Recent content by JS

We thought you were against buffoons. Way out of place for this board.

Another factor: During the season we mods made some sporadic efforts to keep the recruiting thread on topic, but only where diversions were blatant. And since season's end, sporadic efforts would be an overstatement. The off-season always gets a little more loosey-goosey on what people want to...

Sometimes people just misspeak. Give it a rest with ascribing disrespectful motives.

RobtNAtl. (It wasn't Robert National, BTW; it parsed as Robert N., Atlanta.) He doesn't belong on Charlie's list, because he wasn't a UConn fan and he only posted here once -- having been mentioned so many times that he decided to come here and offer us greetings. He did pass in the line of...

Yeah, he fooled around with that variation. Don't recall if it got started in connection with St. Patty's Day or what. Speaking of which, Wonkster (in his guise as "Father O'Malley") and I wrote a series of Irish toasts for one such occasion. Paraphrases of actual Irish blessings/toasts, but...

Wonkster

Big Ed I sang at his funeral.

End of December thread here.

You mean they start getting thoughtful?

Good morning, Blake. No, I'm afraid the Mrs. wasn't prepared to ask the really crucial questions. She got that Dianne used to be involved with Fairfield basketball, so I asked if she was tall. When the response was no, I started thinking -- or as Mrs. JS would put it, engaging in unusual...

So the doorbell rings. Mrs. JS answers it and ends up chatting with someone for nearly half an hour. Later tells me it was a candidate for Town Council, and they really hit it off. They yapped away about every little thing in their lives while the woman's poor husband strolled around at the...

I knew him when his handle was Observer, that's how long. One of the saddest days that he's gone. But also a day to reminisce and appreciate one of our finest people.

Link to June Thread

In April we had a large bear hanging around our property for a week or so. First in 25 years of living here in Fairfield County. We do a lot of wild bird feeding. I had seven feeders out on the deck, atop 8-foot PVC pipes, bracketed to the deck railing at various points. Also, a large metal...