I'd hate to have Nosler's future insurance bills. Or to be his current insurance guy. "You insured an ammunition factory?"
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Sometime in the near future, a friendly bald guy, who speaks fluent Spanish and has an eastern accent and plays competition caliber chess will move into a small American town and start telling people conflicting mysterious stories and probably won't be able to help himself screwin' with people....
I wonder how long it will take him to get back....
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"I will give you unlimited energy," the Genie said. "There...under the waves, is the magic potion. It is yours for the taking...."
LATER:
"Please Mr. Genie, take it back! I don't want it anymore!"
"I said I'd give you unlimited energy," the Genie said, with an evil grin. "When I said the potion is unending...."
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I kept waiting and waiting to mow my new lawn in back; finally just put the mower at the highest level and plowed through. Even then, the mower clogged every couple dozen feet. Weird weather.
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Time Machine Moment: If you had told someone ten years ago: One of the two couples at the top of the political heap will get a divorce. BUZZZ. No, it isn't Bill and Hilary.
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Time Machine Moment #2: If you were collecting "The Kid's" card in 1989. He'd retire tired and beaten down, with a good career but not one for the ages.
Well, having the fifth most homeruns in history is probably for the ages. But you have to understand the expectations back then. THAT was THE card, let me tell you.
(I'd also have been amazed that Don Mattingly and Dale Murphy and a dozen other players would have their careers foreshortened at below Hall of Fame numbers. I think you have to observe a generation of baseball to understand a generation of baseball.)
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Was reading a Dan Silva book, THE DEFECTOR, with the super Israeli agent Gabriel Allon, where everything he does is super competent and super justified. And the fiasco in the Gaza is happening at the same time, and there is some dissonance there. Fiction is fiction.
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Sometime in the near future, a friendly bald guy, who speaks fluent Spanish and has an eastern accent and plays competition caliber chess will move into a small American town and start telling people conflicting mysterious stories and probably won't be able to help himself screwin' with people....
I wonder how long it will take him to get back....
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"I will give you unlimited energy," the Genie said. "There...under the waves, is the magic potion. It is yours for the taking...."
LATER:
"Please Mr. Genie, take it back! I don't want it anymore!"
"I said I'd give you unlimited energy," the Genie said, with an evil grin. "When I said the potion is unending...."
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I kept waiting and waiting to mow my new lawn in back; finally just put the mower at the highest level and plowed through. Even then, the mower clogged every couple dozen feet. Weird weather.
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Time Machine Moment: If you had told someone ten years ago: One of the two couples at the top of the political heap will get a divorce. BUZZZ. No, it isn't Bill and Hilary.
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Time Machine Moment #2: If you were collecting "The Kid's" card in 1989. He'd retire tired and beaten down, with a good career but not one for the ages.
Well, having the fifth most homeruns in history is probably for the ages. But you have to understand the expectations back then. THAT was THE card, let me tell you.
(I'd also have been amazed that Don Mattingly and Dale Murphy and a dozen other players would have their careers foreshortened at below Hall of Fame numbers. I think you have to observe a generation of baseball to understand a generation of baseball.)
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Was reading a Dan Silva book, THE DEFECTOR, with the super Israeli agent Gabriel Allon, where everything he does is super competent and super justified. And the fiasco in the Gaza is happening at the same time, and there is some dissonance there. Fiction is fiction.
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