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03/14/11 12:32 PM #3828    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Ok, mine waltripians, I warned you I would be back...
Went downstairs to get a cup O Joe, with two cats attached, and  Booger Red clinging to my leg...big sissies...I dont like storms either, this is ridiculous...

The disasters in japan, especially the Nuke problem there, has brought forth memories of 3 disasters the Navy suffered with three of it's carriers...The Big O, USS Oriskany CVA-34, caught fire in 1966...sailors were putting away flares, when one ignited...one of the sailors thought if he threw it in a locker and shut the hatch, that would starve the flames of O2...a major problem arose due to that ill advised action...unfortunately 650 some such flares in the locker...the ship caught fire as you would expect, subsequently killing 44 sailors...this was a conventional powered ship...

In July of 67, the USS Forrestal CVA-59 caught fire due the "cooking off" of an MK32 Zuni rocket on an F4 Phantom...134 killed and 21 aircraft destroyed...it almost sank...but due to the heroics of her crew, she sailed on to Pearl for repairs...once again a conventional powered ship...

In January of 1969 the USS Enterprise CVAN-65 (the N for nuclear) caught fire, when, once again an MK32 Zuni rocket on an F4 Phantom "cooked off" and hit other aircraft and began a chain reaction of fires and "cook offs"...
this disaster almost caused a nuclear disaster because the the Big E was imperil of sinking...fortunately, due to Navy fire fighting training,(I, as well as every sailor, had to go through the firefighting school, thank goodness.  afterwards, you are blowing black soot out of your nose for a month)  and personal heroics of her crew, the ship was saved, saving 5000 sailors, and averting a nuclear disaster...not to mention the loss of a billion dollar ship and asset to the US...27 sailors died; 314 injured and 15 aircraft destroyed...
A fleet tug, ocean going tug, towed her to pearl harbor for repair, which were completed in March 1969...

I guess my point here is that the Big E has 8 reactors on board, fueled by just a cup full of Uranium which only needs replenishing once every 20 years...the ship can sail for 5 years completely buttoned up, and has a sea water sprinkler washing system on board that can wash the entire ship, outside, and rid it of harmful radiation...HOW THEY HANDLED THE DISASTER AND KEPT IT FROM REACHING THE 8 REACTORS, or just perzactly what safety measures are inplace to stave off such a disaster, has not been released to my knowledge...

Why couldnt smaller reactors such as the ones on a U S Navy ship, be used in place of these nuke behemoths placed all over the globe...one of these small ship reactors can produce an enormous amount of power...and should there be a problem, the problem would be small in comparison to what Japan and the rest of the whirld is facing today...rationalization being, "large project, large problem...small project, small problems"...Just a laymans opinion and observation...

Only NUKE accident at sea that I can recall, is one of a Russian Sub sinking in the north sea a few years back...dont know the final analysis of what went wrong, but you can bet it was "human error" either first hand, or in the building and outfitting of the sub...guess it could have been sabotage...

Well, ok then...dogs and cats are all down for a noon nap, now that the storm has passed...a nap sounds good about now, dont you think???
your frien Me and Booger Red and all critters big and small...


03/14/11 07:43 PM #3829    

 

Jimmy Brown '65

 Beau I remember a submarine in the sixties went down.

One of my friends had just gotton off that sub before she

went down. Does any else remember the submarine

that went down ? 

 

Happy Trails til We met again!


03/14/11 08:04 PM #3830    

 

Jim Taylor

Jim
You may be thinking of the Thresher. It went down in 1963.

03/15/11 10:58 AM #3831    

 

Jimmy Brown '65

 You are correct ,it was the USS Thresher. Thanks for

jogging my memory. David Christopher was one of 

the crew that got off the Thresher just before it

went down.

Mr.Taylor for naming that question you will receive

a large bag of peanuts from 5 guys burgers next

World Affairs Meeting,congratulations!

Whirld Affairs and Burger Evaluation Committee !


Happy Trails til We meet again !


