Greybeard
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16 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:
LOL….. I love Shakir, but come on. When Shakir has 9 for 115 in the Championship game and looks like the SB MVP then we can talk
we get OBJ and our base formation should be 3WR, 1 TE, 1 RB
NO ONE has the personnel to deal with Diggs Davis and OBJ
To be fair to Shakir, the Bills actually have to be in a Championship game before you can make that comparison.
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There is enough silicone there to end the chip shortage.
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On 9/25/2022 at 5:22 PM, muppy said:
how rare it is to see #17 short pass a receiver.......lol right?
There were a couple of passes during the game, even though they may have been completed, where I thought Allen may have had the ball slip out of his hand. I do know it is very hard to throw accurately when your hands are sweating profusely.
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On 9/3/2022 at 12:58 PM, Albanybillsbacker said:
Looks like there is interest in a second league…
pick ‘em
Onebillsdrive B Team
https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem/register/joingroup
Group ID# (32389) and the Password (superbowlorbust). Remember, it is the Group ID#
survivor pool
Group ID# (19255) and the Password (Superbowlorbust). Remember, it is the Group ID#, not the group name, that other people must use to join your group.
Thanks for the additional leagues. Typically by week 5, 20 or 30 people have stopped playing. I guess as soon as they lose in survivor, they quit on Pickem.
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I am really going to miss this show. A fitting ending as Jimmy redeems himself.
You have to give the writers and the actors a huge amount of credit. Every character in this was engaging.
Throughout this last season, I have gotten lost a couple of times. There were scenes I didn't understand and conversations on this board I understood even less. The reason for this is, I have yet to see a single episode of Breaking Bad. I find it hard to believe it could be better than Saul.
As far as I can see, not knowing the Breaking Bad story/characters didn't detract from Saul. Maybe you don't miss, what you don't know.
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On 2/24/2022 at 3:50 PM, Tuco said:
I'm still stuck on Aunt Suzie's birthday gift. Even though it isn't exactly related to Ticketmaster, it still falls under the same new laws. So Aunt Suzie gives you $1,000 for your birthday. The law says this isn't taxable because the amount is under the taxable threshold for birthday presents from Aunt Suzie. But Aunt Suzie is hip. She's not like grandma. Aunt Suzie is with the times and she uses venmo to send you the same $1,000 gift she's sent you for the last 15 years.
Enter the IRS. Now that Aunt Suzie used venmo, there will be a 1099 form generated. You may get this form and throw it out since you know it's not really taxable. Yet when your taxes are filed, the IRS will know you omitted this 1099 form in the amount of $1,000 from your reported income. They won't know it's not taxable, and they won't really care. They will just know that your income listed on your tax form doesn't match theirs.
Now in typical IRS fashion, they will presume you guilty of tax evasion. They will send you a bill for the $70 or whatever your tax on $1,000 comes to, plus a generous penalty and late fee, etc. You will now have been judged by an agency of the federal government and found guilty.
Fortunately, this is America, and you will be given the opportunity to prove your innocence. This will take a bit of your time and maybe cost you some money, but hey, it's a small price to pay for freedom. Eventually you may prove your innocence and can then claim a small victory against the IRS and their strong arm. Yay.
Of course you can avoid all this trouble by listing the $1,000 on your tax return, and going through the trouble of proving it was just a birthday gift from Aunt Suzie ahead of time. Or you can persuade Aunt Suzie to mail you a check like she did for so many years. Although the IRS has already tried, and will most likely eventually succeed in treating that $1,000 bank deposit in the same manner.
We didn't really think the IRS was increasing its workforce by 15% to go after GM and Haliburton did we? And none of the above used to happen unless Aunt Suzie's and your other venmo transactions totaled over $20,000, or more than 200 transactions. But starting in 2022 that threshold drops to $600 and a single transaction. Yet somehow there are people who think this is all a good thing because, hey, we need roads to drive and new STADIA (Bills related!), and have to pay our share.
Remember when Carmela Soprano goes to the bank and deposits $9900. When the bank exec says, if it was $10000 the bank would have to inform the govenment. She smiles and says "Oh really,"
I believe the threshold is now $600 and it is not per transaction, it is for the entire year.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-bank-account-update-change-treasury-10000-dollars/
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On 8/7/2022 at 4:07 AM, freddyjj said:
Marlin "the magician" Briscoe RIP. In 1970, with a rookie QB (Dennis Shaw) Marlin had 57 catches for over 1000 yards and 8 TDs. Marlin made his only Pro Bowl that year. Bills went 3-10-1 that year under John Rauch.
