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1978horn

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  1. 5 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

    It's possible imgur has banned hotlinking to Surly. They've done things like this in the past on another board I post on, possibly because too many NSFW images were being hosted.

    If this is the case why are some showing up and not others?  I have one from yesterday still working, but 3 from last week that are not.  Doesn't seem consistent enough for a hotlinking ban to Surly.

  2. Wasn't there a bond package 20ish years ago to fix the Y intersection with an overpass?  I vaguely remember something like that, but the Oak Hill residents fought it and won out.  Now they are begging for one.   There used to be a strip of stores right after William Cannon all the way to the Y.  

  3. I drive it every day and try to stay in the right lane the whole way.  At least that gives me an extra half a second to react.  We moved out towards Dripping Springs 4 years ago and there has probably been close to 20 people die on that stretch.  We came up on one a couple years ago that had just happened with a dead body laying in the the middle of the road.  My 11 year old still talks about the time we saw the dead body. 

    It badly needs to be reworked, but like Godzilla said, it is going to take a while.  It is only going to get worse.  I think I heard about year ago that they are expecting 10k new homes in the next 5 years on 290 west of the Oak Hill Y.

  4. 18 hours ago, Gil Bang said:


    Wasn’t GOO a skinny guy? Met him at a tailgate once.

    I believe so.  I never met him, but I recall a pic of him in a neck brace after an accident or some shit like that.  I think people started to give him a lot of shit on TOS and he faded away.  He was on HF as well before the move.

  5. On 3/31/2018 at 7:49 PM, Chuychanga said:

    I believe it was the next parking lot north of where Dallas nightclub was.  Gibson’s was set back a bit due to its parking lot and the store faced Burnet while Dallas was sideways and faced north (the old one anyway... I think).  Today the spot I’m thinking it was in is a Tuesday Morning and several other shops in a newer building. They sit behind Tumble22 Hot Chicken today.  If Gibson’s wasn’t where that  Tuesday Morning is then it may have been the next block up, but it was definitely no further south than that.

    I grew up around there. We used to shop at the Safeway that’s now a car dealership just south of all that at Justin Ln.

    Drug Emporium was in that strip center as well.

  6. Chalke is pure smoke, Sweetin is not even close. 

    I enjoyed it for what it was.  18+ million viewers is insane, especially since it got that for the 2nd episode as well.  Episode 3 dropped to 15 million.  If it stays anywhere near that for the rest of the season we will get a few more seasons.

  7. Caught a TD pass from Drew Brees on the beach in high school.  This was before he was the starter at Westlake.

    Hung out with Stone Cold Steve Austin in a New Orleans bar.  I was rather inebriated and put my hand on his shoulder and asked if wrestling was real or fake.  He then put me in a headlock until I almost passed out, my friends just stood there and laughed not knowing what else to do.

    Saw Darrell Royal outside the stadium in a car about 2 years before he passed and he was looking pretty frail.  I just looked at him, gave him a Hook'em.  He looked right into my eyes and gave me the best Hook'em I have ever seen.

     

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  8. Just now, TtomTerrific said:

    Hancock was definitely the Austin Country Club...it's where Harvey Penick began his career.  Hyde Park was the end of the earth...a ritzy neighborhood "Way out north"

    Speedway was the only road between Austin and Round Rock and it took all day by horse and buggy, navigating the washouts and the boulders in the road.

    Armybrat sock?

  9. 1 minute ago, Bottlecap said:

    oh wow. so, hancock used to be a full 18 hole course? pretty interesting. Crazy how the terrain between the two nines is so different. the original back nine looks like a links course.

    I think that Hancock used to be the old Austin Country Club.

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