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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Would legit wear this as a t-shirt if the proceeds went to PP and other reproductive rights initiatives.
  2. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. OK, fuck that. But in the summer of '88--3 days after I'd graduated from HS--I got a job a summer job as a custodian at the company my old man worked for. They had a program where HS grads and college students could get a 3 month job doing the shit that's now farmed out to subs across the land: mailroom, cafeteria, security, janitorial, etc. You pretty much had to be at least a sophomore in college to get the security gig which was the best: highest pay, plenty of OT, get paid to do homework. I didn't start UT until the fall so I was stuck cleaning floors and emptying the trash. Which wasn't so bad, really. But I came on about 6 weeks before their new, massive campus was opening up just north of Tumbleweed hill. Which was out in the middle of BFE back then. 1.2 million square feet of still under construction R&D space. Our first job? Clean the bathrooms. All 32 sets of them. This is when I discovered that construction workers can apparently piss and shit anywhere, at any height or angle imaginable. They didn't care that the plumbing wasn't working. If there was a urinal, commode, sink or fucking water fountain it was a repository for bodily fluids. Additionally, they liked instructing the foremen they hated the most how they should suck their dicks, fuck their mothers, and eat shit & die in english, spanish and/or spanglish by writing it on the walls...in their own shit. Quite a feat, actually. I was 18, 6'1 and 165 lbs soaking wet and I couldn't wrap myself in enough Tyvek and gloves. We used every industrial strength cleaning chemical known to man to try and clean that shit. There were 2 or 3 other kids like me, plus a handful of "professional" janitors who were probably about 35 but looked like they were 90 to us. They'd walk into any spot without a fucking bit of PPE on because that would make it harder for them to smoke their cigs. I spent a solid month scraping, cleaning and washing away shit. On the bright side, I was making $9/hr which was a king's ransom for a HS kid with a fake ID in those days. The place had multiple locker rooms (which we cleaned first and were kept spotless). We'd work 3P - 11P, clean up, and could get from Four Points to Pearls in 15 minutes. 6th Street wasn't much longer of a drive. In retrospect, that might have been my best job. The shit I dealt with then was a lot more honorable and direct than the corporate bullshit I spent the following 35+ years being covered in.
  3. Finally got a text back from aggy BIL re: the Moffitt hire. "Best decision so far!" Which, when compared to the choices Melko has made to date is akin to "at least he was wearing rubber soled boots when he grabbed the live 220v wire."
  4. My aggy BIL is filling his own jizz jar over the Moffitt hire. He's been drooling about him for years and as recently as this Sept 9th--before aggy lost to Miami and we beat Alabama that--he was telling me that Texas blew it by not hiring Moffitt and we'd never be physical enough for the SEC. Lulz
  5. Repping you for that awesome Samsung PNF8500 plasma and the fact that it's still running! I loved mine until the power supply went tits up. Still the sexiest integrated stand on a TV ever.
  6. Ahh, a true Irishman to the bone. Nicely done, Bono. And I misread your original post, JJ, and thought you joined your friends in Chicago for this quarterly get together, or at least on occasion. I was kinda jealous of that level of friendship.
  7. Definitely a cool pic, @jimmyjazz More details, please, on how this happened. Bono just walked in, saw how awesome y'all were and said "I want to take a selfie with you cool dudes"? And I realize it's all camera perspective, but he almost looks taller than most of your crew which would make y'all a bunch of liliputians.
  8. December and Charlie Brown Christmas are my go to LPs this time of year. Looks like you're covered.
  9. Yep. Love that man's voice. But how much longer until that guitar disintegrates while he's playing it?
  10. Did Howell actually write "he has a high level of comfortability at A&M"? Who the fuck talks/writes like that? Are TexAgs subscribers paying by the syllable or something?
  11. I know it won't happen, but a guy can dream about a T'Vondre statue outside of DKR-TMS someday, can't he?
  12. Without a doubt. The right character at a pivotal time in our nation's history, all in the hands of an actor who was confident and brave enough to be the character without cutting any corners to make himself look better.
  13. Didn't realize he got divorced again. Is that two ex-wives? And like 5 kids? Fucking ouch.
  14. 1) Tom Brokaw - 84 2) Pete Townsend - 79 3) Jerry Seinfeld - 70 (that's hard to believe) 4) Eddie Murphy - 63 5) Jane Pauley - 74 6) Michael Jordan - 61 7) Timothy Chalamet - 28 8.) Harry Styles - 30 9) David Lee Roth - 70 and it would end the universe as we know it, but 10) Taylor Swift - 35
  15. And golf. I know Karsten is a great track & Holder built a powerhouse golf program somehow, but it's still wild that they get so many talented golfers to commit to stillwater.
  16. Has been reported numerous times, but we were the home team & elected to wear icy whites.
  17. Oh shut the fuck up with "god having a hand in this" bullshit, Harbaugh.
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