03/16/11 10:13 AM #3832    

 

Richard Meek '65

Jim, you have to get your spelling right man. Our committee is the Whirld Affairs and Burger Evaluation Committee. You don't want to give that bunch too much standing by using World inappropriately. It is a group that truly has the ability to Visualize Whirld Peas!


03/16/11 02:34 PM #3833    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Why yes John Boy, there are great whirlds out there to explore...great things to invent, such as NUCULAR PAWR...whah hell damn John boy, you just mahght get offin this here waltons mountain...and blow yore dumb ass up somewhars else...

James B, there was also another that went down off the coast of California...methinks...Hmmm...cant bemember the name of that sub...but yes, WHIRLD matters, matter, at THE WHIRLD PROBLEM SOLVING AND BURGER ANALYSIS COMMITTEE...

Took the little woman and the boys up to our estate in the HAMPTONS...worked my bunns off...oughta be a lawr against woikin a young man so hard...let the boys, Booger red and old yeller roam and splore and run and mark their territory...they was busy bunnies...Ol Jack, aka Booger red, and a plethora of other names, has gotten his "3 stance pointing" down to a fine art, often and numerous too also...that ol boy now points at everything...saw him in our enclosed area, pointing, and the onliest thing there was, was Cooper...guess Jack was just letting us know something was there...it is, however, kinda hard to miss Coops hulking blonde frame...but thanks any way to Jack for his hard woik...now, he points at his bed, and all the cats, his water and food bowl and the cement pond, and just about anything that mahght need a pointin at...maybe ah ought to check his paw for a thorn...nope, no thorns, just doit...

Jack and Grizzly Cooper, snuffalupalized em another couple o armadillos whilst at the hamptons...Coop is so happy out there, just running to and fro, hither and yon, askance and askew, and helter skelter, not to mention amok...sure brings  tears to your eyes watchin them highly trained and skilled huntin dawgs, a huntin...yeah, tears of laughter...I'll bet the dawg whispererererer would like to see these ol boys...

Today, they are both conked out from all their huntin  shenanigans in shaboygan...HUNTIN IN THE HAMPTONS...sounds like a great title to me...

Gonna build another deck, this time at our estate in the Hamptons...built a triple decker deck out at our other house before this one, and built 4 decks here, so maybe, I've got er down to a fine art...shucks, with coop holding down the plans, and Jack pointin at my saw and hamer and nails and other paraphernalia, how can I go wrong...also no cement pond to drown all my tools...of course, stuff can get lost in the leaves...got a huge magnet to locate all the metal stuff...

Had a pair of camouflage sun glasses, and other items of the camouflage motif...fell in the landscape, and havent found hide nor hair of em either too also...might as well a drapped em in the cement pond...well, at least in the CP, I can actually SEE the stuff dwelling on the bottom...dont know who started all the camo stuff, but it aint no good, at least for me...

ok mine waltripminians, got to run to K rogers for some groceries and other thingies...
See ya later glowin gators...yore frien, ME...


03/16/11 05:12 PM #3834    

 

Paige Talley (Meek)

Sheeze.. miss a few days reading the forum and the Whirld seems to get up-turned or maybe that is turned-over. No soap just prayer for those who have lived through this catastrophe.

THE WHIRLD PROBLEMS seem to really need the SOLVING AND ANALYSIS COMMITTEE to fix some things AND send BURGERS.

P


03/16/11 06:35 PM #3835    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Howdy mine waltripmoanians...Jack was pointing to the stairs, so I am now upstairs...now I know why he was pointing to the stairs...He got on the couch and is now snoring...that ol boy has been pointing to everything that moves, and some that doesnt...I checked his paw again for a thorn...

