Everything posted by Armybrat
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Jordan Shipley - Texas Athletics Hall of Honor
Ship is a tough guy and will make it, but may need a long time to recover. Mrs. Brat’s boyfriend from her high school and college days was shot down while piloting his chopper during Vietnam. Miraculously he survived, but with severe burns over extensive parts of his body, including his legs, arms, back & head. His hair, nose, ears, & lips were burned off, but fortunately he saved his eyes when he held his arm across them. He spent about two years at Brooke Army Hospital recovering - multiple surgeries and lying face down for most of that time. The surgeons also grew him a new nose by cutting a flap of flesh part way from his good arm and attaching it to his face. His arm had to be strapped in close position for a couple of months so the new strip could grow into place before being separated from the arm. It all worked out successfully, and he recovered enough to remain on active duty and eventually commanded an Army aviation batallion before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Like Shipley, he was a good athlete in school, so that undoubtedly helped his recovery. Goods thoughts for Jordan and his family. 🤘🏻❤️🤘🏻
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
That “dominant” period was based on cheating by a POS Jackie Sherrill crew who got them on double secret probation, narrowly missing the Death Penalty, severe sanctions including TV and bowl bans. Then he was fired and went on to MSU where they were also sanctioned for cheating. Yeah, something to be proud of by a fan base that still has no clue about their hypocritical, dirty history.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
An acquaintance posted this on another forum : 12:14 AM - Today#57 He’s such a proud sailor…🤣" Our son…the one in the Navy…got tagged for urinalysis monitor duty…what an honor. 😆" Here’s the text message I got from him about his experience. 😂"
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
I just emailed this to the USPS to complain about the lack of delivery service for the past 11 months. We’ll see how long it takes to get any competent action.
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
- 2025 Citrus Bowl - Texas vs. Michigan - 2:00pm on ABC
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Post a pic that makes you say "Holy shit."
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Post a pic/gif/tweet that makes you say "very cool"
I don’t recall when I first saw a color tv, but it might have been in the late 1960s at my parent’s house. I do remember seeing the first b&w tv at the bar in the Fort Leavenworth Officer’s Club about 1949 or ‘50. It was a round tube screen about 12” diameter. It picked up a station in Kansas City. Then we were stationed in Puerto Rico 1950-54 (no tv stations there), followed by a stint in St. Louis 1954-57 (1 b&w tvchannel). After that off to Taiwan until 1959 with no tv there either. Finally back to Austin with its one b&w channel owned by the LBJ family. Never saw a football game in my life until we got settled in Austin and I was a high school freshman.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Well, we are off to a good start in the Meadows this week…..nobody got shot overnight.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Never mind Austin, WTF is wrong with my quiet Brushy Creek neighborhood by Round Rock? Double murder by a juvenile early this morning just one block from our house: http://www.kxan.com/news/local/round-rock/two-found-dead-in-home-outside-of-round-rock-juvenile-in-custody/ We were wondering what the Wilco sheriff’s department alert that blared loudly from all our phones at 4:30am this morning was all about. Saw the cove blocked off with the crime scene tape and the Austin TV station cameras across the street when we happened to drive by there to & from dinner in Round Rock this afternoon. Just now read online what occurred. We don’t know anyone in that part of the neighborhood.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
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This is who Steve Sarkisian is.
- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
We had three boys. State Farm auto insurance made $$$$ when all 3 started driving.- Tell Me About Texas a&m
- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
To top it all off for our weekend….. At 4:30am our landline telephone and both cellphones rang & lit up with a “shelter in place, lock your doors & windows - a law enforcement operation is going on near your location “ warning from the sheriff’s department. First such emergency warning besides weather that we’ve ever had here in our quiet suburb. Naturally, it was difficult to go back to sleep, and when we were both about to snooze off again around 7:30, the all clear message rang up just as loudly. The message included a map that showed the “incident” took place two blocks away. No info about the nature of the ruckus, Nice way to get up on a sunny Saturday.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Went to the credit union bank and got the security clampdown on all our accounts and were reassured nobody could raid them. The fraud people will be working on our case and should credit our checking account for the $5,100 that was actually paid out towards a bunch of the credit card transactions. THAT should not have been allowed. Going in on Wednesday for a followup meeting.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
We just discovered that somebody called the credit union people yesterday and changed our contact information. Apparently they are attempting to to steal our identity to rob our account. I don’t think it is a coincidence because early last week we deposited a really large check that had been sent to us from an estate executor for an old family friend. Apparently the crooks have weaseled their way in through the credit card fraud they tried earlier.. They blocked our new replacement card that we just received in the mail Christmas Eve. My blood pressure has shot up badly already.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
We just discovered that some damned crook actually called our credit Union earlier this week and changed some information like phone numbers and email. Mrs. Brat is trying to deal with this shit on the phone right now (I cannot hear those people well enough even on speaker to help). Goddamned crooks have us extremely stressed right now.- Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Or how about credit card thieves? This shit started right before Christmas - Credit card crooks using computers to steal from our Visa card. Elan Financial Services faud investigators damn sure better restore that $$$$.$$ permanently. Gee, those transactions over two days really look legit, don’t they? Never heard of that kind of online business, much less what it does- Tell Me About Texas a&m
“Prestigious AAU membership” A&M wasn’t a member of the AAU until 2001 after they were generously sponsored by Big Brother Texas who had been a respected member since 1929.- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
*86 years- 2026 Sugar Bowl - Georgia vs. Ole Miss
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
Grainraiser Senior Member befriend Join Date: Feb 2008 8,547 posts, read 15,714,205 times Reputation: 7633 Man Bama fans are fuming and they ready to fire their coach. One guy rubbed it in and said Bama has not been this upset since the passing of the Civil Rights Bill. That one gave me a chuckle.- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
- 2026 CFP Quarterfinals Rose Bowl - #1 Indiana vs. #9 Alabama
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