Your Bag of Nothing for Tuesday, September 17, 2024

  • I was made aware of a typo or mistake in yesterday’s post, which I think is pretty funny. Yesterday, I wrote:“I don’t expect to change their minds, but I think they would be impressed by his thoughts, actually, his defense, of the Apollo 8 crew reading the first ten chapters of Genesis in December 1968 as they circled around the moon.”Of course, I meant to say the first ten lines of the first chapter of Genesis. Reading the first ten chapters would have been overkill.
  • I don’t understand why car radios don’t have a rewind or other similar DVR features. I’m not saying it should be legally mandated, but I’m surprised it’s not something standard in all vehicles like cruise control. Sometimes, I don’t catch something and want to rewind a little bit to hear it again. I’d be happy with just a 15 or 30-second rewind. I know some 2020 GMC, Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac vehicles offered the ability to pause for 15 minutes.
  • The popular men’s hairstyle of the 1950s was called the Ducktail.
  • Bon Jovi may have saved a life last week, but there’s never been a bigger poser than saying he was a cowboy. He grew up in Jersey.
  • People’s sneezes are either loud or frequent, but not both.
  • Watching movies just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be without the FBI warning me they would be taking me to jail.
  • Is there Narcan for the meat sweats you get gorging on great BBQ?
  • I had a friend that would whisper “bitch” every time she killed a mosquito biting her.
  • For some reason, “everytime” is not considered an acceptable compound word, yet everywhere, everyday, and everyone is. At least that’s according to my spellcheck.
  • People always take things the wrong way when it’s prefaced with, “Don’t take this the wrong way.”
  • I’ve watched this Tom and Jerry cartoon a plethora of times as kid. But now watching it a single time as a 49-year-old, I had no idea how sad and dark it is.

  • Something new for you Hamilton fans:
    • @HamiltonMusical – In honor of National Voter Registration Day tomorrow, the Broadway company of Hamilton headed into the booth to record “The Election of 2024”. We’re proud to partner with
      @WhenWeAllVote @VoteRiders to make sure everyone’s voice is heard at the polls. Register to vote now!
  • Packers QB opts not to throw on key down after center throws up on the ball
    • Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t like the way this headline and the article were written. They seemed to imply that the quarterback wouldn’t touch the ball because it was yucky. But the quarterback still had to take the snap; there was no way for him to avoid touching it. He just ran with the ball on a pass play instead of throwing it. I’m assuming he chose not to throw because the ball was hard to grip. The article also didn’t mention if the team could have asked for an official timeout that wouldn’t have taken one away from the team. Back in the day, players could openly bleed and stay in the game, but now that’s considered a biohazard, and players must leave the field and get the wound covered to come back in. So, in this case, the ball is a biohazard. The officials would have stopped the clock to exchange the ball. At least, I think they would.
  • There’s still a lot of college football to be played, but it has to bug diehard Aggie fans that they have been in the SEC for 12 years and never been ranked number one in football, yet their biggest rival did it in their first three weeks in the conference. In other related news, a Longhorn is calling on other Longhorns to help out an Aggie family in need.

  • I would hate living a life like this. Also, it’s one thing to record yourself. It’s another thing to record yourself recording yourself.

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Your Bag of Nothing for Monday, September 16, 2024

  • These high school football commentators are fantastic, but I can’t oversell them enough. The whole thing is worth listening to, but here’s a random starting point.
  • This was pretty cool. A North Texas card shop teased a special guest to appear on Saturday. You see these marketing gimmicks all the time. How good of a special guest can this be? One of our local athletes? A washed-up has-been that no one really remembers? Well, when Tom Brady is the surprise special guest at your local card shop, that’s what you call over-delivering on the surprise. From what I hear, there was no special prior announcement. The crowd formed by word of mouth. In my day, when I was a kid, this sort of thing wouldn’t have happened. But thanks to our mobile devices and social media, word can spread fast and people will catch the word and show up. What a great moment for those kids. I’m happy for them.
  • Florida sheriff fed up with prank school threats; vows to ‘perp walk’ both parents and students
    • “Parents, you don’t want to raise your kids, I’m going to start raising them. Every time we make an arrest, your kid’s photo is going to be put out there. And if I could do it, I’m going to perp walk your kid so that everybody can see what your kid’s up to,” said Sheriff Chitwood.“The second point of this is, if I can in anyway find out that a parent knew what was going on and wasn’t doing anything, your (expletive) is getting perp-walked with them,” he said.
  • On Friday, Drew Brees told Jon Gruden, “There’s never a week I expended more mental energy than going against a Mike Zimmer defense.” I wish we would have seen that sort of defense yesterday.
  • Same here, it’s a bonehead decision by Coach Prime
  • A lot of my Conservative Christian friends aren’t going to like this sort of liberalism creeping into the Evangelical church. I’m surprised such a church can exist in Odessa. – At this West Texas church, “the Lord’s work” is helping the poor, not rewriting state law
    • Led by co-pastors Joe and Dawn Weaks, Connection Christian Church, a 118-year-old congregation in Odessa, has transformed while keeping true to its legacy of helping the community.
  • A lot of my Evangelical Christian friends dislike Neil deGrass Tyson because they say he often picks on or insults Christianity. I don’t expect to change their minds, but I think they would be impressed by his thoughts, actually, his defense, of the Apollo 8 crew reading the first ten chapters of Genesis in December 1968 as they circled around the moon. It’s towards the very end of this video, and I have it cued for you.

     

  • The University of Texas puts on a great drone show when the Longhorns play in Austin at night. Some folks were complaining that not everyone in the stadium can see it, and that’s because of FAA rules.

  • A lot of folks were impressed with Arch Manning’s play at QB after Quinn Ewers got hurt, especially how fast he ran. Well, to compare it to one of the fastest players in the NFL. As for how most Longhorn fans felt about their Heisman candidate QB leaving the game to injury and being replaced by Arch Manning, this sums it up. No matter how the season ends, it’s going to be a memorable season – First year in the SEC, a big win at Michigan, #1 ranking, Heisman hopeful QB, NFL QB royalty as your backup QB, and the rivalry game with little brother Texas A&M starting back up. It can all go downhill fast, and they can lose to both Oklahoma and little brother A&M, but I’m enjoying it so far. Regarding Manning, I was surprised to find that he has a brother who plays on the offensive line.

  • I bet a lot of folks missed this great college football play. Everyone loves it when a lineman scores.

  • Serisously, JANE! Why didn’t you say, “TOM and Jerry!”

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Your Bag of Nothing for Thursday, September 12, 2024

  • A lot of people know that Michael J. Fox wasn’t the initial choice to play Marty McFly. But, I didn’t know there was footage of Ben Stiller reading for the part.
  • When I first read this headline the other day, I thought it was referring to something that happened over a decade ago.
  • One overlooked fact of why U.S. soldiers did so well in WWII was that they didn’t put them in boot camps and send them right over. In this short clip, avet talks about all the different and many, many months of training he went through, even though he was eager to get over there and fight.
  • The Hardline was talking about Monday Night Football and said they don’t know anyone who watch’s the Manning Cast. I thought that was odd because the day before I was telling my friends at trivia I wish Joe and Troy didn’t do MNF because I only watch the Manning Cast. After a weekend of “traditional” announcing I enjoy watching something different and like the insights the brothers bring from playing QB.
  • I know it’s now where near the first of April, but here’s an old April Fool’s video of MLB adopting the use of aluminum bats for a season. For you Rangers fans, our old manager Buddy V makes an appearance. I always consider him “my manager” as he’s the first one I remember and grew up with.

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