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  1. I fish multiple bass tournaments annually and have for 35 years. Been fortunate enough to be polygraphed many times. Lots of money on the line and contestants have to be able to trust one another. Can’t keep an eye on everyone. Unfortunately, these things happen. Just recently a kid here in Texas was caught cheating in a high school tournament. There were plenty of folks threatening to whoop his ass. There was a metro-plex bad ass a few years ago that was pretty consistently in the money. He was quick to always thank Jesus. Then they found some lead weights in his fish. Hasn’t been heard from since but I believe they charged him with fraud.
  2. Did much of the Dublin to Galway to Limerick route this summer. Good times. Dublin was the least impressive part to me. So damn many tourists--perhaps that has settled down a bit. That said, the Irish Immigration Museum in Dublin is really well done. I have never been in a museum like it. Mostly tells the story of how and why the Irish have settled all over the planet. Not a lot of artifacts to look out. Lots of really good story telling though.
  3. Just went to YouTube to show my daughter the video on Ozzy. Damn. Randy Ozzy is best Ozzy
  4. Ozzy. Blizzard of Oz. “I Don’t Know” Metallica. Master of Puppets. “Battery” Hank Williams Jr. The Pressure is On. “Country Boy Can Survive”
  5. That place looks excellent and is not far from me. I'll be stopping by. Thanks for the heads up.
  6. Wonder if the tears will extinguish those safe place fire pits tonight? And at a premium price too.
  7. Also anyone that fishes know that the fish are stacked up like cord wood around that pylon. Ted fishing dead water out there.
  8. You can bet your ass on one thing. Any that holds a rod like that damn sure did not cast out that open-faced reel without creating a backlash bird's nest. And since that reel is not backlashed, that means someone had to cast out Teddy's line for him. That shit is embarrassing for real Texans. Damn. Sawbonz beat me to it. I was so enraged I couldn't bother reading the rest of the responses before I posted. Tip of the hat to Sawbonz
  9. Not an easy ticket to get here in Lubbock. Lots going on tonight and tomorrow before the game. Roads around campus are being redone so expect terrible traffic. Not sure about parking. I think there are shuttles from near UMC north of campus. Might even be shuttles from basketball arena parking. Weather is great right now looking out my window. I suspect it will be a tad warm tomorrow. Have fun.
  10. I have been talked into going to the Cody Johnson concert tonight or I would likely be out at one of these places. If you can't have a fun evening or two in Lubbock then you are a stick in the mud. Now if you want a fun week in Lubbock, you are in for a beatin'.
  11. Cotton Court restaurant is hella high for what you get. Not a fan. Little Woodrows on Milwaukee will likely be the busiest place in town for tonight and tomorrow. It is big and allows you to spread out. Newish places since my last update: Goodline Beer Co is in Tech Terrace near campus (south on Boston from campus). I went in there last week, and the beer is good with some non-typicals. https://goodlinebeer.com/ The pizza place across the street--Capital Pizza--is pretty darn good. I have friends that buy a pizza and carry it over to Goodline. The Reserve is in south Lubbock on Quaker. I haven't eaten there, but I hear it is good. The curb appeal is not really there. https://thereserveculinarytavern.com/ Miguel's is on Broadway near campus and is in walking distance to several drinking spots. I went once and really liked the building and layout (it is an old, huge flower shop). The food was meh but the drinks were good. I would go back. https://miguelslubbock.com/ For more low key and a cool spot, you can hit up Flipper's Tavern. It is a good spot to have a beer--and they have legit good gourmet hotdogs (sausage from Jackson Bros in Post). https://www.facebook.com/flipperstavern/ One more: Dirk's is down in the same hood--off of Boston east of campus. You may recall that Dirk West was a cartoonist that did all those odd SWC sports cartoons. Well his grandson I believe open this restaurant. It is good--legit good steak fingers. Like legit good. https://www.facebook.com/DirksLBK/ Here is an example of an old Dirk http://www.herosandwich.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dirkwest6.jpg Several of these places are close to Cotton Court. I would hit any of them up before I went there.
  12. I just hope he had become distracted by reading a Surly Sugar Baby thread on his phone and lost track of place and not that he finished the Cloak Room "A Story about a Pathetic Man's Downfall" thread and elected to intentionally check out of humanity.
  13. TX-31 TTU-27 WR--287
  14. Cody Johnson this Friday in Lubbock. Not my thing at all, but daughter asked for tickets for her birthday and asked for me to go along. At least it is outside and I can take a lawn chair and sit way out back. I suspect with the help of multiple cold beers, I will survive.
  15. That’s what Bama fans said last week.
  16. Ha. That is the one we used to go to--out in front of the mall--when we would go to Kerrville to buy groceries. My dad would get so pissed that me and siblings all wanted our own personal little pizza instead of just buying the more economical large. We would stare at that big screen and dream of what life would have been like if only we could have been raised in the big city of Kerrville.
  17. Stretching a show that should be 1 hour into 2 hours.
  18. The OG Dreamland had only ribs and no sides other than white bread. The only beer I ever saw there was Red Stripe. They didn't do much, but their ribs were legit. The new versions since Big Rufus died try to be more full service. Nothing to write home about. But that first shack on the southside of Tuscaloosa was worth the trip.
  19. Alabama 55 Texas 27 Ewers- 242
  20. His first concept album. Heart breaking in places.
  21. Download the Ceasar's sports book app. Then go sit in Blondies and watch the games. Drink affordable beer; order pretty decent food. Joke with all the other sports fans around you.
  22. squib

    Hotdogs

    I worked at a huge hog farm in south Texas when I was I high school. We likely had 5,000 hogs any given day. Every Friday, we would sell a big pen of market hogs (roughly 240 pounders) to a packer out of San Antonio. Next to the loading chute we had a pen for the “sick hogs.” When you have 5000 hogs, you are going to have about 20 every week that want to die of something—and sometimes some nasty shit where the hog is all pussed up or bleeding out of all orafices. Anyway, after the good hogs were loaded, the packer would buy the sick hogs for pennies on the dollar. The only stipulation: they had to be alive when we loaded them—like stick-a-mirror-under-their-nose alive. I learned to drive a Bobcat skid steer by loading nasty hogs in a bucket and depositing them in a trailer. I asked the driver one time what they did with those hogs. He said “grind’em into hotdogs.” No idea if that is true. But what is fact is that I ate a delicious All American dog from the Sonic in Post today coming back from the lake. Hot dogs are a gift from the gods. And a noble end to a pussed piglet.
  23. Read somewhere that he got busted trying to remove a wheel boot from his car after some type of parking violation.
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