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John Burgess Webb

its been so dry and the sun has been relentless;even after the little rain we got up here a week or so ago has soaked up and dust is everywhere;i hope everyone gets some relief from the fronts coming down,rain would be a blessing here.

b

Beau Wann, Jr.

Great picture Burge...

That is the scene down here in Houston...Although havent seen any blue birds, just jays...It rained, poured, all day here Sunday, which by my algabraic cypherin, was yesterday....what a welcome relief it was...Though I usually nap on sunday, and especially if it is a rainy day, I couldnt yesterday, because I didnt want to miss any of the wonderful drops...I set out every bucket I own, kitty litter pails, and collected as much rainwater as I could...now what do I do with it???? Even the cement pond, aka okeefenokee swamp, was breaching its banks...had to backwash about 6 inches out...then it just filled right back up again...YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Hey Jan, did the temp drop much when the front came through???? Looks like what  a "BLUE NORTHER" looks like...Experienced one such BN back in 67! Home on leave, visiting my mom and dad in San Antonio. Dad was putting in a microwave tower on top of Bulverde Mountain. He was showing me around, and it was already in the 40s. All of a sudden my dad started pointing to the north sky, and ran to his truck, and got all the other workers running to their trucks. I thought, "what the heck"? I found out what the heck in about 1 minute. The wind started howling and the "blue line" of clouds passed over us, and it dropped almost 30 degrees in a nanosecond. Luckily I had my Pea Coat in the truck. That still wasnt warm enough.

Mom said one of those came through houston back in 43. They were living on Del Norte just EAst of Shepherd. She was hanging out  clothes and diapers when the BN came roaring through. She said that before she could get the clothes off the line, they had frozen to stiff planks. Now if that were me telling that story, I would be sort of suspect at the accuracy of the facts. But my mom never exaggerated about facts. So if she said the clothes froze, then they froze.

Well, off to CostCo for supplies...can I get anyone anything whilst I'm there????

But first LUNCH AT ANGIES!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS MEATLOAF MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

your frien and brother Attila the DOD

Scotty Croom

neither pratts are kin to jerry...he did have an older sister,class of 62...have no clue what ever happened to him..

Teddie Jordan

Come on Scotty, I thought you knew what happened to everybody.

Richard Meek '65

Good afternoon Waltripians. You folks have been chatting on some weighty topics here. I have great confidence in the overall goodness and intelligence of the American people. Some how we muddle along and eventually get it right. If I'm not mistaken the Bible says that the poor will always be with us. It also has some instructions on giving to the poor also but I think it mainly indicates that we shouldn't let them go hungry. My personal take is that we should help  the truly needy with basic necessities. The one thing I think we need to make available to disadvantaged people is the opportunity to work their way out of that condition. If they have the pathway out and they don't take it that's their fault. I think Beau is right that this started getting gnarly when LBJ's Great Society program started using our money in the SS Trust fund.  Then it was compounded by a bunch of gutless politicians who wouldn't stand up and say robbing the trust fund has got to stop. So as usual we have continued to fund failed programs. We almost never end failed programs we just come with others to spend money on. Also remember that the ultimate responsibility lies with the electorate to not let the elected get away with incompetence. 

I think Burge's point about the elitist is well made. Doesn't make any difference whether it's socialist, ultra conservatives, always be ultra wary of people who profess to have all the answers for all the rest of us. Also keep in mind a great thought from that philosopher among us, Paige, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you".

Tomorrow will be a brighter day! It's Fudd Tuesday. I hope everyone who can will turn out. it's good to socialize with good friends. Come on out to Fuddrucker's on Hwy, 290. Starts at 6:00, ends at 9:00 when the turn out the lights and lock the doors. You'll be glad you came and so will the rest of us.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Stay Calm, Carry On

Beau Wann, Jr.

Oh yeah, they've been after me for sometime now. AND I'M NOT A PAIR OF NOIDS, just one of em!!! But there they're all the same and nonetheless. (yes I know the two are backwards, but hey, you only live twice, live dangerous and mix your nouns and contractions, and when they're five minutes apart, boil some water, tear some sheets and head for the hospital)...