The first person that came to mind when I read the title was Dennis Shaw. Not that he was so wonderful but IMO Briscoe made him the Rookie of the Year. I swear half his passes were jump balls.
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8 hours ago, TSNBDSC said:
Thanks for the notice. I used Winamp in the past but switched over to foobar2000 years ago. I will have to give Winamp a try again.
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One of my favorite Scully calls, although I may not get it in the correct order, despite the fact that I have heard it more than once.
" the dueces are wild. There are two men on base, and the count is two balls, two strikes and there are two outs."
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If a new Bills stadium is actually built, it will be 3 years late and cost twice the original estimate.
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9 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
Judge is on pace to break Maris's record. Would be great for baseball.
Is that over 154 games or 162?
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On 10/14/2019 at 10:31 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:
I say... Get rid of tipping... Pay the employee the same as now... Like poo. Then watch the truly crappy service ensue. None of this "subsidizing wages BS".
Let the fun begin. Reduce everything down to lowest common denominator.
LMAO....I love it... Nobody kissing anybody's azz.
You get what you get and you don't have a fit! LoL... Take your money and stuff it, treat it like a bribe if offered.
Does that include not leaving any drinks for the lock operator? I think some boaters feel they have to apologize for waking the guy up.🤣
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On 7/2/2022 at 6:38 PM, Augie said:
Did you hear about the guy in NC who won the lottery…..twice?
I had a tennis buddy in Florida who would walk of the court immediately as the lightning alarm went off, meaning strikes within 5 miles. He wasn’t messing around, he’s been hit before…….twice.
When we lived in Hilton Head, SC we invited the wife’s cousin to come watch the PGA tournament outside our back door. Good old Tommy went out to watch and got hit by a golf ball…….twice! (Albeit one was a short hop of the cart path, the other a drive.)
I could go on and on (some of it improper for this family site, but that one night at the bar made a legend of my buddy Dave), but unlikely things happen all the time! Multiply that by nearly Infiniti……
I don’t know what IS, and I can’t say what ISN’T.
I did all that without any math.
Your first rarity has happened at least twice.
Evelyn Marie Adams is an American lottery winner. She won the New Jersey Lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986, for over $5.4 million combined (both prizes were paid in the form of mandatory annuities).
Odds were 1 in 17 trillion, or so says a different article,
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15 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
I picked none, they all suck. MLB was great when I was younger and the players actually cared. Now they dodge them or or go to party. what cha think
The MLB all-star game was so good from 59' to 62', they had two of them a year.🤑
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1 hour ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
Mandela effect?
1 or 2?
Looks like the Led Zeppelin effect to me.
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57 minutes ago, Bad Things said:
Partridge?
Sly
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9 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:
No propulsion, his control was limited to going up or down and spinning the balloon. At one point he dropped down to the river and the balloon started going backwards. What was cool was that he has multiple launch sites and he picks the site based on the prevailing winds to try to maximize time over the gorge.
I can't believe everyone gets a journey as grand as yours. As a friend in college used to say, "I am farking impressed".
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On 7/7/2022 at 1:37 AM, SinceThe70s said:
Apologies in advance that this is long-winded - cliff's notes version is it turned out great and adventure is somewhat apropo.
First day of vacay we're settling in to our airbnb (i.e. - cocktails) and my boys spot balloons. We are pumped! We had made a reservation for a few days later but weather for that day looked sketchy so fingers were crossed. We see balloons every night, but forecast doesn't improve for launch day so anxiety rises. At some point we realize there is more than one balloon company and maybe the other one is better than the one we reserved. Weather doesn't improve, our ride is cancelled and by a stroke of luck we are able to reserve for the next day with the other company.
Launch: The weather is better but windy enough that it might get cancelled as we are preparing to launch. At the launch site (basically someone's backyard that the pilot knows) it's still a game time decision - but we get the thumbs up. In retrospect, the pilot called the launch 'sporty'. Ahead of the launch I was concerned about clearing the tree line. During the launch I was convinced we were dumping into the pond next to the launch but we got off the ground and cleared the trees.
