Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

#67,701
#67,701
Orangeburst said:
Funny I actually like cats more as I get older. I thought they are not needy and heck they can eat a dead varmint and you still don’t have to take them to the vet.
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I grew up in a cat tolerant family. My dad grew up on a farm and liked cats ... my mother tolerated them. My first cat was actually a Korean ocelot. The mother had a couple of kittens (or cubs) before she was killed (I think by a jeep). My dad raised one of the kittens, so I had a playmate when Mother and I got to Korea in 1947 or 48 (someday I have to figure out the dates). Apparently Mutt and I made quite a pair. The story goes that they kept a real eye on us until the day I lifted him up by the fur and he was OK with it.
 
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AM64 said:
Cats broaden your horizon. Dogs generally want to please; cats are like women - a challenge to deal with. Some of us are probably just masochists and can't accept it's easier to have a dog than a cat or a wife.
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Cats $hit in a box inside your house, puke up hairballs, scratch furniture, and overall, behave like pompous little douche bags. This is a challenge ole pepperjax will never accept. Go Big Orange too.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Cats $hit in a box inside your house, puke up hairballs, scratch furniture, and overall, behave like pompous little douche bags. This is a challenge ole pepperjax will never accept. Go Big Orange too.
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In their defense, ours don't scratch the furniture, but they are guilty of most of the rest ... and sometimes other atrocities. The sixteen pounder in my lap likes to butt heads, sit in my lap, and rub faces ... she also likes to chew on fingers and snag you when you walk away which sometimes leads to bloodshed - mine.
 
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PEPPERJAX said:
Cats $hit in a box inside your house, puke up hairballs, scratch furniture, and overall, behave like pompous little douche bags. This is a challenge ole pepperjax will never accept. Go Big Orange too.
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Ted Nugent likes cats..You know some of those early songs before that album were groovy
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
As someone who has always worked construction and never had a climate controlled environment except for side work, October is actually my favorite month of the year. Not too hot or cold, and usually pretty dry unless a hurricane passes close by bringing heavy rains.

From a football perspective it is always a great but stressful month with Bama and the meat of our SEC season happening in October. This month makes or breaks seasons most every year. Not this year though, at least to realists. Our upcoming aTm, bama, jawja gauntlet is not expected to be as successful as last year. I will be content if we win 1 of the 3, and ecstatic if we win 2. I think we run the table afterwards, though @ kentucky will be a real test. Their defense is quite good this year and manhandled flarduh. Just winning 1 of those 3 games will likely have us finish 9-3 which is great for a "bridge year". Even 8-4 will be OK because it will not affect recruiting IMO.

GO VOLS!!! and lol at Miami...whose refusal to take a knee cost them the game. Whats crazy is Cristobal made the SAME mistake before at oregon and lost to stanford bc he called a running play and fumbled rather than taking a knee back then. This clown actually made that unforgivable mistake TWICE and lost BOTH games after being up 3 points and only needing the knee to win!!!
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Don't lie - you like fall for the pumpkin spice lattes at starbucks.
 
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We are gonna honor Eric Berry this weekend before he goes into the CFB HOF this year. I watched the highlight video in this post and think i have been wrong about something for 15 years.

When someone periodically posts in the FF asking who the best VOL players all time are, i habitually have said that Dale Carter is the best DB to ever play at UT. He was a 2 time 1st team All American safety. Led the country in KO return yardage 1 season and finished 2nd in his junior year IIRC. His senior year he averaged like 29.7yards per...basically 30 yards per which was the highest for an entire season that I have ever seen. He was ALWAYS the fastest player on the field even vs flarduh WRs etc.

I was wrong though. EB was also a 2 time 1st team AA at safety...missed the all time NCAA record for interception return yards by less than 10 total yards....and he only played 3 years. He would surely have broken that all time NCAA record his senior season...he averaged 4 picks a year even though nobody with any sense would throw it anywhere near him...and nearly always had BIG returns including several TDs. Those are all great but honestly only equal with his predecessor D Carter. The difference that puts Berry ahead was he HIT LIKE A TRUCK. Like a guided missile. Watch him hit future NFL RB from UGA Knowshon Moreno in this video....he knocked him stupid man. A bigger RB than him. He hit everyone. Hard. People feared him and rightly so. Dale was never a hitter like that. Yep...I was wrong. Eric Berry is THE best DB to ever play at UT....and probably in the SEC. He was an All Pro and perennial Pro Bowler in the NFL too.

Check him out here:
www.rockytopinsider.com

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The Tennessee Volunteers are set to honor VFL Eric Berry and his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame this Saturday.
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Where is Dad? VIB mentioned gas and I thought of him eating all that Mexican food after the Florida game.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
We are gonna honor Eric Berry this weekend before he goes into the CFB HOF this year. I watched the highlight video in this post and think i have been wrong about something for 15 years.

