oldguystudent

I think the big screen on campus thing is a great idea.

Malted beverages? Like this?

Rolling Rock was one of the first light beers that I ever had super ice cold on a triple digit summer day after working outside. Such things will endear one to a brand for a good many years.

For good, honest regional beer, Yeungling is good. Shiner is not my favorite. Too sweet. I most lament the death of the LaTrobe Brewery in Pennsylvania and the Rolling Rock that went with it. Even though the brand still exists, getting a bucket of rocks from St. Louis just isn't the same.

Milwaukee's Best in the 32 oz can. Usually found at QT and Racetrack for 2 for $2.22. Get the Ice, and you won't remember your name after 64 oz of that stuff. I tried a six-pack of Busch Light the other day and found it drinkable, but then I haven't had any beer more high falutin' than Pabst in about a year and a half. I guess this is also a good time to report that I saw styrofoam ice chests in the Race Trac on 380 and 35 with the Miller Lite and North Texas logos. So because of their contribution to UNT brand awareness, I would refer starving students to go buy 32 oz cans of Milwaukee's Best and keep them cold in a brand new UNT ice chest.

Will Alabama fail to beat UNT at home? When pigs fly. ....several weeks later.... Alabama failed to beat UNT at home. What happened? Swine flu.

I made green jell-o shots last year. They were reasonably popular.

Well, yeah, I was gonna' point out that it's a hippie west coast Mexican beer from the leftist city of Mazatlan, but I didn't think anybody would give a rat's ass.

Well that was kinda' the point. A list of Mexican beers that I don't think need a lime. I would personally add Pacifico to that list, but I don't know if anyone here would agree.

Carta Blanca, Bohemia, Negra Modelo. Eh, gotta' disagree with you there.

The best tailgating beer is cold and plentiful.

Your constant personal attacks are becoming incomprehensible Rick. I seriously don't even know what about me it is that you're trying to insult anymore.

He most certainly has the right to build whatever he wants and charge whatever he wants for its use. I agree with the P.T. Barnum remark in the previous post. From where I sit, it makes the people of DFW look pretty stupid if they're going to line up and pay the prices that Jerry is asking. Just like in New York where Steinbrenner's hit a wall with his $1500 seats that nobody wants, Jerry might have met his match with his six-figure seat licenses. Sometimes the ego gets in the way of what the market will bear. I've kinda' lost interest in professional sports in general though. I was able to save money and get box seats to baseball games as a kid. Can't do that now. I have great disdain for luxury suites too. Think back to your greatest sports memory. Odds are you were 12 years old, sitting on an aluminum bench with your dad, sucking down some frozen syrup concoction. The Cowboys threw the winning touchdown or the Rangers got the game winning hit. Now, as an adult, you don't even watch the game because you're too busy describing the merits of the hand crafted calf's leather seat upholstery in the suite over a glass of over priced Chardonnay that tastes like burnt butter. But it's ok, because your $800,000 lease agreement makes an important statement about how much better you are than those wretched unwashed masses out there in the seats watching the game who could only come up with $40,000 set licenses. Pfft! I spit in their general direction! I started taking my daughter to McKinney Marshals games because it was the only ballpark I could find that wasn't packed with bounce houses and water slides. Now at eight years old, she can score games and discuss pitching strategies. She sat through a solid three-day weekend of double headers down at Baylor this spring, and when I asked her if she enjoyed it, she said, "You create great memories." Call me crazy, but I consider that to be a helluva lot more valuable than an air conditioned flat screen with a $90 pizza.

People don't buy stuff like this. Corporations do. It's really, really easy to spend that kind of money when it's on the corporate AMEX. That said, as God is my witness, I will NEVER go to a Dallas Cowboys game. Jerry can go shove his ego-dome where the sun don't shine far as I'm concerned.

I've been using those Walmart stadium seats at various baseball venues this spring/summer, and they're not bad. Not great, but a hell of a lot better than a metal bench. They also fit nicely into the sunroof of my Element for UNT softball games.

I am duly honored fine sir.

The NTTA has responded to a drastic drop in lane quantity demanded by raising prices 30%. Genius. That aside, as much as I talk crap about police, I sure as hell wouldn't want my street patrol to be profit motivated. There's a hell of a lot more money in handing out minor traffic tickets than there is in catching and prosecuting penniless meth heads and thieves. That is, of course, unless the privatized prisons are giving out bonuses for felons. For fire departments, I can almost see it working like the careflight helicopter system, but who takes care of grass fires on public land? The military? All I can say is Blackwater. Maybe they are efficient, but maybe they're a little too efficient. The profit motive, like nature, is devoid of morals. There are some areas where I'm willing to give up some streamlining in exchange for a little humanity.

Right up there with military, fire and police departments. We've already privatized the prison system, let's hit these up next.

I heard unicorn farts and sunshine are significant contributors to global warming.

A hack indeed. Pity the fools who associate with me!

Just an observation, but do you think it wise to post detailed memories and thoughts on the matter on a public forum knowing that there's a news investigation going on?

Since I have yet to personally see a UNT win, I remain firmly on the platform of I'll believe it when I see it.

You can't see it because it's directly under center and we here an UNT never go there.

So how much time is 45 years anyway? I might guess that given his former employ that he'll receive every good behavior and work opportunity available to cut the sentence.

There's got to be a football equivalent to my #1 baseball pet peeve, but I can't think of what it is. In baseball, it's a team down three runs with no runners on base, and the announcers will say that the guy in the dugout, behind the guy on deck, represents the tying run. In football, I think it's when a team is down 21 with two minutes left in the fourth quarter. The announcers will say something along the lines of, "Now if they score here, get the onside kick, convert the two-point try, and line up for another onside kick, they'll be right back in this game." Stating the obviously improbable is what I guess is comes down to.