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For those who know MSP: Tonight in the snow, I noticed that flights arriving at MSP were landing by flying very low over Lake Nokomis, which would be from the northwest and then a bit later apparently from the west, flying very low from west to east along a path between and parallel to I-494 and Highway 62. I assume that this way a method to close a runway and use another one while the first one was being plowed, but it still surprised me to see what I thought were somewhat unusual flight paths that also looked very low. Does this make sense?
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Let's start with fingers... Broke an index finger playing catcher in a pick-up game of softball. I took a bat to the hand. Broke a pinky playing football with Penn State football players one summer. Not on the play where I broke my finger, but before that, I was the one that turned the flag football game into a game of tackle football. I tackled one of the PSU football players, and once they figured out I was fine with it, we then moved to tackle football. That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.
Other broken bones:
Other broken bones:
- Right foot, falling down two steps (had surgery to fix it)
- Other index finger, slammed it in a car door
- Kneecap, fell on a wet concrete floor
- Nose: Empress Cobaka head-butted me
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You seem to have a very dangerous dog. However, the big question in my mind is *why* you would apparently voluntarily play (tackle) football with the PSU football team. Did you expect to win or at least lose without damage? I can't recall a period when PSU had a sufficiently bad team that playing with them would have been a good idea. Was this some crazy drunken bet or a sorority initiation stunt?
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You seem to have a very dangerous dog. However, the big question in my mind is *why* you would apparently voluntarily play (tackle) football with the PSU football team. Did you expect to win or at least lose without damage? I can't recall a period when PSU had a sufficiently bad team that playing with them would have been a good idea. Was this some crazy drunken bet or a sorority initiation stunt?
I was young and stupid when I played tackle football with PSU football players? It wasn't a drunken bet or sorority initiation stunt. The friend who suffered the broken nose invited me, saying it was flag football. I decided they were being too gentle in playing because I was playing.
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Let's start with fingers... Broke an index finger playing catcher in a pick-up game of softball. I took a bat to the hand. Broke a pinky playing football with Penn State football players one summer. Not on the play where I broke my finger, but before that, I was the one that turned the flag football game into a game of tackle football. I tackled one of the PSU football players, and once they figured out I was fine with it, we then moved to tackle football. That was the same game that another friend got a broken nose. His healed faster than my injury, as the campus med center didn't set mine correctly, so the ortho needed to re-set it.
Other broken bones:
Other broken bones:
- Right foot, falling down two steps (had surgery to fix it)
- Other index finger, slammed it in a car door
- Kneecap, fell on a wet concrete floor
- Nose: Empress Cobaka head-butted me
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I had been. Although, in fairness, the softball injury was when I was elementary school, the car door incident was in middle school, and the right foot and pinky injuries were in college. Only the kneecap was after turning 21.
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Some guys might find him hot too @:-) not my type though
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