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Speaking of antique golf clubs, here's an interesting article. Tom Stites is my cousin, and from Sallisaw.
Tiger, please tell us what's bugging you
Jim Reeves - commentary
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We all know the analogy about the pregnant elephant in the room, the subject that's sitting there blatantly right under our noses but nobody wants to talk about it.
Tiger Woods is just the opposite. He's the pregnant elephant that's not in the room this week and everybody wants to talk about it.
So on the first day of the Bank of America Colonial this week, let's get Tiger out of the way and move on with the tournament.
Last week, irritated by Tiger's unwarranted and uncalled for shots at the Colonial course, I became a little hyperbolic and suggested, by his comments, that he was afraid to play there.
I don't really believe that. I don't think there's a golf course in the world that Tiger Woods is afraid of, or can't play.
Why he chose to demean the course by basically saying it was antiquated and not set up for the modern game, I don't know. He has always professed a love for the old, traditional, tree-lined courses such as Colonial. Certainly, he has the game to tame it, should he put his mind to it.
But he can't do that by avoiding it, which brings us back to the real reason he's not here.
We still don't know for sure what that is, and until Tiger decides to let us in on the secret, probably in some tell-all book yet to be written, we're left to guess.
It's not the course, I'm convinced of that. It's not, as Tiger said last week on the driving range before the first round of the Nelson, about Colonial being better suited for "persimmon clubs and soft balls."
That's one of the great things about golf, pros having to adapt their games to different courses and different styles of play. And Tiger has always been able to do that.
Truth be known, Tiger might be able to win at Colonial using just those tools -- persimmon clubs and soft balls.
It was only a couple of years ago that he made a special trip, with a little help from Nike rep Tom Stites, over to Fort Worth and Shady Oaks before the Nelson to swing some persimmon clubs, in fact.
Ben Hogan's old clubs.
Hogan's persimmon woods and irons were dusted off and Tiger took them to the range to take a few swings, a moment, the story goes, which was even preserved on video.
Tiger has a feel and appreciation for golf history. He admires those who paved the road that he now travels in such luxury.
He has shown tremendous respect for Byron Nelson and would have, I suspect, the same feeling about Hogan, if he were still alive. Certainly he admires and respects what Hogan accomplished.
I'm convinced Tiger meant absolutely no disrespect toward Hogan with his inappropriate remarks at the Nelson last week, which still doesn't excuse them. They made no sense.
I don't think Tiger knows what to say about Colonial anymore. He has his reasons for not coming back, but it's something he either won't voice or can't articulate, so he throws something else out as a red herring.
We've heard all the rumors, many of them focusing on the possibility of a racial incident while he played here in 1997. Maybe it happened, but Tiger doesn't strike me as the type of person who would fail to speak out if it did.
More likely it's as Star-Telegram golf writer Jimmy Burch says: Tiger's real reasons for avoiding Colonial might be as multi-layered as an onion.
It's probably not one thing, it's half a dozen things, all of which added up to an unpleasant experience in his only appearance in the tournament.
It started with Colonial officials jumping the gun on announcing his entry. They knew he'd arranged for housing in Fort Worth and that was the customary trigger for announcing that players would be in the tournament.
That was Colonial's first mistake. There's nothing customary about an appearance by Tiger Woods. He expects special treatment and part of that is never making an official commitment until he's ready to announce it.
It went downhill from there. From the ill-conceived Fuzzy Zoeller-Tiger apology round, which Tiger recognized as the tournament's attempt to garner publicity for itself, to him sitting uneasily in front of a backdrop for MasterCard (the tournament's sponsor then) for his first news conference the day after he'd signed a lucrative deal with American Express.
There was ex-Aggie David Ogrin, leading by a stroke, basically calling Tiger out in the post-third round news conference, pointing at Woods in the back of the room and saying, "No three-peat for that man!"
And then finally, there was Woods, the last man with a shot at eventual winner David Frost, double-bogeying both No. 9 and No. 17 to finish tied for fourth, three strokes back.
Not a good week for Tiger, and he hasn't been back since.
If indeed he left with a bad taste in his mouth, that's too bad. Another trip to Angelo's, or Del Frisco's, or Joe T.'s could change that, I'm sure.
He doesn't have to ever play Colonial again. That is, as he flippantly said Sunday after the Nelson, "the beauty of being an independent contractor."
