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South Austin

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  1. I have a lease on a dozen eggs, with an option to buy.
  2. Sadly, my dad is a Trumper. My mom hates him, and abandoned the Republican party during the G.W. Bush era and is a full-fledged Dem. I made a passing comment to her yesterday about the possibility of Trump/Musk pausing or canceling the Lejeune settlement payments, but I don't think she relayed that to my dad. I love my dad because, well . . . he's my dad. But I've learned to just not talk politics with him anymore.
  3. But is ketchup okay in spaghetti sauce?
  4. Might just be the coolest story bro in Surly history.
  5. I’m a sucker for James Garner and Sally Field in Murphy’s Romance.
  6. I think that was Marquis Johnson. Part of the 2002 class. I recall the wreck was the summer after he graduated and he never made it to Austin, but someone might correct my memory.
  7. Eh, walked my dog around 7pm and the streets in my neighborhood had already started drying a good amount. Lots of wind and dry air will help.
  8. So many children will die because of this.
  9. Take a Seattle Underground tour. It’s pretty fucking cool.
  10. For what it's worth, my dad has 50% disability, and none of it has to due with any combat injury. It's likely Agent Orange in Vietnam and/or exposure to contaminated water in Camp Lejeune in the 1980s (he's actually getting a settlement for the latter in the near future, unless Donald fucks with that as well). He's had various health issues since his 50s, including cancer in 2020.
  11. Do you have the kind with a flap in the backside you can unbutton when you need to take a shit?
  12. Fair assessment. Take out his performances in Dallas (and for some of the OU games you can throw some blame on Mack/Greg), and he had a pretty damn good career as a Longhorn. But he didn't live up to the "expectations" component of your analysis, and those expectations were just so damn high. And it's not unlike what Arch Manning has ahead of him. Partly because of pedigree, but I think the expectations for Simms and Manning were far greater than those for Vince Young.
  13. Same. I recall he came from some pretty awful family circumstances, and didn't make it past his freshman year at Texas. But I just Googled him, and am glad to see he's doing well running a sports apparel business. Former Texas prep football star Robert Timmons defies toughest of odds, emerges as a flourishing entrepreneur
  14. So far Parker Livingstone is a huge bust. He keeps it up, and he may win the debate.
  15. Thank you for your service in the name of government efficiency.
  16. Not necessarily a bust, but didn't live up to near the hype I recall as a recruit: John Childs We got some teasers his first couple of years as a potential dual-threat QB successor to Colt when he would come in for the "Wild Horn" formation, and everyone in the fucking stadium knew he was just going to run it up the middle. He finally moved to receiver in 2009 and showed some flashes. And according to some he should still starts.
  17. Other than ditching us at the last minute, the only other thing I remember about Ryan Perrilloux is that he looked like Shirley from What's Happening in his recruiting profile pic.
  18. He's just an IP lawyer. He knows nothing about the field of Cavorting Naked in the Middle of the Night Law.
  19. I think the wealthier districts will probably continue to do well (Westlake, Lake Travis, Southlake . . . basically any school with "lake" in it). You may be right about private academies, and we might even see a few more of those pop up in the metro areas to steal the talent from public schools.
  20. Entirely fair. It was a back-to-back punch in nuts of landing the No. 1 running back in the state in consecutive years followed by such underwhelming production as Longhorns. Yeah, Gray had an awful Achilles injury, but looking back he didn't have a whole lot of mileage after his high school program ran him into the ground. To ctj's point, I remember hearing all about Shea Morenz when I came to Texas in 1994. He had a pretty good game against Colorado early in the season, almost single-handedly keeping us in the game after Gary _arnell's defense practically gave Rashaan Salaam the Heisman. But I don't think he did shit after that.
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