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They have grown on me to be honest.

No, it was in Dearborn Hts. Beech Daly and Annapolis area. Probably one step down the food chain from there. Just local routes came here. Ride your bike up there and hope the stash was small enough that you could stack it on your handlebars and "hold it" that way. Dexterity was a useful skill. No need to mess around with those bags and... well... those who used a wagon were dealt a slur I'd not use today and wish I didn't use back then.

When I delivered pizzas in the Dearorn area in college I quickly learned the bigger the house the less likely a tip. Our city is a mixture of mansions and bungalows and the bungalows tipped best. We had some luxury hotels too that were hit or miss with their guests.

we had a little station we'd pick up our papers at. Back of a building, just a giant warehouse type room. Mr. Stubee was the guy there. He had the covers of all the TV BOoks, lined along the walls near his desk. It was very cool. You'd go in and there were rows of tables with stacks for each route. Sometimes we had "fillers" where you had to put the ads for that day in the paper. On Saturdays and Sundays you had to do the same with the large supplements. And because of that is why our weekly "kick upstairs" was always different. We had to pay Mr. Stubee out of what we collected. Looking back now it was very bookie-ish. No accountability. He'd just say "Give me $32.85". And we did. I think I averaged about $40 a week in profit.

My paper route is probably why I'm not that big of a football fan. Instead of watching Michigan or the Lions on Saturdays and Sundays, I was out collecting from my 40 customers. I had my little book with the two rings on it that I could hang from my handlebars. $1.65 a week, $3.30 for 2 weeks, $4.95 for 3 weeks..." I learned those real quick.

oh yes... when he bought "a wood".

at least he had the courtesy to cause it more in other countries than he did here.

I liked Great White by the way

Stuck in their bubble is exactly right. Nobody cares about the military stuff except people already voting for Trump. It will not stick. We’ve talked before about people playing by old rules and I think with Harris we have entered a new game. Trumps **** doesn’t work anymore.

Are there a lot of rainouts in the florida league during the summer. We vacationed there 3 times the last few years and every year we get rained out on plans. I guess double headers are a way of life. A few weeks ago we went to see the Tampa Tarpons, or tried to. $2 tickets so no big loss and we at least got to see the stadium. If I ever do move from the Detroit area I would probably get season tickets to the closest minor league team because watching a game is a great way to spend a summer evening and getting season tickets makes you feel a part of something.

Yet the same people going on and on about Walz deserting his unit by retiring, after 24 years, two months before they got orders to deploy will just gloss over this and pretend it never happened.

Meanwhile in JV Vance world…

get off the couch?

And Harris got to lay low for 5 years, didn't have a primary, and can control how she's perceived. When all the GOP has is coming up with nicknames and screwing up her name and talking about post menopausal women... well, why should she change course? Normal is in.

5 of 6 against Seatle is pretty good.

I think those work in the context of this election because it's not just traditional name calling. The voting pubilc DO see the GOP ticket as weird and it's obvious Trump is not normal. Reinforcing what everybody deep down really knows to be true. In most elections both candidates are generally normal.

I think they're just lazy and stupid and their voters are robots.

I'm guessing she was apolitical overall but generally leaned liberal. She was a NYC socialite. I'm sure pretty liberal on social issues, if you asked, but she comes from money and married into money so they leaned right when it came to that. Politics was something that she didn't have to think about much because you live a certain life, go to certain schools, etc. where everybody is the same and you have what you need.

and the article itself doesn't say what the problem is other than "some say there's an economic problem". But I can't tell what exactly that should be. I've been told for 2 years now we're in recession or soon will be. Going back to my comment in the Investing thread... nobody knows nothing. Everything can be spun into whatever they want it to say.

he offered to be a "mentor". Why does he assume she needs a mentor. Does he assume she's a crack baby child with no father or other role models in her life? That's what Dubya called "the soft bigotry of low expectations".

I wouldn’t be surprised if that judge and court gets some heat over this. I saw the story when it aired and was half paying attention. I thought she was a defendant. The handcuffs thing is problematic for me. That’s physical restraint. The judge doesn’t know this girls situation. Maybe she is on meds. She didn’t commit any crime.

They are getting roasted on this story.