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abuelo gringo

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  1. But didn't merthiolate sting even more? Can't be sure - too many years.
  2. Beisboll been berry berry good to me.
  3. I had a red Schwinn also, maybe a year or two later. Mine didn't have a speedometer, light, or tool bag, however. It did have three speeds with the little changer on the handlebars like that one appears to have. That convinced me there was a Santa, as the boxes (older bro got one, too) were out by the curb marked $69.95, and I knew my parents couldn't have swung $140 for these two bikes for Christmas. I guess I didn't know about lay-away and credit at the time.
  4. Inside the Guthrie Center?
  5. Had their Bier Haus Burger last night. Juicy and flavorful, on a tasty bun (Hawaiian?) Didn’t do the swings. Others in party had the fish and chips and breaded shrimp basket. Good experience - would go back.
  6. In after second episode. Certainly a different storyline. Good, not great so far. Wondering where it all goes, so will watch it all.
  7. abuelo gringo

    LBGTQ

    Taco tastes like bacon?
  8. abuelo gringo

    LBGTQ

    My paternal grandmother (Pauline Olenda) had five sisters - Neva, Opal Lorene, Elba Iona, Verna, and Myrtie Mae. And my mother's name was Mildred. None of which I think were gay or trans. God knows the source of some of these old names.
  9. Why are they yelling frijoles?
  10. Dick Law Firm. "Put our name in their mouth." He looks more like a car salesman than an attorney - but then I've never met the average Surly barrister. "It's easy getting Dick." "Better get Dick."
  11. Sandy Berger, former Clinton adviser, took classified documents out of the National Archives. It was reported he tried to smuggle them out in his socks. He pled guilty. He was working for Kerry's election campaign at the time.
  12. They're now calling Mark Welsh Trev? I can see Trey (he's Mark Welsh III) but can't see the Trev.
  13. As stated many times in the Fuck the Police thread, the police will always protect their own from accountability. This includes retired police officers working as independent investigators. Just another scam.
  14. All those libs over at Pepsico.
  15. Apologies to Abe Lemons - like scoring one less point than a dead man.
  16. Weren't all those (including Trump) who came in below William Henry Harrison like coming in second to a dead man?
  17. Michael Corcoran had a good write up. You can read a lot of his work at michaelcorcoran.net or subscribe to his emails at the same location. Great for long time Austinites or people who want to learn Austin music history. Spoilered for length.
  18. I feel similarly, only it's been over 50 years since I was at UT. Yes, I'm a boomer, but not one of those with an "inability to think critically about how the common good and the individual interest can be aligned." At times, I get angry and revert to the borderline radicalism of my youth. I guess what has changed the most is my opinion on how to go about effecting change and how quickly we can expect it. (If ever.)
  19. Only if the good guys win ultimately.
  20. Reminiscent of the brown shirts.
  21. My wife likes to repurpose leftover fries as hashbrowns. Add to a little braised onion and spices. We almost never eat all the fries some places serve and it saves her time and trouble cutting up or shredding potatoes.
  22. I was at that 1964 Cotton Bowl also. My brother was home for the Christmas break of his plebe year at USNA. He had secured four tickets in the south end zone and he and I (a junior in high school) double dated to the game. He seemed very sure that Staubach and company would prevail, but me and my date had the last laugh. I came down to Austin for school in September of '65, but my date ended up at SMU. We both ended up meeting our spouses at college. It would be nice to have kept my ticket, but it would probably have been lost in a flood several years ago with many other mementos.
  23. Yes, Second Ave. was the closest to the grove. Dallas was dry in all but precinct 1. In high school, we would drive down there and have some old character near the liquor store go in and buy us a half pint. I was never ripped off, but it did happen. this was in the mid sixties.
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