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There's a course in Chattanooga that has concrete drainage ditches with vertical walls completely bisecting some fairways. Whenever we played there we just attempted to stay out of them at all costs. It was a pain because sometimes it meant hitting less than driver and leaving a long second shot. Later somebody told me that that everybody plays a free drop from those ditches. I don't know if they are going by a local rule or if there is something in the rule book that would make that free drop legal? Those rock ditches made me think of it and, although different, I would think that the same rules would apply to either allow it or not.

I called my brother a gay slur one morning at the kitchen table when I was about 8 years old. Didn't have a clue what it meant but I had heard kids at school say it so I knew it was meant to be derogatory. Next thing I knew my mom hit me in the side of the head with one of those big wooden kitchen spoons and said "Don't you ever call him that again!" I thought wow that word must be a lot worse than I thought it was. The kitchen spoon must have done the trick because I can't recall ever saying it again. For the most part I try to not say anything that I think is going to offend anybody but I also think a lot of people could use some thicker skin and could stop looking for ways to be offended.

I don't think anybody in their right mind wouldn't put Ohio State ahead of Ole Miss or Auburn (for different reasons). Even throwing records and conferences out the window and only using a "who's the best team" criteria, Ohio State should be favored over Auburn or Ole Miss at this point. Ole Miss largely because they lost their best player and Auburn largely because losing to TAMU was unforgivable (even though if they played 10 times Auburn would win 9 of them). If Auburn beats Georgia and Alabama, and Ole Miss beats Mississippi State then I wouldn't know what to make of any of it.

With 3 or 4 games left who envies the Selection Committee's job at this point? I bet they are just hoping for some more upsets in the next few weeks to cool off the hot water they are sitting in. Still a pretty big possibility that there could be 5 deserving teams from 5 conferences and only 4 spots. At least they don't have to worry about the 6th monkey wrench that was Notre Dame.

At first try to find a course that's not busy or at times that are not busy. Don't worry about keeping an official score and if you are having a disaster hole (or not keeping pace) pick up the ball, or abandon it where you lost it, and move on closer to the green or to the next hole. I don't mind playing with anybody as long as they move along and don't attempt to keep a legitimate score as they card their 150.

Now there is something I can agree with. After coaching baseball and giving hitting lessons for a long time I came to one conclusion when I coached girls softball for a few years when my daughter was playing. That conclusion was that Pat Summitt must be a damned genius . All jokes aside the thing that stands out like a sore thumb when I go to an LPGA event is that they are very impressive as long as everything is a stock shot. They are much more lost lost when they have to create/invent shots they've never hit before. I don't see them standing behind trees and thinking well I think I'll just hit a low slicer around this tree with an adjusted backswing because of the limb behind me and get the ball just low enough to clear this limb and just high enough to clear that limb but just long enough to clear the water hazard.

Congrats!!! Sounds like you're on a roll. Good luck in the semis.

I don't necessarily think the SEC teams are all that good this year (as I've said before) but they do have defensive players that are outstanding that can line up and hit you in the mouth. Personally I loved the LSU/Alabama game and would have loved it even if Alabama had lost. It was my kind of football. The average fan doesn't know just how well LSU played on defense tonight. More than half of those guys will probably be playing on Sunday. It was a shame somebody had to lose the game. After a slugfest like that I'll be surprised if Alabama plays well next week. Mississippi State's front seven is probably as good as LSU's but the defensive backs are not. Hope Yelden isn't hurt too bad. His leg was twisted pretty badly on the play he fumbled/dropped the ball.

Nope. Don't even know which ones. Just the story of how it works. I'm not going to name the lobbyist either.

I used to always wonder how guys got elected to State Legislatures, made less "salary" than I did, but within a year were building a new mansion on a hill. Then a friend of mine became a lobbyist and I found out.

Low rise jeans + shirt not tucked in = Plummer's crack. http://www.theplumbinginfo.com/crack-famous-plumbers-crack/ Usually all it takes to dissuade Plummer's crack on the job is a squirt bottle of blue chalk powder or a handful of flux. A little unnerving though if the next day the same guy has the same blue crack, hasn't taken a shower, and doesn't even know it.

