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CoTex

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  1. You’re welcome.
  2. I guess we were just stupid.
  3. I just want to give it my best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out.
  4. I worked at one of those jet ski rental places where tourists come and rent a jet ski for a half-hour. One of us workers had to sit out on a "chase boat" all day, roasting in the sun, with a clipboard, while the others would rent jet skis, safety tips, put on the lifejacket, stay 100 yards apart, etc. Then, lead the tourists out to the operating area, on a jet-ski, check on chase boat operator, and ride back in. Clipboard guy has a whistle and he gives you the signal when your 30 is up. So, we figured out that we could sit out there on the chase boat all day, in the sun, and drink beer. Only real rule is nobody can see the beer and you can't come back in with a boat full of empties. So, we figured out that if you tear a beer can - twist it until it tears open, it will sink and be gone to the depths, forever. Routine then was, one person sits in chase boat, one person rides jet ski back and forth guiding the tourists to the operating area and that person would stop off at chase boat and "check on chase boat" which meant drink a beer with chase operator. Rotate every few hours - "chase needs to take a leak, I'm going to sit out here for a while." We would drink about 12 beers each, per day, at work. Seriously, put down a 12-pack, on the clock. Lukewarm coors light bud light or Red Dog. Nobody was the wiser until my friend, trying to tear a beer can and sink it, cut the fuck out of his hand and needed stitches. Our story didn't hold up, we smelled like beer (but in my mind my tolerance was so high I was not visibly drunk). Then all our coworkers ratted us out - "those fuckers have been doing this all summer." Terminated, not eligible for rehire. CS - wherever you are these days - I really enjoyed drinking at work with you, and I hope you are well.
  5. If I was trying to make the case that McCarthy was, in fact, a big brat (an ill-mannered immature person) I think this movie would get me most of the way home. He also made the case that, maybe he was the only one of the brat pack that was a … brat. The rest are just Hollywood weird folks. we’ve been trolled somehow.
  6. Left Hunt at 5:30. In Georgetown now. Light to medium rain the entire time.
  7. This is Bolivar Peninsula right now. I’m guessing it’s normally 3 feet from the bulkhead to the canal and that water is 6” over the bulkhead so, +\- 2.5 - 4 feet (tide swings 6-12” there) above average and raining. 99% of that water is high tide or surge - not rain.
  8. The poor kid that found it will have nightmares and an eating disorder.
  9. How good can the odds get if you're an excellent counter? Can you tilt the table in favor of the player or just get to even?
  10. CoTex

    Sushi

    If you want the stuff that is about to go in the dumpster, or was found on the side of the road on the way to work, order the "chef's special roll." That is basically raw opossum and snake meat with a thin slice of tuna on top and those little fried crunchy things, slathered in some sriracha/mayo blend to disguise the fact that you're eating garbage unfit for buzzards.
  11. Got 1 child at UT right now, tennis camp, ends Thursday afternoon. Got other child in Hunt at summer camp. That ends on 29th but she's the captain of the canoe for the damned canoe race, tomorrow afternoon. And, leaving on 7/2 to go to BVI to sail for a week. Likelihood a tropical weather event jams me up - gotta be approaching 100%. My best prediction is that tennis camp gets rained out on Wednesday, canoe race goes forward (farther west and south), and then my entire family survives a Cat 5 in the west indies, and we live like the Swiss Family Robinson or Castaway until Marriott and the cruise lines show up to rebuild.
  12. I was at the Hyatt in Downtown Houston when Ike was coming ashore in ‘08. Hotel lobby was full of search and rescue teams from places like Los Angeles. They had all their gear and shit stacked everywhere. National Guard must have showed up after I left. #teamhobby #pappasstrong
  13. I’ve done some stupid shit. I’m glad none of yall were present.
  14. I think you could make this distinction everywhere. Memphis isnt much like Knoxville. Philadelphia - little different than the dutch country. El Paso is Texas. Port Arthur isn’t any less Texas.
  15. Maybe they should blame John Hughes. He could have found some serious script and cast them all.
  16. No matter who you are, you have more to lose than a carnie does. Take that to the bank.
  17. My grandmother told me not to fight the dudes that worked out in the oil fields or the dudes from the rodeo. I think she had learned from watching her brothers down in the valley enough that she composed a model of fight success. She left out carnies, however, somewhere in my DNA I know that I also don’t want to ever fight a carnie. What’s the most you could win? Fake stuffed animal and hepatitis? Then the bearded lady knifes you? WTF? Fihting a carnie has got to be like fighting those people from snatch. The whole family.
  18. I like most of the actors - what I know about them. Emilio seemed pretty balanced. Sheedy seemed warm and kind. Lowe seemed like life was good to him, he knew it, and was truly grateful, Demi turned being pretty and having a husky voice into a good career, Timothy Hutton wasn’t worried about much - beekeeper. Jon Cryer did a lot more with a lot less than McCarthy. Kinda wish Cryer had been harder on AM. McCarthy stepped on his own wang with this project. Vanity project - look at me - didn’t work out. Try again bro.
  19. Should have just done “The Brat Pack” 40 years later and let them all tell stories about getting wasted and being entitled. Surely they have some stories.
  20. To come full circle, I don’t think Terence Howard is insane. Uneducated and susceptible to hack b.s. more like it. Can’t really tell from Wikipedia but my guess is he has limited education, had some spare time and a thirst for knowledge, and he got off track. Layer in some mj smoking and tendency to believe conspiracies and voila. He’s just repeating some shit someone else spun up and he’s half-assing that. Dude would really benefit from things like: 1. AP world/US History 2. Biology 1 at some community college 3. Astronomy 1 from some university 4. A weekly lunch with some smart successful people. I suspect he doesn’t really have access to any of these things. I bet most kids of surly participants have better sounding boards than he does. oh, and honest question, how much do they smoke before ring turns on the camera? That might be important.
  21. Shoulda gone the other direction and found me a “fashion merchandising” or “nutrition and diet” major at SWTSU.
  22. First job after college my office was at 6th and Congress. We saw things everyday and, as strange as this may sound, Leslie was consistent, predictable and somewhat sensible. there was one guy that would roll out this utility cable spool and stand on it and just go fucking berserk. He would keep increasing the intensity of his berserkitude until the cops showed. One day he taped water balloons on his chest like saggy tits. One day he brought out a full toilet and put it on top of the spool. One day he climbed the traffic light pole out over the street. I called him spoolman and, when spoolman showed there would be screaming and an arrest.
  23. There was some show that was a bunch of older ladies and a dude or two with some weird background and they sang/chanted the same song for a long time. Just nonsense - maybe it was religious - not certain - but under the right conditions that garbage would suck you in.
  24. I watched many hours of this shit. Alex Jones then was one of the more normal ones.
  25. If you gave me 10 years of royalty checks, unlimited internet, tv and marijuana, unrestrained by the responsibilities of my family and professional career, I would be worse. Compare him to some of the shit we watched on Austin public access from 1995-2005 and he’s average to boring. Maybe we should applaud him for being somewhat more sensible than Britney Spears. I mean, his clothes are on and he’s not dancing with knives.
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