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Good morning Waltripians. I hope all passed a good night. After reading Professor Silly's question and response to the advertisement running on TV using a slightly abbreviated law of physics I gave it some consideration. Realizing that my mental hard drive is vastly overloaded and I wasn't going to accurately recall Sir Isaac Newton's law (Arthur Sanders would probably be disappointed since I took two semesters of physics from him at Waltrip). So I consulted www. Answer.com. According to them Newton's first law of motion states, every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed. Therefor a body at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. It also means an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless an unbalanced force acts upon it. Sir Isaac Newton So there you have it. Be sure to remember this. You may find it critically important in the future!

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Dance like no one is watching

02/22/12 12:58 PM

#4781

Jim, thanks for reminding me about the Early Pics part of this wonderful website! Mrs. Graham was my homeroom teacher. It was nice to be reminded of all the great people in my homeroom, many of whom I still have contact with today thanks to this forum and other means of staying in touch. Also, Jimmie - I think we were in the same typing and short hand classes. And you are so right - those tools have been invaluable to me all of my life! Every course I had in college was made easier because of typing and shorthand, as well as I have used those skills for almost every job I have ever had! I think my favorite math teacher was Mr. Vann - he made algregra and geometry make sense to me.

We drove down to Bastrop yesterday to shop and to have lunch - drove through the park and really had an emotional experience. What a tragedy! Every shop keeper I talked to had a story, too. If they hadn't lost their home they knew at least 10 people who had. Also, so many pets and animals lost. One person told me the people that are having the hardest time recovering are the people who lost their pets. That community is really suffering!

Loving this weather - might make it to 80 today! Ahhhhh!!!!

02/22/12 03:49 PM

#4782

Jim Taylor

Time for WABEC meeting, Mr. President.

02/22/12 07:22 PM

#4783

Robert Derrick

Beau, thanks for remembering us youthes from west of of Mangum. And RH, now I am really confused. Should I continiue to be a body at rest, or should I start moving and look for something to hit?????

02/24/12 11:08 AM

#4784

Robert I would say it is always best to keep moving. It's harder to hit a moving target. Also remember, if you don't use it, you lose it!

After consulting with some folks it looks like next Wednesday would be an excellent day to call a much needed meeting of WABEC. That is the Whirld Affairs and Burger Evaluation Committee of Waltrip Alumni. All are invited. If you are drawing breath you qualify to attend. We will convene the meeting on Wednesday, February 29th (no leaping will be required thought) at 11:30 AM at JAX Grill between Shepherd and Durham just south of I-10. The business portion of the meeting will last no more than 30 seconds and just socializing after that. See you there. Man, the first two months of the year are almost gone. Which way did they go?

Keep on dancing

Rich LH

Dance like no one is watching

02/24/12 12:12 PM

#4785

"Myyyyyyyy BODY lies overt he otion, OOOOOOOh myyyyyy BODYYYYY lies overt he CCCCC..." OH MY GOSH" I have kracted plumbbob up...Just a short review of some of the woids of a song that I THOUGHT were the woids...been deef too long, since childrenhood...another song I completely got wrong was..."oh a tree in motion..." Well"? a tree can be in motion and the otion also too...also I really thought Elton Johns "Rocket Man" actually said..."burning like a piece of herring bone..." I kind of like that better than what he is purported to have ACTUALLY said...

Now, a body at rest, which is me at precisely this very nano second, cept for me fingers....is that lawr amended to reflect upon PARTS O the body???? What ifin my brain is in motion, but my bod is not in motion...then what??? Ha, and youse youtes thought I didnt know what Rich LH was talkin about...I read up on Sir Isaac Fig Newton, and methinks he had too much time on his hands...(I like the fact that ol sir isaac invented the fig newton)

OF COURSE, when a bod is movin, ITS MOVING!!! and when a bod is not moving, IT AINT MOVIN...HOW HARD IS THAT??? YE GAD, EVEN A DUBARRY GENIUS LIKE ME CAN FIGGER THAT OUT... Sometimes when the moon is full, and is asleep, my bod is at rest, but my hand is reaching for something, then I smash my fingers, upon which time I jump up, putting the rest O my bod in motion, whilst trying to keep the offended appendage at rest...yall...

Oh Robert, it best to be a bod in sleepin and not doin nuttin, than say, one that has to clean the &^%$# cement pond...OMG I HATE THAT CEMENT POND AT REST OR AT MOTION...Id rather it be in the otion...

WABEC...UBEC, I BE THERE...Those of you that havent attended, but plan on attending, you will reCOGnasiize the old members by their bods being at rest, but their food intake manifold wrapped around aburger and or fries or two...