Also in the woids of THE great American philosopher, THA KANG HISOWNSELF, ELVIS PRESLEY,
"youre right, I'm left, she's gone"...yeah, thats what I'm talkin about!!!!

Hey El Presidente Rich the LH of the WABEC, I think, therefore I....think...no seriously, I think we should bestow the WABEC Knighthood of Whirld Peas award on our dear sweet Paige Honey!!! Whattaya say????

We could have a secret meeting in secret, and take a secret vote, in secret, and secretly bestow the WABEC KoWP award, secretly of course, on our own whirld peas philosophiker, PAIGE HONEY!!!!!

What do you mean, "you THINK I'm right"???? I'm always right, unless I'm wrong, and then I'm right anyway....

You know Rich the LH, I think we should have a LODGE, to hold our meetings, and also hats and capes and sceptres, and secret handshakes!!!! Also we need a throne for your immmmmmmmmmmmminence. Angies caters!!!!! For now, we can secretly meet at shhhhhh,
Fudds, and let them cater. Lets work on our secret handshake!!!

Oh, hey...guess what I did yesterday in the rain???? NO, not mow my yard, although the rain wouldnt hurt my lawnmower, cause I store it in the cement pond...no man, I put on my rubber boots, and went "singing in the rain, just singing in the rain...", yeah, just stomped  around in the puddles. Thought for a while, that I wouldnt get to use mah go loshes ever never again...

If you dont have any, buy some...they are very inexpensive...of course if all yall go out and buy go loshes, it will never rain again...

Someone asked me how much rain I got at our house...I dont have a rain gauge, but it filled up the cement pond with about a foot of rain, to overflowing, and it filled up a dozen yellow tidy kat kitty litter buckets...besides, I had a rain gauge, oncet, but it had a hole in it, which is a detriment to getting an accurate reading...I tried to buy one from Home Depot back in the summer, go figure...I asked one of their brilliant workers, and he looked at me like i was krazy..."wull uh, whut da ya need a rain gauge fer, it haint rained, and fer the looks uv it, it haint never gonna rain..."  "Well", I said, "I kinda like being optimistic"...seems every one else had the same idear, cause they were out of RGs...worked didnt it, we finally got rain!!!!

Getting geared up for Fudds tomorrow night...might ride Pegasus. Depends on how I feel. Last month, pain was insane. Pain is REAL INSANE today and tonight...However, my beloved says, "we are going tomorrow night, if she has to fill me up with "good time drugs" and tote me over there in a wheelbarrow", UNQUOTE...works for me...she is such a good wife, and friend, that she is ordering me to have a couple of beers before we go....now guys, THAT THERE IS A GOOD WOMAN, and I dont even like beer...if I do have some adult beverages, I will have to go unarmed and let her drive...I get the old DOUBLE S when I drink...SILLY AND SLEEPY...so when you see me tomorrow night, and I'm weaving and such, better talk quick if you want to talk to me, cause I'll be asleep in no time...Hey Teddie et al, yall might just have to load me in the bed of the truck for my return trip to home...

Well ok then...guess it's time to go...gotta check on the critters, and find out whats wrong...ALL OF EM ARE STARING AT THE CEILING...I hate it when they do that...maybe all my critters are a pair of noids...four pair of noids...
Keep the sun at your 6 and ride boldly ride...
your frien and brother
Attila the honey...DOD

John Burgess Webb

this 11 year cycle of "solar maximum" is not due for apex until may 2013 according to a space weather scientist.they are concerned with what it will do to the elecrical grid.cant get away from it,looks like more hot weather in store.   what an amazing thing to see up close.

Paige Talley (Meek)

GOOD MORNING WALLLLLLLLLLLLLTRIPIANS !!! 

