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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: Snaggletiger on March 10, 2021, 11:14:49 AM
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It hit me this morning on the way in to work, while listening to sports talk about conference basketball tournaments, that it was right at one year ago today when life really changed. I think the SEC tourney had just gotten underway when the plug was pulled on pretty much all sports across the country. I remember an interview with Bruce Pearl not long after, and hearing him say, we were on our way to Nashville when we got the news that the SEC tournament was off and to turn around and go home. By the time they got back to Auburn, news was out that March Madness was off and upon arriving on the Plains, they were told to pack up and go home. The campus was being cleared. That's a lot to process.
Things were getting weirder by the day, not only in sports, but in our every day lives. We had people freaking out in our office. One of our employees had taken a trip and before she got back, the other employees were saying they wanted her to quarantine for 2 weeks before she could come back. Schools were starting to close and one of our single-mom employees had no one to keep her kids and had no choice but to go on FMLA and stay home. We closed our office to the public for weeks while doing what we could to try and generate some business. Suffice it to say, those weeks of closure and not taking on new clients really caught up to us, and continues to do so today.
Rumors and misinformation were flying fast and furious. The reality was that no one, not even the so-called experts, had any clue about this virus, how it was spread, who could get it or if there was anything that worked to prevent it. Half the population was in panic, while the other somewhat shrugged it off and felt it was overblown, maybe even a bit of a political stunt. Early on, I had a couple of people I knew fairly well, who contracted the virus, struggled for weeks in the hospital and eventually passed from it. One was older but in great health. The other had numerous health issues and seemed a prime candidate for this virus to target. Still, we didn't know how to react to it.
It seemed that when summer hit, I went from knowing of two friends that had it, to an almost daily update of people I knew coming down with it. Then it hit family. It was quite real to me by then. Even as late as two days ago, I've had another person I knew pass from it. Most reports I've heard recently, say the numbers seem to be coming down, even if ever so slightly. Other reports say get ready for another spike because we're headed into Spring Break time and large groups of people will be gathering all over the country. I'm praying that's not the case, but most likely will be. I'm afraid we're not nearly done with this thing quite yet.
I got my first vaccine shot about 10 days ago. My second is schedule for the 29th. My hope is that as more and more people get the vaccine, we quickly start getting on the back side of all this. I'm ready to walk in a store and it not look like some bad sci-fi film with everyone masked up. The wife had some flu symptoms the past few days and went in for a test yesterday. It was, in fact, the flu. I'm ready to hear that people are actually getting the flu again and it's not Covid. Not that I wish the flu on anyone. I'm ready to watch sports again on TV and hear a real crowd and not see a thousand cardboard cut-outs in the stands. I'm ready to attend sporting events again and not worry that I'm too close to someone. I'm ready to actually shake somebody's hand and talk to them without a mask muffling our words. I'm ready to be normal again.
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It hit me this morning on the way in to work, while listening to sports talk about conference basketball tournaments, that it was right at one year ago today when life really changed. I think the SEC tourney had just gotten underway when the plug was pulled on pretty much all sports across the country. I remember an interview with Bruce Pearl not long after, and hearing him say, we were on our way to Nashville when we got the news that the SEC tournament was off and to turn around and go home. By the time they got back to Auburn, news was out that March Madness was off and upon arriving on the Plains, they were told to pack up and go home. The campus was being cleared. That's a lot to process.
Things were getting weirder by the day, not only in sports, but in our every day lives. We had people freaking out in our office. One of our employees had taken a trip and before she got back, the other employees were saying they wanted her to quarantine for 2 weeks before she could come back. Schools were starting to close and one of our single-mom employees had no one to keep her kids and had no choice but to go on FMLA and stay home. We closed our office to the public for weeks while doing what we could to try and generate some business. Suffice it to say, those weeks of closure and not taking on new clients really caught up to us, and continues to do so today.
Rumors and misinformation were flying fast and furious. The reality was that no one, not even the so-called experts, had any clue about this virus, how it was spread, who could get it or if there was anything that worked to prevent it. Half the population was in panic, while the other somewhat shrugged it off and felt it was overblown, maybe even a bit of a political stunt. Early on, I had a couple of people I knew fairly well, who contracted the virus, struggled for weeks in the hospital and eventually passed from it. One was older but in great health. The other had numerous health issues and seemed a prime candidate for this virus to target. Still, we didn't know how to react to it.
