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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Dealan-de: <strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> That's alright, she loves me! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yep. Our Jen is a sweet lil Kiwi...I'll bet she talks funny, tho. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I bet she talks like those folks in the Outback commercials! Jen do ya know what a "cut lunch" is?
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by TravellinMan: Ok, I will give a little more proof that there's no place like TEXAS! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> TM !!!!More stories please <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> Tell me about filming the movie ' Giant' in Texas.... I LOVE that film. Pep
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Here it's a lunch you make in the morning and take to work or school.
Was that a serious question?
Much as I'd love to stick around I have a meeting to go. Work, phooey.
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I saw that term on the menu at Outback and wondered if you really used it over there. Hate when work interferes with my online time! Have a great day, Jen! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
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Pep -
I dunno about 'Giant' - but here is some stuff about my beloved hometown - Houston...
You know you're from Houston if...
(Those of you who don't live in Houston may think this
is a list of exaggerations. Those who live here know
that these are absolute truths!)
Seven of the "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.
You have to turn on the air conditioning in January,
2 days after a low of 29 degrees.
Everybody has a story of a Flying Roach the size of
the Taco Bell Chihuahua.
When you see your neighbor dancing around the front
yard, you don't think he's won the Publisher's Clearing
House Sweepstakes; you know that he just
stepped in a fire ant bed.
You're on your way to work one February morning and
suddenly you're trapped in a traffic jam caused by a
chuck wagon and fifty riders on their horses.
You know that the Astrodome will always be the 8th
wonder of the world.
You come to work in short sleeves and walk out at
noon to find that a "blue norther" has blown through
and the temperature has dropped 40 degrees.
Your neighbor's Christmas yard decorations are a
re-creation of the gunfight at the OK Corral, complete
With a ten foot tree decorated with boots and cowboy
hats, and a Santa Claus who looks a lot like Wyatt Earp.
You wander into a section of town where you can't
read the street signs because they're written in
Asian characters instead of English, but you don't
care because you can get great prices on fake designer
merchandise and great food.
You go to an art festival and you're almost run down
by hand-holding cross dressers on roller blades.
You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're
referring to more than one person.
For a Chili Cook-Off, you'll use anything from
armadillo to frog legs, but you know that the only
GOOD chili is made with chopped - not ground - beef, and
it has NO beans and NO tomatoes.
Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and
1960 is not the year.
Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big
hair and faces that have gone east, west, and north
rather than south.
You can leave your house, head out of town, and an
hour later you still haven't left the city limits.
During rush-hour, you haven't left your
NEIGHBORHOOD.
You've never seen I-45 and I-10 in any condition
other than "under construction" - and you've lived
here for more than 30 years.
A 747 with the space shuttle riding piggyback has
actually flown low right over your house, and nobody
paid any attention to it.
You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac"
has amassed more than the U.S. Treasury.
You see nothing unusual about an eighty something
former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour
toupee and blue sun-glasses, mispronounces names,
allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries,
seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice
machine, and screams "MAR-VIN ZIND- ler,
iiiiiiii-witness news" into a television camera every
night.. But some folks are still upset with him for
shutting down the Chicken Ranch Bordello (go look it up).
If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a GOOD
hair day.
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OMG, I remember MAAAAAAAAAAAARVIN Zindler!! I lived in Houston in 80' - 82' and had my boys in Methodist Hosp. My DH just went down there for business this morning!
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TM - I live 60 miles north of you- LMAO. So True.
I bought my son a Chicken Ranch T-Shirt for Christmas. It says "Where the customer always comes first." He wears it all the time. (He is 23, by the way.) When I was 23 Maaahvinn had not closed it down yet.
BTW - MAARRVINN was in college with my father-in-law at Tarleton State. Maarrvinn was the drum major of the band there.
