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Armybrat

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  1. No. Yes.
  2. That “annexation” campaign didn’t age very well.
  3. My paternal grandmother loved watching the ‘rasslin’ matches every Friday night.
  4. It was a rarity to see it in Austin. IIRC, it was here to make an appearance above Memorial Stadium as a part of a televised football game.
  5. The one with a mule.
  6. Apparently the cracker has crumbled.
  7. My son - from 1991 - says hi……
  8. Twat waffle > cunt waffle….….… …….evolution in front of our eyes.
  9. Some of you guys should spend the off season in Patagonia.
  10. Should’ve worn something heavier than your username.
  11. I smh every time one of those inbred mouthbreathers vents his psychotic hatred for Schloss. Just illustrates how much more cognizant & civilized the average Frog fan is than any of those clodhopping yokels.
  12. Hopefully Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor is burning in Hell.
  13. Post doesn’t quite jibe with username.
  14. Track speed on the football field?
  15. When it started, my roommate & I were having burgers at the Holiday House on The Drag. Wondering what all the sirens were zooming by, we walked back through the covered passageway to the parking lot where some other “spectators” hollered at us to take cover. That’s when we heard loud gunfire from the Tower, and looked up to clearly see him leaning over the parapet shooting down. We only stayed there for a few minutes, then when Whitman moved around out of sight we drove out of the lot over to the Plantation House restaurant lot on 19th for a “safer” view. Then we drove over to our West Campus apartment to watch it on live TV. When we saw the white flag waving (by the cops on the observation deck) we ran from the apartment eastward on 24th to the Drag, down to the Co-op, then up the West Mall to the Tower, where hundreds of people had gathered & were milling around. I saw an older guy, obviously a Texas Ranger in a suit - with Stetson and a badge on his belt - walking around with a Thompson. Also saw a Daily Texan student “reporter” with a notepad in hand and somewhat comically with an old Army helmet on his head.
  16. Muff Wheeler - shot through her hand while bending over to help her two friends after they were hit fatally by Whitman. It took her years to recover her mental state.
  17. 1 August 1966. I was there watching it happen while crouched behind a car in a parking lot on 21st close to Littlefield Fountain. It most certainly affected Austin more than the Yogurt Shop tragedy. The memory of stepping over pools of blood immediately afterward on the sidewalk near the Co-op and on the South Mall still brings back chills.
  18. What they found in Fort Knox when they inspected
  19. Nah, Mrs. Brat’s old T-shirt celebrates a more memorable event than the Relays…
  20. In the early 1970s when my oldest son was about four years old, the wife & I took him down to the old Austin Mueller airport where the Goodyear Blimp was on display. The public was invited to park on surrounding streets and walk onto the airport grounds off to the side away from the runway area where it was tethered to the ground. We went that morning along with hundreds of other families - and as we walked across the grassy grounds approaching the blimp it got bigger & bigger. It really was an impressive sight, and my son gawked wide-eyed in awe loudly exclaiming two or three times, “Gawd damn, gawd damn….” while several people sterted staring at the profane little kid. I was holding in the laughter, but Mrs. Brat was mortified and tried to pretend she didn’t know that mouthy boy.
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