You are too old if you remember.......

[thenetwork]

When businesses used to (rightfully) close their doors all day on New Year's Day WITHOUT exceptions. We need to go back to that, before the young heads forget the meaning of January 1!

As one of the kids these days, I ask you: what is the meaning of January 1? Nursing a hangover?

That's one of the reasons I would give.  Also way to try to help families get together if they couldn't get together at Christmas. 

Naw, having off on the 1st is so people can watch 25 college bowl games. 

[1995hoo]

Screw the bowl games. We're going to the Winter Classic.

[The Nature Boy]

Why can't we just have the main bowl games and send everyone else home? Does ANYONE honestly watch the Zaxby's Bowl or the Meineke Bowl or the Pinstrips Bowl or the AARoads Bowl or whatever else they've come up with?

[Jardine]

watching Mutiny on the Bounty, (Marlon Brando) first run in 70mm.

[cpzilliacus]

Screw the bowl games. We're going to the Winter Classic.

That is so much more cool.

[NE2]

Why can't we just have the main bowl games and send everyone else home? Does ANYONE honestly watch the Zaxby's Bowl or the Meineke Bowl or the Pinstrips Bowl or the AARoads Bowl or whatever else they've come up with?

Bitcoin Bowl...

[The Nature Boy]

I swear that the extra bowls only exist so middling programs can boast about being in a bowl. Cut the number of bowls and send these middling teams home to try again and do better next year.

[dfwmapper]

They exist because enough people make money off of them. Whatever the fuck a Duck Commander is gets a couple dozen mentions on SportsCenter and countless people Googling them to figure what they are (and presumably buying whatever they sell). Shreveport gets a few thousand people visiting the city, staying in their hotels, and dropping money in their casinos. Schools get paid 6 figures (or more) to show up, and for most of them, that money is the only thing getting the athletic program anywhere near breaking even, much less turning a profit. ESPN gets to charge cable providers another 10 cents per month per subscriber. It's a terrible system, but it's not going to change until there's a financial reason to do so.

[Mapmikey]

When I was last thru Kansas on I-70, there were several Stuckey's that looked like they might have been open until the early 2000's, because from the freeway, they did not look too dilapidated/abandoned.

Though they have a presence on the Web here.



There was a Stuckey's on U.S. 301 (GSV: southbound side, now used car dealer) in King George County, Va., as well as near I-95 Exit 126 (Va. 606) at Thornburg, south of Fredericksburg, which closed in 1996 (details here).  I think the Thornburg Stuckey's  was located here.

The Dairy Queen/Shell is built on top of the Thornburg Stuckey's site...

Mapmikey

[Pete from Boston]

When businesses used to (rightfully) close their doors all day on New Year's Day WITHOUT exceptions. We need to go back to that, before the young heads forget the meaning of January 1!

As one of the kids these days, I ask you: what is the meaning of January 1? Nursing a hangover?

I assumed it was a joke.

[NE2]

When businesses used to (rightfully) close their doors all day on New Year's Day WITHOUT exceptions. We need to go back to that, before the young heads forget the meaning of January 1!

As one of the kids these days, I ask you: what is the meaning of January 1? Nursing a hangover?

I assumed it was a joke.

I assumed MJB was incapable of forming a coherent joke.

[vtk]

When businesses used to (rightfully) close their doors all day on New Year's Day WITHOUT exceptions. We need to go back to that, before the young heads forget the meaning of January 1!

As one of the kids these days, I ask you: what is the meaning of January 1? Nursing a hangover?

I assumed it was a joke.

I assumed MJB was incapable of forming a coherent joke.

Just unwilling, I think.  (And as a result, unpracticed.)

[roadman]

Why can't we just have the main bowl games and send everyone else home? Does ANYONE honestly watch the Zaxby's Bowl or the Meineke Bowl or the Pinstrips Bowl or the AARoads Bowl or whatever else they've come up with?

Don't you know.  The new standard in college football is "Everybody goes to a Bowl."  As long as they can sucker a company into buying the naming rights (worst WASTE of money ever).

[1995hoo]

Why can't we just have the main bowl games and send everyone else home? Does ANYONE honestly watch the Zaxby's Bowl or the Meineke Bowl or the Pinstrips Bowl or the AARoads Bowl or whatever else they've come up with?

