D-League

[UK82]

If you think about it, going to school ought to be the best, most fun part of your life. If you put the least effort into learning, the school work ought to be a piece of cake. Do they have study halls any more? I knocked my homework out in mere minutes in study hall and never ever took a school book home. You are surrounded by countless potential friends all day long. I coasted through my teen years without ary hint of drama. So did just about everyone else I knew. All you hear about today is kids with their drama.

I hated school or going to classes to be more precise. Boring. I sure loved my friends though and had a great time after the last bell rang. Summer vacation was nirvana for me and I hated to see it end so abruptly. Now UK was a different story. The best years of my life. I couldn't wait to get back on campus.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Great movie. We were naming our top 10 baseball movies the other day, and everyone had FOD in their list. I also love Major League, and Sandlot. Guess my favorite may be Moneyball, but not by much of a margin. I could be persuaded to another. Lots to choose from.

Another great baseball movie with Kevin Costner in it is Bull Durham.

 

[ymmot31]

Home again! Fair was fine. Not too crowded at all until we were ready to leave. Got a great parking spot because I ignored the Andy Frain who was telling me I couldn't go where I wanted to go. He wasn't too serious because he didn't chase me very far.

Everything is expensive at the fair except for free pretzel sticks and dip. I had one.

We saw about everything there was to see but didn't walk around the midway or go into the cow and chicken zone.

Might end up going again with my wife but I don't really think she'll go. It will have to be a Saturday and between the crowd, the heat, and the walking...

 

[starchief5]

Home again! Fair was fine. Not too crowded at all until we were ready to leave. Got a great parking spot because I ignored the Andy Frain who was telling me I couldn't go where I wanted to go. He wasn't too serious because he didn't chase me very far.

Everything is expensive at the fair except for free pretzel sticks and dip. I had one.

We saw about everything there was to see but didn't walk around the midway or go into the cow and chicken zone.

Might end up going again with my wife but I don't really think she'll go. It will have to be a Saturday and between the crowd, the heat, and the walking...

Reminds me of the time I went to the Memphis Blues Festival. I arrived too late to get a ticket. The crowd had exceeded the number the fire people would allow. "I've come too far now," I thought. I'm going in anyway. So my wife and I just walked in, she holding on for dear life, not knowing what would happen. An employee chased us down, telling us we had to leave. I told him we tried to buy tickets but they wouldn't sell us any. So we're going in. He said, "Well, I guess there's not much I can do then." He let us go in.

 

[Ben101er]

My mother had one of these and my wife still sprinkles her ironing.

My wife still has one that her Mom used.

 

[Ben101er]

Good evening all. Sitting in Bridgestone Arena waiting for Queen to take the stage. Wish I could have seen them while Freddie was alive.

 

[UK82]

50 year anniversary of Woodstock. I'm guessing the average age back then was 22 or 23. Early 70's nowadays. Upper D-League material.

 

[*CatinIL*]

Doing a quick dash and go here on the D-L. Heading out of town tomorrow then on to Nolin Lake. I don't do internet on the phone so you folks be good and have fun this weekend! oh...and keep an eye on the skies

 

[ymmot31]

Boogie has torn an ACL.

 

[UK82]

Welcome back. welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

Kotter.

 

[UK82]

Boogie has torn an ACL.

Yeah that's not good news.

 

[ymmot31]

He's gonna have a hard time finding someone to give him a job basketballing when he comes back from this one. Only had a one year contract as it was.

 

[55wildcat]

Home again! Fair was fine. Not too crowded at all until we were ready to leave. Got a great parking spot because I ignored the Andy Frain who was telling me I couldn't go where I wanted to go. He wasn't too serious because he didn't chase me very far.

Everything is expensive at the fair except for free pretzel sticks and dip. I had one.

We saw about everything there was to see but didn't walk around the midway or go into the cow and chicken zone.

Might end up going again with my wife but I don't really think she'll go. It will have to be a Saturday and between the crowd, the heat, and the walking...

I'm in for Saturday, wife needs to see if she won a ribbon. Dreading the heat but thank goodness for music tents, beer, and pork chop sammiches..Look for me if ya go Tommy, I will be wearing shorts and grey tee and wearing sunglasses!

 

[FutureCityCats]

Good evening all. Sitting in Bridgestone Arena waiting for Queen to take the stage. Wish I could have seen them while Freddie was alive.

.Hey Ben. Please give a report on the concert. FCC.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from Orlando. Temp = 75°F. We may hit 90°F today and lots of lovely rain. Today, I must run downtown and pick up various paperwork. Visiting some cousins later. A longtime friend invited me over for dinner tonight. His wife is Vietnamese. Looking forward to some great food.

Back later. Y'all behave.

 

[ymmot31]

I'm in for Saturday, wife needs to see if she won a ribbon. Dreading the heat but thank goodness for music tents, beer, and pork chop sammiches..Look for me if ya go Tommy, I will be wearing shorts and grey tee and wearing sunglasses!