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OMG!!! How I miss this? Someone PLEASE go to Pappasito's for me. Get the Laredo Platter, bowl of queso, and a giant rita, and LAY YOUR FACE IN IT FOR ME!! Pretty Please?? Must eat at least one entire basket of chips, OK? I cant believe how Houston has changed since I left. Is Mattress Mac on TV anymore? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> LOL... what a place, huh? Here tell Zindler spent some time at the Ranch, himself... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="images/icons/blush.gif" /> When I was little, my grandparents took us ice skating at the Galleria every Christmas, followed by a drive through River Oaks to look at Christmas lights. I did that again a few years ago, it was still amazing! Chuys... I miss Chuys, too. <img border="0" alt="[Teary]" title="" src="graemlins/teary.gif" /> Anyone go to La Carafe?? Lola's? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> Mary's?? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> Ya'll take care - Dru <small>[ February 21, 2005, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Drucilla ]</small>
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howdy, fellow Texan!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
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Dru -
Chuy's is my all-time favorite place to eat. I even went there for dinner the night of my bachelor party. The Elvis Presley Memorial Combo is the ultimate Tex-Mex plate - now I am getting hungry!
Too bad not everyone in Houston agrees with me, as they closed the Richmond location down a few years ago...
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and heaven knows you can't get turnips to stick to your boobies.... OMG good thing I finished my drink before I read this!! LMAO <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> Pep, look what you started <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> I am still having trouble getting rid of the image of someone dancing around with scotch tape on her boobs. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
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Howdy! It's hard watching MT3B without thinking; 'I know some fellers what could make ole Ed disappear' <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <small>[ February 21, 2005, 03:49 PM: Message edited by: Drucilla ]</small>
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The original Chuys is in Austin, Dru....ate there at least once a week when pg with #1.
I like their chips and salsa better than Papas...not real big on the chains for my Mexican food, tho. I do love that Papas heats up their salsa - make's it nummier.
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Actually, Dru...my dh (who happens to be a deputy) has offered to "counsel" Ed. LMAO. We live down the road and around the corner from Kandi...
(y'all know anywhere in TX is down the road, right?)
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Let's keep the Texas praise-a-thon going....
THINGS TEXANS KNOW ABOUT TEXAS
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
Roadrunners don't say "Beep Beep."
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.
There are 10,000 types of spiders.. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple
no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
Texas has 5 seasons:
Summer - April 16 to July 15 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Super Summer - July 17 to Sept 10 (temp 100 to 115 degrees)
Summer - Sept 11 to Oct 1 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Fall - October 2 to Dec 1
The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct 2 until June 25, then stops totally until Oct 2
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
Coldbeer is one word.
People actually grow and eat okra.
Texans really don't have an accent.
When the world ends, only cockroaches and mesquite trees will survive.
Green grass DOES burn.
When you live in the country, you don't have to buy a dog. City people drop
them off at your gate in the middle of the night.
The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first couple
of weeks.
When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the doctor.
Fixinto is one word.
A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation.
The word dinner is confusing. There's only lunch and then there's supper.
Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're 2.
Backards and forards means I know everything about you.
"Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is.
You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
There's not place I'd rather be than TEXAS!!!!!
More Texanisms: You (we) know you're from Texas if:
You measure distance in minutes.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no on in it no matter what time of the year.
You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
You think that the first day of deer season is a holiday.
You find 100 degrees F "a little warm."
You know all four seasons: almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
You know whether another Texan is from East, West, North or South Texas as soon as they open their mouth.
There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or more.
Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin' wal-martin" or off
to the "Wally World."
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili weather.
A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop...it's a "Coke", regardless of brand or flavor.
You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Texas.
Y'ALL really shouldn't have got me started...
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Yeah, I've been a few Chuys in Austin, but my 'home' base was the one on Westheimer. I'm miss The Curve... Remember, it was the bartender at a Chuys in Austin called 911 on Jenna Bush drinking in the bar?? Next week, the special drink at the bar was a 'Jenna & Tonic' <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <small>[ February 21, 2005, 05:54 PM: Message edited by: Drucilla ]</small>
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Dealan-de -
Isn't the original the one near Zilker park? Been there when my WW and I were just dating back in '91.
Oh the memories....
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Down here it's always "island time." I'm rarely in a hurry anymore...I live in a place where other people go to vacation. Therefore, I get off work and I'm on vacation till the next morning....I love livin' on island time.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Isn't the original the one near Zilker park? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yeah. It's on Barton Springs Road.
I miss Barton Springs.
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Hi TM, The Elvis Presley Memorial Combination Platter. More food than any right person could eat, for what, about $9?? Cant believe the prices on such great food?? I lost 10 pounds when I moved... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />
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