Don't you know.  The new standard in college football is "Everybody goes to a Bowl."  As long as they can sucker a company into buying the naming rights (worst WASTE of money ever).

I believe more than half the teams in Division I-A now go to bowls. Once upon a time, going to a bowl was a reward for a good season. Nowadays, missing a bowl means you were so bad you weren't even mediocre.

[thenetwork]

Why can't we just have the main bowl games and send everyone else home? Does ANYONE honestly watch the Zaxby's Bowl or the Meineke Bowl or the Pinstrips Bowl or the AARoads Bowl or whatever else they've come up with?

Don't you know.  The new standard in college football is "Everybody goes to a Bowl."  As long as they can sucker a company into buying the naming rights (worst WASTE of money ever).

I believe more than half the teams in Division I-A now go to bowls. Once upon a time, going to a bowl was a reward for a good season. Nowadays, missing a bowl means you were so bad you weren't even mediocre.

The other problem with college football is that for most of the teams that make it to a bowl game, or are in the weekly Top 20 polls, are usually there because the first 4-5 games are against "pansy" teams that are only about 1/4th as good as the big teams.  So by the time these perennial top 20 teams play teams their own size, they already have 4-5 wins under their belt and enough points to be guaranteed a bowl appearance somewhere. 

They should follow the NFL rules as far as determining a team's schedule against non-conference teams -- stronger teams must play against stronger teams and the weaker teams play more teams of their own strength.  These common 72-0 blowouts in the first half of the college season are nothing more than greed games:  The pansy college gets Big Bucks for the privilege to play and get humiliated by a big-time team, while the goliath team gets an easy win to help pad their season record.

And what is with some of these colleges who have to give "reward stickers" for a player to put on their helmet??? Giving stickers for jobs well done is something that should be done in Elementary School -- in college, you are expected to play well.  But then again, some of these jocks only have an intelligence of an elementary school student, hence their usual Underwater Basket Weaving 201 classes that keep them above a certain GPA so they can still play on the team.

[cjk374]

They exist because enough people make money off of them. Whatever the fuck a Duck Commander is gets a couple dozen mentions on SportsCenter and countless people Googling them to figure what they are (and presumably buying whatever they sell). Shreveport gets a few thousand people visiting the city, staying in their hotels, and dropping money in their casinos. Schools get paid 6 figures (or more) to show up, and for most of them, that money is the only thing getting the athletic program anywhere near breaking even, much less turning a profit. ESPN gets to charge cable providers another 10 cents per month per subscriber. It's a terrible system, but it's not going to change until there's a financial reason to do so.

Ever heard of "Duck Dynasty" on the A&E channel?

[GCrites]

^^I'd find underwater basket weaving very difficult.

[hm insulators]

^^I'd find underwater basket weaving very difficult.

Oh, I don't know. Now whistling with a mouthful of crackers...

[Pete from Boston]

You're too old if you can't remember... oh man, what was it...

[The Nature Boy]

^^I'd find underwater basket weaving very difficult.

Given my lack of coordination, I'd probably fail an underwater basket weaving class.

[webny99]

With "threads you'll never see on aaroads.com"  now locked, this is officially the longest thread in the Off-Topic board.

Personally, I'm not old enough to remember much (I was born five months before the turn of the century), but at least I know what faxes and modems are. Does that make me old?

[US71]

With "threads you'll never see on aaroads.com"  now locked, this is officially the longest thread in the Off-Topic board.

and has been dormant for three years.

[Brandon]

With "threads you'll never see on aaroads.com"  now locked, this is officially the longest thread in the Off-Topic board.

and has been dormant for three years.

One could say you're too old if you remember this tread being active. 

[webny99]

With "threads you'll never see on aaroads.com"  now locked, this is officially the longest thread in the Off-Topic board.

and has been dormant for three years.

One could say you're too old if you remember this tread being active. 

Now we're talking! It also depends when you signed up. I remember that time period, but didn't have an account then.

[1995hoo]

With "threads you'll never see on aaroads.com"  now locked, this is officially the longest thread in the Off-Topic board.

Personally, I'm not old enough to remember much (I was born five months before the turn of the century), but at least I know what faxes and modems are. Does that make me old?

I recently saw a quiz that allegedly asked about "things only Baby Boomers would know." I am not a member of that generation, yet I got 34 of the 35 questions correct.