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  1. @Carl Spackler continued... And here's a pic taken in my Great Grandmother's driveway. (Left to right - Kenny Cordray, Steve Perron, Billy Gibbons, and the half kid running shirtless is your's truly)...
    14 points
  2. @Carl Spackler Many here have seen and heard this, so apologies to them for the re-run. Alright, my dad was Steve Perron. He wrote Francine about a girl he had a crush on in Junior High (lyric - "Francine just turned thirteen, she's my angelic teenage queen..."). My understanding from other band members and my mom (dad died of an overdose when I was 6 yrs old) was that Bill Ham had inked Gibbons and the fellas to an album. They wanted to release a 45 rpm from it and had a song in mind for the "A" side, but wanted a "B" side. My dad's guitarist, Kenny Cordray, had broken his arm in a motorcycle wipeout and The Children and ZZ (I think they were Moving Sidewalks at that moment) were supposed to play a gig together. Dad told Billy that he needed a guitarist to stand in for Kenny and Billy answered the call. Apparently, either Ham was there at that gig, or someone close who he trusted was, and the light bulb went off when The Children (with Gibbons on guitar) played Francine. He told Billy to ask dad if they could record it for the new album. Dad agreed, they recorded it, and it became the other side of that 45 rpm and the first gold single off the album, which I think makes it ZZTop's first gold single. Billy is on the liner notes as a writer as he added his own solo to the song, but the lyrics were written by Dad. Cordray added all the rest of the guitar. Here's a couple of pics starting with the song's first draft complete with coffee stains from Jim's Diner on Broadway and 410 in SA...
    14 points
  3. Who's got two thumbs, two tits, and is furloughed from work pending a decrease of symptoms and two negative COVID tests at least twenty-four hours apart?
    11 points
  4. Today in Totally Not Political COVID talk: Let's argue about why positing a tweet containing nothing but US death totals is inherently political and posting a tweet from Laura Ingraham is not.
    11 points
  5. 11 points
  6. This is Machinator’s fault.
    10 points
  7. 10 points
  8. Is he watching Cocoon?
    10 points
  9. You can blame Trump for a lot, but the economic disaster in its current state is almost totally due to the initial shutdown that 99% of people supported. This is like saying the Holocaust was really the fault of a few Nazis that decided to exterminate some Jews, Hitler had little to do with it. There never would have been a shutdown if we contained the virus abroad. We didn’t even attempt to do that. We knew it was coming, we knew it could be bad, Trump called it a hoax. He’s responsible for the consequences of said hoax.
    9 points
  10. Satisfying email I got from Trump. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    9 points
  11. Fucking Cheech, what a traitor.
    9 points
  12. 9 points
  13. And a Fox News host. Some of y’all go nuts over Hugo posting death totals, wound up over what it’s insinuating...yet we have ChickenSandwich posting Travco deaths and Enchubben with that bullshit.
    9 points
  14. The Fed had to make $4 trillion available to banks and major businesses basically the moment shit hit the fan, and that's ignoring the congressional bailout, but yeah let's focus on poor working class people not having a shitload of money saved up for a rainy day.
    8 points
  15. if someone coughed on me, they're going down to the ground. male or female
    8 points
  16. I’m not ballin like some of you fools so my little boat is really going to bring down the value of this thread. I picked her up a couple of weeks ago and am really happy so far.
    8 points
  17. well we thought he was going to use the shutdown to actually do something. we bought him a lot of time, and then he stuffed it all in his pocket with a hole in the bottom. but yes, let's blame the people who supported not dying.
    7 points
  18. If you wanna hear the original version with my pop on vocals, here it is. Complete with "If I ever caught her with Billy G..." and lots of "Woooooooooooooo"s, ala the Stones. My father loved him some Jagger. Also, keep in mind that Kenny Cordray on guitar here was only 15 yrs old... Anyway, back to Bill Ham. I hadn't looked him up in so long I didn't know he had died. Hope he's with his wife again.
    7 points
  19. You really are the shittiest fucking teammate.
    7 points
  20. No, see....again, as pointed out above, we are not living in Idiocracy. WE ARE LIVING IN SOMETHING WORSE THAN IDIOCRACY. President Camacho was decent and human enough to defer to someone smarter than me. We have someone as stupid as President Camacho, but he's a psychopath who cares for nobody but himself and his internal ball of narcissism, so he has not a shred of President Camacho's decency. There's no question -- we would be MUCH better off under President Camacho.
    7 points
  21. I think all the Biden attacks are hilarious. The current President is the most corrupt, racist, misogynistic, incompetent coward of a human being to ever hold the Office. And people think voters will give a shit about anything Biden has done in his past or that his brain is on a slow train to mushville? No one cares. It’s already priced in.