Hey PPPP from CCCS...what the WHIRLD PROBLEM SOLVING AND BURGER AND FRIES ANALYSIS COMMITTEE needs is you and others to join in...now, I know it would be difficult for you to attend, since you are still a productive member of society...where oh where did I go wrong...working from the age of 8 or 9, (I had a shoe shine box and also picked up pop bottles on the side of the road, plus the guy at the 7/Eleven across from the Oak Forest Pool would pay me a quarter to sweep out the store and hep him clean it up) I thought there would always be woik no matter what...I didnt plan on being crippled and 66...BUT, the SS boys and goils sent a letter and said when I turned 66 this summer, I could make as much money as I wanted and still get my SS...damned nice of em dont you think...HMMMMM, anyone need a CEO???? I'm available...and making too much salary is now not a problem, so you can throw just as much money at me as you can...

Well, if we lose all power from nucular pawr plants, the bad news is we get radiated...the good news, is we wont need pawr for lights, cause we will all be glowing in the dark...I've read in green light before, not too bad...Now, I am not making light of the tragic events in Japan, but CNN and FOX are just bombarding us with sooooo much information...The Nippon Gov says "oh, it isnt that bad", then they say, "well, it's bad, and might get worse", "the fires out, well almost" ...lets hope the woist is over...But seems politicians, no matter what Nationality, are all just a bunch of liars...Now, I know they dont want to panic people, but, the truth is stilll better than anything I know of...

Those folks got all they can handle with the earthquake and tsunami...now nucular disaster, and also, NOW SNOW...man, those folks cant catch a break...but like Apollo 13, this just might be their finest hour...prayer cant hurt...

Saw a report on CARING BRIDGE about Lindsey Apostollo...she is fighting so many battles, fires...bless her heart, fighting for all she's worth...thank goodness she has a very large support network with her family and friends and Doctors and hospital personnel...the school where she teaches is one of Dianes schools...here's something I didnt know, teachers can donate X number of sick days into a pool, for just this reason, for when a teacher uses up all their own sick days...my question was, "can you donate as many as you want"????  NO you cant...well, at least they do have a good idear set into place...Good thoughts and prayers going out to Lindsey...as well as everyone, locked in mortal combat with health problems...

DW is at bell choir, so it's up to me to get dinner ready....hmmm fillet of peanut butter and jelly sandridges sounds good to me...oh man, Jack was sleeping so hard, he rolled off the couch, scaring poor oliver half to death, causing him to hit the trash can and knocking it over scattering papers everywhere...scared that ol boy so bad, he ran down the stairs...that was funny...

ok, dinner....hmmm...how about spam???? corned beef hash???? well, I'll come up with something Rachel Ray would be proud of...
your frien and bretheren ol Billy Bob


03/17/11 01:16 AM #3836    

 

John Burgess Webb

dog lovers gotta get a load of this guy;a red tibetan mastiff named 'big splash'.only 11 months and weighs 183lbs,may grow to 260lbs.this pup sold for 1.5 million u.s. and is the most expensive dog ever.its price is because of its color.it is estimated that the breed goes back 58,000 years with the domestication of some nordic wolves;looks like they were provided with some nice coats.warm and snug in tibet. 


03/17/11 12:10 PM #3837    

 

Sandi Schlesinger (Stark)

Many of you contributed to the medical benefit we held for my Brother, Forrest Green.  On behalf of my entire family, we would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and donations.

We were overwhelmed by the situation and even more overwhelmed by the generosity of others.  Every effort was and is being made to send personal thank you notes, however, just in case we forget someone we would like to once again thank you for your generosity. 

He is progressing well and can even walk now without the aid of a walker or cane.  If it's a long distance he does have to hold on to furniture, cars or whatever is close by, but he gets there.  His speech is still coming along and we are hopeful that both his walking and his speech will continue to improve with time. 

Brain injuries are unique in the ways they impair each individual.  We feel very lucky that he has progressed as well as he has to this point and painfully aware that he just as easily could have faced more permanent damage or even death.

I spent the last month or so in Galveston cooking, cleaning and driving him back and forth to therapy -- and most likely driving him a little crazy.  After all, that's the reason big sisters are put on earth, or so I thought when he was born.  Probably -- if you asked Forrest -- he would tell you there is a very short distance from "Florence Nightingale" to "Nurse Ratchet!"

