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Why thank you. It looks like it was spelled both ways at the time.

Here's a map from 1849, before the evil racist William Pelham purchased the land and blatantly stamped out the Hispanic culture by dropping the "a". Anything else you want to say, hoss?

You're either trolling or you're actually the shitbag judge. Either way you are flat out making shit up. Your "facts": Menchaca fought under Seguin in the Texas Revolution. True, but in 1835-36 there was no Austin, so I'm not sure where you get the notion that they rode between San Antonio and Austin many times. Pretty much everything was happening between San Antonio and Gonzalez. Then Menchaca participated in the Runaway Scrape which, now follow along, never went anywhere near Austin or Manchaca. After San Jacinto, Menchaca returned to San Antonio where he was a merchant and alderman. In 1842 he was given command over a frontier company that patrolled the area between San Antonio and the Rio Grande. If you will kindly reference a map, you'll notice that Austin, Manchaca, and Manchac springs are nowhere near this area. Are you keeping up? Menchaca was deeded land, and his name was misspelled. True. But his land was in San Antonio, which... wait for it...is once again absolutely not in the Austin/Manchaca area. You keep saying that, and it's complete bullshit. In September of 1842 Menchaca was wounded and captured by Mexican troops under General Woll. Upon his release he returned to civilian life and did not serve in a military capacity again. In his memoir, Menchaca never mentioned the springs. If it was actually named for him, I think there's a possibility that he would have mentioned it. Or not, who knows. Did Antonio Menchaca ride through the area many times? Possibly. Enough to make such an impression on the local population that they named the springs after him? Maybe. But the fact is the vast majority of Menchaca's military service was spent 100+ miles away, and most of that time the Austin area would not have been an important destination.

Um, it says right there in your own fucking link that there is absolutely no evidence that Menchaca ever visited the springs, and there is documentation of the spelling Manchac that predates the Pelham grant. Try harder.

Good boy Chip. In other news, these two galoots turned 2 this weekend. The excitement is palpable.

When people call a college football team a club. I don't know why this annoys me. I know they used to be clubs, but now there is a definite distinction between club sports and varsity sports.

Gotdamn I miss my dogs. I've been working in the bay area since May and I've only seen them in person three times since then. My old coonhound Rocco has kind of become an asshole to the two young mastiffs, even though they could kill him in a second. I hate to say it, but they need their alpha back.

Holy fuck!

Close

You can use a fuel tank, you just have to burn it out really well. And then you may or may not have a truck left.

Welcome to the 500 (gallon) club!

Sometimes, not very often, but sometimes I'm glad I'm a plumber.

Tip Top liquor on Dry Creek Rd had a shit load of hard to find bottles for about 8 jillion dollars each a couple months ago. I wanted to ask them why they hate America but they look very Arab so I didn't. No racist.

You're fucking weird

I'm pretty sure Edwin Waller originally designed Austin's streets.

What sort of frontier gibberish is this?

They definitely help getting your beef ribs to that perfect medium rare.

I hope you have good hearing protection.

My old coonhound has been dreaming of this exact scenario for 13 years.

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Dumb shit like this WILL ALWAYS crack me up.

You were even worse as rocks for jocks than you are as tallie whateverthefuck

These two...

But for some reason you think Nebraska is the only place with hay.

Wait wait wait. Are you actually saying that Nebraska's walk on program was so much better than other school's because the players were country kids who threw hay bales in high school? Is that really what you're saying?