Me and Coop dont have school today, because of GO TEXAN day...they be doin a jig...gonna have all them bodies in motion...

Well, ok then...gonna get this bod in motion and do stuff...not necessarily SANE stuff, but stuff never the less...Hmmmm, should I shave, wear clothes???? Yeah, I probably should at least do the latter...of course climbing the latter without clothes can be tempramental to your health wealth and stealth...YALL...

I dont know, dont ask me what any of that meant...get your own deranged thoughts out of order...

Speaking of deranged, I been out on de range, makin noise and generally putting lead through paper...I am such a good shot too...Hmmm, a bullet in the chamber is at rest, until the hammer strikes the firing pin, which in turn hits the primer, causing the bidness end of the shell to leave the barrel, becoming a body in motion, then hitting the berm, becoming a body at rest...again...

Hey, any of you ANTI QUERS ever been to Thompsons Antiques just under 610 at I-10???? Well, they have moved to the old J C Pennys at NorthWest Mall... it is even better than before methinks....My beloved, DW, has procured a booth for us and is starting a bidness...for me to have to work at...oh goodie...anyway, right now we have a 10 X 10 booth, with a whiz bang display case...and invisible antiques and stuff...but all at a good price though...probably move stuff in next week...If you come by, and purchase one O the Junks at rest, I will give you family rates...in motion...and treat you to a cup O joe...donchknow...

Ok, time to get my bod in motion, and do stuff...

Your frien and Perfessor of Silly...Sir Beauregard De DuBarry cum laude extrodinaire esquire...in motion...

02/25/12 04:53 AM

#4786

well beau,i see you have made it to the edge of the deep end;it aint so bad.im still stuck on where the light comes from when you dream in color while body at rest in full darkness.the answer must be in one of those formulas i dont quite understand-what-;ill think about the 3-d part another day.i did find out about the primary color phosphors on the computer screen though,dont know why i needed to know.just curious i guess.there are a billion gazillion things to find on this nfernal machine;even at 0:330 in the morning.but then again,if i do figure it all out-"they"will have to kill me-what-.

bearcat

02/25/12 11:39 PM

#4787

Nah Burge, they aint gonna harm you...just tell em you know me, and they'll throw up their hands and run screaming int o the night....besides, you too good a man for em to mess with....some of this stuff is just plain wierd...like the doppler effect...that one seems to be...uh...er...simplistic sort of....not a real hard one to figger out..."blue shift and red shift", of the optical nature...
but how did they come up with "doppler radar"???? what has that to do with Christian Dopplers theory of wavelength of radiation???? Oh well, yall been getting your quota of rain in two states town???? Seems like Houston is now out of the drought...I say...GOOD...

Been workin on inventorying our antique junque for display and sale...found a cache of wheat pennys, dating as far back as 1919...plus some indian head pennys 1900-07....got lots of silver half dollars...tons of foreign coins, and paper...not much market for foreign stuff...

Methinks this will be fun...I can even take cooper with me...I'd like to take Jack, but his nuclear tail action, would cost me a fortune...he can clear any and everything off a coffee table with his WMD tail...plus, when he greets people, and gets that excited, he pees on the floor...just like a dang cocker spaniel...I know, he cant help it, he just loves people, and we love him back of course...

If any of youse youtes are out and about, stop by Northwest Mall, where the old JC Pennys was, and you will see big yellow sign, THOMPSONS ANTIQUE CENTER...We are just inside to the right of the door on the old hempstead hwy side...DW chose her DBA name...AUNTI QUES...clever huh!!! Yeah, she pretty clever lady...she wanted to call it UNCLE AND AUNTI QUES, but I said nooooooo, I dont want the SS boys messin with me...

We dont have anything in the booth yet, except a display case, but we will fill it up very soon...define "soon"...sometime between now and a fortnight, and the "twelth of never"...methinks it's gonna be fun, mehopes...

If yall are by Black tomorrow, stop in at the little country church in the city, Cooper will be there...gonna do something with the childrens worship...dont wear black, or you will be wearing some of Cooper home with you....

Ok, WABEC meeting Wednesday 11:30 at Jax grill...looking forward to breaking bread with whomever shows up...plus conducting the meeting...got some very important and whirld changing bidness to conduct...ought to take at least one minute to complete...

MAN, I hurt so bad today, had to use my walkin stick, and take some drugs, and let my beloved drive, running our errands...kind of embarassing, to me, trying to get around in public...not use to being THAT crippled up...must be the cold dampness....weather channel says it is 47, but it feels like it is 30...Oh well, as they say on Mars, ;lakdsjfwepoiu ;skjfirwpos hasdkjpoie...which in english means..."brrrrr"...

