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Happy 21st!!!

Thank you. I will have my National Lobster Day today.
You guys have helped to remind me to not forget that in about 3 weeks my baby girl has her 20th.
Great guy...3 great, very smart kids (oldest just graduated H.S.). So I've put the date on my alerts so I don't forget to email/text her a gift card for a nice dinner as well.

Congrats @warrior-cat
 
Watching the Elite Eight game of 1984 tonight on a very crisp DVD thanks to Ritchie Curtis.

Last time a team got to play a Regional Final on their home court - and the Cats needed every break they could get to beat Illinois.

But what a team. Melvin Turpin was very underrated as an offensive player. With Bowie and Kenny Walker and freshman Winston Bennett it was maybe the greatest front court in Kentucky history - at least in the conversation. And Beal and Master were more than adequate at guard.

It’ll always be a shame that fluke collapse in the second half against Georgetown keeps that team from being fully appreciated.
I was at that game and it was a nail biter. We beat UL in the first game of the regionals for the second time that season and as you said, Illinois was a handful. Our home court was the advantage in that game, no doubt.

I will never understand what happened against Georgetown until the day I die. It was one of the strangest performances in my life for our Cats. The 84' team may have been one of the most talented teams in UK history.
 
Hello,

Any news on several posters I have not seen post in several days. (Seems it's been a week or more now.) That is not common, I know people have their lives too but what I am seeing has never been normal here since I have been posting... (I showered and washed my hands before posting to be sure it wasn't BO PO (Post Odor.))

Oh, May God's protection be your armor and shield in all your journey's. God Bless you all...
 
Thank you. I will have my National Lobster Day today.
Happy 21st

Speaking of lobster reminds me of a story about my poor wife cooking her first lobsters. I was assigned to work in Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard for about 6 weeks and when I was flying back home out of Logan Airport in Boston I picked up a couple of live lobsters at Legal Seafood in the terminal. They pack them in a container designed to hand carry on the plane.

So I get home and was ready to treat the wife to a lobster dinner. My wife had never cooked live lobsters and she put them in a turkey roaster which was really too shallow to cook lobsters. When she dropped them in the boiling water they tried to crawl out and she screamed and ran out of the house. I came running into the kitchen and saw one had actually got out onto the counter top and the second was about to. I put them back in the pot and put a lid on it and finished the job. She refused to eat hers because it was staring at her and she just couldn't do it. Live and learn.

That was early in our marriage and I told her to get over that because I would be bringing home a sack of blue crabs often and she better learn how to cook them live. Here they are and they were really good. I ate both of them.

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Hello,

Any news on several posters I have not seen post in several days. (Seems it's been a week or more now.) That is not common, I know people have their lives too but what I am seeing has never been normal here since I have been posting... (I showered and washed my hands before posting to be sure it wasn't BO PO (Post Odor.))

Oh, May God's protection be your armor and shield in all your journey's. God Bless you all...
I don't have a clue. Austin is in touch with a few of them and he may have some information. I trust it is not health issues.

I just finished reading Jeremiah Chapter 10. I need scriptures to cope with what is happening in the world today.

Our weather pattern is the same as it was yesterday and the day before so I will just say "ditto".
 


Morning Legionnaires!

Took in laws to the Wichita Wild Life Refuge yesterday and visited the Holy City there. Below is a link with a bio and picture replicas of the actual Holy City of the days of Jesus. Local Indian legend has it that Jesus visited this area but not sure when. Also pictured below is wife and daughter selfie at the Holy City.




Tomorrow, we are taking them to Mount Scott and then to Medicine Park which is a local historical area with a rustic setting and antique shops and restaurants. One restaurant sits next to a large creek which has a large balcony eating area where you can also feed the fish in the creek with left overs which people do. It sits up higher where you can look down in to the creek.


Oh and by the way, FIL is paying for this day. It will me be and my wife's 21st Wedding Anniversary tomorrow.
Happy Anniversary. Wishing y'all many, many more.
 
Hello,

Any news on several posters I have not seen post in several days. (Seems it's been a week or more now.) That is not common, I know people have their lives too but what I am seeing has never been normal here since I have been posting... (I showered and washed my hands before posting to be sure it wasn't BO PO (Post Odor.))

Oh, May God's protection be your armor and shield in all your journey's. God Bless you all...
I don't have a clue. Austin is in touch with a few of them and he may have some information. I trust it is not health issues.

I just finished reading Jeremiah Chapter 10. I need scriptures to cope with what is happening in the world today.

