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Please, for the love of God, stop snowing!
- By RidgeRaider
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You must be related to me, cause all of my family except my immediate family booked it south!I grew up in SE Wisconsin.
In 1982 I realized that there are roads that go south.
You're welcome.
Everyone on my dad's side went to Arizona, a lot on my mom's side went back to Mississippi, and I know a few cousins ended up in Florida I believe.
I'm like my dad. As much as the cold and snow sucks, there's too much to love about Wisconsin and Milwaukee in general for me to ever want to move. My dad was born and will die in the same city, and I plan on doing the same too. For a state with not too many reasons to like it, we just couldn't imagine living anywhere else. It's a weird thing.
Was pool better 50 years ago?
- By Taxi
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Funny, you just mentioned one of my first sports heroes, Neil Johnston. Since Washington didn't then have an NBA team and my mom was from Philly, I attached myself to the Warriors in a year where they went something like 12 and 57. But IIRC Johnston still led the league in scoring.Phila Warriors (pre 6'rs)...... cheapest seats and sneak down to the lower balcony.
One night a year or so later, the Warriors came to Washington for an exhibition game, and afterwards I nervously handed Neil Johnston a self-addressed postcard. A few days later, I got it returned to me with a note: "Good luck to you in sports, Andy. Neil Johnston." It was my first and most memorable sports autograph, in pool matched only by a BreatheRight nose bandage that I got for my wife from Buddy Hall right after he'd won the '98 U. S. Open. Some souvenirs are truly unforgettable.
Please, for the love of God, stop snowing!
- By RidgeRaider
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haha!Two things.
1) In Idaho this year I haven’t had to get a snow shovel or snow blower out of the shed.
2). Close to sixty Januarys ago, my father left work in a large city on a big lake. The city south of you. It was below zero with a brisk 30 mph wind. He asked himself WTF was doing living there, despite spending his whole life there. We moved within a year or two. We moved west and still had seasons and snow. Sometimes some bad snow or cold weather. But not like the Midwest. My uncle stayed longer. We got pictures of the winter of ‘78. He was in California by 1980.
Oh, 3 things. Chicago and the Elkhorn area were nice when I visited. In September.
February to me is when winter gets too long and people get too edgy. I suggest trying to go to BCA in Las Vegas.
I've got nothing nice to say about Chicago, but Elkhorn sure can be nice! I used to work a farm out there.