Beau, I love secrets so bring on the handshake. Do the "WEBAC Knights" have a secret hug? I guess not being that ya'll are Knights and all... girls like to hug ya know. See, you start lettin' girls into the Knighthood and then pretty soon you'll be meeting at a tea room having a bake sale and huggin'.  DO NOT LET IT BE... World Peas will never be the same !!! On the other hand, I do like a good, "drip to your elbows" hamburger while discussing tactics for Peas. Did I mention that I really really like peas.

All seriousness aside... Burge, that solar maximum thing has been bantered about by the know-it-somes at TAMU. "They (the KISs) say that not only will it disrupt the electrical grid, but also the ever so taken for granted satellites that bounce the www and googles around the globe and next door. That alone makes my filing cabinets, with all that paper neatly categorized in alphabetical order, a cherished fixture in the office. These particular filing cabinets are solar storm proof. By some predictions our solar system will completely pass through the “interstellar energy cloud” in a mere 2000 to 3000 years.

Well, if the creek don't rise and Dr. Parlos doesn't have a ton of work for me at 4:00 p.m. today, I'll see you at Fudd's tonight. 

Hugs

Paige Honey

Scotty Croom

teddy, jerry dropped out...to where i don't know...lol

Richard Meek '65

Good morning Waltripians. It is one of those animal days. I met with the Pachyderms at breakfast and I'll be meeting with the Rams at dinner.  Many items were bought up at the Pachyderm meeting this morning but there is one I would like to pass along. Now this is a hard one for some you so pay close attention. Are you paying attention? There is an election this year!!! Next month as a matter of fact!!! Everyone is focused on the Presidential election next year but we've got other business to attend to before then. Whatever your political persuasion, go out and vote. There will be all kinds of important elections and matters of business to decide on. Everyone is saying that next year is so important. My friends they are all important. So drag yourself out of your recliner, off your couch or put aside whatever excuse you're using and go vote next month, OK?

Beau I am in favor of developing all sorts of special features for WABEC, helmets with Rams horns, secret handshake, passwords, a lodge etc. It would all be great. I think we should go back and watch as many Amos and Andy episodes as possible and pattern ourselves after The Order of the Knights of the Mystic Sea. Sound good to you? I'm afraid though that we will have to defer on making Paige an Honorary Knight. She will need further training in how to spell WABEC and Whirld. You just can't make someone an honorary knight who can't spell the name over the lodge door! But we can discuss this further at the next secret meeting. Which I can't divulge here or it wouldn't be secret. I may be in violation of our by laws(which we don't have) by mentioning our meeting (which we don't have either).

Keep on dancing and voting,

Rich LH

Stay Calm, Carry On

P.S. for those of you who don't think the upcoming election is important, one of the offices up for consideration is mayor of our fair city!!!

Teddie Jordan

Thanks Scotty, I knew you would find out.

While we're on the subject of astronomy, I've always wanted to ask if anybody knows who it was that named the planets. The ol' boy that named Uranus has a problem and somebody needs to have a talk with him. Send him down to Mr. Tusa's office, he'll straighten the dude out.

See yall tonight.

Beau Wann, Jr.

Paige Honey, TOO LATE, you are already a member in good stead with the WABEC, AND since it is your birfday, the KNIGHTHOOD OF WHIRLD PEAS has be done been deposed upon your lovely self...and once the majic woids has been spoke to you, is you is and is you aint, a WHIRLD PEAS KNIGHT, A WABEC SAINT...abbra kadabbra wooly mammoth, hokey pokey dominokey, whingle dingle whirly gig, hocus pocus and a twig, ratchem snatchem tossin seas, it's too late, youse a KNIGHT OF WHIRLD PEAS...

SO, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND ALL INBETWEEN... MY BRERS AND SISES, CAN I GET AN AMEN PLEASE????

PAIGE HONEY...IT BE A DONE DEAL NOW...CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEWEST RECIPIENT OF THE ORDER OF THE AFORMENTIONED...

With your new title, also comes wealth untold...dont know how you gonna find out about it, because it is a secret, and of course UNTOLD, as aforementioned...but one thing we can let you know, is that you get a full scholarship to the JETHRO BEAUDINE DOUBLE NAUGHT SPY, CYPHERIN AND BRAIN SURGERY SCHOOL, with a minor in some kind of ology...