Our weather pattern is the same as it was yesterday and the day before so I will just say "ditto".
Bert and family currently visiting Gatlinburg.
 
I was at that game and it was a nail biter. We beat UL in the first game of the regionals for the second time that season and as you said, Illinois was a handful. Our home court was the advantage in that game, no doubt.

I will never understand what happened against Georgetown until the day I die. It was one of the strangest performances in my life for our Cats. The 84' team may have been one of the most talented teams in UK history.
That one is one of my most disappointing UK games ever. I believe we ended the 1st half with a 12 point lead (if memory serves) and I really liked that team. Heartbreaking for me how it ended.
 
I was at that game and it was a nail biter. We beat UL in the first game of the regionals for the second time that season and as you said, Illinois was a handful. Our home court was the advantage in that game, no doubt.

I will never understand what happened against Georgetown until the day I die. It was one of the strangest performances in my life for our Cats. The 84' team may have been one of the most talented teams in UK history.
Sawnee -- That must have been a terrific experience. You could feel the energy watching the DVD. That Georgetown game was tough for everyone, but for me living in DC then (on Capitol Hill, right in the midst of the city) it was excruciating. It seemed to me that the Cats got intimidated, not so much by Patrick Ewing as by that giant thuggish freshman Michael Graham.

The irony: He didn't much as a freshman until very late in the year -- then immediately got a reputation as an intimidating brawler. He was in two or three fights, instantly considered a dirty player. But no denying he was a force in the tournament. He was part of the reason Kentucky absolutely couldn't score inside, and he was dominant in the Finals against Houston -- then never played college ball again! Yes, the Kentucky game was the next to last in his career.

Just bad luck for the Cats that the very narrow window of his college "career" -- really just a few weeks -- coincided with that game.
 
Happy 21st

Speaking of lobster reminds me of a story about my poor wife cooking her first lobsters. I was assigned to work in Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard for about 6 weeks and when I was flying back home out of Logan Airport in Boston I picked up a couple of live lobsters at Legal Seafood in the terminal. They pack them in a container designed to hand carry on the plane.

So I get home and was ready to treat the wife to a lobster dinner. My wife had never cooked live lobsters and she put them in a turkey roaster which was really too shallow to cook lobsters. When she dropped them in the boiling water they tried to crawl out and she screamed and ran out of the house. I came running into the kitchen and saw on had actually got out onto the counter top and the second was about to. I put them back in the pot and put a lid on it and finished the job. She refused to eat hers because it was staring at her and she just couldn't do it. Live and learn.

That was early in our marriage and I told her to get over that because I would be bringing home a sack of blue crabs often and she better learn how to cook them live. Here they are and they were really good. I ate both of them.

enhance
My first lobster ever was in Panama (Feb 81 or 82) just after graduating Jungle Training School. That was our graduation dinner.
 
Sawnee -- That must have been a terrific experience. You could feel the energy watching the DVD. That Georgetown game was tough for everyone, but for me living in DC then (on Capitol Hill, right in the midst of the city) it was excruciating. It seemed to me that the Cats got intimidated, not so much by Patrick Ewing as by that giant thuggish freshman Michael Graham.

The irony: He didn't much as a freshman until very late in the year -- then immediately got a reputation as an intimidating brawler. He was in two or three fights, instantly considered a dirty player. But no denying he was a force in the tournament. He was part of the reason Kentucky absolutely couldn't score inside, and he was dominant in the Finals against Houston -- then never played college ball again! Yes, the Kentucky game was the next to last in his career.

Just bad luck for the Cats that the very narrow window of his college "career" -- really just a few weeks -- coincided with that game.
Exactly, Michael Graham was the intimidator in that game. Patrick Ewing was Patrick Ewing but Graham was the difference. It was a nightmare.

And oh yes, Rupp Arena was at it's prime in those days and you could cut the tension with a knife. I wonder if that feeling will ever return to Rupp. If it does the students will have to get more involved. The students during that period were the best spectators on earth.
 
Watching the Elite Eight game of 1984 tonight on a very crisp DVD thanks to Ritchie Curtis.

Last time a team got to play a Regional Final on their home court - and the Cats needed every break they could get to beat Illinois.

But what a team. Melvin Turpin was very underrated as an offensive player. With Bowie and Kenny Walker and freshman Winston Bennett it was maybe the greatest front court in Kentucky history - at least in the conversation. And Beal and Master were more than adequate at guard.

