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She forgot "Warmest Regards". WTH does that mean? They want to get intimate?
 
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lawful neutral - i built it in to the email signature so i dont even have to type it.
 
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My wife is chaotic neutral. So fitting. I can’t tell if her email is from work or home account but I’m expected to know it regardless. 😂
 
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Admittedly, I haven't been to a concert in years, but I was shocked by how much ticket prices have gone up. Chicago is playing here tonight and I thought I'd take my daughter. I was a huge Chicago fan in my HS and college days, and they supposedly still put on a great show, even though only 3 of the original guys are still with the band. I went online to buy tickets and the cheap seats were $98, the better seats about $200, and seats on the floor were $350. WTF??? I remember when you could see Zeppelin in their prime for $10-15. My first concert was summer of '75 with Montrose and Skynyrd, and tickets were $4. I remember being shocked when I had to pay almost $100 to see the Rolling Stones in '89, but that was prime Stones. I can't imagine paying $350 to see three members of Chicago and some fill-in guys.
 
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ACamp1900 said:
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Bishop2b5 said:
Admittedly, I haven't been to a concert in years, but I was shocked by how much ticket prices have gone up. Chicago is playing here tonight and I thought I'd take my daughter. I was a huge Chicago fan in my HS and college days, and they supposedly still put on a great show, even though only 3 of the original guys are still with the band. I went online to buy tickets and the cheap seats were $98, the better seats about $200, and seats on the floor were $350. WTF??? I remember when you could see Zeppelin in their prime for $10-15. My first concert was summer of '75 with Montrose and Skynyrd, and tickets were $4. I remember being shocked when I had to pay almost $100 to see the Rolling Stones in '89, but that was prime Stones. I can't imagine paying $350 to see three members of Chicago and some fill-in guys.
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I feel the same way about baseball. MLB teams play 3,872 games in a season and they want to charge some crazy prices for seats. We were in Cleveland a few years back and tried to get into a game already in progress. Stadium was 2/3 - 1/2 empty and they were charging like a minimum of $40 a ticket, so $200 + tax for a family of five. Fuck that shit, I've got better ways to spend 3 hours of my time. I don't remember tickets being much at all for a family in the mid-late 90s when the Indians were actually good, I'm not paying that much to watch them while they suck.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
Admittedly, I haven't been to a concert in years, but I was shocked by how much ticket prices have gone up. Chicago is playing here tonight and I thought I'd take my daughter. I was a huge Chicago fan in my HS and college days, and they supposedly still put on a great show, even though only 3 of the original guys are still with the band. I went online to buy tickets and the cheap seats were $98, the better seats about $200, and seats on the floor were $350. WTF??? I remember when you could see Zeppelin in their prime for $10-15. My first concert was summer of '75 with Montrose and Skynyrd, and tickets were $4. I remember being shocked when I had to pay almost $100 to see the Rolling Stones in '89, but that was prime Stones. I can't imagine paying $350 to see three members of Chicago and some fill-in guys.
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Living that life right now. 27th row center Tears for Fears $450 per. Lawn seats 3 clicks from the stage? $69. I'll wait until last minute and snag something in the parking lot or maybe I'll skip it? It's outdoor at the end of May in Phoenix. Could be 105 at tip-off.

BTW, I saw the Stones on that tour and what stands out to me to this day is... Vernon Reid from Living Colour can sure play the geetar.
 
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Last concert We saw was the Eagles about 8 years ago. We paid about $350 for two tix. Normally won’t cough up that much, but one of my all time favorites and had never seen them so it was on the bucket list.

First concert was Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels in ‘68.
 
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Irish#1 said:
Last concert We saw was the Eagles about 8 years ago. We paid about $350 for two tix. Normally won’t cough up that much, but one of my all time favorites and had never seen them so it was on the bucket list.

First concert was Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels in ‘68.
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My undergrad graduation gift to myself was Billy Joel tickets in Minneapolis in seven years ago. Cost a tad more for me and the girl but was worth going. No better time to go, hes getting a long in the tooth.
 
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BobbyMac said:
BTW, I saw the Stones on that tour and what stands out to me to this day is... Vernon Reid from Living Colour can sure play the geetar.
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Yeah, Vernon was no joke, especially around that time in '89 when they were at their peak. He could play just about any style he wanted. Very talented player, and he made it look easy.
 
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Merica!

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Crazy. I've already seen on social media where people are spinning this as "Republicans literally vote for murder!" as if the ballots specify if someone is incarcerated or not. You're always going to have uninformed voters on both sides. You're also talking an incredibly small county where there's a few seats open and only a few nominees that are running entirely unopposed. That's social media for you though, gotta fuel the outrage. Hopefully he steps down or is removed some other way, this guy obviously does not belong in any public position.
 
