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Back when i grew up the Gophers were still good in football. 14 year old 5-foot tall me used a Gopher stadium pad in order to see over the hood of the '58 Buick (BIG car, yo!). Even in the heart of Hawk country no one said a thing about it because at that time Iowa was the Kansas of the Big 10.
Even over the last couple of decades the hawks don't really have grounds to look too down on the gophers. In the last 20 conference seasons Iowa has had more wins in 11 of them, the gophers have had more wins in 7 of them and they had the same number of wins in 2 of them. This is not domination worthy of ridicule.
 
Next telemarketer who calls......I’m gong to start selling them some stuff. Not give them any time to talk and start pushing car warranties and long term care to these folks. Maybe house siding also.
I get so many of those damn robo calls telling me their is nothing wrong with my account but I need to act now to DRASTICALLY reduce my interest rate. Got a letter the other day about my warranty on a car that I never owned.
 
I heard some Husker fans the other day complaining about Alabama's claim of 17 National Championships in football and that they really can't be valid because the Huskers only have 5
 
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What website do people use to check the weather on their PC?
Weather.com has turned into such a complete POS that it's time to look elsewhere. Half the time it can't even load.
 
My high school was purple and gold which I hated. To make matters worse we had purple and gold hats with nothing but a big zero on them.

The only thing worse was my previous school was black and gold and their fight song was the hawkeye fight song. I would have been okay with the black and gold if I didn't have to hear that hawkeye **** along with it. I did like the logo though which was unique.

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Somebody out there is thinking I know exactly which two schools you went to. Don't out me. ;)
Velo displaying his high school pride:

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My first school was Kelly green and gold but for football we went darker to be more like GB but with green helmets. My senior year I ended up with purple and yellow, it was painful. Home was all purple satin pants, purple jerseys and yellow helmets with purple writing and facemasks. Away was a disaster with white jerseys instead. Everyone basically had black shoes and any other stuff like gloves or braces. So we were all over the place with them. I guess we had yellow belts that laced through also.
Red & white where my boys went to school, yellow & green where the girls went (they never lived with us). My favorite color combo was Perry High School. They had light blue (not powder blue, but not navy or royal either) pants, and white jersey/helmet. And they were frequently...well, undersized. They looked like a bunch of freakin' smurfs out on the field (apologies to anyone here from Perry!).
 
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Hey CG I'm assuming the Madison shooting didn't have anything to do with DH's company? All I know is that he does something computery.

Spent the night in Wx old stomping grounds I do believe Wichita KS. Back to Ia thru KC so some BBQ for me on the way home. Who knows maybe even a quick stop at Boulevard;).
Wichita? Did you eat at Taco Tico?
 
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I had a guy who claimed to be a Texas college student doing research on Minnesota politics call and want to interview me a little after 10 pm the other night. I said that it was after 10 pm, why would you cold call people that late at night? I have kids in bed here. He said it wasn't 10 pm where he was - I was like it's not 10 pm in Texas? I later learned that a small chunk of Texas is indeed in the mountain time zone. Regardless after 9 pm is a little late to be calling and you should know the time zone of the place you are calling.

I'll admit I wasn't very nice to him.
I despise election season. You get that call so that they can figure out how they're going to frame their next calls and which type of junk mail they will send you.
 
BCC is screwed. Hobson's choice time. Go to the tornado shelter and drown in flash flooding or stay above the floodwaters and get blown away.

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I get so many of those damn robo calls telling me their is nothing wrong with my account but I need to act now to DRASTICALLY reduce my interest rate. Got a letter the other day about my warranty on a car that I never owned.

The latest thing now is the robo calls that are disguised as local cell numbers....but you can always tell because the area code is also listed. I won't even answer those. The vixen says, aren't you at least going to see who it is? And I say if it's important they'll leave a message.

They never do.
 
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