Post by: CigarBanter on April 13, 2024, 01:23:51 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:43:25 AM
CAO Italia Ciao (5.0"x56) - 10 / $34.99
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:45:01 AM
Door #1 - Camacho Connecticut Robusto (5.0"x50) - 10 / $44.99
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:45:49 AM
Door #2 - Romeo y Julieta Reserva Real Toro (6.0"x54) - 10 / $54.99
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:46:43 AM
Door #3 - CAO Pilon Robusto (5.0"x52) - 10 / $34.99
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:47:55 AM
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:51:25 AM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 07:57:48 AM
Wordle 1,029 3/6
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Kept so busy yesterday that I never had time to play anything besides Wordle. At least I was able to keep the streak going.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 08:09:47 AM
Puzzle #307
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This was one of those puzzles that you had to figure out all four categories before you made your first move. There were several tricky ones in there.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 08:17:46 AM
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Once I got the first one and understood what the category really was, it wasn't that difficult.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 10:15:33 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 10:29:09 AM
Slow day here on the banter. I'm hoping everyone is sleeping in.Indeed, slept like a baby.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 10:31:53 AM
That's awesome. Must be all that driving to and fro.Slow day here on the banter. I'm hoping everyone is sleeping in.Indeed, slept like a baby.
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:35:40 AM
No extras today...Yea, but that first one...
Strands #41
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Once I got the first one and understood what the category really was, it wasn't that difficult.
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:36:33 AM
Slow day here on the banter. I'm hoping everyone is sleeping in.But doing your part Tony!
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:37:42 AM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 10:38:01 AM
Did what I could to get us to Page 2. I still have another game to play.Slow day here on the banter. I'm hoping everyone is sleeping in.But doing your part Tony!
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:38:55 AM
Those crazy Buckeyes!
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Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:41:36 AM
There are 262 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 13, 1964, Sidney Poitier became the first Black performer to win an Academy Award for best actor or best actress with his performance in “Lilies of the Field.”
On this date:
In 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.
In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell to Confederate forces.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.
In 1953, “Casino Royale,” Ian Fleming’s first book as well as the first James Bond novel, was published in London by Jonathan Cape Ltd.
In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)
In 1997, Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament.
In 1999, right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. (Kevorkian ended up serving eight years.)
In 2005, a defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta.
In 2009, at his second trial, music producer Phil Spector was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury of second-degree murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson (he was later sentenced to 19 years to life in prison; he died in prison in January 2021).
In 2011, A federal jury in San Francisco convicted baseball slugger Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice, but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he’d knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it. (Bonds’ conviction for obstruction was ultimately overturned.)
In 2012, Jennifer Capriati was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
In 2016, the Golden State Warriors became the NBA’s first 73-win team by beating the Memphis Grizzlies 125-104, breaking the 1996 72-win record of the Chicago Bulls. Kobe Bryant of the Lakers scored 60 points in his final game, wrapping up 20 years in the NBA.
In 2017, Pentagon officials said U.S. forces in Afghanistan had struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military.
In 2020, Charles Thacker Jr., a crew member on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, died at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guam, becoming the first active-duty military member to die from the coronavirus.
In 2013, all 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air Boeing 737 crashed into the ocean and snapped in two while attempting to land on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
In 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States, France and Britain had carried out joint airstrikes in Syria meant to punish President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons.
In 2021, U.S. health officials recommended a “pause” in use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, setting off a chain reaction worldwide and dealing a setback to the global vaccination campaign. (Officials lifted the pause on vaccinations 11 days later.)
In 2023, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member, was arrested in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other top national security issues. (In March of 2024, Teixeira pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information in a deal with prosecutors and accepted an 11-year prison sentence.)
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:45:23 AM
Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., is 91.
Actor Edward Fox is 87.
R&B singer Lester Chambers is 84.
Movie-TV composer Bill Conti is 82.
Rock musician Jack Casady is 80.
Singer Al Green is 78.
Actor Ron Perlman is 74.
Actor William Sadler is 74.
Singer Peabo Bryson is 73.
Bandleader/rock musician Max Weinberg is 73.
Bluegrass singer-musician Sam Bush is 72.
Rock musician Jimmy Destri (Blondie) is 70.