Ok, looks like I can make it to our mini reonion on April 14th....thought I had a conflict with another reonion...I am DJing on april 21 at UH for the South Houston HS class of 62...bunch of old foggies...not like us young youtes of 64...

Ok, that last pill has kicked in, and I mean KICKED IN...kan hardly hold my eyes open, so I say goodnight gracie....goodnight Gracie...

Your frien and Dean of Silly, DOD

02/26/12 10:07 AM

#4788

doppler's good;i guess the same ambiguity with light;wheather it is a particle or a wave or both lies behind wheather you know if you are commin or goin.that wont apply to me cause i dont know but if you compress a light wave ;what happens to the particle?i know i hear something rattling around in my skull;must be a compressed light particle-wave dumm-a-hitchie.

i love cool weather but i felt like i may need a jump start to get up out of bed this morning.something told that i had better get up and at least try to do something positive;getting up is a start;i was laying there with all kinds of pain and i thought about my daddy when he died;i had never heard him cry out in pain before,then for some reason i thought about johnny radley and then as thoughts have a way of doing,pictured him as that little kid in the oak forest elem.photo in sixth grade;then to the bright little faces of my grandaughters.now what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?i remember an article written by a north-vietnamese colonel back in the ninties;he said of thier phyops"we will give the americans bad dreams,bad thoughts,bad minds". of all the nerve. they did a dance on our head and we did a dance on thier grave. i dont know why the words of 'grand funk railroad' stays in my mind but it is aprapo for a marine....."take me down to the water-fall

let me feel it run over me

let me feel the pain and coldness

the lonliness that there must be

take me down to the battlefield

let the bullets fly over me

now cant you hear them cry for shelter

as they tumble to the blood-soaked ground"

as you draw your circle,dont forget the pinned-down out-rider

"call him 'drunken'ira hayes

he wont answer any more

not the whisky-drinkin indian

or the marine who went to war"

from the juke box at the san clemente bus station at camp pendleton california..."bad dreams,bad thoughts,bad minds".

semper fidelis

02/26/12 04:40 PM

#4789

Lloyd Pond

A day for old aches and pains, I guess. Been using the ice pack myself on the old back. But I did make it out to enjoy a nice 1 hour walk around the neighborhood. I love this time when trees are budding out blooming. One tree was covered with purple blooms a Paulina? tree or Empress or something. I have to do some research. Tulips trees are in bloom too.I started out nice and cool and by the time I got home I had talen off the long sleeve shirt.

Love to go junque shopping.But hate high prices!

But I guess everyone needs to make a buck so let the buyer beware

02/26/12 05:54 PM

#4790

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Lloyd, it may be a wisteria bush. Were the blossoms hanging in clusters? It is a gorgeous time of year and I am loving every minute of it. I am glad Houston is out of the drought! LakeTravis is still 40 ft below normal - Buchanan is a little better - about 18 ft - so we still need a lot of rain in the Austin area. Sorry about your aches and pains fellas! The cold will do that, plus we are getting a little older, even though we hate to admit it.

Go see "Act of Valor"! It's dedicated to the Navy Seals that have given their lives to protect this country from terrorists since 9/11 and those names are listed at the end of the movie. By the way, John, Johnny Radley gave me my first "hickie"! Remember those? We were just really good friends, but he thought it was funny! He brought me home after our graduation ceremony and planted that on my neck. My mom was a little upset with him over that. He really suffered from the Viet Nam War. So many of our friends and those who were not our friends and many of you who read this forum who served our country have suffered. We owe so much to our service men and women - those in past wars and those in present ones. When I saw "Act of Valor" I immediately thought of Jackie's son because this movie takes place in the now. It is so real - also frightening! We just don't know what might be going on to protect us - a lot of covert operations I am assuming. How did I get off on this? I guess just thinking about Johnny Radley. I also had a boy friend who was a paratrooper in Viet Nam. He became an alcoholic and died at an early age in an alcohol related car accident. There were so many!

02/26/12 06:36 PM

#4791

Well, Lloyd, I'm happy to hear you weren't parading around the neighborhood in your hat and bathrobe to keep warm.

02/27/12 02:09 AM

#4792

Lloyd Pond

Jimmie Lee, I have worn the robe and hat in the back yard,,,but try to be more acceptable when i go out the front door. Ferrell monitors me closely and tells me if my wardrobe choice will ,,, "Scare the children"

Tree type is Paulownia. a non native variety. AKA The Royal Empress Tree. Also spectacular purple blooms are covering the mountain laurels. They look like bunches of grapes hanging on the tree. In the back yard is a small fruit tree of some type with two or three white blossoms.."Come on tree you can do better than that."

