Quote from: tower912 on Today at 10:24:15 AMLike anything good ever came from New Jersey.

Telegraph, Electric Light Bulb, Phonograph, Motion Picture Camera, Air Conditioning, Bubble Wrap, Band Aids, Condensed Soup, Cell Phone and of course the Monopoly Board Game just to name a few things.

Then there is this:
A revolutionary drug made in N.J. is giving cancer patients years of their lives back - nj.com

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 04:34:23 PMEgbuono had an agent.

The article says he refuses to deal with transfer portal agents??  It's not a direct quote though.

It also says "incoming portal players should not be paid more than guys who are already in the program."... What's unclear... If you're coming in as a senior, you can at least get senior MU money right?  Not first year MU $$?

That would obviously be a hindrance to portal negotiations.

Planes, trains and automobiles
My daughters went to Poland for New Year's to see the grandparents.  My younger daughter is a nurse and has to be back to work this week in Vermont.  She was supposed to fly home via JFK on Monday, but a freak snowstorm hit Amsterdam and caused a ton of cancelled flights.  She rescheduled for tomorrow through Paris.  She had a 6:00am flight out of Warsaw, which just got delayed to 8:30 which means she misses her flight to JFK.  At this point there are no flights until Friday except Business Class seats which she ended up taking.  And I just received a warning of a snowstorm event expected in Paris tomorrow. 
My older daughter is between semesters so staying a few more weeks.

Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on Today at 10:37:48 AMI'm treated like royalty in Quebec and even my French is appreciated because of my last name.  My family ancestors saved the Quebec colony in 1634 with The Percheron Immigration at the behest of Champlain himself.  (I'm not making this up.)  I traced my ancestors to mid-1400's France.  My grandfather and extended family immigrated to the USA in the 1930's after the family's trading post burnt down in Quebec near the border.  There was no home insurance back then.  The first words I usually hear when crossing into Quebec at the border or in the hotel are "Bienvenue chez vous, Monsieur...."

A family friend in Ontario just sent me a link on Canadian citizenship.  Apparently as of December 15, Canada changed citizenship requirements and if your grandparent was Canadian you qualify as a citizen if you can present the paperwork tracing lineage.

Italy messed me up in March 2025, when they changed the rules 2 weeks after I started the process.   

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on Today at 10:53:34 AMThis may be the wrong time to mention that my family was part of a Canadian militia that successfully fought to separate a part of English speaking Ontario (then known as Lower Canada) from Quebec, creating the modern borders of Ontario.

Did your family have a five point plan

Quote from: JWags85 on Today at 09:47:37 AMHonestly, if Trump had said he was going to make Quebec the 51st state, instead of Canada as a whole, most of Canada would have probably said "you know what, sure!  Have fun with that.

My favorite Quebec anecdote is from my wife's best friend.  Total Francophile, took French classes at an immersion school (in addition to her normal public school) since her early teens, studied abroad in Lyon for a year in college, and then while working for L'Oreal, lived in Paris for almost 5 years.  So she not only spoke French to navigate daily life, she spoke it professionally.  She had the fluency of a native speaker by that point.  A year or two after moving back to NYC, she and her now husband took a trip to Quebec City.  Obviously French and Quebecois French differ a bit, but she still assumed it would be some sort of comfort navigating it.  NON NON NON!

She said 2 different shopkeepers got annoyed with her accent and "prononce mal" to the point of being frustrated and rude and the concierge at the hotel at one point said "ma'am it may be better if we just spoke English, no?"  She was so taken aback yet her husband found it hilarious given how Parisians react to anyone speaking French with a foreign accent.

I learned some French phrases and couldn't understand a single thing my boss said to test me, he was from rural Quebec

Pay no attention to the Epstein files. Wag the dog, baby!

Quote from: tower912 on Today at 10:24:15 AMLike anything good ever came from New Jersey.

Princeton University

Quote from: Pakuni on Today at 03:40:52 PMAt least 55 people were killed during the raid to capture Maduro.
As Jesus would have wanted.

Most casualties at a theatrical performance since the filming of Rust

Quote from: WhiteTrash on Today at 04:34:54 PMVideo Analyst for the Chargers?

Packers doing a stock sale to pay him Silicon Valley money to be ST coordinator