Comedian Gary Kroeger is 67.
Actor Saundra Santiago is 67.
Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., is 64.
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is 61.
Actor Page Hannah is 60.
Actor-comedian Caroline Rhea (RAY) is 60.
Rock musician Marc Ford (The Black Crowes) is 58.
Reggae singer Capleton is 57.
Actor Ricky Schroder is 54.
Rock singer Aaron Lewis (Staind) is 52.
Actor Bokeem Woodbine is 51.
Singer Lou Bega is 49.
Actor-producer Glenn Howerton is 48.
Actor Kyle Howard is 46.
Actor Kelli Giddish is 44.
Actor Courtney Peldon is 43.
Pop singer Nellie McKay (mih-KY’) is 42.
Rapper/singer Ty Dolla $ign is 42.
Actor Allison Williams is 36.
Actor Hannah Marks is 31.
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 10:45:53 AM
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 11:23:22 AM
And more to do today, starting in a few minutes. Sheesh!That's awesome. Must be all that driving to and fro.Slow day here on the banter. I'm hoping everyone is sleeping in.Indeed, slept like a baby.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 11:24:02 AM
Today's Over/Under is 5Nailed it, 5.
Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:02:00 PM
Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:04:12 PM
Connections
Puzzle #307
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Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:05:12 PM
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Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:05:51 PM
Now I wonder if the same people do Connections and Strands.
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:10:59 PM
Today's Over/Under is 5Sheesh, twelve.
Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 12:39:13 PM
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 12:56:17 PM
Joining a sept - a blood ally - of my clan and his family to cook this afternoon. Italian food. Four courses.Sounds yummo.
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 01:37:12 PM
Joining a sept - a blood ally - of my clan and his family to cook this afternoon. Italian food. Four courses.I think Tony is on his way to Newark airport....
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 01:38:05 PM
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Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 01:38:58 PM
Post by: razgueado on April 13, 2024, 01:53:48 PM
Ah, gotcha. Well it was worth the try. ;)Joining a sept - a blood ally - of my clan and his family to cook this afternoon. Italian food. Four courses.I think Tony is on his way to Newark airport....
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 02:03:33 PM
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 02:18:25 PM
I made biscuits from scratch with sausage gravy for the first time. Unfortunately, I was on the phone and left them in the oven too long. They didn't burn but they looked more like bread than biscuits. They tasted great though.I'm jealous.
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 02:19:58 PM
Today's Over/Under is 5Eight.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 03:04:41 PM
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 03:07:21 PM
Puzzle #307
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 03:43:25 PM
Joining a sept - a blood ally - of my clan and his family to cook this afternoon. Italian food. Four courses.
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
I'm only seeing this now. Been doing a lot of running around.
I loves me some sorpressata, maybe some roasted red peppers. Fresh mozzarella, always a plus. Olives too.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 04:27:29 PM
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 04:35:21 PM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 04:39:24 PM
First time I've gotten the spangram first.
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Why do you always have to be a one-upper?!?
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 04:50:37 PM
Just let me have this!First time I've gotten the spangram first.
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Why do you always have to be a one-upper?!?
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 05:08:57 PM
Strands #41
“Group think”
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 06:27:55 PM
I went to the airport on Thursday and will be going again a week from Monday. No airport today.Joining a sept - a blood ally - of my clan and his family to cook this afternoon. Italian food. Four courses.I think Tony is on his way to Newark airport....
Radiatore Bolognese, salmon, Limoncello cake. The missus and I are assembling the antipasti, such as we can out here in the culinary wastelands of the west. At least I have a local source for Prosciutto. It's not "de Parma" obviously, but it's better than "de Costco." And I found some acceptable Sorpressata. Tone, any favorite things you like to see served antipasto, that you'd suggest?
We'll also bring the needed herbs from the garden. Carol's garden has ruined all of us for dried herbs. I'm considering taking out the front lawn to expand production.
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 09:08:42 PM
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Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 13, 2024, 10:16:48 PM
LHCOFCan't remember the last time I had one. I'd like to revisit it.
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Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 13, 2024, 10:31:15 PM
Definitely worth it, they're still fantastic.LHCOFCan't remember the last time I had one. I'd like to revisit it.
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Post by: Travellin Dave on April 13, 2024, 11:21:59 PM