Jump to content

Armybrat

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    23424
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    7

Everything posted by Armybrat

  1. 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.
  2. Who translated for him, Barbara Billingsley ?
  3. Yes, on aisle 12 at Academy Sports….
  4. And specialized training for their future workplace ….
  5. Armybrat

    Getting old sucks

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

    Getting old sucks

    Whacked - now waiting an hour for the lab report to see if he got it all.
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. Techsters protesting the B12 tortilla ban…. 😄
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. I am looking forward to the Horns giving the bucknuts a Cleveland Steamer like they did to Meatchicken in Ann Arbor last year.
  16. We don’t mind tall bar stools, but there should be some kind of rail to rest our gnarly feet on.
  17. That’s a felony anywhere in the civilized world.
  18. It was unremarkable and those barstools at the tall tables sucked. Our geezer happy hour group met up there once and we couldn’t sit comfortably because there wasn’t anyplace to park our feet. IIRC, the pizza wasn’t particularly noteworthy.
  19. Amusing anecdote about that little runabout: One fine summer mid morning I had a date with my gf (see pic) to take her waterskiing on Lake Austin. Launched the boat at Walsh Landing, left her holding the line at the dock while I put the car & trailer rig up in the nearby parking lot. When trotting back down to the dock I noticed something was kinda odd - she was standing there with a bewildered look on her face holding the line, but the boat was sinking. Seems that my dumb ass forgot to make sure the drainage plug was secure in the stern transome. The interior was almost a fourth full of water and the stern was starting to really tilt downwards. I managed to jump in and get the drainage plug in place, then frantically started bailing with my hands. She tied the line and got in to grab two plastic cups that we used to continue bailing. After a few minutes enough water was out so I could start the Evinrude 40 outboard. Good thing the battery was secured & dry in a waterproof case. She untied the line and I backed it away from the dock, then ahead at full throttle. As soon as we were up to about half speed, I told her to pull the plug so it could start draining - which it did completely in just a few minutes. After that we went on with the running around on the lake. Too bad I couldn’t take any pics of her skiing in that nice yellow two piece swimsuit. She filled it out nicely. After we both had graduated later I heard she had married a psychiatrist.
  20. Yeah, that world is a distant one from my 14’ Glasspar 60 years ago….
×
×
  • Create New...