It seemed that when summer hit, I went from knowing of two friends that had it, to an almost daily update of people I knew coming down with it. Then it hit family. It was quite real to me by then. Even as late as two days ago, I've had another person I knew pass from it. Most reports I've heard recently, say the numbers seem to be coming down, even if ever so slightly. Other reports say get ready for another spike because we're headed into Spring Break time and large groups of people will be gathering all over the country. I'm praying that's not the case, but most likely will be. I'm afraid we're not nearly done with this thing quite yet.
I got my first vaccine shot about 10 days ago. My second is schedule for the 29th. My hope is that as more and more people get the vaccine, we quickly start getting on the back side of all this. I'm ready to walk in a store and it not look like some bad sci-fi film with everyone masked up. The wife had some flu symptoms the past few days and went in for a test yesterday. It was, in fact, the flu. I'm ready to hear that people are actually getting the flu again and it's not Covid. Not that I wish the flu on anyone. I'm ready to watch sports again on TV and hear a real crowd and not see a thousand cardboard cut-outs in the stands. I'm ready to attend sporting events again and not worry that I'm too close to someone. I'm ready to actually shake somebody's hand and talk to them without a mask muffling our words. I'm ready to be normal again.
Jesus God! Can you write something about the Punic Wars or the Allied invasion at Normandy and how weather patterns affected the overall strategy?
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Jesus God! Can you write something about the Punic Wars or the Allied invasion at Normandy and how weather patterns affected the overall strategy?
What's all this fuss I'm hearing about Pubic Wars?
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What's all this fuss I'm hearing about Pubic Wars?
There's a war on children Snags.
Besides contributing to the Encyclopediatrics Brittanicaspeers, what do you do with your free time?
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There's a war on children Snags.
Besides contributing to the Encyclopediatrics Brittanicaspeers, what do you do with your free time?
I like long walks on the beach with my girlfriend, until the LSD wears off. Then I realize I'm just dragging a stolen mannequin around a Taco Bell parking lot.
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You go ahead and take that vaccine. But stick that hope where the sun don't shine.
I won't be taking it.
There are plenty of cheap remedies for this virus that our government is keeping from us in order to allow big pharma to make money.
Look up Ivermectin and ask yourself why its not used here.
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You go ahead and take that vaccine. But stick that hope where the sun don't shine.
I won't be taking it.
There are plenty of cheap remedies for this virus that our government is keeping from us in order to allow big pharma to make money.
Look up Ivermectin and ask yourself why its not used here.
Or just be an antibody host like myself avoiding Grandma. Caught it right before Thanksgiving and suffered through a month of misery. I got better!
I don't have any qualms about what others choose to do. Two of my older sisters just got the first of two and they are happy for it.
To each his own.
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I like long walks on the beach with my girlfriend, until the LSD wears off. Then I realize I'm just dragging a stolen mannequin around a Taco Bell parking lot.
ahhh, yes.....so you know about my spring break days in Panama City circa 1997.....good times.
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I don't have any qualms about what others choose to do.
To each his own.
been saying this for years about Snags' "lifestyle" decisions.
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I’m comfortable.
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ahhh, yes.....so you know about my spring break days in Panama City circa 1997.....good times.
It does seem like an excursion most of us would have been cool with at the time.
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ahhh, yes.....so you know about my spring break days in Panama City circa 1997.....good times.
On our way to P.C. myself and two buddies run out of gas within walking distance of the Florabama Lounge in 1978, in my buddy Tim's Volkwagen Rabbit.
Don't ask the obvious. We were cooked and soused beyond limits.
So we are forced to enter the confines although we didn't have a problem crawling out of any establishment.
Inside we struck up conversation whereby we were lended a plastic hose of sorts where we could be on our way after swallowing a good deal of flammable properties all while consuming whatever was available.
That was just the preamble.
Things got more interesting after two of us hurled in the shrubbery of the Georgia Inn...and the sign was lit up in neon-Jesus Saves!
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On our way to P.C. myself and two buddies run out of gas within walking distance of the Florabama Lounge in 1978, in my buddy Tim's Volkwagen Rabbit.
Don't ask the obvious. We were cooked and soused beyond limits.
So we are forced to enter the confines although we didn't have a problem crawling out of any establishment.
Inside we struck up conversation whereby we were lended a plastic hose of sorts where we could be on our way after swallowing a good deal of flammable properties all while consuming whatever was available.
That was just the preamble.
