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No. Most redneck thing was killing a hog with a plastic shard from a Larry the Cable guy VCR tape and then cooking the hog with Confederate money.

Not that are open at 8 in the morning and not between my hotel and the cotton bowl. Even if there were, I was not the driver, and my crew was already going through the withdrawal shakes and needed their wax cup beer.

11 AM is the correct answer. Arrive at the fair before 9AM eat and drink as much as you can. Find the secret cheap wax cup beer kiosk. Profit. ..and remember to pack your comfortable game shoes....one year I packed in the morning on Friday, went to work until noon and then headed up to Dallas, only to find on Saturday morning that I forgot my running shoes. The forecast for the day was unseasonably warm so I wore shorts with my lace up construction boots and my UT shirt. I was a sight to behold. 2nd most redneck thing I have ever done. Texas lost badly.

Looks like Peter Pan.

Does this thing tomorrow get its own thread or are we keeping it on the down low until things get real?

Using old photos, schedules, and my memory, I placed my allegiance somewhere in the 1973 season when I was 6 years old. At that point I didn't really understand what was going on so much, but it all seemed to be a big deal, so I got on board. Growing up in Austin, it was pretty much the default. Where it really hit overdrive was in the fall of 1975. My mom, knowing I was a fan, spotted a six pack display of Pearl Bear ( Could have been another brand, I still have the cans in my attic so I can check later), sporting the 1975 Texas Longhorns schedule on the back. So she bought a six pack, and my twin brother and I were allowed to finish off the dregs of a few. Not my first taste of the magic elixir, but what an association. As someone famous once said..."Ah, how sweet the wine". Ended up mostly watching on TV, except for a few Arkansas games and a few "band" days over the years. Ended up in LHB for 85-88 and the team sucked. Enjoyed the "Shock the Nation" tour while it lasted and I guess I technically finished BBA and MPA in fall of '90 so the Miami debacle didn't occur on my watch. CSB(re football team sucking): We always had tons of extra people that did not make LHB every fall and "those people", as I liked to call them, were usually swept up by the men's basketball band as a fall back. Womens' bball band was voluntary by game with regulars getting to attend playoff etc. When I first made LHB the men's basketball team sucked, but later on in the early Tom Pender's years they were pretty good and entertaining at least. When LHB tryout results were posted there were lots of long faces with the directors coming up to the people that didn't make it encouraging them with some kind words and a "hey, you know you can always be in the basketball band". With the reversal of fortunes between football and basketball, some of my friends and I drunkenly mused once that there would tryouts for the basketball band and the directors would swoop in on the unsuccessful with a "hey, you can always join the LHB on the football side and see if that helps for next year's luck on getting in the basketball band." I guess you had to be there.

Thanks, rainbow chicken. NBC.

At my parent's ranch in south Texas we have found some very large ones with main bodies in excess of 2" long. With the legs and everything they look huge an menacing. They have a nasty bite, so be careful if handling. My mom used to call them clothes eater when she was little as I think her family attributed the work of moth's to these guys, even though the wiki says they don't do that. Perhaps it's because they hung out in the cedar chests and dark closets where they stored their blankets and winter coats.

Can confirm. My folks built a new house in that same quadrant in 1972. We were on a street whose back yards backed up to an open field with a dirt track around it. Our street was a new add on to the existing subdivision and my dad built several houses on it in the early 70's. I learned how to ride a bike on that track. The field had hundreds of horned frogs living in it and we kids would go and catch them, but them in an open box and observe them for hours, then let them go at the end of the day. I found many iron ore meteorite type of rocks in that field as well. The bluebonnets were also pretty spectacular there. We moved even farther north in 1975 out by what is Parmer/Burnet area. There was also another open field field that fronted 183 in that quadrant. Well it wasn't exactly open. The dump truck drivers would sometimes illegally dump their job fill there. Nothing hazardous, just a Hodgepodge of various road base, loam, scrappings, etc. The kids in the hood would fashion these leavings into little hills for doing jumps on our bikes. Then one day the dozers showed up and built Playland skating ring. The trees I do remember in all four quadrants of that intersection were Hackberries.

