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02/10/10 01:30 PM #2203    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Ok, that hurt!!! Now I'm gonna have to have counciling!!
probably wind up on okras show, or dr P hils show, weeping and wailing and wringing my hands and gnashing my teeth, and blame it all on my ADD

02/10/10 01:36 PM #2204    

 

Richard Meek '65

Before you go on tv you probably should have an agent. I can email you a contract to represent you any time. It is a standard contract. I think this could be big, really big!

02/10/10 01:37 PM #2205    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Ok, I got it! But I will let otthers try their hand!!!
I cheated, but the name doesnt fit!!! I kinda like
"LUKE"??? I AM YOUR FAAAAATHER!!!!! WHEEZE

How about Allen Badillion Trahern??? Know who played that character? and what he wanted people to call him instead of the above??? And what movie that was from???
Times a tickin!!!!!

How about, does anyone recognize any of the stars voices in todays movies, even if you are not watching it, and dont know what movie it is, but just hear the voice????

Not many actors and actresses have a distinct voice like say, Cary Grant, Dub Taylor, John Wayne, Lee Marvin etc...
I might recognasize Matt Damons voice after watching the Bourne Trilogy a zillion times! Maybe Robert redford!

02/10/10 01:39 PM #2206    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Ok, Richard, you can be my agent!!!
Now, I heard that a good agents first job, was to come over and mow the STARS yard, and generally work around the house!!! Feed the zoo etc...OH, you gotta know how to cook FGTs....

02/10/10 01:43 PM #2207    

Douglas Romans

Hoss's given name was Eric/Erik--don't recall the correct spelling. "Hoss" is an old Scandinavian nickname meaning something like "the strong or gentle one" or some such. Quite ironic that Pernell Roberts (Adam) died just a couple of weeks ago--the last of the clan. Also, Dan Blocker was only about 12 or so years younger than his Pa Cartwright, Lorne Green. And, NO, I did NOT google this info beforehand!!!!
DougR

02/10/10 01:53 PM #2208    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

DougR Eric is correct! I didnt google it, but I did look it up! But Richard needs to confirm and validate the winning answer! You win a plethora of prizes today, for just being on our show! And for getting the correct answer, you get an all expense paid (by you) trip around the whirld! Our man in Berlin will be waiting for you on your first leg of your journey! He can probably find you a place to stay, that might, or might not, be out of the snow!!!!

You also win a years supply of SHAMWOWS, AND SLAP CHOPS, AND SNUGGLES, AND THE COUP DE GRACE, A FLOWBY!!!!
all taxes and cost is applicable and deferred to the winner!!! SO DOUGR, ENJOY ALL YOUR SWELL PRIZES!!!
OH I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU GET A NICE SWEET LIL KITTY!!!
FULL BLOODED PEDIGREE CHOCOLATE POINT SIMONIZE KITTY!!!
HE HAS ALL HIS PAPERS, AND WILL BE NOTARIZED SO THERE WONT BE ANY "WHOOPS" SHOULD A FEMININE TYPE LADY FEMALE GIRL CAT HAPPEN TO BE IN THE VACINITY OF HIS LORDSHIP,
"MR KITTY"

And your probably thinking that I am the R word!

02/10/10 01:58 PM #2209    

 

Richard Meek '65

Give the man a cigar!

Just for Attila, give the man a seeegar! Doug you are correct!

Man I'm going to have to dig deeper for the next one!

02/10/10 01:58 PM #2210    

 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

OH NO!.....not those friggin "frahd grain damaders again.....can we not get OFF the maders and onions. For G's sake.....hmmmm, hmmmmm, goin to the Chapel and I'm going to get married, hmmmm, hmmm, de hmmmm!

Alfie? where are you in my head, Alfie? Gotta get off that subj. Geeeezz Louuuise.

Nice to know we are all at our machines...mines on desktop!

02/10/10 01:58 PM #2211    

 

Jackie Crowe (Finch)

Ditto on all the fun we had last night at Fudd's!!!
I'll post pictures soon --

See you next month - mark your calendars - Tuesday, March 9.

And you guys -- y'all are really working overtime. Sparks are flying from those brains - where in the heck do you come up with all this info!