    7 points
  22. The thing is, the "facts don't care about your feelings!" crowd that can't stop crying about social distancing and masks doesn't care about facts and they don't care about anybody they don't know. At a very fundamental level, they think they should be able to do whatever they want to do and that the rest of the world exists to enable them to do whatever it is that they want to do. Ten million people could have already died and they'd be behaving exactly the same, unless they or their family or close friends were among the dead or seriously affected. All that matters to them is that they can't do the things they are used to doing the way they are used to doing them, and anybody who asks them to change, even temporarily, is essentially evil in their eyes. These types of people have always existed, but much of modern America treats this sociopathy as a virtue so they no longer feel socially restrained from expressing it. The real problem is that we let them get away with it. We realize that avoiding confrontation is usually good from a social standpoint, so when we see it all we do is put on a shocked face and chuckle among ourselves when they're gone about how awful they are. But with people like this, that approach is actively harmful to society at large. It makes them think more people agree with them than actually do. These people need to be immediately challenged on their bullshit. When a group of people see a woman cough on someone because someone asked them to wear a mask, they need to all yell at her and pelt her with garbage. When they see some asshole start pushing a grocery store clerk, they need to punch the fucker in the face, knock him over, and kick the shit out of him. These people need to be afraid of what will happen to them if they behave this way in public. It won't make them better people, but it will put a stop to a lot of this shit.
    7 points
  23. Sure. Need to touch on the backstory. My uncle was the ex-husband of my mom's sister. I'll call him "Uncle Mike". When I was in elementary school, Uncle Mike would sometimes drop by the house unannounced. He was divorced from my aunt at that time (I don't remember him when he was married to my aunt, so the divorce probably happened before I was born or soon after). As a kid, I always thought he was a cool guy. He literally looked, acted and talked like George Raft (1940s era). Had jet-black hair that was parted and slicked straight back. Wore dark suits. Every time he would drop by, he would give me, my brother and sister a (real) silver dollar. As a kid, I never knew what he did for a living or even where he lived. I did know he didn't live in the town where I grew up. That's probably why he would show up at the house from time to time unannounced because he happened to be in town. Uncle Mike seemed mysterious to me, my brother and sister because we didn't know what he did for a living, we didn't know where he lived, we didn't know why he and my aunt divorced, and we didn't know any background about him. Uncle Mike and my aunt didn't have any kids. Both of my parents seemed tight-lipped about him, and they were open and honest to us about EVERYTHING gowning up. Didn't know if they wanted to protect us from something or didn't want us to know. Fast-forward to when I was about 25 years old. I hadn't heard from or about Uncle Mike since the last time I saw him when I was a kid. I had a job and was working in my hometown. I was reading the morning paper and happened to see an article about an apartment manager and his girlfriend that were gunned down inside their apartment. Reading the article, it named my Uncle Mike as the apartment manager that was killed! WTF!!! Apparently, Uncle Mike lived in an apartment on the property where he managed it. He and his girlfriend were in the living room watching TV together on the couch. A gunman burst down the front door and sprayed my Uncle and his girlfriend with bullets, like with a machine gun. The couch and wall were filled with bullets. Apparently, it was a nasty, bloody scene. The bodies were almost unrecognizable. I took the newspaper and drove over to my mom's house (my father and my aunt (Uncle Mike's ex-wife) had passed away by that time). I showed the article to my mom and she read it. I told her, "ok mom...now you need to explain what's the deal with Uncle Mike". She read the article and had a cold look in her eye. She wouldn't say a word. She just had a blank stare. I could tell she didn't want to talk about it, so I let it alone. But I also showed my brother and sister the article. They also tried to find out more from my mom, but couldn't. To this day, my Uncle Mike, his life and his death are still a mystery. The police never found out who killed him or why.
    7 points
  24. What does that have to do with anything? Do you even know what they said? Of course you don't. Look, I know you like to pretend and dream that it's actually Republicans who are the saviors and angels for Black people, but everyone here knows that's not the case. Biden saying what he said wasn't offensive. People on social media are laughing it off. Republicans on social media are trying to score political points with it. This will be forgotten by Monday and come November, Biden will get 90-95% of the Black vote. End of story. Next topic.
    7 points
  25. Everyone is ignoring you because you're trying to passive aggressively turn this into a conversation that should be in the Cloak Room.
    7 points
  26. Because that would be smart. And I’m not smart. I’m more of a burn the ships when we get to the new world kind of idiot. If it goes badly we will just come home with our tails tucked between our legs and resume life and sell whatever camper we bought. No half measures!
