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It’s Just Jeff
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Not one of the cool people. Here for fun stuff, following the Red Sox, Memphis sports, Star Wars and Star Trek, and movies.
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Pollen Season is wrapping up. Now it’s Whatever Is Happening Here Season because I hate the trees in my yard.
April 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Anything else of note, Yahoo? Maybe something about the winning team in the playoffs?
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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A lot of folks forgot what the Tigers did in November and December
March 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Their non-conference schedule is full of bangers
March 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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😄

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February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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My most magical snack

(If you point out the sodium I will block you)
February 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Every time I read about Stephen Decatur I shake my head that there’s not a movie about him. Just read this drama during the First Barbary War as Stephen avenged his brother’s death against a giant Turk.
#history
When Stephen Decatur was informed of this terrible incident, he was consumed with both rage and grief. He resolved to kill the Tripolitan captain. Decatur was outmanned and outgunned, but nothing would deter him. He brushed aside every suggestion that such an operation would be a suicide mission. He turned the command of his ship over to a lieutenant Jonathan Thorn, assembled a team of volunteers, and set out to avenge his brother’s death and capture the offending ship. With nine volunteers and a midshipman named Macdonough, Decatur soon found the ship in question. Fired by the desire to confront the man who had killed his brother, Decatur was the first man to climb the ropes and board the Tripolitan gunboat. Naval historians who have recorded the incident tell us that he was outnumbered five to one. “This was a desperate undertaking, suggested by a courage which stopped to consider no inequality,” says a Decatur biographer writing in the 1840s. “For twenty minutes, the result of the contest seemed uncertain. Three of Decatur’s followers were already disabled by wounds.” The account that follows is confirmed by those present who witnessed the action. Very soon after boarding the Tripolitan ship, Decatur saw the Turkish captain. He was a huge man, and was armed with an iron boarding-pike. The American had a cutlass and a pistol concealed in one of his pockets. The Turk lunged at Decatur, who tried to deflect the blow with his cutlass, but the weapon broke in two, leaving him exposed. The Turk thrust at him again, and the American attempted to parry it with his right arm; this failed, and the pike penetrated his chest, seriously wounding him. By now Decatur was in excruciating pain, but adrenalin and a ferocious desire to see the fight through kept him on his feet. He seized the Turk’s pike and pulled it from his chest with such a sudden jerk that it flew out of his opponent’s hands. There then followed as primitive an elemental combat as can be imagined in warfare. Decatur flung himself at his huge antagonist, seized him, and the two of them fell to the deck, locked in a mortal struggle. The respective crews did not stay idle; Decatur’s nine men were fighting with the Tripolitans with a ferocity that equaled the fight their commander was involved in. What happened next is nearly unbelievable, but nevertheless attested to by the first-hand accounts of the incident. A Tripolitan officer ran up to Decatur as he struggled with the Turkish captain; and, raising his cutlass, intended to bring it down on the Yankee commander’s head. Just as he was about to do so, one of Decatur’s men (some accounts identify him as Reuben James, others as Daniel Frazer) leapt forward and placed his own head in the path of the falling Turkish cutlass. James had lost the use of both arms in the fighting. This act of supreme self-sacrifice saved the life of his beloved commander. But Decatur was not out of danger. As his strength ebbed quickly, the Turk was getting the upper hand on him. The huge man rolled Decatur over, seized him by the throat with his left hand, and pinned him to the deck. With his right hand, the Turk reached for a close-quarters fighting weapon called a yataghan, an Ottoman knife or short sword. In an instant the blade was out; the roaring Turk raised it over his shoulder, seeking to drive it deep into the American infidel’s innards. And there was nothing to stop him; the other Americans were engaged in fights of their own. But Decatur’s instinct and cool-headedness came to his rescue. His right hand plunged into a pocket and pulled out his pistol. He cocked and raised it in less than half a second. Suddenly there was a tremendous roar as Decatur discharged the weapon full into the enemy captain’s chest. The Turk was blown clean off his feet; the yataghan clattered inertly to the deck; and the treacherous captain now lay prostrate on the blood-stained deck, never to stir again. So ended the fight. One final detail of the story remains to be told. After his death, the body of the Turkish captain—whose name is apparently lost to history—was searched. On it was found a small book of Islamic devotional prayers. Decatur kept this little book as a trophy justly won. When the great man died in 1820, Decatur’s wife donated it to the library of the Catholic College of Georgetown, where it was displayed for many years. During this same battle, another American commander, John Trippe, was involved in personal combat with a Tripolitan officer. Trippe fought his adversary with sword and dirk, suffering no fewer than eleven wounds; but he prevailed in the end, and brought down his opponent. “Never was more gallant and effective service rendered by so inconsiderable a force,” said an early biographer of Decatur. “[T]he attack was conceived with no less skill and hardihood, than it was coolly and courageously executed by all who took part in it.”
February 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Yes!
January 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I think this company needs an anatomy lesson
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Important development: The 2025 Military History calendar is noticeably larger than the 2024 one.
January 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Awesome job! #GoTigersGo
December 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Hahahaha #GoGrizzlies
December 20, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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Road win against an ACC team is sweet! #GoTigersGo
December 19, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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Crazy fun stat that reminds me how blessed we are in this era.
December 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Another bowl win for Memphis ! #GoTigersGo
December 18, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Another Saturday morning up at 4:15 because of my dog, watching the sunrise 2 1/2 hours later.
December 14, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Do memes count because that’s the only reason I would have a celebrity in a photo on my phone?
December 13, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Thanksgiving win on the road to knock Tulane out of the playoff chase is super sweet! #GoTigersGo
November 29, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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TIL that nachos only go back to 1943:

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November 29, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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I’m thinking mine was used much more by my better half?
November 28, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Memphis advances to the Maui Invitational championship! #GoTigersGo
November 27, 2024 at 1:33 AM
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This may be the biggest win of my lifetime. #GoTigersGo
November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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YouTube Music already doing my 2024 Recap? Long way to go, lots more Hans Zimmer to listen to at work.
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM