Bill from NYC Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 3 hours ago, row_33 said: Kirby took a sharp turn down a--hole road after he retired. In what way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 7 minutes ago, WhoTom said: Several years ago, a friend said, "John Paul Jones is the most talented member of Led Zeppelin." I'd have put him at third, after Page and Bonham, but then I started listening more carefully to his parts and I realized that as great a guitarist as Jimmy Page is (and he is), it's Jones and Bonham who really drove the music. Much like John Entwistle, Chris Squire, and Geddy Lee, JPJ played the bass like a lead instrument. You left out two Jacks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 6 minutes ago, T&C said: You left out two Jacks! Bruce and Casady? Fair enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coloradobillsfan Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Seasons1992 said: Nurses and teachers. I'd like to supplement this with farmers and miners. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 The guys (public servants) who plow my street and rarely leave any snow in my driveway apron. (Amazing what a yearly x-mas card with a couple $20's in it can get you.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Miguel Cabrera 5 year stretch of ---- .324 103 RBIs .328 126 RBIs .344 105 RBIs .330 139 RBIs .347 137 RBIs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
section122 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Tommy Shaw is an underrated guitarist. He is never brought up when people talk about great rock guitarists and he has some kick ass solos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoBills808 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Wendell Berry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 The guy who invented that 1" square "bread tie"... that thing sucks. Only real use for it would be a banjo pick down in the swamps of Alabama. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark80 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 4 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said: It can be an athlete, singer, actor, politician (be careful here), writer etc.... For me, it's Kirby Puckett. He was great and I consider him a top 3 right handed hitter of all time. 10 x All Star ALCS MVP 6 Gold Gloves 6 Silver Slugger Awards His career ended early because of glaucoma so he only played 12 years. He was hitting .344 in spring training in 1996 and woke up one morning blind in his right eye. The man had a lifetime batting average of .318 and take a look at this stretch....one of the greatest in MLB history. Batting averages from 1986-1989 .328 .332 .356 .339 He hit 207 homeruns and had 1085 RBI's in 12 years. Just imagine what his numbers would have been if he got to play like 5-7 more years. He hit .317 and .314 in his last two seasons and 43 homers. If it wasn't for glaucoma, I think he would have retired as a top 25 player of all time. Most baseball fans know who he was but his name never comes up (outside of Minnesota) as one of the greatest. I mean, he's great. He's HOF worthy. He is not a top 3 right handed hitter of all-time though. Come on now. Arod, Manny, Pujols, Cabrera are all better hitters and that's just from the last couple decades. Then you got Mays, Aaron, Foxx, and plenty of other old timers that would be ahead of him. I'd even put Henderson above him, but he may have a harder argument over just hitting, but offensively as a whole I definitely would with the OBP, Runs, and SBs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nextmanup Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 18 minutes ago, T&C said: The guy who invented that 1" square "bread tie"... that thing sucks. Only real use for it would be a banjo pick down in the swamps of Alabama. In true TBD tradition, I think you've managed to interpret the theme of this thread completely backwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 26 minutes ago, T&C said: The guy who invented that 1" square "bread tie"... that thing sucks. Only real use for it would be a banjo pick down in the swamps of Alabama. I dont think he ever got any recognition, otherwise you wouldn't be calling him "that guy". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Vera Rubin. Astronomer who discovered dark matter. Never got the Nobel Prize she deserved. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T&C Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said: I dont think he ever got any recognition, otherwise you wouldn't be calling him "that guy". Well, he's getting some now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke79 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 1 minute ago, T&C said: Well, he's getting some now... We used to break one side off and put the other end on our finger and flick them at one another when I worked in a restaurant. That's about the best use I found for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoTom Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 49 minutes ago, DC Tom said: Vera Rubin. Astronomer who discovered dark matter. Never got the Nobel Prize she deserved. A related twist on that theme: What did James Watson and Francis Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notebook. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 1 hour ago, WhoTom said: A related twist on that theme: What did James Watson and Francis Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin's notebook. And what did Lee and Yang win their Nobel Prize for? Madame Wu's experiment (and a truly extraordinary one at that - she proved the universe is left-handed.) I had the pleasure of meeting Rubin in college, though - she was friends with my advisor. So it's a little more personal for me. And she's also why I tilt at so many scientific windmills (e.g. global warming.) Rubin - and Wu (and Lee and Yang, honestly) - didn't blindly accept "but there's consensus" as a scientific principle, but made an effort to experimentally verify consensus...and in doing so, overturned it and made extraordinary discoveries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 John Cazale. He was in six movies in his life. Five of them were from 1972-1976. Four of those were: Deer Hunter, Dog Day Afternoon, and Godfather I and II. And Godfather II isn't nearly as great without his performance as Chris Cuo - er, Fredo Corleone. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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