There are those who have suggested that Colonial should just forget about him and give up issuing him an invitation each year. I disagree.
The Colonial tournament committee is dedicated to providing the best golf tournament it can have for its fans and its sponsors.
That's why a member of the committee stood waiting for Tiger at the driving range at the Nelson last week as Woods spent several minutes disparaging the Fort Worth course to a few reporters.
"We just want to find out what it is we did wrong so we can fix it," the committee member said.
He didn't get an answer from Tiger. He got a whole 45 seconds of his time.
Obviously, whatever's bothering Tiger about Colonial remains a serious problem.
He's not here today, but that doesn't mean he's not on our minds. We'll miss him, but somehow we'll get along without him, just like we did Jack Nicklaus all those years when he didn't come.
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My F-I-L has a few clubs on the wall in their gameroom - beautiful woods. They must have belonged to his F-I-L because that is the only reason that I can think they might still be there. My F-I-L is a joy to play golf with - loses his clubs, blames others for his bad shots, throws clubs.... I was shocked.
Mr Baja is nice to play golf with - he is there for fun and doesn't care that I carry a handicap of 500 (well, close anyway) and he tries to help me, not be critical. His grandma had to stop playing at 92 - after her surgery on her carotid artery. She played once a week until then.
I liked playing in Albuquerque - it was good for my long game.
<Snicker> Like I have one! <Snicker>
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My sister went to highschool with Nancy Lopez. In our cafeteria there is a sign that says Nancy Lopez ate here. Nancy was so good that she played on the boys' team (there was no girls' team) and they won 2 state titles. She has said in interviews that some of the courses in town didn't want here there because she was hispanic. My thought is that maybe those old men that played everyday didn't want to have their asses handed to them by a teenaged girl.
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Well, I am heading to a family reunion in Norman! My dad is having a little problems with his heart and won't be able to make it which completely sucks, because hhhe never gets to ssee his grandaughter and he is totally in love with her.
Anyway, keep the faith. I'll say hello, if I can.
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Hey,. that was my 1450 post! That's gotta be good for something.
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Jury award in Ford Explorer rollover crash tops 350 million dollars!
Jesus. I don't know the details, but cars will crash from time to time. Youch.
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Claim: Walt http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/frozen.jpg Disney arranged to have himself frozen in cryonic chamber full of liquid nitrogen upon his death, and he now awaits the day when medical technology makes his re-animation possible.
Status: False. Origins: When the "frozen Disney" rumor was started, and by whom, is unknown. The privacy Disney maintained concerning his personal life extended to his death, and the lack of details available about his funeral and burial arrangements -- combined with his reputation as a technological innovator -- has helped foster the story of Disney's cryonic suspension ever since.
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Claim: The letters S-E-X are formed by a swirling cloud of dust in The Lion King.
Status: Undetermined. Origins: About halfway to three-fourths of the http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/lionani.gif way through the film, Simba, Pumbaa, and Timon are lying on their backs, looking up at the stars. Simba arises, walks over to the edge of a cliff, and flops to the ground, throwing up a cloud of dust. Eddies of dust form and dissipate in the roiling cloud, and at one point the various curves and angles in these eddies appear to form the letters S-E-X. It takes a bit of persistence to see specific letters in the shapes formed by the swirling dust clouds, even when the video is played in slow motion.
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Claim: The photographic image of a topless woman can be spotted in the background of The Rescuers.
Status: True.
Origins: On 8 January 1999, Disney announced a recall of the the home video version of their 1977 animated feature The Rescuers because it contained an "objectionable background image." Approximately 38 minutes into the film, as rodent heroes Bianca and Bernard fly through the city in a sardine box strapped to the back of Orville, proprietor of Albatross Air Charter Service, the photographic image of a topless woman can be seen at the window of a building in the background in two different (non-consecutive) frames: first in the bottom left corner, then at the top center portion of the frame. (Click on each image below to view an enlargement of the frame.)
http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/resc2.jpg
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Claim: During the filming of the 1958 Disney nature documentary White Wilderness, the film crew induced lemmings into jumping off a cliff and into the sea in order to document their supposedly suicidal behavior.
Status: True.
