 » by dobrojim » Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:36 pm

It's the early bird that gets the worm
but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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Post#1253 » by pancakes3 » Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:18 pm

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Post#1254 » by Zonkerbl » Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:29 pm

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/all-flights-halted-at-reagan-national-airport-due-to-plane-crash-potomac-river-dc/

What the ever lovin frickin frack was that black hawk helicopter doing there????? Why is military equipment anywhere near there? Don't they have other places for pilot practice?
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Post#1255 » by pancakes3 » Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:46 pm

wemby being named to the rising stars game is kinda lol
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Post#1256 » by daoneandonly » Mon Feb 3, 2025 3:02 pm

What are some of your favorite restaurants in the Montgomery, Howard, and Frederick County areas? Whether hidden gems or known chains?
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Post#1257 » by dobrojim » Fri Mar 28, 2025 3:51 pm

Been hearing about bluesky recently so I wandered
over there. Not sure but I guess it's like X but
not owned by a fascist.
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Post#1258 » by pancakes3 » Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:16 pm

i just don't like how they call tweets skeets
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Re: Random Thoughts Thread Part 4 

Post#1259 » by montestewart » Sat Mar 29, 2025 5:03 am

pancakes3 wrote:i just don't like how they call tweets skeets

Makes it sound like poop
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Post#1260 » by dobrojim » Sun May 11, 2025 1:11 am

Just watched Shooting Guards (Netflix).
Definitely a sad story (Gil/Crittenton/Peepeye).
Tragic story for the murder victim and her
family. One might attribute it to toxic masculinity
leading to ill considered responses totally lacking
in foresight, but there were complexities making it hard to simplify.

I'll kid around the deadly seriousness of it all and say it
was all GMEG's fault. Or Charlton Heston. Of course those are gross simplifications.
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When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

Those who are convinced of absurdities, can be convinced to commit atrocities

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