Back in the early 90's I had a coworker who was literally married to the mob. His wife was the daughter of some low level wise guy. He said these guys would show up at family functions etc. and were kind of a joke. He said they had bad cologne, bad wardrobes, cheap watches, and shitty cars. My BIL has a lake cabin up in north central Wisconsin on a small lake. One of the older cabins up there was a mob hide out back in the day. I always make it a point to trespass and go fish off of their dock with a heavy lure that drags bottom, hey you never know. One of my fishing buddies who is in his late 70's used to work at a bowling alley owned by one of Al Capone's nephews. It was a mob deal, but my fishing buddy loved working there. The nephews name was "Bottles" Capone, on account of his thick eye glasses what that he wore on his mug. My grandfather on my mother's side was a bootlegger, but for personal, medicinal and sacramental purposes only.

Seems like this thread has taken a turn toward the lateral side (tennis elbow) rather than the medial side (golfers elbow, why isn't it just called golf elbow?). I have dealt with medial epicondylitis (golf elbow) since January of this year. I got it in both elbows. I returned to rock climbing after knee surgery, so the loss of strength/tendon pliability from not climbing, weight gain from rehab/holidays, and being too aggressive upon my return did me in. At least on the medial side, rest is only recommended while there is pain in passive positions, which is treated with the usual over the counter stuff. Once you are pain free at rest, then you can begin t do the thera bar stuff along with other exercises prescribed. I was fortunate in that I only climber for a few weeks after the condition developed. Many climbers and golfers grind through this condition for months or even years, which ends up remodeling the tendons in a whacky state and takes longer to unwhack, as it were. Neverless, I think my condition ventured over into the tendonosis side rather than the tendonitis side, with tendonosis being a more chronic condition that simple rest will not heal on its own. I was able to cure the right elbow with an upper limb control class that I got online. The left side improved also but has remained stubbornly sore when activated. I finally started seeing a PT about 3 weeks ago to deal with this and a shoulder issue, both of which seem like low hanging fruit to cure. Right now we are doing some dry needling along with some exercises that I have not tried in the past. There has been some improvement. I recommend a an infrared heating pad to aid in healing and reducing pain.

Does blue blood status live forever? In 50 years (assuming the game continues that long) will Meatchicken and UT still be considered blue bloods if neither has won or even sniffed another championship? Not if I don't see Bum McClung or Pudge Heffelfinger walking through that door.

What a cast! That show really embodied shitty 1970's New York.

I actually had to go to the Wilson County tax office to protest this year. Dad is hard of hearing and seemed befuddled by the whole process. Which is weird since dad has a PHD in economics and was a small time builder and developer in Austin and is otherwise just as sharp as he ever was. The protest was pretty tame. We just had them reclassify some things and do some grouping of parcels etc. He thinks I am some kind of hard hitting tax slayer now. I am not much of a rancher, but I did build him some new foundations for his garage and house remodel along with a new 1 acre stock tank free of charge.

Well, that was 16 years ago, I'm sure they have grown. Those new cedar elms sure did.

We were the concrete site and hardscape contractor for the Blanton and I remember those tree moves. They were not particularly large trees, but the thinking was that the University would rather have instant trees rather than wait. There were a whole lot of factors that made those moves pretty easy. Soft dirt/clay, trees stayed on site. level surface client with gobs of money client with professional arborists on staff, tree size. I don't think they can move the big trees on the Oak Hill Parkway project.

My folks who have a ranch southeast of San Antonio are getting offers for their 400 acres that are just ridiculous. The only thing saving them from nutty taxes is the fact that all of it is ag exempted, as my 87 year old dad is still ranching.

