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Feel free to refrain from lecturing me on, well, anything, smug guy who engages the MWC forum masses arguing ridiculous points with little supporting context. You are humiliated here almost as often as Alien is.

Self awareness is not your strong suit, Mr. Victim. You ought to take some time during your next post-melt recovery period to read through your posting history. Ask yourself why you almost always invite the pummeling you constantly receive. Critiquing the word choices of posters with superior vocabularies and writing skills is always an interesting way to reveal the inferiority complex you suffer from. You are out of your depth and you (probably) know it, but still can’t stop yourself from engaging. This is not healthy behavior.

I think the density number in the right-most column is the most telling. Montana is a huge state with a population spread among a lot of small cities and tiny towns. Pretty tough to support one FBS program in a state like that much less two similar universities that are, relative to the size of the state, geographically adjacent.

Newb, you do not have the institutional knowledge re this forum and its legacy posters that you pretend to. You’ve been around all of, what, two years? What you have absorbed in that time is a lot of abuse, most of it well deserved. As for being “willing to let it go,” I don’t think you’re capable of that. You constantly attempt to initiate arguments with posters who’ve had the nerve to disagree with you in the past, stalk those posters across multiple threads by negatively reacting to anything they post, are repeatedly and uniformly embarrassed by them when they finally engage and humiliate you, play the victim card, melt in various ways, stop posting for a week or so after your peculiar needs are met and you enjoy a few cigs in bed, and then repeat the cycle after that odd tension that has rebuilt within you needs to find release again. “Let it go,” lol.

Never heard of it, but them numbers look sexy. I could never justify stupid expensive bottles on the secondary market. I’ll just trust in occasionally stumbling into an amazing, comparatively pricey but obscure bourbon or scotch in a dusty corner of a bottle shop.

Not sure if serious, but in my experience, while some drams are decent matches for food, a dog and pepperoni pizza call for beer. Maybe look for a bourbon barrel finished beer to marry all the flavors you’re looking for. I’m afraid I don’t have a recommendation there. edit: lol, just read TheSanDiegan’s reply. We had somewhat similar thoughts. Beer!

That is an impressive stash. I’ll show it to The Wife! so she knows how bad it could actually be and how lucky she is that I only have a collection of booze maybe 1/7th of that. Thanks for helping a married brotha out!

Lol! I was! Caught the brown on the squirmy but the bows were on a black Perdigon. That was my first fish on a squirmy since late last winter—barely used one this late fall/winter before today. They’ve mostly been hitting the nymphs up to last week (my son caught a couple on a squirmy last week).

This has been my experience too. I am by no means a bourbon expert, but I’ve sampled plenty of different distillers in the last decade. The two best (by far) I’ve sipped are a single barrel selection from Frey Ranch (have a pic of the label somewhere showing the barrel number, though I’d guess it would be tuff to find and very expensive if you did) and a more repeatable but even better Garrison Brothers Balmorhea, which runs $170+ and is worth every penny. I’ve got a sometimes friend (@Slapdad) who lives down Texas way who promised to swing by the GB Distillery in Hye and snag a bottle of their super hard to get Cowboy Bourbon at some point. It’s even higher abv than the Balmorhea and packs an even bigger, if reportedly less nuanced, flavor wallop. As an example of my bourbon journey, the Eagle Rare 10 was my go to in my early bourbon exploration. I loved the stuff. The last bottle I bought four or five years ago was so disappointing-seemed flat, sweet and bourbon-generic to me at that point) that I can’t see ever buying it again. This doesn’t at all mean it’s bad, it just means my tastes have moved toward spicier (love rye now) bolder flavored stuff. All this to arrive at the current moment, which is me tapping out this post while warming up in the spa sipping a dram of Aberlour 12 (decent stuff) after a couple of frigid hours standing in a river slinging nymphs at trout. Caught three, including a fat 18” rainbow and a pretty thick 21” brown. Life is good.

Like most of us, he just wanted to see Contard defend his indefensible position. Did not disappoint other than the unexpected two sentence brevity. I expect, however, that a multi-paragraph screed is only a trigger or two away. ANTIFA!

I have to agree with Señor Prickly here. I’m 58 and did not like any hard liquor neat beyond tequila until 10 years ago. After watching the Wolf Pack win a NIT game on TV, my brother broke out the Maker’s Mark and demanded all who were at the watch party to take a celebratory slug. Against my better judgement, I did…and for the first time in my life, I enjoyed brown booze neat. I had a bottle of Scotch a patient had given me years before that game that I sampled every year or two just to see if it was palatable. It never was until I had that shot of bourbon. I tried it a few days after the Maker’s and the Scotch also tasted good (can’t recall what it was, something from the Highlands, I’d bet). Something had clearly changed with my taste buds. It took an additional three or four years before I could enjoy peated Scotch and not feel as if I was drinking a campfire. Now that’s my go-to style. I liked a select few cocktails before my change in taste, but now pretty much everything is in play on that front. I never drank hard booze to impress people; what a waste of liquor and time. Anyway, my point is that taste for liquor can be acquired. Trying to force yourself to like something seems silly, but keeping an open mind about what you haven’t previously enjoyed and tasting it every now and again can lead to unexpected and satisfying new experiences.

Can confirm on the DR Loosen Riesling. It’s decent stuff for a nice price.

It’s a little difficult to evaluate the entirety of the evidence for the current Trumps dustup when the granular details haven’t been made public, apparently because the DOJ is investigating, and those details involve several levels of top secret docs, but what we do know seems pretty damning, given Trump’s feet dragging on turning over those documents before the he FBI felt it necessary to go get them. What we do know appears pretty damning. Unless you believe this is all a case of the Trump Admin’s haphazard exit from the WH, and the records accidentally ended up at MaL. That seems very unlikely given the circumstances (partial return followed by slow/no walking returning the rest). Add in Trump’s legal attempts to recover these docs, and the records winding up at MaL doesn’t appear accidental. Maybe we’re misreading your earlier post, and it’s not you dismissing Trump’s likely criminal behavior again due to lack of evidence.

But not unexpected. TLF has typically poo-pooed any of the Trump scandal investigations, if not solely because he believes the facts don’t or won’t support the investigations, but because the pay back from the other side when they are in charge will be worse than anything that Trump might be guilty of, and set up an increasingly retributive feedback loop. I don’t agree with that POV. I get that politics is a messy game, but sometimes you really do have to do the right thing, even if it may not be the expedient thing.

This warms my boozy heart.