Posts posted by Ten Bears
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16 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said: Wound dressing for burns is Adaptic. It’s a non-adhering petroleum laced gauze, and then it’s wrapped in sterilize gauze and then an ace bandage. While that shit sucks because inevitably there’s a couple pieces of that non-adhering gauze that adhere, what’s worse is the debridement that takes place between the old dressings being removed and the new ones being placed.
Granted I’m not a specimen like Ship, but I threw up every day for the first 3-ish weeks of dressing changes.
My old cowboy/rancher dad is the toughest sob I have ever seen. It's like he experiences pain differently than anyone else. He was in a helicopter crash that left the pilot dead and him stranded on a 10,000 acre ranch on foot some 45 miles to the closest ER in San Angelo. When he finally made it to the highway and then the hospital he calmly told the ER doctor that he had a concussion, broken collar bone and 3rd degree burns on the top of his head and hand where the avgas dripped on him after the crash and before the helicopter went up in flames. The dr confirmed his injuries and mused that he had never seen a patient diagnose himself and to be in such bad shape who was seemingly in no pain.
This was in the late 70s and the treatment for the burns was to go in every few days to place pig skin over the burn wounds that would have to be scraped off next visit with a q-tip until the wound healed enough for skin grafts. This was the only time I have ever seen him really show pain, teeth gritted and shaking but still not crying out or anything. He did say that on his leg where they removed the skin for skin grafts was the most painful part, especially when he first stood up and the blood rushed to the areas. He said he nearly fainted from that. Do not want.
Hell I saw him lose the top half of his thumb in a cattle squeeze chute when a cow swung her horn and mashed it against a pipe and even then he just kind of winced and then pulled off the rest of his dangling thumb off and finished working 50 more head of cattle.
Burns are no joke.
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Tommy Bolin
in Music
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16 hours ago, Armybrat said: 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:
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.
Hey neighbor. We live 2 miles apart.
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On 12/15/2025 at 4:59 PM, Dennis Taylor said:
Spread Eagle was played in Alief in the 80s before school, at recess or after school with multiple racquetballs, sometimes with 30-40 players and 3 to 5 racquetballs. It was very intense, very organized and regulated to uphold the integrity of the game. The basic point of the game was to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women when they had to go to the nurse's office. If you didn't catch the ball clean you had to run to touch the wall as whoever had the racquetballs would hurl them at you until you touched said wall. If you didn't know already, racquetballs hurt way more (probably 3x) and also came off the wall way faster than the tennis balls so they were much harder to catch. And the X factor was using multiple balls because you may not see one coming and someone extremely close to you might have one, and if you booted one you were going to pay dearly. There was little to no teacher supervision other than in middle school the occasional coach would watch to see who was athletic. Other rules/ tidbits:
- if you booted the ball and tried to prevent people from grabbing it to drill you or it hit off of you more than once (a 'Double Touch' in Spread Eagle parlance) you , you had to Spread (stand up against the wall in the frisking position) while another player hurls the ball at you
- if someone booted a ball that hadn't hit the ground yet, if another player caught it the first kid was saved from having to run...but often the other players could just let it bounce once and be in a position to have any easy shot at the first toucher
- If you had a noodle arm and bounced the ball before it hit the wall you were spreading
- if someone with a noodle arm was throwing from relatively far away, other players would stand in front of the wall and if they caught it before it hits the wall- you guessed it- they were spreading.
- When kids stood in front of the wall to do the above, other players would try to carrom another ball off the wall to hit those kids
- if you moved up after catching the ball to prevent your throw from bouncing you were spreading. Most kids were either good at both fielding and throwing, or sucked at both so the danger of standing close enough to where your throw didn't bounce you were far more likely to boot a catch due to the speed of the ball and get pummeled trying to get to the wall
- if you moved while spreading, the thrower got another throw whether the first throw hit you or not
- if you got caught holding on to a ball too long in hopes of drilling someone else nearby when they booted one, you were spreading
- particularly egregious offenses, as voted by mob rule, could result in spreading for multiple throws.
- if an offended party had a turn to throw at a spreader and they didn't have a good arm, a better thrower could step in to throw in his place
As far as the other game...of course we called it STQ...Boone Elementary banned footballs being brought from home so we would gather up all the aluminum foil that we all brought our Cokes wrapped in and made a foil football and the carnage would continue
That's pretty much exactly how Wall Ball was played at Madison Jr High in Abilene 1977.
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18 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
Does he refer to him as the rock thrower? Or doe he know the saga of TxTow on the shag?
He didn't mention the Shag but he did refer to him as the rock thrower and that he had like 200 911 calls reporting the "accidents". Jeff said he never opens his mail at work because it probably has ricin it it lol. He said Ed Clements brought it to him so he opened it for once and it was crazy txtow's screed.
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On 12/3/2025 at 10:54 PM, Biff Tannen said:
I was wondering if txtow had made a comeback or something. Thread does not deliver.
On 12/4/2025 at 8:41 AM, HenryJames said:Jeff Ward said on the radio yesterday that TXTow recently wrote him a 3 page insane letter.
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17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
That is the most Todd Snider thing I’ve heard in a long time. Maybe ever.
What was even cooler was Brian his manager came over to us right before the show and asks us for weed because "We brought an ounce yesterday and he's smoked it all and he is melting down." I only had one joint on me so I tore it in two, gave him half and Todd got his head right so, you know, I pretty much saved the show.
The news was good.
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Anyone else at the Gruene Halloween show where his costume was Jerry Jeff Walker and he (JJW) told his life story and played JJW songs songs all night. No one knew he was going to that and some people were pissed and called out for TS songs. He would just say "HEY! I'M JERRY JEFF WALKER!"
He did play one Todd sojg because it was one that JJW recorded. Maybe Alright Guy?
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This might be my most treasured musical moment ever. Recorded at the Moody where I dragged my group of friends down to see some dude that I had been going on and on about as if he were Eddie Van Halen and the Eddie Van Halen Band.
I've made close lifelong friends by going to Todd's shows and they are all crushed this morning.
To me these lines are some of the best poetry ever written and seem fitting today:
Good lord if you're up there you sure got some nerve
Seems that even the wicked get worse than they deserve
We're afraid to die
Every goddamned one of us
I swear to god it's like you're making fun of us
Not worth keepin', or too good to keep
You got a better kinda secret, better wait 'til I'm asleep
And if you're so God almighty well then what's with all this mystery?
Yes, I wanna trust you, buddy, but you're clearly keeping secrets from meToo soon to tell.
Sail on Todd.
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I think he has passed. At least the Shithouse Choir thinks so. I'm fucking crushed. Like losing a brother. I'm gonna literally cry myself to sleep in my favorite tshirt that I happened to wear to Stop Making Sense at the Paramount tonight with my only child who grew up singing todd songs with me on road trips.
I hope it's a dream. Fuck
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On 8/19/2025 at 2:13 PM, Steamboat1874 said:On 8/23/2025 at 9:12 AM, Sam Lin said:
But then you don't get to open the can of randomly timed explosive death!
My dad tells the story of when he was a kid and his mom wanted to leave the farm and visit her sister in the big city of Winters but his dad demanded biscuits every morning. Man she made great biscuits. Well along came canned biscuits and she told him the biscuits are in the can and all you have to do is put them in the oven.
My dad recalls lying in bed the next morning when there was a loud explosion in the kitchen. He runs in and sees his dad scraping biscuits off of the walls of the oven because he just put the whole unopened can in there.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
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Like aggy is going to stay in the SEC that long with UT in it.