Hugs,
J

02/10/10 02:28 PM #2212    

 

Richard Meek '65

DougR, the prize committee had an emergency meeting and has decided to enhance the prize package you have already received. In addition to all the prizes and privileges apertenant thereto you will have the privilege of personally spending the day with Attila the Hon. During that day you will will be regaled with tall tales and whiz bang theories. You will also get to supervised by Attila as you mow his lawn and do a list of Hon -e- dos. I am sure you are ovewhelmed by this opportunity but you don't need to thank us. By the way what do you know about FGTs. . . . .

02/10/10 02:31 PM #2213    

Douglas Romans

Beau, Again from my mental memory bank--

Try James Caan as "Mississippi" with Robert Mitchum (drunk sheriff) and Arthur Honeycutt (old curmudgeon deputy--whose coolest line in the movie was "Well I'll be a suck-egged mule") from John Wayne's 1967 rehash of his 1959 Rio Bravo film with Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson as Colorado and Walter Brennan in respective rolls above.

I never can recall the name of this 1967 remake but it also had the word "Rio" in the title. Incidentally, there was also a THIRD remake by Wayne in the 70's based on the exact same plot and characters whose title eludes me at the moment. Wayne made the two later remakes because of the enormous success of the original Rio Bravo.

Note that today, Rio Bravo is considered to be a classic western whereas it was rather dismissed as just another western in '59--time wills out.

Beau, just one of the many things out of Hollywood today is the feeding at the monetary trough of all the actors who rush to be a voice in some mega cartoon. It is sooooo disconcerting to hear the voice of a Whoopee Goldberg or a Tom Cruise (that is if you can actually recognize them) emitting from a witch or a Mastodon. It's easy money for them with no pressure to be good at acting.
DougR

02/10/10 04:20 PM #2214    

 

Richard Meek '65

Here is a bit of historical trivia (maybe not trivia to some).

The war we studied in history was called the Civil War and also the War Between The States. However southerners had another name for it. What was that name?

This is probably a chip shot for Attila the historian and a few others.

02/10/10 05:24 PM #2215    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

DougR
You good folks got any questions, throw em out here, between DougR and Richard and Scotty, I believe we gottem covered!!!!
The second movie was "El Dorado" made in 1969, perzactly 10 years after the first! I dont remember A third one though!!! My favorite character in that one was, of course, Aurther Hunnecut! What a great character actor he was! He was in "The Fightin Kentuckian" with John Wayne, and the Babes (Oliver Hardy) last movie. Made the rounds of the early TV shows too, Andy Griffith, Twilight Zone to name just a few! The twilight zone one he did was an all time classic! In fact the story was circulating on the WWW just a short while ago, about a man and his dog that died, and went to a first gate in the hills of "tennesee" supposed to be heaven, and talked to a man there, (the devil) and the man said come on in, but you cant bring the dog! Hunnecuts character said "ifin it taint a fitin place fer my dog, then it taint a fitin place fer me" or words to that affect! Then he went on down to a beat up ol gate and that was the real heaven. One of the best of the best twilight zone episodes!!!

Richard, DougR can skate on the yard mowing, I mowed it this morn! The tractor cranked up just fine! Didnt run very long, seems it were out o petrol!!! I couldnt remember where I set the blade last time, a 4 or a 3! Thought it was a 3, and after one pass, it were a 4! But I went ahead and kept er there! Dang new math nohow!!!

Lets see, "War Between the States" "Civil War", "War of Northern Aggression" ? Ahm afeared ahm gonna have to let you down! Ah caint bemember, ifin it whernt "War of Northern Aggression"!!! Danged ol short memry! Ifin that wherent it, then I will be danged ifin I haint gwine a find er out nohow!!!! or words to that affect!!!

Gotta run fix dinner, the little woman is on the way!
LEFT OVERS!!!!! YEA!!!!
Attila the Quasimodo

02/10/10 06:20 PM #2216    

Douglas Romans

Richard,
Among at least 20+ various names for the Southern version of the Civil War/War Between the States are the following;

The War of the North and South, The War for Southern Independence, The Second Revolution, The War for States' Rights, The War of the Rebellion, The War of Secession, etc., etc. Though I do not know their rank in order of popular use.

Beau, Right--El Dorado was the title of the 2nd remake of the original 1959 Rio Bravo, with the 3rd one Rio Lobo(1970) being the least popular of the trio with famous character actors Jack Elam and Victor French.

Now going on to trivia questions,

A rather semi-difficult question;
Who was the ONLY vice-president to be subsequently elected to TWO FULL 4-year presidential terms? (Note; it's somewhat easy if you simply think about it and can recall Mr Prappass's Jr High history class???