When someone periodically posts in the FF asking who the best VOL players all time are, i habitually have said that Dale Carter is the best DB to ever play at UT. He was a 2 time 1st team All American safety. Led the country in KO return yardage 1 season and finished 2nd in his junior year IIRC. His senior year he averaged like 29.7yards per...basically 30 yards per which was the highest for an entire season that I have ever seen. He was ALWAYS the fastest player on the field even vs flarduh WRs etc.

I was wrong though. EB was also a 2 time 1st team AA at safety...missed the all time NCAA record for interception return yards by less than 10 total yards....and he only played 3 years. He would surely have broken that all time NCAA record his senior season...he averaged 4 picks a year even though nobody with any sense would throw it anywhere near him...and nearly always had BIG returns including several TDs. Those are all great but honestly only equal with his predecessor D Carter. The difference that puts Berry ahead was he HIT LIKE A TRUCK. Like a guided missile. Watch him hit future NFL RB from UGA Knowshon Moreno in this video....he knocked him stupid man. A bigger RB than him. He hit everyone. Hard. People feared him and rightly so. Dale was never a hitter like that. Yep...I was wrong. Eric Berry is THE best DB to ever play at UT....and probably in the SEC. He was an All Pro and perennial Pro Bowler in the NFL too.

Check him out here:
www.rockytopinsider.com

Return to Rocky Top: Tennessee Set to Honor Eric Berry Prior to College Football Hall of Fame Induction | Rocky Top Insider

The Tennessee Volunteers are set to honor VFL Eric Berry and his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame this Saturday.
www.rockytopinsider.com www.rockytopinsider.com
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Evan was a fearless kick off returner freak as well..Boom full speed damn the torpedoes
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
We are gonna honor Eric Berry this weekend before he goes into the CFB HOF this year. I watched the highlight video in this post and think i have been wrong about something for 15 years.

When someone periodically posts in the FF asking who the best VOL players all time are, i habitually have said that Dale Carter is the best DB to ever play at UT. He was a 2 time 1st team All American safety. Led the country in KO return yardage 1 season and finished 2nd in his junior year IIRC. His senior year he averaged like 29.7yards per...basically 30 yards per which was the highest for an entire season that I have ever seen. He was ALWAYS the fastest player on the field even vs flarduh WRs etc.

I was wrong though. EB was also a 2 time 1st team AA at safety...missed the all time NCAA record for interception return yards by less than 10 total yards....and he only played 3 years. He would surely have broken that all time NCAA record his senior season...he averaged 4 picks a year even though nobody with any sense would throw it anywhere near him...and nearly always had BIG returns including several TDs. Those are all great but honestly only equal with his predecessor D Carter. The difference that puts Berry ahead was he HIT LIKE A TRUCK. Like a guided missile. Watch him hit future NFL RB from UGA Knowshon Moreno in this video....he knocked him stupid man. A bigger RB than him. He hit everyone. Hard. People feared him and rightly so. Dale was never a hitter like that. Yep...I was wrong. Eric Berry is THE best DB to ever play at UT....and probably in the SEC. He was an All Pro and perennial Pro Bowler in the NFL too.

Check him out here:
www.rockytopinsider.com

Return to Rocky Top: Tennessee Set to Honor Eric Berry Prior to College Football Hall of Fame Induction | Rocky Top Insider

The Tennessee Volunteers are set to honor VFL Eric Berry and his upcoming induction into the College Football Hall of Fame this Saturday.
www.rockytopinsider.com www.rockytopinsider.com
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Knowshon was tearing us up that game. Would bounce right back up after getting taken down. Always fell forward. Until Eric Berry. I think Knowshon took himself out of the game after that. Pretty sure I was at that game, but watched the replay of that hit so many times I could be wrong.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I know wasps are the a-holes of the insect world. But I'm pretty sure yellow jackets have them beat. They are like caffeine deprived a-holes.
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Evil little bastards gang up on you and can sting more than once. About a dozen years or so ago I was mowing and clipped one of the railroad ties that I used for landscaping with my mower deck, they were on me in an instant, never seen so many. I had on sunglasses but I still shielded my eyes, ran over a small stump, almost ran through the dog fence before I could get off and run and roll on the ground, them wearing me out the whole time. Come to find out they had built an enormous underground nest under my ties, biggest I’d ever seen. When it was all said and done they got me with 37 stings that we could count, from head to toe. I took 6 Tylenol and 4 Benadryl, slept for 18 hours. When I got up I took 2 gallons of gas, 1 gallon of kerosene and 2 rolls of Bounty paper towels to them. A bit of the backyard burned for over half an hour and the initial fireball was probably 25 feet high or higher, yard looked like hell for the rest of the season. I know it was overkill, but I was a bit pissed. Little bastards!
 
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