Saturday night in Death Valley I do have one prediction for both teams that they will still be feeling next week.

Not bad for work clothes. From the look of it he has a lot of dirt to shovel. Fairly similar to what I usually wear to work except for the white belt and that most of my clothes have hydraulic oil stains on them.

I haven't had a negative that I can remember but I did have one a few years ago that came back and off to the right to about 60 yards from the tee box. The hole is only 290 and the freak (and yes I call him that to his face) I was playing with drove the green. I went to my ball and as I got ready to hit my second shot I noticed he was already on the green sizing up his putt. If it was anybody else I probably would have waited them out until hopefully they realized they were in my way. Since you couldn't hurt the freak with a 20 lb. sledgehammer I went ahead and hit my shot from 240 out. It ended up between his ball and hole as he was looking at it. I thought that will teach him to ignore me and think I'm out of a hole.

Greta Van Susteren was the main person using her show to try to facilitate his release. I happen to not even like Greta very much for other reasons but creating a Bergdahl spin was certainly not her objective (even though the irony was glaring). I think she's not very good at her job and is the most unprepared interviewer on TV but she's not an ideologue at all. Bill O'Reilly spent a little bit of time on it but not much. He was extremely cautious about finding out what truly happened before making any kind of judgment and said as much from the start. The hard news on Fox didn't mention it any more than any other newsworthy story. If people didn't think it was newsworthy they didn't have to watch (which I doubt they did anyway). I'm glad they covered it, wish he wouldn't have gone through that nightmare, and glad he's finally out of there.

Serious crime? (SMH once again) The guy that took a wrong turn toward the border and told the border guards he had guns in the vehicle. Most people think it was outrageous for him to be locked in a Mexican prison for that long including people that are not exactly right wingers.

I don't deny any of them but I must admit that I got a smile out my ability to predict your third prediction.

Bingo. No correlation between the two.

Yep I would say completely off topic. You would be hard pressed to find any country that goes to more effort to avoid civilian casualties in warfare than we do. (Probably to a fault).

Good point. Sometimes I happen across one of those games I missed being replayed but I never think about actually looking for them. On the guide it seems like sometimes they don't clearly label which teams are playing in some of those replays. May say something like "College Football" and you don't know who they are showing until it starts. No decent way to DVR those unless I happen to be sitting there in front of the TV when they come on. P.S. I really hate when they go to a commercial and come back and say "Due to time constraints we are skipping forward to the fourth quarter."

Some really interesting games coming this Saturday night. I would love to watch several of them but don't really have that option. I work on Saturday nights and my DVR will only record two games. I usually watch a game I have recorded once just as a fan and then watch again skipping between plays and rewinding each play a few times to see what's really going on up front. Many times my opinion on how well a player (or a team) performed will change when I see each play a few times and really look at individual mismatches that won't project to future games.

I don't understand how a push could do anything but decrease lag, and don't understand how that could have anything to do with when the lag begins. Unless you feel like it's a "push" with your wrist with the hand trailing or something??? Anyway: Like @Hammer 4 I "feel" like I still have some cup in my right wrist at impact. How much is actually there depends on which club I'm hitting (and how well I'm hitting it).

If I remember right that's not exactly how it works. Both or either side can make it a circus. The Congress can pass anything they want and it won't amount to a hill of beans if the President uses a veto. Remains to be seen if President Obama can or will switch gears and work with the other side and remains to be seen if the Congress is in any mood for compromises or olive branches. Presidents Reagan and Clinton had to do it but at least until this point President Obama hasn't really had to or shown a willingness. Could be two years of conflict, blame, and stalemate or maybe they work together and get some things accomplished. BTW I'm betting on the circus but hoping otherwise.

I didn't say you did. But it is certainly used every time expenditures come up. BTW my wife is a master of using that argument when she goes shopping. She could very well work for the government.

Ah, the old "it's not really that much" argument. Problem is that thousands and thousands of "not really that much" add up to a Hell of a bundle. Second problem is that about $4 of the $128 will actually go where it's supposed to go. This is the Federal government we are talking about. I don't know how much money we need to fight Ebola, don't have a clue, and don't mind spending whatever it takes but to coincidentally use $6.2B as the request of choice for all emergencies is an insult to common sense. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."