Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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For anyone who has attended the home opener: Is the energy level same, better, worse than it is for a home game against a rival?
 
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hog88 said:
I feel sorry for contractors that make their living working for homeowners, worst people in the world to work for.
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Some of them are absolutely unbearable. Makes for miserable times as someone who refuses to leave a job unless the customer is 100% satisfied and happy. Much better now working for GCs all the time. When necessary, I can tell them "Hell no" .
 
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McDad said:
For anyone who has attended the home opener: Is the energy level same, better, worse than it is for a home game against a rival?
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Its a little less man, but still a great time. Took my son to a home opener in the Butch era...the crowd got really hype when we score TDs but they don't try to lose their voices on every 3rd down defense like vs an SEC opponent. Of course when we went, Butch sucked so an extremely inferior team hung around until bout halftime. Trying to remember who we played??

Fwiw, my brother and I are going to the NCSU game in charlotte in a couple weeks. The VOLS have only lost 1 game that I ever attended....the "Jabar Gaffney No Catch Game". Last time i went with my brother was last time we beat NCSU in ATL. My Dad, both lil brothers, and my son all went. Wish they were still here for this one. My brother got his Nuclear Engineering degree at State. They better engineer a blocking scheme with TEs helping on every play to keep their QB vertical once in a while. They are talented at the skill positions, but our Dline and Oline should have a clear advantage.
 
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McDad said:
For anyone who has attended the home opener: Is the energy level same, better, worse than it is for a home game against a rival?
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I would mimic what Marcus said. its not as sustained as it would be against a rival. but plenty of excitement in the first half getting to see guys play. but definitely calms down if we put in the back ups.

crowd will go pretty quiet until they are in the red zone. I don't think we have head liner back ups who would draw a lot of attention, but I remember some guys getting big cheers when they come into the game.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
Its a little less man, but still a great time. Took my son to a home opener in the Butch era...the crowd got really hype when we score TDs but they don't try to lose their voices on every 3rd down defense like vs an SEC opponent. Of course when we went, Butch sucked so an extremely inferior team hung around until bout halftime. Trying to remember who we played??

Fwiw, my brother and I are going to the NCSU game in charlotte in a couple weeks. The VOLS have only lost 1 game that I ever attended....the "Jabar Gaffney No Catch Game". Last time i went with my brother was last time we beat NCSU in ATL. My Dad, both lil brothers, and my son all went. Wish they were still here for this one. My brother got his Nuclear Engineering degree at State. They better engineer a blocking scheme with TEs helping on every play to keep their QB vertical once in a while. They are talented at the skill positions, but our Dline and Oline should have a clear advantage.
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In my personal record book you are undefeated in games you have attended Marcus
 
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Grand Vol said:
I just looked up what I paid for my zero turn five years ago and what they cost now.

Holy crap!

And came to find out they don't make the model I own any longer.
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I have a buddy who just boosted from some dude no longer living in his house a model like you had. Want me to hook you up?
 
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In my personal record book you are undefeated in games you have attended Marcus
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Mine too broski. Mine too. It was even worse in live action. Gaffney never even slowed the ball down...much less caught it. It ricocheted off his chest and because he was bent over forward a bit, the ball went straight thru his hands to the ground. A "click,bang" type play. There have been some horrible calls vs UT in the last 30 years...UNC, Ole Miss fumble whistled dead taking a TD off the board, Purdue TD in bowlgame negated etc...that Gaffney play was the worst. Probably cost us a national Chip. Absolute BS and it pisses me off still to this day. My Dad had tears in his eyes after that BS call. The game was over man. Over. It was that black bald headed Vandy grad ref that signalled TD on that play....from like the 20yd line. The ref that was 10 feet away and saw the whole thing did NOT throw his arms up. Only that same garbage ref that used to always get the 330 CBS game of the week signalled TD. He robbed us blind so many times in that era...would call ghost penalties every game. Always getting holding calls or PI calls on 3rd down to kill or extend drives. Hate that bastard. I hope he gets ass cancer, and all his fingers fall off so he cant even scratch his sphincter.
 
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I got given a new task at work, sometimes it sucks being the competent person, because I get all the work no one else can do.

task is to bring some old projects up to current codes. So i need to print out the drawings, and review them. Well the files are so old, 2002, that the program that created them no longer really runs them well. I can open and look at them, but doing ANYTHING else is impossible. even universal commands like saving or printing. for reference I wasn't even in high school when these were formatted.

So I am having to try and export the files into a format I can actually manipulate enough to work. problem is we are at least two generations behind, and I don't mean from year to year. like two generations of file extension (.pdf, .jpeg, .dwg, .rvt, .doc).

current files are (.af), which made me laugh, yeah these old AF. note the extension only has two characters, thats a big sign of how old it is within this program. apparently that stands for Archive Format. the program automatically converts anything it once ran into that if it is very far behind, apparently there were a lot of different file formats within this same program way back when.

so I am now into a third conversion from .af. I can finally print them. however the formatting still doesn't auto fill the print selection information, even to the point of finding printers I am networked too. So I am having to manually path to the printers, manually path to the page sizes, manually path to the print styles that modern programs, and file extensions I guess, go to.

and after that it takes at least 10 minutes for the printer to actually print the sheet, because the way the drawings are created, raster or vector, is still old, and the printer can't translate something like a letter, as a letter. it only reads several lines that form a letter.
 
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Had to explain to my daughter that we had to tape songs off the radio then listen repeatedly rewinding etc to get all the lyrics down...because not only was there no YouTube with Lyric videos, there was no internet.

F*$k you, Eddie Vedder. Especially for "yellow ledbetter". Dude was like Mushmouth from the Fat Albert show. I dont think Eddie even knows the lyrics to half their songs
 
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