Random Thought Thread

[The Evil Genius]

On Monday, I paid the remaining $2,400 and change on my 15 year old student loans.

I cannot express how satisfying it is to be student loan free.

[renaissance]

On Monday, I paid the remaining $2,400 and change on my 15 year old student loans.

I cannot express how satisfying it is to be student loan free.

Damn. Congratulations!!!! I just went in and upped the monthly payments for mine.

[The Evil Genius]

Damn. Congratulations!!!! I just went in and upped the monthly payments for mine.

I got lucky.

After I finished grad school in 1999, I had almost 50k in debt. I paid as much as I could the last few years to really bring it down, but my folks chipped in on the last 15%..they just came into a large chunk of money and thought I would appreciate it (paying off the loan).

It saved me a year or two more of paying on it...especially since when I consolidated it the rates were still above 6%.

Now, if I could just re-fi our under water (value to loan) house at the current rates!

[Dr. Do Itch Big]

I just coughed up what couldn't only be described as a big as booger. Wtf

[youngchew]

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Morris had his biggest game of the season when it counted most...

But damn bro, I really could've used that 200 yards and 3 touchdowns during the fantasy season!

[Koolblue13]

Charlie using a picture of Bruce Jenner as a resume for a janitor job.

[Mr. Sinister]

Speaking of Morris, I'm just staggered at how humble that dude is. Sleeping on his parents couch, driving a bucket, etc. I mean I know he just wants to remember whare he came from and all that, but seriously, you just broke a single season rushing record, and beasted on the Dallas Cowboys for 200 yds and 3 tds, one primetime, on a record breaking telecast, for the division title. Live it up.


They need to redo his contract in the offseason. If he keeps going like this, no matter how hard he tries not to, he'll probably end up waking up in the morning in bed with a beautiful woman like Eva Mendes, with fully loaded Evo in the driveway of his mansion. It is inevitable. I am glad he's on my team. Go get that Evo, son.

[abdcskins]

Everything you say is wrong like a married man.

[spjunkies]

Speaking of Morris, I'm just staggered at how humble that dude is. Sleeping on his parents couch, driving a bucket, etc. I mean I know he just wants to remember whare he came from and all that, but seriously, you just broke a single season rushing record, and beasted on the Dallas Cowboys for 200 yds and 3 tds, one primetime, on a record breaking telecast, for the division title. Live it up.


They need to redo his contract in the offseason. If he keeps going like this, no matter how hard he tries not to, he'll probably end up waking up in the morning in bed with a beautiful woman like Eva Mendes, with fully loaded Evo in the driveway of his mansion. It is inevitable. I am glad he's on my team. Go get that Evo, son.

That's what I love the most about our stars from this draft. They are some young humble dudes who are easy to root for.

[Jumbo]

I don't know if I did it right, but after reading China's post #21333 (it's not letting me link it) in the owned thread, I decided to write my own review and send it in (see product in that post)


<update---just got confirmation that my review was used and that already "4 of 4 people found the following review helpful" >





We lost Charlie

I told them we didn't need to risk anyone for a damn slicer. Since the early days of the plague, every crushing or decapitating weapon we needed we've acquired. I tried to explain to Charlie all the differences of size and physical construction between what that slicer was intended to do, and then thinking it would work on putting down the undead.

But Charlie has an old torn Men's Health magazine he would not let go of...and in between an ad for a new Hyundai motorcycle made entirely of plastic, and a worn photo of a speedo-sporting Matthew McConaughey, there was the ethereally shiny image of the Hutzler.

Charlie was mesmerized by the bright color, and what he described as "man's perfect design for nature's perfect design" and the idea it would be so much easier to carry. Charlie has..had...pipe-stem arms, and the normal implements we carry (hatchets, axes, bats, iron bars, etc) always tired him out that much sooner. Charlie also has...had...mild asthma.

Then, yesterday, on a supply hunt, outside an old K mart, Charlie sees the "New! From Hutzler" billboard in the broken display window, with the mutilated manikins and the remnants of their incisor-torn clothing. And it must have called to him with all the irresistible allure of a siren to an Argonaut.

The guys let him go, laughing, and telling him to "also look for Vaseline and band-aids." Charlie wasn't much help in most typical ways, but some of the guys still had feelings for him and cared about his comfort.

I guess I should take some comfort in knowing that Charlie found the only thing he had showed any interest in since that first day we found him hiding under a pile of diaper bags in the back of a laundry truck. He found his Hutzler Grail.

And as he waved it proudly overhead, he nicked his ear and gave out a little "yip." We all laughed and smiled. The slicer looked as new as if it was traveling down that factory feed belt on the way to packaging. He was so excited!

And then before he could decide which pocket in his Johnny Adventure Survival Jacket to put it in, out from behind the perfume counter came a late-stage shambler. The fragrances available at K-mart still worked their magic even over the months-old decaying flesh, so we didn't hear or smell the thing before it was too late.

Charlie...poor brave Charlie...even while screaming like a adolescent girl, tried to jam the slicer up against the shambler's neck and pushed as hard as his skinny little arms could, noisily sucking in oxygen in short rapid breaths even as the shambler was gnawing his nose off.

We were there within seconds and finished the thing off, but we were too late.

I can only wonder, if when Charlie had first seen the billboard, instead of only the heady, bold, promises of a splendid functionality both potent and unique, there had also been some more responsible warnings of the inevitable limitations of such a "tool of perfection."

Maybe then, we'd still have Charlie.

[IONTOP]

I think it would be hilarious if the Colts exited their plane, and instead of getting into team busses, they huddled in the back of a Mayflower moving van...

[Koolblue13]

That's pretty good Jumbo.

[ixcuincle]

All my years of calling World Juniors games and I've never seen the US as dominant as this against a quality opponent

You'd think I'd be happy but I'm not

[skinsmarydu]

All my years of calling World Juniors games and I've never seen the US as dominant as this against a quality opponent

You'd think I'd be happy but I'm not

I expected the usual "**** Duke" this morning, ix...

[renaissance]

That's what I love the most about our stars from this draft. They are some young humble dudes who are easy to toot for.

lol