I take pride in both titles :)

Thank you again and again, as his continued therapy and recovery would not have been possible without everyone's help.

Sincerely,

Sandi Stark






03/17/11 08:54 PM #3838    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Sandi, very good news indeed...thank you for posting your brothers progress...YOU, are a very good sister indeed...he is on our prayer list at church as are so many...if you need any help, of any kind, sing out...let us know on the forum, or send us emails...most of us old codgers have nothing to do but housework and critter care...at least me anyway...

Burge???? 1.5 MIL???? for a  58,000 year old red dawg???? Well, thats about what we've spent on our dawgs, and cats...Man, we'd be billionaires were it not for our critters...but at least our hearts are billionaires...and the critters are billionaires...

Tomorrow is THE FULL MOON...the one that is suppose to be the closest to oith that it has been in 18 years...suppose to be all kinds of natural disasters because of it, according to some...well, we have already had several...oithquake, tsunami, nucular disaster...thats three...so, NO MORE...

was gonna take the boys to our estate in the Hamptons today, but both DW and I were feeling puny...just layed around all day...I started to say, growing old sucks, but I think I dont mind growing older, just the hurting stuff that goes with it is kinda taxing...so I retract my statement....I'm just glad to be alive...thank you very much...We will be going tomorrow morn, the boys are excited...I can tell, because they are both asleep on the couch running in their sleep...

Guess I will sign off for now...truck is already loaded for tomorrow, so alls left to do is  sleep...
to sleep...perchance to dream...with the weird dreams I have, I could do without em...
All yall be safe...we will do the same...
your frien and brother...Beauregard


03/18/11 09:33 AM #3839    

 

Paige Talley (Meek)

OLD-ER, Beau... OLDER-ER !

P


03/18/11 11:40 AM #3840    

 

Jim Taylor

 

 

 

The best rodeo event!


03/18/11 01:37 PM #3841    

 

Jimmy Brown '65

 Need to get Beau a portable laptop so when he goes

out of pocket we can still get his words of wisdom

"Life is short.  Drink the good wine first" 

 

 

Happy trails til We meet again ! 


03/18/11 02:52 PM #3842    

 

Paige Talley (Meek)

HOTMAIL.COM EMAIL FRAUD...

My old-er email address has been hijacked. Please do not open anything from JP or JPC [islandtopaz@hotmail.com]  These are not from me. I have not used the address in months and at that time deleted all the contacts and emails. I have been getting two or three a day.

I will never understand the perpetrators of such things.

Paige


03/20/11 09:13 AM #3843    

 

Jimmy Brown '65

 Happy birthday Burgess Webb and many,many

more.

You need to visit everybody at Fuddruckers

sometime.

 

Happy Trails and all of that !


03/20/11 01:46 PM #3844    

 

Scotty Croom

happy birthdays to burgess and ronnie peters...


03/21/11 12:06 AM #3845    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

YES, HAPPY BOITHDAY TOOOO YOUUUUUUUUU...AND MANY MORE.....
Older...yes...much older...
Hey James B...how you dune???? PPPP from CCCS how you dune???? Alright, whoever stole PPPP's hot mail, give it up...we will hunt you down and make you eat liver and escargot and haggis and other stuff...you you you...idjit you!!!!! I dont know Paige, those folks that steal, are without a soul...or a brain...

JB...my laptop only woiks at the house...dont have any phone lines or any other communications at our estate in the Hamptons...well, we can cross the county road to the Perry cemetery and climb up on one of the angel headstones, Gabriel, I believe, and get at least 2 bars, on a good day...mostly there be no communicatin...unless youre standing next to me...dont know what we can do if we ever decide to move up there...NO INTERNET...I guess they have satellite connections...bet thats expensive...will have to resort to snail mail...