It’ll always be a shame that fluke collapse in the second half against Georgetown keeps that team from being fully appreciated.
Of all the heartbreak losses, Georgetown was the toughest for me. Even tougher than the Laettner and Wisconsin games. I graduated 2 years earlier and had both Bowie and Turpin in a few classes. Turpin dated my roommate's girlfriend's roommate (confused?) so he got to know him well. Turpin sat out most of the 2nd half while the team shot a paltry 3 for 33 from the field. They were shut out completely for the first 10 minutes. Unfortunately most UK faithful know these stats all too well. It took me forever to get over that defeat.
 
Exactly, Michael Graham was the intimidator in that game. Patrick Ewing was Patrick Ewing but Graham was the difference. It was a nightmare.

And oh yes, Rupp Arena was at it's prime in those days and you could cut the tension with a knife. I wonder if that feeling will ever return to Rupp. If it does the students will have to get more involved. The students during that period were the best spectators on earth.
Sawnee -- Graham was a bizarre character, who has led a tormented and strange life. He was kicked off Georgetown after the 1984 tournament, rumor has it for drugs and, or insubordination. He never played college ball again.

He played in the CBA for on-the-way up Phil Jackson, who eventually kicked him off the team, saying, "I tried everything. Nothing could reach him." That from the coach who got Dennis Rodman to function as a disciplined team member. Graham played overseas at a low level for a few years, but was finished with basketball by the early 1990s.

After that, he bounced around in odd jobs for years. I remember going to a meeting at a swanky hotel in DC back in the early 1990s, and there he was in some crazy, ornate dove-colored tuxedo and top hat -- the world's hugest door man! He later worked for years at a rental car company, between scrapes with the law.

Then, I remember reading in 2013 that he won a million dollar lottery prize. There were a round of stories on him then, including this long one in a DC magazine if anyone is interested in one of the Wildcat's classic villains. He's vanished again since then.
 
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I don't have a clue. Austin is in touch with a few of them and he may have some information. I trust it is not health issues.

I just finished reading Jeremiah Chapter 10. I need scriptures to cope with what is happening in the world today.

Our weather pattern is the same as it was yesterday and the day before so I will just say "ditto".
Sorry SC I hit the wrong number, read 10 yesterday 11 this morning. It's like he is talking to us today, same stuff going on!!!
 
On that Georgetown team:

I used to run with Joe B. Hall some. He was recruiting Pat Ewing. On our way to an AAU tourney Joe told me that Pat would not play division one basketball as he did not have the grades.

A while later he announced he was going to Georgetown. I mention it to Joe once and he refused to discuss it.
 
Hello,

Any news on several posters I have not seen post in several days. (Seems it's been a week or more now.) That is not common, I know people have their lives too but what I am seeing has never been normal here since I have been posting... (I showered and washed my hands before posting to be sure it wasn't BO PO (Post Odor.))

Oh, May God's protection be your armor and shield in all your journey's. God Bless you all...​
Summer dog is always slow. Personally, the new normal of continuous chaos, not being conducive to the complacent joys of entertainment jerking folks around doesn't help either.
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Ok Here is my favorite, Southwest Chicken

2- Cups crushed Cheez-it crackers- more about this later
2- Tablespoons of Taco Seasoning- more later
6- Boneless chicken breast- We cut the chicken in chunks, like it better this way and cooks quicker
1/2 cup melted butter
Favorite shredded cheese

Combine crushed crackers and taco seasoning in a gallon storage bag
Melt butter in a pot and keep warm
Place pieces of chicken in the melted butter
Place butter coated chicken in the cracker and Taco mixture in bag and shake to coat good
Place chicken in a baking pan, we line it in foil and spray with Pam
Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes, we always check just to make sure it's done
About 5 minutes before you think it's done, remove and put your favorite cheese on chicken, cook for 5 minutes

Now about the Cheez-it crackers, we have used the regular Cheez-it and the Bacon cheddar flavored both are good. Don't know about the jalapeno flavored ones, because I don't like spicy stuff.

The taco seasoning, if you like it spicier add more than 2 tablespoons

One thing I have found out when making this is, keeping the butter warm, because if you melt the butter in a bowl, the cool chicken make the butter gel up and it's hard to coat the chicken real good, so keeping the butter warm let's you coat it better

Also I use more than 2 cups of Cheez-it crackers, because when I get done with coating all the chicken, I put what's left of the cracker and taco mixture on the chicken, because it is really good, kind of like what's let from fish and chips. Any questions just ask me! Enjoy- Cord!!
 
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