Posted on 08/14/2006 12:03:17 PM PDT by My2Cents
>:o
Wasted on this 20something. The cool part was that they sent you a color photo of it for a souvenir if your name was up there.
Being an OU Sooner, I was a tad upset that there was a burnt orange Bevo-like steer among the fireworks that were lit up. Of all the noive!
Me too, my apartments are on the north side of Westheimer. It used used to be so quiet, nice. Now..I am going to have to move...but where?
I saw that on local news. I never understood why the uncle couldn't ID the boy. Did it turn out to be his nephew, after all? I don't remember the outcome.
The thread consensus is: NE Oklahoma - Green Country
PS: Don't even try to wash your car! That is simply too risky now.
Many of those churches since then have folded, and his town is a disaster area.
Unless Until it's extended again.
Will Bush have the 'nads to shut off the tap?
Not true! It was the Dems that extended the federal assistance through 2007! (/sarc)
A few weeks after they arrived, a caller to the Michael Savage show reported that her friends in law enforcement warned her to go nowhere near the area around the Astrodome. The crime increase there has been known for a long while, but rarely reported because the media doesn't want to seem insensitive to Katrina "victims".
I avoid Houston. ;)
Perhaps we can get the UN to negotiate a cease-fire in Houston with HezNOLA?
I haven't read but a paragraph or two, but must respond post haste.
I'm a kid again!
Gene Elston and Lowell Passe were very kind to me in those days. I worked the Loge level (sp?) (also Press Box access) and because of my slacks and shinny shoes, I was outfitted in an orange Nehru jacket and given Skybox access, because all the ritzy folks were complaining that there were no popcorn vendors working the Sky Boxes.
A kid can get away with things that an adult would be denied. Rory Calhoun, the cowboy actor, gave me a twenty dollar tip and bought my entire basket of popcorn one night. That was like a $100 tip in today's money. Just one of many stories I enjoy telling as I enter my dottage.
The 45.'s, 'Stros, Astronauts and movie stars were pure gravy to this kid from Meyerland who was suddenly wisked into the "Majors" and gave up his lawn mowing jobs for good.
Baseball has been very good to me!
What occurred in New Orleans shocked all of us. It was terrible.
But, as a result of the publicity, we learned a lot.
Why should we have to dip into our pockets to provide for those who choose to live "below sea-level", those who elected a "chocolate town" Nagel, (and then re-elected him), New Orleans police caught on camera stealing from stores after the disaster, etc., etc.
We can feel sympathy, but we're not all fools.
Yall move on up to the Fort Worth suburbs, not too many NO thugs made it here and many have left.
I lived in Houston as a kid and feel sympathy for the residents for the trash they took in from NO.
No city should have to carry so much of the burden, no state either. Im still disappointed in Perry on this fiasco, although he probably didnt have much choice...I dont know.
Houston should insist they return now that the hurricane is over...put them in trailers.
"I was outfitted in an orange Nehru jacket and given Skybox access, because all the ritzy folks were complaining that there were no popcorn vendors working the Sky Boxes.
A kid can get away with things that an adult would be denied. Rory Calhoun, the cowboy actor, gave me a twenty dollar tip and bought my entire basket of popcorn one night. That was like a $100 tip in today's money. Just one of many stories I enjoy telling as I enter my dotage."
It is fun to read the posts by you and Rte66, I love hearing fun stories about my home town and the symbol of the future, the 1965 Astrodome.
"Go ahead and say it:
"Bush's Fault!"
One day, one day I'll get to read a thread like this where everybody resists making this lame and tired post. At least I can dream.
It'll never stop, you know. The name will change eventually, but the song will go on.
And all surrounding areas..
Ha ha. Rory Calhoun seemed to get around Texans a lot. I think that's what the name of his TV series was, wasn't it, "The Texan"?
I met him in California; he used to party with us Texans at chili cookoffs out there - and maybe some here in TX, though I don't recall. Hugh O'Brien was always around back then, too. Both larger than life, to me. Carroll Shelby, too.
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