Thanks all for bestowing on me the grand prize for my correct answers but I would rather win the fur-lined slop jar instead as a reward!
DougR

02/10/10 07:33 PM #2217    

 

John Burgess Webb

weatherman says its going to snow here in texarkana tomorrow;its 36 degrees out there now and i just hope it dosnt rain.snow is ok;ice is no good.i cant stand a power outage.im still resting up for my final leg of the surgery;i dont know when too much rest weakens me but have to play it by ear,so far so good.
burge

02/10/10 08:15 PM #2218    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

DougR,
Actually methinks there were two VPs that served two full terms as pres! Thomas Jefferson was VP under john adams, and then became pres from 1801-1809;
And Theodore Roosevelt was vp under Mckinley
and became pres 1901-1909.
Amazing that it happened 100 years apart!, or did I get the question wrong????

02/10/10 09:44 PM #2219    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Ok, it was one vp that served two full terms, Thomas Jefferson! Theodore Rex served almost two full terms, but inherited the presidency when McKinnly died!

02/11/10 10:11 AM #2220    

 

Richard Meek '65

Doug I don't know if it is offically the most popular but the one I have seen the most is the War of Northern Agression. I first encountered it when I toured the battlefield at Manasas, VA.

Beau when I went out to get the paper on this cold rainy morning it crossed my mind that when you and Coop go out on dawn patrol you could just swing by my house and put the newspaper on the front porch. That would be really good!
A few messages back you asked what a Hun is. I didn't know either so I looked into it last night. I'm no authority on Huns but here is what I found. The Huns were a nomadic Asiactic people called Sycthians. They rode horses and would fight with each other within their kingdom or other people outside or hire out as mercenaries. Life was apparently pretty touch and go. Anyway, Attila inherits the throne and he manages to unite all these tribes. They figure out that it is more profitable to attack the roman Empire than contining to beat the stuffing out of each other. So commence doing that. Seems to work pretty well because Attila picks battles where he has no meaningful opposition. Apparently he wasn't much of a general because those were the only battles he won. When he had opposition he lost. The prime example was when the Romans and Visigoths allied themselves and put a whipping on old Attila on the Plain of Chalon. After that whipping he decide to turn his attention to Italy and began plundering the Lombardy region. He was moving towards Rome when the Pope of the time met with him and convinced him not to attack Rome. My guess would be that a lot of gold changed hands. Anyway Attila was King for about 20 years. He died on his wedding night. He wasn't much of drinker but he apparently indulged heavily on his wedding night. There is some debate of how he died. The debate is whether he had a massive nose bleed or an esophageal hemorroid. Either way he choked to death on his own blood. So anyway Attila apparently had shortcomings as a diplomat and general but he got a lot of sacking and pillaging done before he passed on. This is probably way more information than you wanted but there you go!

Here is an excellent trivia question. Doug and Beau give some others an opportunity to answer. What tv star's most repeated/favorite phrase was, "There you go."?

02/11/10 12:23 PM #2221    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

QUACK QUACK QUACK MON AMI,
Boy, me and Coop earned our pay this frosty drippy moanin!!! Alls quiet on the western front!!!! Well, cept maybe for a couple of delinquint ducks, and some curmudgeonly cormorant coots! Me and coop gave em a warning to which they defiantly mocked us!!! Soooo,
I turned coop loose on em! Well sir, they immedgiately (british for immediately) straightened up and flew right!!! Having seen the error of their quacky ways, all peace and tranquility soon resumed in the ducky cooty whirld!!!!

Hey Bro RichardM, ifin you lived in my hood, your paper woulda been on your front porch!!! Seems we have to finish the paper throwers job for him or her, the lazy bums! They just drive by and drop it in the street or whatever it takes so they dont have to exert any effort!!! Good folks them!!!

So on our appointed rounds, me and the venerable coop patrol our territory, and take said newspapers and throw them up on everyones porch, or a close proximity thereof!!!

It is lunchtime at the wann compound, and Big oliver and I are at the dinning room table sharing lunch! Well, he is trying to take the potato chips out of my hand, HOLD ON...