WELL, we are back from a weekend at our country estate...we decided to give our HELP a holiday...the cook, the butler, the upstairs and downstairs maid, and chamber maid...took no maids or servants with us to the country...we decided to ROUGH IT...we did take the boys with us, and they were sooooo excited...we turned em loose when we arrived...they sure did a lot of marking of territory...chasing of armadillos, and other game...real or imaginary...

Come Lunch, we decided to used the outdoor kitchen...I could tell Diane was a little rusty in the cooking dept...we had fillet of hotdogs...a relatively easy fare to cook, wouldnt you say???? well, as Jack and I were chillin in the swing, DW was going, "AAARRRRRGGGGGGG", standing with clinched fists..."uh sweety" says I, " problem"????  "I dropped a hotdog in the dirt" she replied rather tersely..."Well," says I, "at least the boys get lunch"...which quickly earned me the "TEACHER STARE" ...."You need any help mine sweetness" I ask..."NO, I GOT IT"came a rather testy reply...

So me and Jack are chilin, drinkin our favorite adult beverage JD...well, me, Jack cant really have any Jack...but I can...not that I really want any, it's just that I feel bound by the "MAN AT THE COUNTRY ESTATE" code...which says...SIT ON THE SWING WITH YOUR DAWG, DRINK JACK DANIELS, AND HARRASS THE LITTLE WOMAN...

Next think I know, a rather loud and stressed AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG, seemed to eminate from the outdoor kitchen....once again, the little woman is standing with clenched fists in front of the BBQ pit screaming...."UH shugar, what seems to be the problem" I says with as much clarity as was in my JD induced brain...seems I was more mellow than I thought...rather fast too...only been there 30 minutes, and already, gone blind and tongue tied...only reason I knew where DW was, because of the sound of the AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGG....I was talking to the tree, until I heard the arg...

I guess I got the "TEACHER STARE" again, couldnt tell as I was having problems focusing...."I DROPPED ANOTHER HOTDOG IN THE DIRT" SHE HOLLARS...Lord, if this keeps up, the dogs will get fat...er fatter, and I'll get skinnier....well, thats a good plan, I guess...bout this time, I was hungry, but really didnt care what the hell I et...one o them dirt dogs was sounding kinda good at the moment...

why, oh why do I open my mouth to speak sometimes???? especially when me and John Daniels gets together...so, here it comes..."Hey" says I...more like "Heeeeeeeyyyyyyy", anyway, "hey, what tha hell, you forget how to cook" I crowed..."how hard is it to cook hotdogs??? you want me to cook the dogs"???? "Hell damn, it just aint that hard. why you keep dropping the dogs in the dirt, for the dogs"???? says I, or someone close by...maybe it wasnt me, I was hoping it wasnt...cause if it was, I was gonna catch hell, or at best, a dirtdog in the ear...that wouldnt been so bad, cause I was powerful hungry anyway, and blind and having a hard time forming words...or at least ones that I remember from school... I dont think ;lkasdf;hg and ;lkasoiweuhdhn; are words, at least at fudds...up here is a different story sometimes.... "hey you poewiqutdsav ;alkdsjf;iwe and ;lasdjf;opweiwg, you hear"????

Well, after the little woman dropped a couple a more dogs in the dirt, I began to study the problem...didnt have to study hard or long, and studying from the swing didnt really count...Diane says, "I DONT HAVE ANY TONGS, OR FORKS, OR SPATULAS. YOUR SON KEVIN HAS MISPLACED THEM, SO DONT GIVE ME ANY REASON TO GET MADDER"  she hollared... ok, now it's MY SON KEVIN...why do I always get the honor of being the husband from hell...jeese, I'm a good guy, just ask me...

well, finally she salvaged 4 dogs out of a whole pack..."WHAT DO YOU WANT ON YOUR HOTDOGS" I heard my beloved say....seems her voice was a little stressed and higher...dont remember it being that high before..."well", says I, "mustard, not too much, or too little, and some of that sweet relish, and onions, YOU DID BRING ONIONS DIDNT YOU" I added, "oh, and jalapenos and cheese, YOU DID REMEMBER TO BRING ALL THAT DIDNT YOU"???? I shouldnt have added, but did...
next thing I know, I have a plate of hotdogs in my lap..."ok, how do you eat one of these things" Mr John Daniels says in my good ear...havent figured out which ear is good, but one of em is bound to be better than the other, wouldnt cha think???? I forgot my bionical ears...
 