I am well aware of the history, I was referring to time since they left the SWC and became SEC good, or rather, just played us non conference. I was going for the pent up hate spilling over angle. Probably more just timing and match ups issues, kind of like BYU, ugh.

I live out by Circle Dr. at the end of the project boundary and a month or so ago I saw the news crews filming by all of the shredded trees. About the same time there were some other people there measuring tree trunks etc. Just from reading what was available (so I am not saying this is the whole story), TxDOT/Contractor says they took out trees but all were 8" or less in diameter. Just by looking I can tell that is not the case, from the few trunks that were for some reason not shredded. But even if it is, there were probably not many and certainly no huge oak trees. I am certain there is a tree survey of the cleared area, so it seems like this would be easy enough to clear up. I am not sure of the requirements, but I am pretty sure there is going to be a tree replacement program for trees of a certain size that were removed in this area. On a different front, there are many large and old trees down at the start of the project by William Cannon and those in the current median where the existing freeway ends. Not sure what the plan is for those, but my guess would be they are staying since they already built the road around them anyway. The new South 183 project was able to save several very large oaks around the Thompson Lane area, but those were were pretty conveniently located for construction purposes. I also am interested in the goings on with concrete plant and its opposition. As I understand it, this is a temporary batch plant intended to service the new road construction only and it will be disassembled close to the end of completion. From a friend in the construction business, seems like a done deal and all opposition is just for concessions and show. I feel for those close by though.

A few thoughts/observations on the aftermath: I made it up to Manhattan in late October after 9/11. We drove up from Massachusetts and stayed in midtown. The mood was still very somber and there were not that many people around. Traffic was rerouted all over with large trucks carrying the structural steel structure remains. Closer to the site, there was a heavy smell of what can only be described as burning brake pads and you could tell that it was from something more than the cutting of steel with saws or torches. Many buildings were still closed blocks from the site and I remember seeing the venerable Downtown Athletic Club (home of the Heisman) all boarded up. My cousin, who was a firefighter in Houston, died in 2000 in a blaze a McDonalds. She was only the second female firefighter ever killed in the line of duty in the US at that point. Another firefighter also died in the Houston fire. The memorial in Houston was massive with the official memorial being held in Rice Stadium. It was very moving but brutal. I can only imagine what they had to go through in New York with hundreds of dead firefighters.

Ah, I see. So 5-7 then.

I mentioned the 1981 game in another thread and what happened there. I did not bring it up to infer that Texas was going to go undefeated the rest of the way or any other predictive measure. But it, along with a whole slew of other Arkansas games over the years, does show a pattern where all but the most elite Texas teams get hammered by the Hogs. 1999 season/2000 Cotton Bowl. Big 12 South winner Texas play the Hogs and we get a similar result to Saturday's. Say what you want about suspended players and injuries but those guys came to play and Texas did not. 2003 season. Hogs come away from Austin with a 10 point win in a game that was not nearly that close,with once again physical line play being an issue. Texas finishes 10-3 and Arky 9-4 that year. 2004 season. A Texas team that would finish 11-1 with Vince Young at QB squeezes out a 2 point win on the road on an unforced Arky error late in the game. Arky would finish the year 5-6. 2008 season. Texas slaughters Hogs in Austin on way to final #2 ranking. Arky finishes 5-7. 2014 Texas Bowl: See 2000 Cotton Bowl. 2021 Season: See 2014 Texas Bowl. Texas was favored in all but the 2014 game. Six games and Texas covered only once. Pretty amazing under performance against the Hogs over the years. So moral of the story is the Surly collective should not have been so high on this game.

Texas could have won 10 games last year, but they also could have easily gone 3-7.

The project is temporarily held up. Injunction or something due to trees already taken down. Hearing was on 9/2 but I'm finding nothing on the googles since then.

Yes. This whole week had a 1981 vibe to it. Similar result, too. Except that Texas team was actually pretty good and would finish #2 by seasons end.