    7 points
  27. Black Twitter/Black Social Media has basically done one of two things with this today: 1.) Proclaim that it’s no big deal because trump has said more shit that is way more racist and has said it more frequently including just yesterday when he was praising Henry Ford. 2.) stated they hate Joe Biden and this is an example why—BUT they will still vote for him in November There has been a small—and I do mean small—fraction of Blacks online who said this will cause them to not vote for him, but that small percentage has been suckered into trump before this thanks to the Candace Owens and Kanye types. Hell Charlamagne still stuck up for him after this interview, and Charlamagne is fucking wack. The hashtag that was floating around twitter most of the day is clearly the Russian bots and White Republicans who don’t give two shits about Blacks and instead just want the Black votes for trump because they know he’s losing. My parents are Black Christians and lean conservative but are Dems. I asked my mom about it today (granted she’s probably had some wine) but her words were “he’s a dumbass for saying that, but I’ll still be there when the polls open to vote for him.” Black churches will still be preaching Vote Biden from here until November. This hasn’t changed a damn thing and it’s funny watching people who aren’t Black tell me what is and isn’t racist, and I’m the one who has been called a nigger multiple times by people who are not my own race.
    6 points
  28. Your dad ran in the same circles as mine...My dad managed Rocky Hill, Dusty's brother, circa 1978, back when Rocky was a fucking tornado of a guitar player...Rocky wrote lyrics similar to that. He had one verse that said something like "You look real funny baby, with my pistol in your mouth -- you may think you're goin' north, but your brains is goin' south." And then he did have a few incidents in motel rooms with prostitutes, whiskey and cocaine, but it never got as far as that. Here's Rocky doing a Townes song from that era
    6 points
  29. Chill dude. I’ll wear one next time. I was actually just posing as a pest control guy, she told me you wouldn’t be home.
    6 points
  30. Fuck Tunmise the candy ass. I wish he would go to OU so that we could stomp his ass on an annual basis. I'd respect him more if he just came out and said Texas wouldn't pay him his fee. How the fuck else do you explain A&M being in his top schools? Famous last words from AD was that he was going to OU to win national championships. He won zero. Sweet used Lexus though! Hope that curse y'all keep talking about is real.
    6 points
  31. Jackass door to door salesman just came by my house. No mask, nothing. Just standing in my doorway as the kids opened the door to go out front and play. Kids had to come get me from the office. Told him to get the fuck off my property, put on a mask if he was going to go talk to everyone of my neighbors, and stop being a dip shit. Look I really don't give a fuck if you need to make some sales and your model is pimping pest control door to door, but step the fuck well back and wear a mask if your coming on to my property you dip shit.
    6 points
  32. Reopening doesn't seem to be changing the trend yet, as things continue to normalize I am still expecting something to happen. I adjusted the scale of the transmission trend (lower left blue) so that the more recent data is distinguishable. The herd immunity trend (lower left orange) was re-scaled as well for R0=3. The top of the chart is the required resistance for Rt=1, which is where the peak of the infection curve occurs. I plan on adjusting this as we go based on the changing trend and new studies. It's still a guess.
    6 points
  33. Some actual good news. I mentioned Mrs. Canecutter was shocked at the slackitude she witnessed going back to work. Well, the next day, everybody there was masked up tighter than a veteran infantry unit before a gas attack on the Western Front, 1918. Did she rat them out? No. Two things happened-- an older grandfatherly science type had gently explained how viruses travel, and what you can do about it, and also, an HR dude that everybody is scared of sent out an email reminding them of Birmingham's mask ordinance with the implication that they'd lose some $ if they didn't quit fucking around. It's like trying to keep a sock on a toddler. Saban has probably saved lives with his PSA to put your mask on or else you don't get Foobaw. That, plus Pat Dye getting the Rona might help make it easier for the weak-willed to buck their peer group's bravado. I don't have any faith in it holding up. People are just too damn slack. Saban, Mrs. Canecutter, and myself are the three people in this state psychotically obsessed enough to execute any plan for several months. (Oh, and whenever Saban says "execute," at my house, you have to drink. Even if you just imagined him saying it. Drink up.)
    6 points
  34. 6 points
  35. In 2018, 48,344 people died from suicide in the US. We're not even in June yet and over 96,000 Americans have already died from COVID-19. The lockdown definitely negatively affects the mental health of Americans and there'll probably be a suicide bump this year but the idea that it's affecting Americans to the point that suicides will outnumber COVID deaths, which is what that article is insinuating, is completely absurd.
    6 points
  36. The previous goddamn administration who went beyond playing Monday morning qb and was proactive taking measures without regard to who would ultimately get the credit but with the future interest of the country in mind. That's who.
    5 points
  37. Yea that kid seems to suck. If he hates texas so much he should have just gone to OU.
    5 points
  38. Everyone has been pulling out “Why Henry Ford Was A Terrible Horrible Person” after Trump’s dumb comment today and this is possibly my favorite - That evil nazi fuck is why I had to suffer through that promenade and do-si-do garbage in middle school!
    5 points
  39. NowThis wait that was a suicide. sorry. carry on
    5 points
  40. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
    5 points
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