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There is an article in today’s Washington Post concerning a 17yo who has been accepted into all of the 20 colleges with whom he had applied.
We are talking the cream: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, John Hopkins, MIT, Georgetown, UPenn, UCBerkeley etc.
Not only that, he got full scholarships at all of them.
A smart dude from a poor black Texan family, single mother and her only child.
My problem is this: his name is Micheal Brown.
Focus on his given name.
No, that is not a spelling mistake.
If you know anything about Americans, particularly African Americans, there is this underlying tendency to misspell names in order to give them a unique cachet.
(Kay & Peele, two African American comedians, make great fun with this).
We see a little bit of this here too.
Mainly in Fountain Lakes.....
So we have two possibilities: either his name echoes this trend, or his parents can’t spell.

Or a third.

Given how smart this kid is, maybe his (now absent) father was a Johnny Cash fan.
And this is his version of “ A boy named Sue”.

I kinda hope so.
 

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Just for interest sake are there any other Saints forums besides Big Footy and Saintsational?
I remember yrs ago Saints Central ( I think it was called) which was accessible from the Saints Website . But I think the club knocked it on the head and just focused on social media instead.
And I remember TrueSainters which I think is also dead n buried.
Any others?? Either finished or still going??
 
Just for interest sake are there any other Saints forums besides Big Footy and Saintsational?
I remember yrs ago Saints Central ( I think it was called) which was accessible from the Saints Website . But I think the club knocked it on the head and just focused on social media instead.
And I remember TrueSainters which I think is also dead n buried.
Any others?? Either finished or still going??
Reddit has a saints thread that is in it's infancy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/StKilda/
 
Cwood have won, so if bored Trump is going off on Twitter right now.
 
Melbourne City made it through an elimination final and won by 2 goals....should have been about 6 the way they played. At least Melbourne United and City have fired for me. I was pretty sure I was cursed and any team I followed was doomed to failure. Shame I give a tiny amount of ****s compared to the way I follow the Saints. It's like when your ugly stupid children come home bragging about their achievements. You just turn you back and get angry at the favourite kid for letting the shit ones show them up. Stupid Saints.
 

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Melbourne City made it through an elimination final and won by 2 goals....should have been about 6 the way they played. At least Melbourne United and City have fired for me. I was pretty sure I was cursed and any team I followed was doomed to failure. Shame I give a tiny amount of ****s compared to the way I follow the Saints. It's like when your ugly stupid children come home bragging about their achievements. You just turn you back and get angry at the favourite kid for letting the shit ones show them up. Stupid Saints.

One day, mate; one day.......In a perfect world I'll have won the lottery by then and will be at the MCG to Saints win a GF. It would be some party:drunk:
 
Melbourne City made it through an elimination final and won by 2 goals....should have been about 6 the way they played. At least Melbourne United and City have fired for me. I was pretty sure I was cursed and any team I followed was doomed to failure. Shame I give a tiny amount of ****s compared to the way I follow the Saints. It's like when your ugly stupid children come home bragging about their achievements. You just turn you back and get angry at the favourite kid for letting the shit ones show them up. Stupid Saints.
I love Melbourne United, love the nbl. Not nearly as much as St kilda, but was very very excited when they won the championship. I will be sobbing if and when St kilda win one.

No team that I have ever cared about had won the comp before, so it was a new experience for me.



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Technology is fast getting ahead of society in a way that will make it easier for nefarious people to manipulate the sheeple. Is anyone else nervous about this? Or do you think it's kind of comparable to the growth of Newspaper publishing in the 1600's?
 


Technology is fast getting ahead of society in a way that will make it easier for nefarious people to manipulate the sheeple. Is anyone else nervous about this? Or do you think it's kind of comparable to the growth of Newspaper publishing in the 1600's?


did you see the one with the obama narrated by peele
 

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Anybody been to the new Moorabbin social club? Just got the email about them showing the Hawks game.

Do they have a bistro there? I remember having a truly awful meal there in the late 90s, Alistair Clarkson was on the table over when he was an assistant.

Hopefully this incarnation is better.
 
Anybody been to the new Moorabbin social club? Just got the email about them showing the Hawks game.

Do they have a bistro there? I remember having a truly awful meal there in the late 90s, Alistair Clarkson was on the table over when he was an assistant.

Hopefully this incarnation is better.


It's Moorabbin Social. It looks like they have done a good job on the fit out from the emails they have sent. Hopefully the old fashioned RSL meals have gone.
 
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