So Paige Honey, COME ON DOWN....join your new framaternal order of the KNIGHTS OF THE MYSTIC SEA AND THE WHIRLD PEA...

I am having way too much fun, and I havent even started on the joy juice or drugs...

I am now a WHACHEY PACHEY DERM OF THE FOIST OIDA....YAAAAAA ME!!!!
your frien and sunny
Attila the honey

John Burgess Webb

hey paige,its well that you have a wave resistant file for your records;ive often thought of the possibility of computerized records and controls being wiped  out by some anomaly beyond our control,like a cyber attack or magnetic flux.how strange it would be to wake up one morning and all record of your existance was gone from your bank,school,hospital,courthouse and irs;traffic lights and water pumps stopped working and the only way you could prove who you were was the documents you had in your possession.science fiction?i wonder sometimes.what a drag that would be.

simple minded

Paige Talley (Meek)

 Burge, I am often referred to as the Paper Queen. I am notorious for copying and filing the "electronic" documents. That habit has saved me more than once.

I had such a wonderful time last evening at Fudd's. It had been way too long since I was able to come to the 2nd Tuesday affair. Thanks to everyone for the Birthday Wishes. My wish came true... I had a grand time.

To all you October babies... 

Paige Honey

Beau Wann, Jr.

I have been trying all week to get into the net, and my wireless is hosed up somehow...took er upstairs, and hardwired it, and thought I was in tall cotton, and boom, down she went...wonder just what the heck is going on...never had this much trouble for this long a time...What could be causing the problem???? Dew on the dish??? Sunspot activity???? Bad discronificator???? Shot Phase Phlux capacitor???? Man, this is driving me insane...I know, for me, a short drive...

Good to see all youse youtes...be back later...I know, thanks for the warning eh!!!!
your frien and brother
Attila the hon ey

Where does the time go???? My grandson Taylor on the left at 4 maybe, and on the right, 17!!!
I was privileged to have taken both pictures...As sweet as he looks on the left, he is still that same little boy today...What a fine young man he is...so smart...doesnt take after me at all...The young lady on his arm is his current girlfriend, Lauren...both seniors, he of Cinco Ranch, and she of Katy...Just had to post their picture...It was homecoming last Saturday, and where we were shooting the pictures, the wind was just howling...wreaked havoc with hair and dresses...

I dont even remember when I was 17...but, I suppose I was at some point...

John Burgess Webb

beau,your grandson looks a lot like you centries ago,what is the world comming to?

happy birthday paige,forgot to mention.

jimmie lee,i wish i had your faith in the human race;it will take a miricle to reverse the hateful trend that that beseiges our youth;we were on the cusp of american greatness.i pray we have the strength to overcome the baseness that seems to permeate our society and return to simple truth that lights the mind and soothes the soul.there is still greatness in the spirit and justice will not fail;no more than the creator of the universe can fail.evil will fail on its own,i just sometimes forget who we are and who is the master.to serve with gladness will overcome the spite and ugliness we see all around us.thanks for reminding me.god bless.

burge

Beau Wann, Jr.

IT DID IT AGAIN!!!! The box comes on the screen and says INTERNET EXPLORER HAS SHUT DOWN, And boom, I lose everything...Maybe it is a program to combat long windedness on the forum...

Well, anyway, Burge, you are too kind...and I thank you...Taylor and Lauren belong to an organization called YOUNG LIFE...A christian based and run organization....when we have attended one of the events to watch the younguns, or just picked them up, it's like walking into Ozzie and Harriets house, or the Rev Billy Grahams home...absolutely soothing to the soul...If this group is indicative of a change in trends among the youngsters of today, then there is hope for the Whirld and humanity....let us pray that it be so...

 
Annie-Bob on the left, loves to be covered up with the soft pink blanket in the morning when I make up the bed...then she falls asleep for her morning nap; Princess Lacy, loves to sit in a basket of warm clothes, fresh from the dryer...I was too slow in getting them folded...hope you dont mind me posting pictures of some of my critters, they are soooo soothing to look at, at least to me...beautiful little souls...