Origins: Lemming suicide is fiction. Contrary to popular belief, lemmings do not periodically hurl themselves off of cliffs and into the sea. Cyclical explosions in population do occasionally induce lemmings to attempt to migrate to areas of lesser population density. When such a migration occurs, some lemmings die by falling over cliffs or drowning in lakes or rivers. These deaths are not deliberate "suicide" attempts, however, but accidental deaths resulting from the lemmings' venturing into unfamiliar territories and being crowded and pushed over dangerous ledges. In fact, when the competition for food, space, or mates becomes too intense, lemmings are much more likely to kill each other than to kill themselves. http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/lemming.gif Disney's White Wilderness was filmed in Alberta, Canada, which is not a native habitat for lemmings and has no outlet to the sea. Lemmings were imported for use in the film, purchased from Inuit children by the filmmakers. The Arctic rodents were placed on a snow-covered turntable and filmed from various angles to produce a "migration" sequence; afterwards, the helpless creatures were transported to a cliff overlooking a river and herded into the water. White Wilderness does not depict an actual lemming migration — at no time are more than a few dozen lemmings ever shown on the screen at once. The entire sequence was faked using a handful of lemmings deceptively photographed to create the illusion of a large herd of migrating creatures.
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Claim: Austria is home to a town called '****ing.'
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]
Tourists are causing a lot of anxiety — and are costing money — to a tiny village where signs keep disappearing. What do the signs read? "Welcome to ****ing, Austria." Pronounced "fooking," the little hamlet of ****ing is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century. His name? Focko. The town sign has been stolen seven times in the last few months. With signs costing several hundred dollars apiece, much of the tiny town’s budget is being spent replacing the signs, says Siegfried Hoeppel, the Mayor of ****ing. He went on to express his hope that further thefts will be avoided through the use of increased concrete and . . . bigger screws.
Origins: We don't know how severe the stolen sign problem there really is, but Austria is indeed home to a town called '****ing' (48' 03"N 13' 51"E). Here are a few photos of the reportedly hard-to-keep signs:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/small/austria1_small.jpg
(Click images to enlarge)
http://www.snopes.com/photos/small/austria2_small.jpg
The second sign carries the hilarity even further: "Bitte — nicht so schnell!" is German for "Please — not so fast!" (Apparently that sign is a commonplace reminder to keep automotive speeds down to protect children, but the juxtaposition in this case is particularly delicious.)
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Claim: A farmer carved a map of the USA in his cornfield.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]
Here's an aerial picture of a cornfield in Lawrenceburg, TN. The owner allegedly drew the picture out on his computer, then downloaded it to his GPS system, and then followed the GPS on his Bushhog (a big-league mowing device).
http://www.snopes.com/photos/small/cornmaze_small.jpg
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Claim: Woman is smuggled into the USA hidden in a car's dashboard.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
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Claim: A 740' x 390' floral flag was constucted from larkspur.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]
http://www.snopes.com/photos/small/f...lag1_small.jpg
The 2002 floral flag is 740 feet wide and 390 feet high and maintains the proper flag dimensions as described in executive order #10834. This flag is 6.65 acres and is the first floral flag to be planted with 5 pointed stars, each star is 24 feet in diameter; each stripe is 30 feet wide. This flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers.
Aerial photo courtesy of Bill Morson
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Claim: Man loads down his small car with hundreds of pounds of lumber and other building supplies.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000]
The stupidity of some people in this world never fails to amaze me. This attached picture is real -- not doctored in any way -- and was taken last week in Waldorf, MD by a Transportation Supervisor for a company that delivers building materials for 84 Lumber. When he saw it there in the parking lot of IHOP, he went and bought a camera to take pictures. The car is still running as can be witnessed by the exhaust.
A woman is either asleep or otherwise out in the front seat passenger side. The guy driving it was over jogging up and down on Rt. 925 in the background. The witnesses said their physical state was OTHER than normal and the police just shook their heads in amazement. The driver finally came back after the police were there and was getting down at the back to cut the twine around the load. They told him to get back until it was taken off.
The materials were loaded at Home Depot. The Home Depot store manager made the customer sign a waiver before loading. Both back tires are trashed. The back shocks were driven up through the floorboard. On the roof are many 2X4s, 4X4s and OSL sheets of lumber. The load isn't all that meets the eye either. In the back seat were ten 80-pound bags of concrete! They estimated the load weight at 3000 lbs. The car is a VW Jetta with FL plates and the guy said he was headed for Annapolis!
http://www.snopes.com/photos/graphics/lumber.jpg
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Click on Mr. Yukk for the pictures. Pretty cool stuff. I love Snopes.
