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  1. 47 minutes ago, JL Sargent said:

    More talk about Nick Saban being the greatest [college] coach of all time. Blah, blah, blah.

     

    College football, perhaps, but Knute Rockne acolytes would disagree.  All of football, no way.  He was a bust in the pros.

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  2. Chan was a poor farmer in Asia.  To supplement his meager income from farming, he gathered teakwood to be sold in the village market several day’s journey from his home.

     

    One morning, he tied up two heavy bundles of teakwood to take to market.  Chan kissed his wife and children before setting off for the market.  After walking all day, Chan found a suitable spot to spend the night.  He was glad to lay down the heavy bundles.  After a small meal he fell asleep.

     

    In the morning Chan awoke to find the teakwood bundles missing.  Where the bundles had been, Chan saw the footprints of a child.  He followed the footprints for hours, puzzled by how a child could carry those heavy bundles.

     

    After several hours of tracking the footprints, Chan crested a rise and saw a short distance ahead a large bear with a bundle under each arm.  To his amazement, the bear had small deformed paws resembling a child’s foot.  The mystery of the missing wood was solved.  There was a boy-foot-bear, with teak of Chan.

     

     

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  3. Had cataract surgery on my right eye on Wednesday.  The color difference is remarkable, as most predicted.  So far no problems.  I get the left eye done a week from Wednesday.  I wish I’d done this sooner.

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  4. 20 minutes ago, garyrc said:

     

    For balance, see Archibald MacLeish's essay To Make Men Free.  He was FDR's Librarian of Congress, won three Pulitzer Prizes  and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom..  The essay was edited out of the edition of the book we had for class, I guess on the grounds that freedom is dangerous.  Our professor supplied us with copies of the essay, anyway.  Ah, these wiley liberal professors!

     

    I take it you are not familiar with Heather Cox Richardson.

  5. I prefer glasses to contacts, they hold more beer.

     

    I recently saw an ophthalmologist for a cataract workup.  It seemed like I was talking to a used car salesman.  He told me I should get the deluxe lenses that add thousands of dollars, and that I needed to act quickly as the prices were going up.

     

    I then consulted another ophthalmologist recommended by a friend with monocular vision.  I figured if you can only see with one eye you must have a lot of confidence in your ophthalmologist to get cataract surgery.

     

    The second doctor was way better than the first.  When I told him I needed a second opinion, he said, “OK, you’re ugly too.”  (An homage to Rodney Dangerfield and my late father.)  I’m scheduled to get the first eye done in a month.

     

    The second guy recommended the basic lenses, rather than the X-ray vision lenses from the old comic books.  If my distance vision is corrected, I’ll gladly use readers as needed.

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  6. 19 hours ago, RandyH said:

    -- stretching is VIP --this is  called an  inversion  table , it relaxes the column  --swimming is also an excellent way to stretch naturally--

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    My ophthalmologist recently cautioned me against subjecting these old eyes to inversion.

     

    Actually, I asked, “So, boxing’s out?” To which he replied, “Yes, and so is inversion.”

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