02/27/12 08:23 AM

#4793

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Lloyd, your backyard tree could be a pear tree. Beautiful white blossoms, but they blow and make a mess for everyone in the neighborhood, especially those with pools - my neighbor wants me to cut mine down to keep the blown blossoms out of his pool. All that tracks into the house, too. Glad to hear Ferrell has a rein on you.

02/27/12 09:17 AM

#4794

Lloyd Pond

Ferrell's story about Newton's Laws

My first year at Baylor my roommate would come take a nap in the afternoon. "A horizontal body is at rest." she would say.

02/27/12 11:59 AM

#4795

Good morning all. Hope you had a great weekend. It was great weekend to be outside. I worked in the yard on Saturday. Started out wearing a windbreaker but it wasn't long before I shed it. There is something therapeutic about getting your yard looking good.

Ushered at church on Sunday. I alternate between First Presbyterian and Oaks Presbyterian. Quite a contrast in size but both are good places with incredibly nice folks. Also they preach the Word there. That's what you're there for. I have to go to Oaks periodically for old times sake and to make sure Beau is behaving hisseff. He always is but you can tell by the twinkle in his eye that mentally he's up to mischief.

Those of you who can be sure to come to the WABEC meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 29th (no leaping required but you can if you want to) at 11:30 at JAX Grill. Do they still brew JAX beer? professor Silly and Jim Taylor have said they will be there. So don't be left out.

Susan I will follow your advice and go see "Acts of Valor". I listened to a review on the radio the other of the movie. Since they used real SEALS they didn't have to use any technical advisers. The SEALS insisted that they do the action parts like they do in real life. So you're seeing authentic stuff. Interesting that they also insisted that they use live ammunition instead of blanks. Someone sent me a picture of a sign that said, "Muslim terrorists are like King Salmon. Life is great. Until the SEALS show up." A couple of people told me that "Moneyball" is a really good movie. Have a great week.

Keep on dancing,

Rich LH

Dance like no one is watching

02/27/12 08:24 PM

#4796

Jimmie Lee Smith (Brawner)

Richard, let me know what you think of "Act of Valor" after you see it. And thanks for passing on the additional information - that makes it even a better movie! Jimmie, thanks for the heads up about our voter registration cards. Although ours are new, they expired the end of Dec., 2011. I am checking into it tomorrow and will forward your message to our neighborhood rep who can forward to everyone in our neighborhood as well as the other neighborhood reps. I am glad you were paying attention to something we all take for granted!

02/27/12 09:15 PM

#4797

Susan, Doug Romans clued me in. Come to find out, the deal is that normally we'd already have our renewed voter registration cards, but because of all this redistricting hoopla in the courts, it may not be settled until April or May and then we can see whether they send them out or not. They are waiting on settlement of what district you'll be in before issuing renewal cards.

02/27/12 10:44 PM

#4798

Thanks, Jimmie, for the clarification! I thought that all of the redistricting hoopla might be the problem!

02/28/12 10:56 AM

#4799

Just another note on redistricting. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst spoke at my Rotary Club last week. He mentioned that the court in San Antonio thinks that the primary will be held May 29th at the earliest. I find all this very irritating because we learned in school that gerrymandering was a bad thing. Which made sense to me. Now special interest groups seem to think they're entitled to have districts which they will carry with no chance of loss and the courts seem to mainly go along with that. Oh well if you live long enough I guess see the proverbial pendulum swing both ways several times. I saw in the paper sometime since last Thursday that Dewhurst gave all of his pay last year to charity. most of it to groups that he feels help families like his when he was growing up. His dad was killed in a car wreck when he was 3. So he grew up in a single parent home. Apparently it was a struggle financially. His main competitor Craig James gave minimally to charity. Interesting that two Houstonians are the main contenders for Kay Bailey Hutchison's Senate seat.

Keep on dancing,

Rich

02/28/12 08:20 PM

#4800

i remember seeing a picture of the original and very ellusive gerrymander and wondered what genius created such geometry;or the the antethisis thereof.quite original.now remember "vote early and vote often".

02/28/12 10:16 PM

#4801

Oh ye of little derangement...Gerry who? Gerry and the Pacemakers of course..."merry cross the gurnsey..."
Arent salamanders pyesonous???? And just who the heck is cotton eyed joe anyhoo, that we should a danced silly to him?????