Ride: More amazing than I imagined. Reached an altitude of 4000 feet. He would have gone higher but wifey balked (which I was fine with). The crazier part was dropping down low. He skimmed trees so we could (and did) grab leaves off the top of trees in Letchworth and then to my amazement dropped down into the gorge to the point that the bottom of the basket was probably inches from the water (a bit downstream from the lower falls). At one point he asked some Letchworth hikers to post pictures of us to his Facebook page. Saw an amazing sunset - before the trip he told me that on the sunrise trips he rises and lowers so they can see multiple sunrises.
Landing: a bit sketchy. He had to find an open field and spoke to a few people on terra firma requesting permission to land - not everyone is amenable to having a balloon land on their crops. Landing was a bit rough - we were running out of daylight and the wind was kicking up and it was a bouncy landing that ended up just shy of a tree line.
I could go into a lot more detail about how awesome it and the operator was and why if anyone wanted to do this they would want to use https://balloonletchworth.com/ and not the company sanctioned by the state park.
Is there any propulsion device on the balloon besides the hot air, or did he make that entire journey just playing the air currents?
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42 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:
Afaik XRP is not backed by gold. There are some coins that are, but XRP isn’t one of them. In fact, I believe Ripple’s (the company that made XRP) CTO David Schwartz even said if XRP was backed by gold it would limit its capabilities.
Here’s a list of all the current gold backed crypto:
https://www.goldscape.net/gold-blog/gold-backed-cryptocurrency/
XRP not an asset backed cryptocurrency at all. It’s not really backed by anything but the company that made XRP (ripple), who’s currently facing an SEC lawsuit over what XRP actually is. The SEC is alleging that XRP is a security (not a commodity) so it should be regulated like a security, and that all XRP is currently considered unregistered securities so ripple’s owners sold it illegally.
ripple says XRP is a utility coin.
https://www.protocol.com/fintech/ripple-sec-xrp-lawsuit-trial
and here’s more on asset backed cryptocurrencies:
https://medium.com/the-capital/what-are-asset-backed-cryptocurrencies-f341d9359292
https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/gold-backed-cryptocurrency/#What_Is_Gold_Backed_Cryptocurrency
I sure hope Poleshifter reads this.
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17 hours ago, Poleshifter said:
XRP is backed by gold. XLM is backed by silver.
Gold and silver are the assets.
Most people are not accustomed to crypto being backed by anything but hope.
What does backed by gold mean? Does it mean for every dollar of XRP there is a a dollar of gold backing it? And if so where is the gold held?
I ask this in part because I was a player in SLV two years ago. They say that is backed by silver, The issue is it is not 1 to 1. It could be $1 in SLV is backed by $0.1 of real silver.
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2 hours ago, Irv said:
You could feel something was very wrong. Like your heart was beating like a hummingbird wings. Very obvious. I went in to one Urgent Care. They turned me away because they were overwhelmed by COVID. Didn't even ask me what my problem was. Went to another one. They said one hour wait. They asked me what my symptoms were and I told them. Two minutes later I was getting an EKG and sent to the Emergency Room next door. Doctor looked like he was going to faint. Admitted immediately. I ended up getting a cardioversion which is an electric shock to correct your heartbeat. (Like you see on TV) Went home next day. If you feel anything like that - go to the hospital. You can get a stroke.
Thanks for the reply. I asked because I was wondering if you had a device that would catch that. I have a Kardia EKG monitor which I check once in a while and they say that will catch afib. I know there are also apple watches which will catch it. I am assuming they will catch events much milder than yours.
Your description of an actual event is much appreciated.
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2 minutes ago, Irv said:
I had a-fib in January. Heart rate was 170. Normal is 60-100. Felt like my heart was vibrating. On blood thiners and a couple of other drugs to avoid stroke.
How did you discover this?
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14 hours ago, Augie said:
And I had such hope for you!
Please forward your address so I can mail you all the Golden Retriever sheddings we collect daily.
OK…….maybe cats aren’t ALL bad compared to Goldens, but that’s the only knock on Goldens. Cats? Don’t get me started. I now understand the reason my mother told us she was allergic to cats until I was about 25.
Enjoy your popcorn!!!
How do I upvote your mother?
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Mug shot of the day
in Off the Wall
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If they ever remake Papillon, there is a part waiting for him.
I had to do a search to make sure I spelled Papillon correctly, and what do you know, they already remade Papillon in 2017. Sacrilege!!