alls well that ends well...dogs were good, got mustard all over the place...Jack and coop kept hanging around me, licking my fingers and clothes...woke up sometime later...jack was licking my chinny chin chin...
got stuff done, even with a headache...loaded up the critters and headed back to civilization...
slept in till 6 this morn...critters got to be fed...Church today...had the 35 usual suspects at our little Country Church in the City...fellowship punch and coffee and dessert afterwards...

Next Sunday we are having a CHILI COOKOFF, so yall come, you hear????
Also next saturday March 26th, we are having a FREE OPERA at our little country church in the city...yall know where it is, rat across from Black Jr High...our very own pianist/choir director, Zoya, will acompany WHIRLD RENOWNED SPORANO ELENA NIKULSHINA-FRAY, formerly with the Petersburg Concert where she gave over 500 performances;

Also Baritone Bryan Followell- recent winner of the LONESTAR'S GOT TALENT" competition...

and Tenor Robert Hiwat, recent winner of the Italian-American Idol competition in Houston...

it will be on SATURDAY, MARCH 26TH FROM 2-4 PM...SO YALL COME...probably be some groceries afterwards...

anyone hear fomr Doug Romans????? Hey DougR, if youre out there, hollar at us...come to the concert...

Ok, its about 1 am methinks, gotta sleep, maybe...
your frien and bretheren Beauregard


03/21/11 11:01 AM #3846    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Good Morrow mine waltripians...thought I'd post a couple o pics for your perusal and enjoyment...the first is of course mine own sweet kitty, Annie-Bob; the 2nd is one we all can recognize, Tha MOON on it's closest position to oith in 18 yeahs, Saturday noight; and then our own beloved FAT CAT, Big Oliver next to his blue fat cat friend; The next three are of a Coopers Hawk, one of three that were screeching around the house. Two males were vying for the affection of a female. The mating dance in the sky. you will notice, that in one of the pics a jet appears with a hawk...Real flight, and manmade flight... and of course last but not least, Catahoula Jack, sitting tall...that ol boy is a hoot...

 

 

 

 

 


03/21/11 01:36 PM #3847    

 

Paige Talley (Meek)

 

Ya'll missed a fun afternoon. 1. John Enloe and his folks did a wonderful and creative job. We had lunch at Cyclone Anaya's Mexican Kitchen, 1710 Durham  (Waltrip Graduate-Vienna Valencia Molder '78 ).  

Here is a link to their website:  http://www.cycloneanaya.com/home.php...My goodness the food was fabulous !!! Ya'll really should go and indulge yourselves.

Visiting around the table was full of laughter and "deep discussions" ... there was a whole lot of "do you remember..." and of course I did not since I was NOT in the Class of "61 or '62, but my sister Georgia Carroll Talley is of the "62 bunch and she DID remember !! We had a great time... check out the "Banner" when you next get the chance. History will prove it a valuable item as ome great folks have signed it.

Georgia Carroll (Talley) '62 ...........................and Steve 

 

John Enloe '61 & Paige Carter


Richard Meek '65 & John Enloe  John Enloe & Carroll Talley         Chris and Joe Stussey '61

From around the table...

 

 


03/21/11 11:48 PM #3848    

 

John Burgess Webb

all really neat pictures;i just cant figure out how beau got the hawk to pose in such graceful flight.

since i posted the 1.5 mil dog(bought by china's coal billionaire),i thought car lovers would enjoy this 1957 ferrari 250 testa rosa that sold at auction for 12.5 million.i can only imagine that strata of society.both the dog and the racing machine are fine but in my opinion,the price is a little steep;but then what isnt these days? its well that such a beautiful and well preserved car lives on so its more of a piece of living art and will probably end up in a museum to be enjoyed by zillions. 


