Is it just my imagination, or did Swoop get a new pelt? That old garmento he wore was threadbare and distressed looking. A colleague of mine (no names mentioned, ok it was me) once said he looked like a homeless alcoholic. But now, he’s a new bird. Like he looks positively preened. Maybe we torched his old get up?
Someone here (Bash?) once claimed that the old SFB suit “smells like the inside of a fake leg,” which (a) I’ve never gotten out of my head a quarter century later and (b) always led me to wonder how someone would know the smell inside a fake leg.
First off, welcome. Second, it appears I was correct? That dirty old bird has a new attitude. Maybe that’s why we are winning?
The pants look like a bio hazard. The right wing is sickly. And this is actually a better shot than the one I recall where his garb looked like it was being held together by duct tape and old gum. The fan in the black shirt knows. Look at his face. He’s like “get the pigeon away from me.” Again, the past so no need to disparage him, but wow what an improvement.
Also, that fan sorta looks like Dick Pope but it’s not a great shot. I would love it if it were true.
Well, that was the ‘23 Mac Championship game, so he probably showered up and ran a brush through his feathers for the big occasion.
I looked again and it’s not Dick. Bummer. Still props to the guy for the look. It’s a nice quality hard stare.
Not a real bagel.
You want real bagels-I highly recommend Bagels and Bliss on Delmar Ave, in University City. Opened this past year, owned by a nice Orthodox Jewish woman. Best bagels in STL. Rival any bagel in NYC. She was a chef in NYC and Israel. I know bagels, my people have been schlepping them around the diaspora for 3000 years! Except that whole fleeing from the pharaoh experience when we didn’t have time for the bagel dough to rise! 
But for Oxford, Ohio, and for what it is, I proudly wear my Bagel and Deli sweatshirt everywhere!
Potentially correct; utterly irrelevant. Bagel & Deli is tasty at varying levels of BAC and a long-standing Oxford tradition.
For the bagel snobs among us, here’s a surefire way to start an argument:
(Bluesman will appreciate this: Our neighborhood shopping center used to have both a fully kosher bagel shop and the only kosher Dunkin I’ve ever seen. Someone in Dunkin regional management screwed up and forced the local franchisee to start selling bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches, and I’m guessing that was a mistake for our local market.)
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Pretty sure kashrut doesn’t include bacon, egg and cheese biscuits! 
If Moses had ever had a really good bacon, egg and cheese, he definitely would have made some edits up on Sinai.
Hey, our local deli sells a kosher cheeseburger (Impossible Burger patty).
Well actually there were 15 Commandments!
I used to live close to the Chicago Bagel Authority spinoff near DePaul (owned and operated by alums who worked at B&D), it isn’t the same but it hits the spot.
Once you put an ampersand in your name, you signal to the world you lack true focus on whatever it is that surrounds the ampersand. Either the bagels or the deli are going to suffer as a result. Show me one good brand with & in its name. Like all of seem to go out of business save for Bagel & Deli which I think has some extra protections to help it being in a college town.