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BottleRocket

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  1. Hey Buff- have you considered that your ex helped the other woman, not because she placed her needs above your daughter’s needs, but rather that she knew your daughter was in good hands?
  2. Were you able to bring them down from full MSRP? Where did you buy it?
  3. This isn't really on topic but I didn't know where else to put it. My grandmother passed away in Fort Worth last year and I ended up with boxes of old cards, letters, pictures, and books that belonged to my Grandfather. I've posted here before that my family traces back to the Burleson family of Texas frontier fame. Anyway, hidden in a picture frame was this folded up bill. It's not in very good shape and pretty fragile. It's a "Government of Texas" issued 10 dollar bill dated 1838 and signed by Sam Houston. I also found this Mexican money.
  4. Can’t you fly in to Ft Myers and take the Key West Ferry Express? That’s the way to do it.
  5. I was rear ended and my car was totaled. At fault driver had progressive and I had USAA. I turned the process over to USAA and only had to give a five minute statement over the phone with the progressive folks. USAA got me a rental car right away and cut me a check for the whole mess a week later. They waived my entire deductible.
  6. Tank Farm, it’s a petrol house
  7. You could always get a quick disconnect for about $10.
  8. I'll take some random internet advice because I know nothing about tires and I'm cheap. I need 4 new tires for my 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. OEM are Goodyear Fortera HL P245 70R17 Sams total, installed w/ roadside $ 755 Discount Tire installed w/ roadside $790 I'm not firm on replacing w/ OEM and open to suggestions. HELP!
  9. To bad Bundy didn’t do us all a solid and off himself with Kahula and heart meds. Damn lol
  10. You might want to make an appointment with these guys if one is convenient to where you live. My insurance covered it after copay. After three or four sessions things got better. I'd put it at 60% improvement. https://www.airrosti.com/ From their website: "Frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis, is a condition characterized by stiffness and pain in your shoulder joint. The bones, ligaments, and tendons that make up your shoulder joint are encased in a capsule of connective tissue. Frozen shoulder occurs when this capsule thickens and tightens around the shoulder joint, restricting its movement. Signs and symptoms typically begin gradually, worsen over time and then resolve, usually within one to three years. If you’ve injured your shoulder or are suffering from chronic shoulder pain, and you don’t use your shoulder for a long time, your joint will stiffen up. From there, it becomes a vicious cycle. If your joint begins to stiffen up, it’s more difficult and painful to use your shoulder, so you use your shoulder even less. Eventually, the lining of the joint will get stiff, severely limiting shoulder movement. Frozen shoulder typically begins slowly and in three stages. Each stage can last a number of months. The first stage is the freezing stage. Any movement of your shoulder causes pain, and your shoulder’s range of motion starts to become limited. You then move into the frozen stage, where pain may begin to diminish, but your shoulder becomes stiffer and more difficult to use. Finally, you enter the thawing stage. Range of motion typically begins to improve in this stage, but pain may worsen at night and potentially disrupt sleep. It’s unusual for frozen shoulder to recur in the same shoulder, but some people can develop it in the opposite shoulder. Certain factors may increase your risk of developing frozen shoulder. People who are 40 and older, particularly women, are more susceptible. People who’ve had prolonged immobility or reduced mobility of the shoulder are at significantly higher risk of developing frozen shoulder."
  11. Macy’s, JC Penny’s, Kohl’s - look for a sale 30-50% off.
  12. The whole town saw Jimmy on the six o’clock news His brains were on the sidewalk and blood was on his shoes C’mon, baby, spend the night with me John Prine
  13. https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1996-09-20/524617/ A Small World After All FRI., SEPT. 20, 1996 What happened to all you people on Friday and Saturday? Everyone was abuzz over the One World Music Festival during the weeks prior to it, and the weather was fine, despite early fears that George Clinton's Mothership would end up being an Ark. Still, it seemed like a low turnout during the first two days. Guestimates from Chronicle attendees are approximately 900 for James Brown on Friday, 1,500 or so for Bunny Wailer and Spearhead on Saturday, and between 5,000-8,000 on Sunday for Clinton. One World is still counting, but Public Relations Director Dan Smith offers considerably higher preliminary figures for Friday and Saturday. Those involved with One World don't appear to be nervous about covering expenses -- such as paying the Godfather of Soul $55,000 and Ian Moore $10,000 -- or the fact that the festival has declared bankruptcy in three other previous cities. When confronted with the matter, Smith said simply that "everyone's paid." He added that due to the cleanliness of those in attendance, lack of traffic problems and fights or arrests, the owners of Resort Ranch are welcoming the festival's return next year, which is exactly what Smith & Co. hope to do. Here is a review of George Clinton's act that weekend: "After opener Buddha Bass something-or-other finished their set, the stage announcer -- some Nineties Wavy Gravy holdover who used three and only three adjectives (irie! phat! and righteous!) -- said enthusiastically, "Art rock is not dead." Well the person who resurrected it ought to suffer through something at least as horribly painful as BB's set. Next, Zuba's lead singer continually implored the crowd to "express yourselves," meaning roughly, "Please, get up and dance." Silly girl, people were expressing themselves; their continued immobility was their way of saying, "Your brand of mediocre white-bread funk displeases us immensely, now please go away quickly." Then again, you'd have to be a complete jerk to bother complaining about any of those things, because it took one nanosecond of Fishbone to right the day. There's nothing like a burlesque, blaxploitation sideshow stage act complete with a soulish, funky, ska, rockin' reggae thing (did I leave out any genres?) to put some shake in even the whitest of butts. By the time De La Soul hit the stage, the crowd was so amped it would've welcomed Vanilla Ice as if he were Chuck D. They weren't either, thankfully, and it's tough to figure out how the inventive NYC hip-hop trio gets trashed for sub-par live shows. Then George Clinton, after an arrogant and inflated intro (lose the 20-minute guitar solo please!), brings 25 musicians, a space ship, and Bootsy Collins out with him over the course of, like, a week. He and the rest of the P-Funkers flat wore the crowd out. He was big, strong, and funky with more endurance than Abebe Bikila, some punk Manchester raver on five hits of X, and Methusela combined. You think he's cheating by rotating fresh players in and out of the line-up from song to song, then you realize there were 7,500 of us in the crowd, and we couldn't hang. Rock & roll won't save your soul. The truth won't set you free. But on any given night, George Clinton can give you all the bass you need for well over three hours. Is that worth $30? Best damn bargain on the planet. -- Michael Bertin"
  14. I saw James Brown, George Clinton, De La Sol, and Toots & The Maytals play in..... get this..... Driftwood, TX in 1996.
  15. I first read this as "What's your prison" and thought Allan B. Polunsky Unit.
  16. csb/ In the '90's my (now ex) wife was applying for a Phd program at UT. I had a friend working as a data input clerk at admissions at the time. When he got my ex's application he changed her ethnicity from Caucasian to black in hopes that it would increase her chances. Didn't work. /
  17. Also, would someone please chop an AU on the orange part of the sweater. Thanks.
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