YOU STUPID GLUTONOUS FAT KAT YOU!!!!!!!
You wont believe what His Largeness did!!!!
He likes potatochips, and was stealing them from my plate, until I finished them off!!! Got a look of utter contempt from the big ox!!! I left the bag of chips on the table, and it was less than a fourth full! I'm typing away and Big Olie sticks his head in the open end of the chip bag, and trys to reach the chips at the bottom of the bag with his mouth! He gets the bag stuck on his head, and tried to back out of it, and falls off the dinning room table, almost pulling the computer with him!!! He hits the floor, and now he is in a panic cause the bag is still stuck on his head! So, he is running around the house, banging into furniture and walls and other critters, and I am chasing after him like a idjit!!!

I finally coral the chip thief, and he is flailing about with his size 15 paws, smackin me and anything in reach! I pull the bag off his head, and of course, chips fly everywhere! Now, that is just an invitation for John boy to come running over and vacuum up the mess with his hoover snout!!!! Ol olie though, has positioned himself upside down on the floor and started licking the salt and potato chips off his fur! the boys in heaven now! UH OH!!! More trouble!!!

John Boy, aka catahoula jack, runs out of chips on the floor, and spies Big Oliver with chips all over hisownself!!!! Before I could intervene, JB runs over and has Olie down with one paw, licking all the chips off his fur! Much to Olivers chagrin! Chagrin be damned!!! If theres one thing Big Oliver kaint abide, that is some big ol dumb stupid dawg lickin him!!! Big oliver reaches up and smacks JB on the end of his knose causing JB to shriek and loosen his grip on Mr Big Stuff!!!! Now, Mr Big is in a playful mood, and thinks he is at Disney whirld! He reaches up with both size 15 paws and grabs aholt of (east texas for aholt of)
JBs snout and hangs on for a fun ride around the house!!!!

For a while, things were looking semi-ok! But as murphys law goes, so goes murphy! JB runs head long, with Oliver firmly ensconsed on the end of his nose, into the piano, causing a cacauphony of symphonic and melodic noise! This startles both parties, especially Big Oliver! Whilst at the end of JBs knose, Mr Big decides to try to stop the ride, and bites the end of JBs knose, causing him to jump up and partially extricatin hisownself from the jaws of death. Laws a mercy (my granmommas exclaim) I didnt sign on for this!

I grab the offending partys, Big Oliver and John Boy, and pry them apart! and extricating a 22 pound cat from an 80 pound dog aint easy! I can tell theres gonna be a blood lettin, and I'm just hopin it aint gonna be mine!!!
Praise the lord, it wasnt!!!! But John Boy did loose a eye dropper full though in the extricatin process!!!

Now John Boy is on the hassock in front of the window in the library licking his wounds, every now and then looking in my direction with sad hurt eyes!!! Well, thats what you get for trying to eat something almost as big as you!!! Big Oliver has jumped back up on the dining room table, with me, (I'm not on the table, I am sitting at it) and is giving hisownself a bath! I'll bet he has his entire lifes worth of salt on his fur!!!!

I know, I know, you dont allow your cat on the table, and neither do we! I will have him arrested as soon as he falls asleep!!!!

Never a dull moment around here!!!!

I felt I needed some kind of reward for all my trials and tribulations, so I check the Lance cookie jar for CHOCOLATE.... Lo and behold some Cadbury dark chocolate bars!!!! I carefully remove the glass lid and reach down and pull a dozen or so out! I check the expiration dates, and glory be I found one fixin to expire sometime around Dec 2010! Close enough!!!!
Theres no tellin the kind o damage a expired chocolate bar could do to the environment, So I do my boundin duty and save the whirld from expiratin chocolate!!! Aint I a good soul!!!!

Listening to the 1966 waltrip choir sing! Got em saved from Vinyl to CD to my computer! Sounds as good as any choir I've ever heard!!!!

Guess I will sign off for now! Gotta try to clean up from the potato chip fiasco so DW wont ask, "what do you do all day long, scatter chips all over the house and egg these sweet lovable critters on to fight one and other???" "Yeah, you found me out, thats why I married you, just to agravate you with all these critters and the food in the pantry"!!!!!

Gracious, theres chips everywhere, the piano, the windows
jeeze loueeze...
Oh well, gotta get to cleanin!
SEe ya
Attila of quasimodo, keeper of useless and worthless knowledge, and your frien and bretheren

02/11/10 01:04 PM #2222    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Richard, I know, I know call on me!!!!!!

I did like the dissertation on attila and the huns!
Thanks for the info!
Read some about all the Barbaric tribes, and even saw a special on the history channel! Interesting to note, it wasnt any one battle, or tribe that brought the roman empire down, it was the assimilation of the barbarians into roman society! Only the barbarians didnot adhere or conform to roman culture, just brought it down to their level and that was kaput for rome!!!! Sounds like somewhere else I know of!!!!!

