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    Because nothing should be left unsaid: leave the brisket in the vacuum seal bag when you throw it in the water. Remove from bag once it's warm.
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    I had Ayers for Shakespeare. It definitely sucked. I survived, but didn't excel.
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    Since I created a new thread, I'm absolved from further thread-jacking here on the subject.
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    Haven't heard of Goodbye to a River. Just read a summary, and I need to pick that up.
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    So a couple of things I remembered. I think it was Professor Graham that would hold one class at Scholz Beer Garden. I recall not an absolute ton of people showing up, and sitting with Graham and a bunch of people in our class in a big booth drinking lots of beer and him talking about cool stuff I can't possibly remember at this point. Also, Jerry Bump ("Autobiography: yours and others" and "Wordsworth and Hopkins") would have a party at his house at the end of every semester. I took those two classes back to back. Super laid-back and interesting. He had this cool ranch house on a bunch of property off of the west side of Lake Travis. Lots of booze and board games with English majors. Pretty fun, looking back.
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    Sorry to all of us celebrating Trump's suckage with all the English major nostalgia. @immamac, when you get a chance, could you migrate all the English Major BS from the last 2 pages to the thread below. Oh, and cook and do all the other stuff for the tailgate too. I paid $20, and I'm comin' in hot!
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    Okay, I'm dooming this discussion to mediocrity by removing it from a cloak room thread, but I'm enjoying the nostalgia about English classes at UT. So share your stories. I'll see if I can get the posts migrated.
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    I know this needs its own thread by now, and I apologize for mentioning my major two pages ago and starting this threadjack. I didn't take AP English and placed out of Freshman English 1 by taking a CLEP test at orientation. I took Freshman English 2 the second semester of my Freshman year. I eventually majored in English. I have no ideas what the numbers mean apart from the fact that the "3" means its 3 hours. My son, a Freshman, placed out of it by taking a dual credit English course in high school. Lots of ways to go about it.
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    No. There are a couple of 316s, but none of them is "Freshman English 1," or whatever that was.
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    I agree with everything you wrote. But I'd probably say that HPB is a less comfortable pair of slippers than a lot of his later works. Mike Adams gave a 45 minute presentation at a UT Appellate Seminar in the early 2000s entitled "Words Like Sunbeams." In his spare time, he proofread/edited appellate briefs for some of the bigger, Austin law firms who cared enough to pay for his services. My notes from that CLE a la Max Fischer: "Best Chapel speaker ever."
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    That watch would be better if it was of the Micky Mouse variety with Trumps tiny hands as the watch hands.
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    Strange Peaches was my favorite by a mile, and was out of print at the time. I still have the Gay Place and need to reread it. I remember its being good, but it was a competitive list that semester. Bud Shrake was really something. I remember Graham saying how much McMurtry hated All the Pretty Horses.
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    Graham was amazing and yes, you didn't miss that class. But Michael Adams was my favorite. His Modern Short Story class changed me as a reader and a writer, and he wrote the most amazing law school rec. for me. The guy was simply an incredible teacher. I'm now sad to report that he passed in November 2022. Damn. Was hoping my kid could take a class from him. I also heard about Graham's passing a few years back. That was a huge loss.
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    Strange Peaches (Shrake) Horseman Pass By (McMurtry) All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy)
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    In History of the English Language, we had to recite 40 lines or so of Canterbury Tales in Middle English. That was, by far, the worst English class I took. I should have taken grammar instead.
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    I took his SW Lit class. Lots of fantastic reading in that one.
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    Most memorable I had were taught by Bump, Graham, and, the GOAT, Adams. But I feel like I would have remembered having a Mr. Fuck in my class. Then again . . .
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    English Major, here. BA 96, JD 99
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    My son's roommate is transferring from McComb's to Liberal Arts next semester to major in history. But not because of calculus.
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    Well, that's a shame. We were heading to that ULM tournament last weekend and watching old Bud Pro Tour Water Ski videos. It was a big, and well-funded sport back in the 90s.
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    The beer joint is still there?
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    I've got a close friend whose in-laws just got back to Ft. Meyers. The difficulty is that his MIL has what Royal Tenenbaum would call "a bad case of cancer," and they just made an incredibly difficult move back to Florida from Illinois to get her there for home-nursing care (they've lived in FL for the past decade or so). It looks like the eye wall will pass northwest of them, but given Ft. Meyers location on the Caloosahatchee River, I surmise that it's absolutely not a good place to be right now. Suffice it to say, they cannot (or have made the calculated decision not to) leave given her condition. It looks like winds won't bee too bad at 35 mph. Storm surge of 3--5 feet is more worrisome, but my guess is that they live in a house that was designed to survive that. Still, not a good situation.
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