Makes sense, I35 south of OK City turns into Mad Max.

Well this party is hoppin'.

Girlfriend is definitely reaching peak antsy-ness (antsiety?), she's going to the farmer's market tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, my introverted ass is nowhere near to cracking.

Yeah, I'm giving the wife the green-light to get her toes done or go get coffee or whatever, whenever she wants.

Imma be over here watching espn+ and cracking into my stash of sours and ipa's tyvm. Have fun!

My mom devolved into a complete puddle over having internet issues this week.

It's a natural transition but still such a weird dynamic when your parent(s) become your kid(s).

Anyone have experience renting out your house? Is it a nightmare?

If I have to move soon, I could probably get $500 a month profit from renting my house out. Appreciation rate is 3.2% annually as well.

While the ensuing thread would probably be very entertaining, I think that renting a room would be a terrible idea for you.

She'd be renting out the entire house

Have experience. Was a nightmare. If I ever rent out a property again, I'm paying through the nose for a full-service agency, but that costs enough that I just sell unless the market is total crap.

I'm military and I generally hate everything that's available for rent, so I buy/sell a house about once every three years.

lol me.


I still think it’s a bad idea.

A moose will beat people up?

This put me on the thought train of imagining what it would be like to be mauled to death by a bear. God, that'd be horrific.

Was going to post the call of the girl calling her mom while being eaten alive, but called it good.

Have you seen the ****ing space monsters living in the darkness of the ocean?! Jesus Christ!

appreciation rate is great and everything but unless you have the inside info that the feds are bailing out homeowners to the tune of trillions of dollars of added subprime I'd snap sell now if I find a taker

What was the first thing after Watergate to have the -gate suffix?

Too bad my personal financial market crashed before Corona and coming up a hair short of the finish line trying to buy a house last summer.

The adoption of -gate to suggest the existence of a scandal was promoted by William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist and former Nixon administration speechwriter. As early as September 1974 he wrote of "Vietgate", a proposed pardon of the Watergate criminals and Vietnam War draft dodgers. Subsequently, he coined numerous -gate terms, including Billygate, Briefingate, Contragate, Deavergate, Debategate, Doublebillingsgate (of which he later said "My best [-gate coinage] was the encapsulation of a minor ... scandal as doublebillingsgate"), Frankiegate, Franklingate, Genschergate, Housegate, Iraqgate, Koreagate, Lancegate, Maggiegate, Nannygate, Raidergate, Scalpgate, Travelgate, Troopergate and Whitewatergate.

The New York magazine suggested that his aim in doing so was "rehabilitating Nixon by relentlessly tarring his successors with the same rhetorical brush – diminished guilt by association". Safire himself later said to author Eric Alterman that he "may have been seeking to minimize the relative importance of the crimes committed by his former boss with this silliness".

List of "-gate" scandals

I thought the idiotic -gate stuff could one day lose steam and die, but Deflategate destroyed that hope. They will shoehorn that **** in there no matter how much the names available don’t work with it.

Earliest sports one is Shouldergate: In June 1978 when the Pittsburgh Steelers were found to have practiced in shoulder pads during an off-season period in which such drills were not allowed under NFL rules. The team was stripped of its third-round selection in the 1979 NFL Draft as a penalty.

Ah, good stuff.


How shortsighted of me to assume its something that originated in my time.

Shouldergate is the only non-politics one before 2000.

Girahgate

Ha. To me, Shouldergate is when the White Sox acquired David Wells in an offseason trade for Mike Sirotka and his bum shoulder.

Sirotka never pitched an affiliated inning after that trade. However, the previous season, 2000, he signed the bill of my hat in my first ever visit to Comiskey Park! He had a good year.

July RoundGuyGate LC Thread

Add that one to Wikipedia! They mention it on Sirotka's page but not on the -gate page.