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The discussion of classic rock in the Wives thread reminded me of this funny story. When I was a teen in Alabama in the '70s, I'm sure some of my friends listened to country music, but I don't think I could've named any who I knew did. Country just wasn't cool. None of my classmates ever said, "Oh man, that new George Jones album is awesome!" We were listening to the same stuff most teens of that era were listening to: Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, Clapton, Queen, ZZ Top, Skynyrd, Rod Stewart, Blue Oyster Cult, Yes, and so on. Concerts were a LOT more common then too. Bands typically put out an album every year and toured 6 months per year. Between Huntsville and Birmingham, we usually had 20-25 major act concerts every year.

So, my first semester at Bama as a freshman, I shared an apartment with a guy I'd graduated from HS with. We moved in the week before classes started and spent the next few days getting sorted out and meeting our neighbors. About the 2nd day in town, my roommate met a fellow freshman who lived in our building and who was from New Hampshire. Other than a brief visit to campus with his parents the year before, he'd never been to The South. He asked my roommate if we had any concerts and my roommate told him yes, we had lots of them. He then asked, "They're, uh, mostly country, right?" My roommate told him, "Well yeah, of course. Just last year we had some bluegrass band from England called Iron Balloon or Lead Balloon or Led Zephyr or something like that and they could sure pick and grin. We got some banjo boy named Clapton coming to campus in a few months and some hillbilly country band called Little Feat playing at homecoming. Heck, a few years ago 'fore he died, we even had some black mandolin playing country singer named Jimi Harris or Henderson or Hendrix or something like that played right here on campus. Hoooweee he could play!"

The guy from NH laughed and said, "OK, I just stuck my foot in my mouth, didn't I?" My roommate laughed with him and said, "We wear shoes, we have indoor plumbing, we don't screw our sisters, none of us have ever seen a moonshine still, and we listen to the same music you and your friends listened to in New Hampshire." He turned out to be a good guy and was one of my best friends for years, even after we finished college. The idea of him just standing there getting roasted by my roommate, though, always makes me laugh.
 
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I believed everything until you said you don't screw your sisters.
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A friend from Washington state used to go on and on and on and on... and on and on making jokes about how Southerners screwed their sisters and animals. It was funny the first couple of times, but had gotten really old by the 50th time he made the same joke. Didn't feel like a joke anymore, and instead more like a poorly veiled insult. Anyway, about the time it had become irritating and gotten on my last nerve, a story hit the news about a guy who'd died in a Seattle area ER after bleeding out from a colon injury. They eventually determined he'd been visiting a "love farm" in WA where you could have sex with all sorts of animals, and this guy had been on the receiving end of some vigorous attention from a horse.

Enumclaw horse sex case - Wikipedia

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So, I blasted him with this story and said, "In Alabama, we joke about this stuff. In Washington, you actually do it. Got anything else to say?" That was the end of the stupid comments from him.
 
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Bishop2b5 said:
A friend from Washington state used to go on and on and on and on... and on and on making jokes about how Southerners screwed their sisters and animals. It was funny the first couple of times, but had gotten really old by the 50th time he made the same joke. Didn't feel like a joke anymore, and instead more like a poorly veiled insult. Anyway, about the time it had become irritating and gotten on my last nerve, a story hit the news about a guy who'd died in a Seattle area ER after bleeding out from a colon injury. They eventually determined he'd been visiting a "love farm" in WA where you could have sex with all sorts of animals, and this guy had been on the receiving end of some vigorous attention from a horse.

Enumclaw horse sex case - Wikipedia

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So, I blasted him with this story and said, "In Alabama, we joke about this stuff. In Washington, you actually do it. Got anything else to say?" That was the end of the stupid comments from him.
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Bishop2b5 said:
A friend from Washington state used to go on and on and on and on... and on and on making jokes about how Southerners screwed their sisters and animals. It was funny the first couple of times, but had gotten really old by the 50th time he made the same joke. Didn't feel like a joke anymore, and instead more like a poorly veiled insult. Anyway, about the time it had become irritating and gotten on my last nerve, a story hit the news about a guy who'd died in a Seattle area ER after bleeding out from a colon injury. They eventually determined he'd been visiting a "love farm" in WA where you could have sex with all sorts of animals, and this guy had been on the receiving end of some vigorous attention from a horse.

Enumclaw horse sex case - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

So, I blasted him with this story and said, "In Alabama, we joke about this stuff. In Washington, you actually do it. Got anything else to say?" That was the end of the stupid comments from him.
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Perhaps practitioners in Alabama are just more experienced?
 
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Last night was awesome... I finished up grading around noon and thought 'wat the heck, let's have some whiskey'

-Watched Night to Remember for the first time
-Boston got killed in hockey
-Toronto won a huge game
-Angels No-hitter and Rendon's left-handed home run

One of those days where the fun just doesn't stop lol
 
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