Having my eenin glass O vino, chateau acres home, vintage... February...that was a pretty good month eh what?
Shore has made mah ears ring...louder...put your ear up to the monitor, and you can hear it too...hear it???? Yeah, I thought you could...pretty dang aggervatin...but, been ranging my whole life long...always had to sleep with a radio, or fan, still do...now I use a fan in a filtering unit...My fingers seem to be hitting the wrong keyus all of a sudden...having to go back and correct...tried using white out, untill I located the backspace button...whiteout kinda hoses up the monitor...and the merrimac...I just had to throw that one in didnt I.

Took My friend Cooper to church Sunday to sit and read with the kiddos...Cooper is a sooper trooper...that ol boy is something special...well duh!

I'd like to take cat jack sometime, but he gotta work on bladder control...I'nm gonna start calling him cocker spaniel...had a friend over today to discus DJ job for Jones High school class of 62..seems he is on the committed...or committee which ever you prefer...anyway, ol jack peed on his foot...no wonder we never have company, all these dang aminals...Cooper was asleep on the couch, and Big Oliver wanted to pass by him, and could have very easily...So what does he do, he walks across Coopers head...Cooper wakes up and raises his head up, unbeknownst to hisownself, and has a 22 pound cat draped across his head...I was laughing so hard, I almost peed on Jacks foot...tried to get the camera, but it was over in a nano second...OMG I need to set up cameras around the house...We could have our own sitcom...I still dont think cooper figured out what happened..he just layed his big ol head back down and went to sleep...Big Oliver on the other hand, thought that was a fun ride at disneyland..I could see he wanted to do that again...I grabbed the big galoot and sat him in my lap where he commences to sharpen his claws on my shirt, which wouldnt a been so bad, if I hadnt been in it...dang that ol boys got sharp claws...oh well, I got a good blood lettin in the deal, and as the good Doc Gould wouldda said, "a doctor would charge you plenty for a good blood lettin"...or woids to that defect...

Fixin to do some major renovatin at the old homestead...new floors up and down...move all the furniture about...
"ya put the big couch in, ya put the big couch out...shake it all around and turn yourself about, THATS WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT"...yup, gonna do the HOKEY POKEY here...So Rich Lh, youre always talking about dancin, well, nows your chance to cut a rug bro...literally...

I might not make it to the WABEC luncheon...My beloved has to go to the sales tax office and then the permit office so we can get AUNTI QUE rollin...plus if she doesnt make it back in time, I need to be here for the cement pond people to see what they can do to get this dang albert tross back to normal...did I mention that I hate that dang pool???? I believbe I did didnt I!!!

Ok, I'm gonna neeed some caulkers and painters and scaffold movers to show up...how many of youse youtes can I put down as some of the above????? anyone? anyone??? FINE, I'll just do er myownself...I sure would hate to kick the bucket with a caulk gun or a paint brush in my hand...can you still get into heaven????

Ok, time to say goodnight gracie...goodnight gracie!!!

your frien and perfectly insane dean O this and that...esq...DOD

02/29/12 01:18 AM

#4802

as my memory goes south,i post a memento,a souvenier if you will to a long struggle in southeast asia.from 1954 when the united states marine corps sent major deveraux*(see correction) to viet nam to establish and train the vietnamese marine corps with a group of marines who would be known as covan(friend) to the laying down of arms by a ragtag group of partisans still fighting in the anamese mountains in 1991.37 years of fighting the communists in vietnam.the loss of so much talent on both sides;blood,sweat and tears.tragedy and fears.a war of attrition that settled so little in the scale of justice.the price of "peace with honor".millions of lives lost;millions of hours of lost sleep for the struggle against the brutality the communists levied on people who chose to live thier lives in freedom.when vietnam was devided after ww2;many in the north went south only to return to the north as agents.released after 30 years in a north vietnamese prison;"skeleton man" came back.i wish i could tell the story but i cant.only one of eight teams of four.on his death bed,my friend tang told me he was visited by the 'skeletons';he died 5 hours later.his death coinsided with the recognition of a communist vietnam in 1995.just prior to his death he was awarded the senatorial medal of freedom.its not a booby prize out of a cracker-jacks box but it might as well have been.here is a memento,a small prize for fighting the monsters that murdered in the night and burried him alive in the hole they dug for his grandfather,the only doctor in his village.dug up by the villagers after the great humanitarians of the communist party left to set another example in another village;my friend tang never was able to wash all of the dirt of that grave away.here is to those great minded progressives who are dead set on dilly-dallying us into that same grave. vietnam: 1954-1992.and here we go again;dynamic tension for the sake of the world.

02/29/12 08:25 AM

#4803