Quote from: DriftlessDuhawk on September 19, 2025, 09:00:36 PM

Quote from: doolittledog on September 19, 2025, 01:07:59 PMWill be getting to Dubuque about 11am tomorrow.  Mrs Doolittle thinks it would be better to stay home and put up Halloween decorations than risk sitting through the predicted rain tomorrow.  Not sure how many of our kids will be there.  They're all in Dubuque but not sure about job schedules and what not. 

So since it was 2010 for the last victory in the series for Loras...

There's a man sitting on a park bench with his dog.  Another man sits down and says "hey, does your dog do any tricks?"
The man with the dog says sure, watch this.  "Hey Rusty, UD beat Loras in football"  the dog then does a back flip.
The other man says wow! What does your dog do if Loras beats UD?
The man with the dog says "I don't know, my dog is only 14 years old!"

How do I dislike a post Pat?

Don't "dislike." Fire back. Tell the story about the guy who walked into a bar with a crocodile. He says, "do you serve alums from the University of Dubuque in here? The bar tender says, "of course we do." So the guy says, "good. I'll have a beer and my friend will have a UD grad."

Why does the ARC use teasers? I hate teasers!

It is funny that when a local Chicago tv weather man puts up his regional map, the only two cities it names in Iowa are Waterloo and Oskaloosa.

I guess if I ever had to spend three days in an ARC town other than Pella, Dubuque might be tolerable. I would be careful not to cross Ms Doolittle though.

The weekend Wall Street Journal has an article about how to spend a three day weekend in Dubuque. Of course the fist thing to do should be to get back in the car and drive to Pella. They missed that obvious move but it still paints Dubuque in pretty nice light.

Congratulations to the University of Dubuque Marching Spartan Band for a splendid half-time show and to who ever runs the web cast audio-visual for actually letting me see and hear it.

After looking forward to watching Central play in California ever since the schedule was announced, I was very disappointed to find I would have to pay to see the video. Even though I am Dutch by association, and not birth, I am still too thrifty to pay for something I am used to getting for free. Fortunately Treavor Castle's play by play made me feel like I was there.

I watched the Eau Claire marching band's half-time show. They are really good. Boy am I jealous!

Congrats to the Eau Claire band on a great half time show. The sax solo in the Dolly Parton song nearly made me weep.

I will be cheering for the Dutch Saturday, but it will be from 2000 miles away. Let's all hope the prevailing winds keep the wildfire smoke away from Thousand Oaks. That stuff can make even Southern California miserable.

I am excited to see, what I believe to be, the Central football team's first trip to California. Thinking about it is giving me a craving for an In-N-Out burger.

When I went out my door this morning, it smelled like football season for the first time this year. I am a big Central fan. I don't have any connections there and I don't know what the season holds, but my big wish is that they have a running game this year.  It seems like it has been awhile.

Spread or no spread I will be picking Central to win every one of their games and Simpson to lose everyone of theirs. And, spread or no spread, all of the others will depend on a coin flip.

I just couldn't let the Central Simpson rivalry game pass without reminding everyone of the time a Central economics major and a Simpson economics major waled into a bar. They grabbed a couple of beers and the Central guy said, "so, what do you think of the growth in the gross domestic product?" And the Simpson guy thought a second and said, "why do you have to bring my girlfriend's weight gain into this?"

I am enjoying watching whoever runs the Central football video stream learning to use the new resources they have. Sentimental old sap that I am I even enjoyed the shots of the little kids playing around in the spectator grass.  The video crew seem to have figured out that the best place to watch the game is from the press box and the other cameras can give a little more of the game day experience.  It was a little disorienting when the picture went stobe on me towards the end of the second quarter.  Those sixties flashbacks are a real trip man.