Beards & Umpires

[ozzy6900]

I love how I asked a simple question and got about 1/2 a page of actual answers with 3 1/2 pages of pure Bull$hit! You people are pathetic!

[Dave Reed]

Well, the very first post in this thread makes reference to ZZ Top. I guess the thread went off the rails right from the start!

In other words, one person's amusing aside is another person's pure Bull$hit.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Dave Reed

Well, the very first post in this thread makes reference to ZZ Top. I guess the thread went off the rails right from the start!

In other words, one person's amusing aside is another person's pure Bull$hit.

Yeah, Billy, Dusty, and Frank don't umpire baseball last I checked.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Yeah, Billy, Dusty, and Frank don't umpire baseball last I checked.

And a lot of guys we reference do not also umpire either. I have also never seen a ZZ Top look-a-like individual ever umpire a HS game for sure and I would have to think of someone that did a youth game looking like that as well. Usually most would never look that way in most areas or professions. I also do not agree that the conversation is total BS, when you introduce a topic that has many facets to it and usually it is considered an issue of trustworthiness.

Peace

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Yeah, Billy, Dusty, and Frank don't umpire baseball last I checked.

I ran into those guys and their entourage once in Kansas City. They were at a blues club to hear Charlie Musselwhite. Quite a scene, and their entourage (babes right out of their videos and muscle) did not seem to be as into the music as they did.

They were pretty recognizable. I didn't ask whether they umpire.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

The beginning of the end of the war was on this date in history, July 3, 1863, with Lee's folly of invading the North in Gettysburg, PA. and he was defeated soundly.

BTW-You're wrong in your assessment. The southern states DIDN"T want a strong central government. The Emancipation Proclamation only made the slaves in the Confederate states free. A lot good that did then.

Where did I say that the Confederates wanted a strong central government? I know full well what they wanted.

Whether it actually worked or not, the E.P. was intended to hurt the South's economy by eliminating slave labor. (Which kept it going in the first place) It wouldn't have mattered anyway because the South's economy was already in shambles by 1863. Their money was worthless and Europe didn't need their cotton like they had hoped.

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by zm1283

Where did I say that the Confederates wanted a strong central government? I know full well what they wanted.

Whether it actually worked or not, the E.P. was intended to hurt the South's economy by eliminating slave labor. (Which kept it going in the first place) It wouldn't have mattered anyway because the South's economy was already in shambles by 1863. Their money was worthless and Europe didn't need their cotton like they had hoped.

Thanks for the quote from Gone With the Wind.

Sherman's march to the sea, and the Union blockade had more to do with the South's economy than the Emancipation Proclamation. If Lee wins at Gettysburg, the South could have very well won the war. It wasn't like the Civil War was popular in the North to begin with.

We've been in debt since the American Revolution. Give a huge shout out to France and Spain.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

Thanks for the quote from Gone With the Wind.

Sherman's march to the sea, and the Union blockade had more to do with the South's economy than the Emancipation Proclamation. If Lee wins at Gettysburg, the South could have very well won the war. It wasn't like the Civil War was popular in the North to begin with.

We've been in debt since the American Revolution. Give a huge shout out to France and Spain.

What quote?

I didn't say that the E.P. had more to do with the South's economy than anything else. I said that was Lincoln's hope. Nothing more.

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

I love how I asked a simple question and got about 1/2 a page of actual answers with 3 1/2 pages of pure Bull$hit! You people are pathetic!

You get what you give...................