I will not be going tomorrow. Just as I predicted she has changed her tune about going to the fair. Of course that was last night, tomorrow is a different day. You see, I married a woman.

I don't know when the last time it was that you had a pork sammich from the Pork Producers, but they are not what they used to be. In fact, it is probably the worst food choice you can make at the fair. If you go towards the West you can find some good food trucks and those will be your best bet for a good bite.

 

[wildcatdonf]

Boogie has torn an ACL.

Damn.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good rainy morning D League

Woke up this morning like every day this week to rain but this one was harder than the others. The ground is saturated all over the state so if we have a hurricane this season we might end up under the Gulf. The rain keeps the temperature in the low 80's. The girl on the radio said within a week or so we should be back in our typical weather pattern with rain in the afternoon about 4:00 and stopping by 4:15.

Meanwhile all of the teams are practicing for football rain or no rain. Kickoff is getting closer. Sorry to hear about Cousins and his ACL. Tough break for him at this age. Have a great day all.

 

[ymmot31]

Damn.

Achilles tendon rupture, quad muscle tear, blown out ACL...this could be a cruel end to a very promising career. Hate to see it for the big fella but human bodies can only take so much.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Since 6:00 AM we have had 3 inches of rain and it is still raining. The ground is saturated and these signs are popping up all over the county.

 

[ymmot31]

Supposed to be in the upper 90's this weekend with no rain in sight. I'm playing golf tonight and then coming home and watering some little trees. I've taken an interest in 4 of them and would hate to see them wilt. My oak trees are dropping lots of leaves as well but I'm not going to water those suckers.

I have a fire hydrant in the corner of my front yard. I wonder if anyone would mind if I tap into that for a couple hundred thousand gallons? I wouldn't be stealing the water, per se, I would just be redirecting it for a bit until it can recycle itself. If you look at it the proper way I would be doing the city a favor by moving that stale water out of the way to make room for new, fresh water in the pipes. I don't know why I want to sacrifice so much for my community, it's just the way I am.

 

[Kai Slater]

Since 6:00 AM we have had 3 inches of rain and it is still raining. The ground is saturated and these signs are popping up all over the county.

Wow, that's some serious rain there. Sometimes, I'll bet that you can go an entire month and not get 3 inches of rain. If that happened around here, it would be a flood emergency. Hopefully that sandy soil will filter it through quickly.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

August 16, 1977. I was on a business trip to Pensacola,Florida when I got the news. A radio station was playing one Elvis song after another and I thought it was strange. Then they announced why. Elvis was very popular on the Gulf coast and Panhandle area

 

[FutureCityCats]

Hey you humans, catfaninsc too. Gotta work alot. Lost 3 people at DG, so getting some extra hours that are well needed. My 4 teens have this habit called eating. So remember the famous words of Lady Godiva as she rode away, "No pictures please". FCC.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Achilles tendon rupture, quad muscle tear, blown out ACL...this could be a cruel end to a very promising career. Hate to see it for the big fella but human bodies can only take so much.

Did you hear what Mike Francesca said about it? Absolutely disgusting imo.

 

[ymmot31]

Did you hear what Mike Francesca said about it? Absolutely disgusting imo.

Yeah I saw that. Said it was a blessing. What a POS.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Did you hear what Mike Francesca said about it? Absolutely disgusting imo.

I hope he gets an opportunity to say it to Boogie's face. Francesca needs an old fashioned whippin'. And then some

 

[ymmot31]

August 16, 1977. I was on a business trip to Pensacola,Florida when I got the news. A radio station was playing one Elvis song after another and I thought it was strange. Then they announced why. Elvis was very popular on the Gulf coast and Panhandle area

I was a junior in high school. Girls were crying and I told them that he made about 40 movies and recorded every song known to man at that point. We had enough Elvis to last us quite a while.

Now Jim Croce dying hurt my young heart.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I was a junior in high school. Girls were crying and I told them that he made about 40 movies and recorded every song known to man at that point. We had enough Elvis to last us quite a while.

Now Jim Croce dying hurt my young heart.

I remember the day Hank Williams, Sr died. I was 10 years old and my uncle who had been in WWII and Korea had a tear in his eye. I was too young to understand I guess but this hardened combat veteran had lost a man who touched his heart. The first death of a super star singer that stung me was probably Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. I was in high school when the plane went down.

 

[Ben101er]

.Hey Ben. Please give a report on the concert. FCC.

It was really good. The band has not lost a step and Adam Lambert does a great job. He hits all the notes that Freddie did, but I am not sure his voice is quite as powerful. All in all, it was well worth it. Spectacular laser lights. Also had some good barbeque before the concert. Going to see Gladys Knight, tonight at 7:30. We are chairholders at the Paramount Arts Center here in Ashland, and we have 2nd row seats. Looking forward to hearing her. She is Pipless, so I'm hoping she asks for volunteers. I have always wanted to either be a Pip, or a Temptation. lol.

 

[Ben101er]

I was a junior in high school. Girls were crying and I told them that he made about 40 movies and recorded every song known to man at that point. We had enough Elvis to last us quite a while.