Attila the Hon ey...

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Hey All,

Just posted Fuddrucker pictures -- mine and Paige's --- what a wonderful delightful evening it was last Tuesday!  Also a special one since it was Paige's birthday and we had a new show - Louis Klare!

Everyone have a good weekend and remember I'm on vacation next week - Las Vegas -- my very first trip! 

Hugs,

J

Jan Barnes '65 (Nimtz)

Jackie (and Paige too)... thanks for all the new Fudd's photos.  Even though I cannot be there I look forward to seeing your pictures posted each month. 

Jackie, do not spend all your money in one place in Vegas.  Hope you win one of the big jackpots!  I will be there in November after vacationing at Sedona, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park. 

Enjoy!

Richard Meek '65

Good Morning Waltripians. WABEC has scheduled it's first out of Houston meeting. As are all WABEC meeting all committee members are welcome. Some of you are probably asking yourself "Self how to I get on that distinguished committee?". The answer is fog a mirror. If you can fog a mirror, you qualify as a member of the committee. This meeting is scheduled for November 12th at 1:00 PM in College Station. That was selected as sort of a central location for many Waltripians who live in the area. It's also sort of centrally located for city dwelling Waltripians to get there from Houston, Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth. The gathering will be at Abuelo's. They serve great Mexican food. It is located at 840 University Dr. just west of  Hwy. 6. Prices are very reasonable and they have a full service bar so Margaritas are available as well as other adult beverages. We have a private dining room reserved. If you're planning to attend post it here on the forum to encourage your fellow Waltripians to attend. It will be a great day trip. There are plenty of nice hotels in College Station if you want to stay overnight. Don't cop out and say your not going because they'll probably have a game. Fear not the Aggies are out of town that weekend. Paige and I will be there as will the Wanns and the Taylors. Ken Olivier they have a lot of parking if you want to come in your land yatch. Rob Wallis you've been wanting us to meet somewhere where cocktails are available. Here you go friends! Bring the wives this a pretty restaurant. We ate there Saturday to make the arrangements. Excellent food! Be there or be square! (Sort of dated but there you are)

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Be bold, break out of your mold

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

OLA! 

I'm marking my calendar.  This is a beautiful city, progressive, 10 or 20 yrs. behind Houston, but will be a bigger and better Houston, someday. The Bush Library is a treat as well, just magnificent to walk the Texas A & M campus as well...better stop here..makes one's heart expand! And shopping to boot...(one would think I would want to live there, wouldn't one)

Small towns mean smaller taxes, less traffic, etc. so I'll just visit!

Paige Talley (Meek)

 Right on, Kay. There's a song about Aggieville (slang for you know where) that contains these words

...

And there late at night if I listen real close, The spirit still whispers through the crooked live oaks

...

For you Aggies out there, the song is "We Bleed Maroon" written and sung by Granger Smith.

Bj Brady '65

Hi, all,
 
This note is to let you know that my father, B. C. Brady, age 90, died Monday morning, October 17, at about 5:06 a.m.
 
He was in the hospital with severe pneumonia, totally unresponsive to any stimuli; he was on a respirator, and his doctor finally encouraged the family to honor Pop's Do Not Resuscitate request and the terms set out in his living will. The family was all at the hospital when he was taken off the respirator and removed from life support. Pop was in late stage Alzheimer's, and had emphysema, COPD, and diabetes. It was time for him to go home, and not suffer any more.
 
I already had a good-bye with Pop several weeks ago while he was still lucid. So it is a relief to know that Pop will be in pain no more.
 
Pop's memorial will be Saturday, October 22, at 2:00 p.m., at Emanuel Episcopal Church in San Angelo, Texas. Just thought you might want to know.
 
Thanks,
 
B. J. / Bernard

Scotty Croom

our thoughts are with your family,bj...

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Where is everyone on the Forum?  Did the Rapture come and I missed it??????  OMG!