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Armybrat

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  1. Smoking that cigarette wasn’t doing his health any good.
  2. My oldest son & 1st wife bought this house on Triton Court in Lakeway 30+ years ago. Lived there for several years before they were divorced. It has been totally renovated in recent times. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/103-Triton-Ct-Lakeway-TX-78734/29350900_zpid/
  3. Maybe both.
  4. Yep, every once in a while we would see an open bed truck driving around the streets with a bunch of wailing/crying people in back dressed in KKK type robes & hats. A few times a couple dozen “mourners” were packed in the back of big dump trucks. The deceased must’ve been well off contruction types. They raised quite a racket.
  5. Yep, a B12 coach bullshit downvoted Texas enough to make a difference in that poll. Briles?
  6. At the US Military Compound in downtown Taipei during the late 1950s, the Officers’ Club had a windowless room about 25’x25’ with slot machines lined up on all four walls. Minor dependents were not permitted, but I peeked in to see if my Mom was winning anything. The place was packed and the cigarette smoke was almost too thick to see across the room from the door. It was like that every Friday & Saturday evening. At that time Taipei had no television stations, no American movie theaters, and only one US Armed Forces Radio station for entertainment. Most of the US military wives drank heavily.
  7. Who translated for him, Barbara Billingsley ?
  8. Yes, on aisle 12 at Academy Sports….
  9. And specialized training for their future workplace ….
  10. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Lab says Doc got it all.
  11. Maybe Shaggy is where I saw that photo posted
  12. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Whacked - now waiting an hour for the lab report to see if he got it all.
  13. One of those captured German V-1 “buzz bombs” was on static display at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas when when Dad was attending the CGSS there (1949-59). We armybrats used to crawl all over that thing & straddle it like Slim Pickens.
  14. This Cajun joint in Round Rock seems ok, but I just go there for the CFS - but Mrs. Brat likes their shrimp dishes. https://www.thelouisianalonghorncafe.com/menu
  15. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

    Good lord man! You definitely should get fitted for a nerf suit. You’re a tough old bird, but come on, watch out! This surgeon is gonna carve a basal cell carcinoma spot off my forehead this afternoon. If he’s Sicilian, I hope he doesn’t get too carried away with his knife. http://www.bswhealth.com/physician/dominic-ricci
  16. Some schools have no shame. But Texas had a brief brush with similar stupidity. I recall during the Mack Brown years one time the official Texas football website had added a “South Division championship” to that season’s record. It didn’t take long for that embarassing idiocy to be noticed and ignominiously removed.
  17. Techsters protesting the B12 tortilla ban…. 😄
  18. That would’ve been fascinating for me too. Growing up as an Army brat, all the stories I heard were from that branch of the military. And a few of the stories were of the Korean War which was currently going on at the time. The Army hospital on our post had a lot of recovering casualties from that conflict as patients. I & my brother delivered the Miami Herald newspaper to some of those wards. So seeing some of the troops all bandaged up, some as amputees, brought that war close to home for me. When my dad was a kid in a very small rural Missouri town over a century ago, he was friends with two Civil War veterans, one of whom was a survivor of the infamous Andersonville prison in Georgia.
  19. 45 years ago one of the dads on our Little League team had been a member of the Hitler Youth in his younger days. Served in the German Army postwar. Good guy & a friend.
  20. I am looking forward to the Horns giving the bucknuts a Cleveland Steamer like they did to Meatchicken in Ann Arbor last year.
  21. We don’t mind tall bar stools, but there should be some kind of rail to rest our gnarly feet on.
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