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Top of page 51 too. Dang. I am rockin' out.
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Oh, yeah. My dad is actually getting out of the hhhospital. He had a super fast heart beat, as fast as 155 bpm. They finally gave him a shock and got it between 60-70. He says he feels great. Too bad he can't make it to the reunion. It's his side of the family! If it hadn't been a holiday last weekend, I think that all of this stuff would have been done sooner. Peace out.....
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Originally Posted by Jason White's Third Knee
Hey,. that was my 1450 post! That's gotta be good for something.
hmmm, good for 15 more straight posts I see.
:D
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Geez, I just lost the postpadding title too.
And what happened to you, OUinFla? You ALWAYS manage to get here for the important numbers.... falling down on the jorb? me too. :D
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what makes you think 1500 was an important number?
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Originally Posted by OUinFLA
what makes you think 1500 was an important number?
500, 1000, then 1500..... logic. But I guess this means since you didn't get it, it isn't important.
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It is starting to worry me that I can follow your reasoning....
I hear that the weather is getting better up North.... for some stuff anyway. Good news. (Ha - figure that one out!)
Seriously.
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# 1510 is an important number.
especially if it is the only post of the day.
afternoon thundershowers are begining to appear here in central Florida. Being as I live in the "lightning capital" of the US, it is a time of year for caution. More recorded lightning strikes occur within a 60 mile radius of my home than anywhere else in the country for a comparable size.
It has to do with the seasonal SE normal wind pattern colliding with the daily afternoon Westerly sea breeze caused by the warming of the land mass.
It will last into September, and we can count on lots or rain, thousands of lightning strikes, and very little safe fishing from about 1pm until 7pm on a nearly daily basis.
As an aside note, the daily rains require those with swimming pools to have to add massive amounts of chlorine to their pools to keep the algae growth down.
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Well, now I feel better about not living in Fla. :D I was one of those geeky kids who had to wear a nose pincher when I swam. I was allergic to the clorine. Fortunately, it has gotten better with old age. I love to go to water parks.
There was a bad storm Tuesday (only 28,000 still without power - ouch). One of the weather people was showing off their lightning tracker - they thing was lit up all over North TX and part of southern OK. The tracker had recorded 8,000 strikes during a 4 hour period. Wow!
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Just dropped by to make sure the absurdity continues.
Carry on!
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Hey, it's Eddie Haskel's birthday! Well, actually it's Ken Osmond's birthday (143); he played Eddie on "Leave it to Beaver." Osmond is not and never was Alice Cooper, despite what you might have heard in 6th grade. Osmond was an LA cop for 18 years though.
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I love the important crap you learn in this thread.
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And come to think of it............
#1515 sounds kinda cool.
:D
that's for you Baja!
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Originally Posted by OUinFLA
And come to think of it............
#1515 sounds kinda cool.
:D
that's for you Baja!
Thank you OU!
Just more trivia - Lil Baja's roommate this Fall is the great-niece of Don Knotts. :D Woo-hoo!
While I was working on my new craft room today, I heard about an opportunity that I though might be appropriate for this board. Oscar Meyer has a contest that will let soemone win the weinermobile for a day. Submit a 50 word essay on what you would do with it. I don't know if you get free food - I would hope so......
http://www.kraftfoods.com/om/
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Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Meyer Weiner......
That is what I'd truly like to be.......
Cause if I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner.........
:D:D:D
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.......
Everyone would be in love with me! :D
I can see the farks now.
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Hey, Baja. I've been telling you that your avatar is done. Want to PM me your email or something?
Fla- You are next.
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My bologna has a first name...
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Im gonna let Al Gore finish that line.
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Wooo-hooo! Thank you JWTK!
It's Wednesday..... The weeks are going by so fast. :(
Riley is growing like a weed. She has gone from not being able to jump up on the hearth, to getting up there at will. Ben, our Golden, is officially her step-brother. As he is laying on the floor, Riley will step on him to get up on the sofa, chair or whatever is close. She is not afraid of too much either, but that may change as THE CAT comes over tonight. :)
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