03/22/11 12:24 AM #3849    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Burge, it's quite clear that you have an eye for beauty and art...picture of the hawk??? just got lucky...but, they were putting on quite a show...they were pretty fast, and the trees and houses kinda got in the way, so I was danged lucky to get what I got...to me, hawks are as beautiful as anything on earth...

I hadnt heard of the reunion lunch for the class of 61...well, I didnt know anyone from that class, but looked like fun, and I always like a get together of folks from any year...most folks have good stories to tell...met one of our neighbors, well, we have waved at one an other over the years, and he's come out to pet Cooper and Jack, but talked to him at length one day last week...

He is "cherman", rather thick accent...from Stuttgart, Germany...born around 1934, and remembers meeting Hitler when he was 4...sitting on his dads shoulders, at one of Hitlers rallys, he even shook hands with Hitler...he said he remembers it like it was yesterday...and that until the day his dad died, his dad adored Hitler...he said he never understood that..

Another neighbor graduated from REagan in 42 with my father in laws brother...both served in the war, Bill, my father in laws brother was on a destroyer and Henry, my neighbor, flew B-26s in WWII...amazing the history one can find even in ones neighborhood...one of my other neighbors, now deceased, was from lithuania...his father or grandfather was a general in the last czars army...trying to remember the name...hmmm...danged short term memory...

ok, time for sleeping...hopefully...
your frien and brother, Beauregard 

 

 


03/22/11 11:25 AM #3850    

 

Jimmy Brown '65

 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO

THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS,

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE,

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

I GREW UP RECITING THIS EVERY MORNING

IN SCHOOL WITH MY HAND ON MY HEART.

WE NO LONGER DO THAT FOR FEAR OF

OFFENDING SOMEONE!! 

 

Happy Trails til We met Again !


03/22/11 05:13 PM #3851    

 

Richard Meek '65

  This is Liz on Sunday . Since you haven't seen her in a while you'll notice some significant growth. Also when she fetches a stick. . . she fetches a STICK!!! No little puny twigs for that girl. Had a great time at the '61 reunion. Their first ever reunion celebrating their 50th year since graduating. Took them a while to get organized but it was a good one. they held it at Cyclone Anaya's. They've really upscaled their food since Cyclone first opened his place near Washington on Durham. I'll be going back to try some more of their food. Congratulations to Jon Enloe and all the other folks who put on a really great event!

I hope everyone if having an outstanding week!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Stay Calm, Carry On  


03/22/11 09:54 PM #3852    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Yup, JB, thats what I'm talking about..."one nation UNDER GOD..." If someone is offended by that, too freakin bad...OOOH, did I say that...yup!!!!

Hey RichLH, I could use Liz up at the country estate, to bring in the fire wood...we can have the wood and the matches, but not a fire...BURN BAN, in most Texas counties...well, it's too hot to have a fire anyway...next winter perhaps...

"Please take your cash"....does anyone have a problem taking their cash???? Thats what is on the ATM machine screen...Ok??? Is that a trick question???? Hmmmm, I'm at the ATM machine, and my purpose for being there is to GET CASH, so, I guess I dont really need to be told to take my cash, or do I??? My forgetfullness has not extended  to "my cash" little as it might be...You know, I just now came into the 20th century a few years back, and just started using the ATM machine last year or so...never trusted them...methinks they are space aliens gathering information on us for future reference...probably gonna be on their menu someday...

Working for SWBTCO, I installed the very first ATM data circuit in the Houston Area back in the 70s...It was at the Safeway on Holcombe Blvd just inside the loop...I had no idea, in fact not many people, save the engineers that designed it, had any idea what we "had wrought"...
Took forever to get the circuit turned up...no one was ready for it, including us...
My bank on Gessner, at the time, around the late 70's, offered an ATM card...I had my first taste of just how frustrating "MODERN TECHNOLOGY" was gonna be for me...