02/11/10 01:12 PM #2223    

 

Kay Watters '65 (Greene)

Richard and Doug, Beau,

Have you ever played the Cash Cab? It is a taxi in NYC that gives out money as you ride to your destination if you can answer the questions correctly.

I bet you'd be excellent on this. Lord knows I can't get em.

02/11/10 01:27 PM #2224    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

Kay,
I do believe New york city is a mite fer piece away!
Plus, I aint leavin Texas fer any reason!!!!

There is a New York, Texas!!! And in case some of youse youtes didnt know, and I dont know who wouldnt, but the NEW YORK CHEESE CAKE that everyone raves about, is from none other than New york, texas! Not new york Ny like some folks think! But then most of youse youtes prolly knew that anyhow!!!

Burge??? Snowing in two states town yet????
It is still 41 greedees here, and rainin pretty hard for a winter day!!! My fangers are freezing, and I have a cat on em!!!

nap time!!!!!

02/11/10 01:59 PM #2225    

 

Richard Meek '65

Beau, when you wake up from your nap if no one else has answered go for it. It is bitter out there. I don't know what the wind chill is but it's bad. Talked to one of my associates in our Dallas office about 10:30. She told me they already had 3 in. of snow on the ground. It was snowing hard and is supposed to continue for 6 hrs. Then it is supposed to rain and freeze tonight. Lovely, just lovely. Have you ever thought how much conversation would be eliminated if we didn't talk about the weather? Shows how much it effects us all or we just have to talk about something. Or maybe both. Burge may be too cold to type a response. I think any of our fellow Waltripians that live north of the Red River should close the gates. They've shared enough of their winter weather with us.

One of my favorite movies is Half Moon Street. Can you tell me the male lead and the female lead? If you want to beat DougR or Beau to the answer you better jump on this.

02/11/10 05:00 PM #2226    

 

Beau Wann, Jr.

richardM,
At first i thought it was Dennis Weaver as Chester in Gunsmoke! But on further thought, methinks it was also someone else too also too that said "well there you go"!!!!

I imagine, the need to know what the weathers doing, stems from the early days of the farmers and ranchers!
Then moved on to other jobs that depended on what the weather was doing! I learned early, because my dad was an Ironworker, as well as everyone in my family! They would talk about the weather as part of their jobs!
They had to schedule pours (concrete pours) around the weather! Plus receiving truck loads of steel and other items! Knowing what the weather was gonna do, was of utmost importance, I know, cause I was an Ironworker out of local 84 for about 3 or 4 years! Had to know what kind of clothes to wear in the winter! whether one needed a more than one shirt, and how many, plus whether a light jacket or medium or heavy jacket was needed!

My last Ironworker job was 12 oaks medical towers in greenway plaza!! It was in the dead of winter, and we were up 22 floors or more! Ground temp was at best freezing! Up 22 floors was unbearable!!! I was shaking so hard, almost fell off the beam I was standing on!
Had to have the right frame of mind to work up that high and walk the steel!!! Glad that was my last Ironworkin job!!! I did get to work with all my uncles and dad, but didnt enjoy it because I was under a microscope! I could do nothing right!!!! But thats ancient history!!!!

Moving on to the phone co, I also needed to know what the weather was going to do, in the winter especially!
Hanging 30 ft in the air on a pole with the wind whistling around you was cold at best!
and colder at worst!!!

The answer to the Half Moon Street question is...
Sigourney Weaver and Michael Caine, made in 1986!!!

Well, the little woman is on the way home ETA 6 minutes! We have to feed the menangerie and then go to Krogers and do the marketing! I love that word, Marketing!!!
Reminds me of the folks back in days of old that would go to market carring a basket and fill it up with the staples they needed to survive ie flour, sugar, coffee, eggs, bread (unsliced) etc... Oh, and grain maters!!!

Be back later mehopes!

Your bard beauregard
Dean of the college of worthless and useless knowledge!!!

02/11/10 05:59 PM #2227    

Douglas Romans

Kay,
I have, in fact, heard of Cash Cab, or some other such name, in New York City, where you are paid for correct trivia answers BUT they charge so much per mile that they will NEVER owe you more than the cab fare--no matter how many correct answers you may submit!!!!
DougR

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