Things got more interesting after two of us hurled in the shrubbery of the Georgia Inn...and the sign was lit up in neon-Jesus Saves!
youre a sick pervert Jmar. and I applaud you for it.
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youre a sick pervert Jmar. and I applaud you for it.
I am at once honored and deeply embarrassed by my youthful misbehavior. But it was all about getting a nut...and most times the girls were charitable.
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Jesus saves, but jmar withdraws!
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Jesus saves, but jmar withdraws!
NOT VERY LIKELY my friend.
I seldom withdrew from any campaign unless there was a lingering stench hanging around.
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I like long walks on the beach with my girlfriend, until the LSD wears off. Then I realize I'm just dragging a stolen mannequin around a Taco Bell parking lot.
I hope you wore your mask. Idiot.
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I hope you wore your mask. Idiot.
Mask or no mask. You have to agree the mannequin around a Taco Bell is pure golden.
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I hope you wore your mask. Idiot.
Why you want to denigrate our attorney friend so often? We know he's long winded, self important and secretly bisexual but he's a integral part of the minions that make up this beloved site.
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Mask or no mask. You have to agree the mannequin around a Taco Bell is pure golden.
Don't argue with him. He thinks Benny Hill is top shelf comedy.
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Don't argue with him. He thinks Benny Hill is top shelf comedy.
The park bench stuff is a masterful stroke. Agree?
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Don't argue with him. He thinks Benny Hill is top shelf comedy.
I'm not arguing with him as much as pleading to his better qualities as a steel plated individual with periods of nothingness much like Joe Biden and others like him suffering from dementia.
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What happened to Buzz? He's a fav but he's sort of hit or miss.
And why do some of the others purposefully ignore me? I'm as approachable as a mother hippo.
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What happened to Buzz? He's a fav but he's sort of hit or miss.
Been trying to fix the like button. No luck so far.
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Been trying to fix the like button. No luck so far.
Is GF running a fulltime book bc I'm kicking every afternoon with something in the mix. I love me some gaming.
I don't think he croaked.
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The park bench stuff is a masterful stroke. Agree?
Must we discuss strokes?
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Must we discuss strokes?
It's not compulsory but it serves as a human condition that stretches the limits of our existence. We have to test those limits.
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Must we discuss strokes?
Damn, this group is getting old now. Where is the AARP thread?
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You go ahead and take that vaccine. But stick that hope where the sun don't shine.
I won't be taking it.
There are plenty of cheap remedies for this virus that our government is keeping from us in order to allow big pharma to make money.
Look up Ivermectin and ask yourself why its not used here.
Amen.
No way in hell I’m taking a placebo “vaccineâ€
It’s 100 percent fraud. All of it.
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Amen.
No way in hell I’m taking a placebo “vaccineâ€
It’s 100 percent fraud. All of it.
I find it funny that among some of the people I know who are very smart, they will wait one to two years after Microsoft comes out with a new product so they can fix the bugs, BUT, they want a shot that they have no idea what it is going to do to them.
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I find it funny that among some of the people I know who are very smart, they will wait one to two years after Microsoft comes out with a new product so they can fix the bugs, BUT, they want a shot that they have no idea what it is going to do to them.
I'm counting on it making my kielbasa much larger.
Not that it needs to be. I don't know what you heard, but don't believe it. Because I'm plenty big.
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What happened to Buzz? He's a fav but he's sort of hit or miss.
And why do some of the others purposefully ignore me? I'm as approachable as a mother hippo.
Buzz is alright but not very good in the sack. So I’ve heard.
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I'm counting on it making my kielbasa much larger.
Not that it needs to be. I don't know what you heard, but don't believe it. Because I'm plenty big.
You are a big man. Your dick, though.
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Is GF running a fulltime book bc I'm kicking every afternoon with something in the mix. I love me some gaming.
I don't think he croaked.
Several people have asked and he actually is not dead. I don’t think he will mind me stating exactly what has happened.
GF got off early one day and noticed his neighbor’s little boy in the yard well before the boy’s mom got home.
The Godfather, being the good guy that he is, took it upon himself to bathe the young man so that he could be ready for bed when the mom got home.
How was he to know the boy was 11? He looked younger. Regardless, what’s the issue with trying to help your neighbor out.
This is the second time this has happened to him in a few short years. He has some really strange neighbors.
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Buzz is alright but not very good in the sack. So I’ve heard.
Momma was wrong again!