Everything posted by Art Vandelay
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Do you have any evidence to support the EOT origin story being fictional?
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Where in the world did you read or hear that? If that was the case I think everyone would agree the song is racist and it should go. This is the origin: “The lyrics are said to be intended to poke fun at University President Colonel Prather. Prather had attended Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, whose president, Robert E. Lee, would frequently tell his students, "the eyes of the South are upon you." Prather was known for including in his speeches a similar admonition, "The eyes of Texas are upon you," meaning that the state of Texas was watching and expecting the students to go out and do great things. Prather enjoyed the song and promoted its usage. He died not long thereafter, and the song was played at his funeral.”
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
“The lyrics are said to be intended to poke fun at University President Colonel Prather. Prather had attended Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, whose president, Robert E. Lee, would frequently tell his students, "the eyes of the South are upon you." Prather was known for including in his speeches a similar admonition, "The eyes of Texas are upon you," meaning that the state of Texas was watching and expecting the students to go out and do great things. Prather enjoyed the song and promoted its usage. He died not long thereafter, and the song was played at his funeral.” That was the intent of the song, which again has nothing to do with race. Scrapping it because it was played at a minstrel show once or twice 120 years ago -- and then sung thousands upon thousands of times by generations of UT students and alumni -- of all colors -- as a unifying show of support and appreciation for their school makes no sense at all.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
This is not a "fact" -- that is the issue. There was no racist intent behind the song, regardless of where/when it was first performed.
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Do You Know Anyone Personally Who Was Murdered or a Murderer?
About 7 years ago, a friend of mine (I was dating one of her friends at the time) was stabbed to death by her boyfriend in the kitchen of another friend of mine. They had only been dating a few months and he was the super jealous type, and obviously batshit crazy. They had been fighting that evening and when they got back to her friend's house, they continued fighting into the early hours and he just snapped and stabbed her. She had been living with the guy in California and brought him home to Austin to meet her family and friends for the weekend. Some of her girlfriends had met him previously and knew right away there was something "off" about him. They had planned to take her to brunch the next day for an intervention of sorts. Unfortunately it was too late. The guy fled the scene and was later caught by cops. He'd tried, unsuccessfully, to cut his own throat. In the trial, the piece of shit actually tried to claim self defense. He's in prison for life. She was a fun, sweet woman in her 30s. SWA flight attendant. Just chose the wrong guy. Another one....Around 2000-2001 or so, a girl I worked with, early 20s, was killed by her husband in a murder-suicide in Cedar Park.
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Cowboy Boots
Tecovas and Cueros are both pretty quiet for whatever reason. The boot guys here who are much smarter than me could probably explain why.
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2020 Dems: Nevada (gonna make Iowa look competent!)
Liz met a man in Reno...
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Cowboy Boots
PSA: Cuero boots are 25% off now through Feb. 14 with coupon code "LOVE" at checkout. That's on top of the sale price, so the Eastwoods are $138 -- and that's including tax. Just got myself another pair. Couldn't pass them up at that price.
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Amarillo By Morning
I've always considered it a personal favorite and one of the greatest country songs ever recorded.
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Bevoette and Jade's lol pics
I love how he just runs straight through the people. "Coming through!!!!" lulz
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Dylan Moses' dad postpones decision to come back to Bama with insane letter
Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds.
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Cowboy Boots
Same here. Love them.
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Cowboy Boots
Authentic Teju Lizard as best I can tell. They seem to be fairly well made (wooden pegs, etc). https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ferrini-Teju-Lizard-Round-Toe-Dress-Western-Brown-Mens/401997083487
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Cowboy Boots
Anyone have any experience with Ferrini boots? Based in Carrolton, Texas and hecho in Mexico. Came across a pair of lizard skins online marked down below $200 and decided to pull the trigger on them as a Xmas present to myself. Can always return them. Haven't been able to find out much about Ferrini but what I have read is mostly positive.
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Military Bowl: UNC vs Temple
Storm Duck is one of the greatest names in all of football.
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"It's Friday bitches" -- Time to get this Party Started!!
\m/ FIGHT ! ! ! \m/
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"It's Friday bitches" -- Time to turn this shit around!!
From North Loop... \m/ T E X A S \m/
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ESPN GAME DAY
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
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ESPN GAME DAY
Good question. He played at WVU. They've had a few guest pickers this year with no connection to either school, which is just stupid.
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ESPN GAME DAY
I guess I didn't realize NDSU Bison fans do the Hook'em Horns hand sign. I turned on GameDay earlier and all the SDSU fans were doing Horns down and I was really confused.
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2019 ALCS: Yankees vs Astros
Holy shit!!!!
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Ok Tom, We'll Talk about Kansas Game, Oct 19th 6pm cst LHN
C'mon Dicker you got this!!!!!
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Ok Tom, We'll Talk about Kansas Game, Oct 19th 6pm cst LHN
Fuck everything.
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Ok Tom, We'll Talk about Kansas Game, Oct 19th 6pm cst LHN
Unfuckingbelievable. But then again, 100% believable. Fuck all this shit.