The first time I tried using the card, the machine kept it, and I got NO CASH...went to bank next day, and got a new card...tried to use it again, for the second time, yup, it kept it again...I never used it again until we got new cards last year, and then it took me a while to get use to it...now, I'm an old pro at it...well, old anyway...

any of youse youtes that live in small towns and have a local paper, ever read the Sheriffs report???? My beloved pointed that section out to me this past weekend...pretty much tame reading compared to a big city paper like houston...
"Bubba Jackson responded to a "an unwanted person" call...????? I kid you not, thats what one of the reports said...I thought if you were "unwanted", the police didnt "want you"..."Uh sir, I believe you are on Americas Most Unwanted, so we are going to have to take you in for questioning..." Hmmm...kinda fits in with the "please take your cash" at the ATM machine.

Here's another, Officer Harlan responded to a "terroristic threat"...IN A TOWN OF 792 PEOPLE???? What the hell could you threaten to do, "ok Bubba, if you and Harlan dont give me some O them donuts, I'm gonna kiick the side of your patrol car"... There are other responses..."cow in the middle of the road"...how bout this one..."livestock complaint" ???
did the mule complain??? or did some one else complain because of something the mule said???
Leon Hale doesnt live to far from our county...maybe it was his talking mule that said something!!!  Well, he's in trouble for sure now...I did notice on the serious calls, the Lt responded...like recovering marijuana...hmmm, why does the brass get all the good calls???

I know none of yall ever misplace or lose things, like I do, right???? I misplaced or lost, or both, my 25 ft FAT MAX tape measure...I looked high and low, to and fro, hither and yon, and back again, and could not find it...So, I tell the little woman that I am going to Home Depot to buy another tape, but, "mark my woids, as soon as I buy a new one, the old one will jump out and I'll trip over it..." or woids to that effect...to which the little woman replied, "well then, you will have two tape measures to lose all over again, then you will buy another one, and then you will have three..." ok ok, I get it, thank you for caring about your husbands welfare and mental stablility...I think I hear the voices in my head again...in fact 9 out of the 10 voices are telling me to clean my arsenal and get it ready...or fertilize the lawn...

So, I go to Home Depot, and peruse the tape measures...my old lost Fat MAX costs 20 dollars American, so I look at an old brand, Lufkin...it is just 10 dollars, and just as good as any old FAT MAX...and the Lufkin is Orange and black and the Fat Boy is Yellow and black...dont like yellow, cept, SUN, FLAWRS, BUTTER, AND GOLD...I purchase said tape, and also other stuff that I didnt know I needed...it happens like that, there seems to be more stuff that you need, than what you went after...even got some Hose repair parts, becuase, THE HOSES LEAK...so instead of buying a new hose, I am gonna try to repair them...NEWS ALERT... the subdivision, Oak Forest was flooded today...seems someone was repairing a hose, and spilled water all over...or woids to that effect...

So along with the tape, and the repair parts for hoses, I got some fertimalizer, and a fertimalizer  hand spreader...I need all that stuff...Oh, and I bought a fancy screwdriver set...now, I have a screw driver, in fact I could probably supply half the free whirld with screwdrivers and other tools...just have to fish them out of the cement pond, but i do know where they are...but this driver set, is like a t handle, but a fatter palm handle, and all sorts of attachments...it was only 5 dollars, what a bargain...eh???? I know, you folks out there will covet my screwdriver set, oncet you set eyes on it...

So I get home with all my NECESSARY purchases...and as I am walking across the man cave, out jumps my old FAT MAX tape, and trips me...I told her, didnt I told her???? Now I have two tapes, one to lose and the other to misplace, how convenient...see how life works out, just swell...

Ok, gotta have some ice cream...signing off for now, but I'm warning you..."I'LL BE BACK" ...howd you like my TERMINATOR accent???? good huh!!!!!
your frien and bretheren Beauregard Billy Bob...

 


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