Now Jim Croce dying hurt my young heart.

He was scheduled to appear in Huntington, WV about a week later, and some of the guys I worked with had tickets. They about cried, too. Besides the refunds, they got to keep their tickets. Pretty cool to have tickets to an Elvis concert, post Elvis.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I was a junior in high school. Girls were crying and I told them that he made about 40 movies and recorded every song known to man at that point. We had enough Elvis to last us quite a while.

Funny about Elvis. I was born around the time he burst on the scene, so I missed all that excitement. I intuitively dug his music as a young kid. But by the time I was in high school, he was deep into eclipse; the 'Vegas" or "Fat" Elvis phase. Like all kids that age, I went with the pack and mostly ignored Elvis music in favor of Led Zepplin, the Stones, and so on.

In about 1976, I was in my late teens living across the river from Cincinnati. My uncle offered me tickets to see Elvis at the Riverfront Coliseum and I told him I had no interest. Elvis? The world has moved on from that guy.

All I remember about the day he died was that I was working down in Miami and a buddy who was about ten years older said, "Man, he was a beautiful cat when he was young. You missed all that. What a shame that he blew it."

When I was about 30, I was dating a woman who had stumbled upon the Sun Sessions. I’d never heard that very early stuff before. And she was an Ivy League Yankee who'd never had an interest in Elvis. But those recordings were like a lost masterpiece from a vanished race. We played it over and over. So pure, so simple. So full of sexual energy. The joy to be alive just rocketed around the room when he sang about the "Mystery Train" or how "tonight she'll know I'm a mighty, mighty man" on "Good Rockin'."

I started listening to all his stuff, and yeah, there is lots of corn and crap and superficial nonsense. But mostly the voice is always there, and the vitality. I'm a huge fan now, and I'm convinced he was a true original, and one of the very, very few significant popular artist of the 20th Century. I'd give a great deal to have gone to that concert now -- even to see Fat Elvis.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

I hope he gets an opportunity to say it to Boogie's face. Francesca needs an old fashioned whippin'. And then some

I'd love to see Boogie give Francesca the Swopshire treatment.

 

[UK82]

I'd love to see Boogie give Francesca the Swopshire treatment.

Disgusting. There was video of the injury. Not watching that. Sad. Before his previous injury he was peaking in his career. Top 10 player if not Top 5 in the NBA.

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Disgusting. There was video of the injury. Not watching that. Sad. Before his previous injury he was peaking in his career. Top 10 player if not Top 5 in the NBA.

I agree. I haven't watched the video either, as I have no need to see it. I only knew about it from listening to KSR at work today. Jones was offering UK tickets to the first person to call Francesca's show and question him about it (had to say something related to KSR's show, so he knew you listened to the show).

 

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[_Rooster]

My normal friday morning coffee post evaporated somewhere. Guess I should slow down and smell the stuff before I gulp it down when scurrying about.

And check that it actually posted.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good soggy rainy morning D League

Trust all had a good night's rest. We are saturated down here with water and more rain is forecast for today. It has rained so much my swimming pool is about to over flow so I am thinking about draining 12 inches out of it. And the crazy thing is we have had zero activity in the Gulf that would come close to a storm. We were suppose to have 14 named storms this season and 7 hurricanes. As September approaches hurricane season should be peaking so we will see. I can take a year without one to be honest. So today we have mild temperatures with a current temperature of 74 degrees and a high of 82 this afternoon. 70% chance of more rain.

Football is here folks. I am ready.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

69.3°F, sunny and only 66% humidity. Looking good. Hopefully my guys will get my steel landscape down between the grass and mulch today.

Two weeks to UK football?

About Elvis: my sister is three years older than me and she lived and died with Elvis. I loved him too and I suppose that I have all of his music in one format or the other. Elvis' gospel music is the best that I ever have heard. He did all the old classics to perfection.

I really got into the rock and roll guys. The Stones, Beatles, and all the rest. By the time Queen came along I was raising kids and knee deep into making a living, so concerts and a bunch of music was out of the question. Later on when the kids were out of college I started buying up the stuff that I had missed out on.

I gave all my 45's away last year as I got tired of storing them. One of my friends collects old records. I kept all my old 78's and 33 1/3 albums. I bought a new turn table to digitize them three years ago and never have got started. That could be a big project for this winter. I have some music on albums that we never made into CD's, so I need to capture that. Also my son and daughter are back to buying albums.

On music: my best music present ever was when Ymmot gave me a thumb drive of the top 100 songs from 1953 through 2003. Plus he added a bunch of albums on the back, like all of Elvis', The Stones, The Beatles.... A wonderful collection, plus the 1953 through 2003 are in date order by the number 1 through 100 sales for that year.

Typing ramble is over.

 

[FutureCityCats]

Morning folks. Working today 9 to 2. I've often felt that of course God waters the vegetation and water for the animals by rain. He also sends the rain to clean up an area of land that was about to be an environmental disaster unknown to us, e.g. Houston, New Orleans, and many others. FCC.