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dcbc

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  1. Okay, I missed that part. I figured the text groups were people who had kids there. I went to Longhorn for three summers and by the time I was in sixth grade had decided that was enough. I still remember some names of people there and have run into them a few times since then, but I don't otherwise keep in touch. I guess if I went there for eight plus years, I might keep in touch with more people or have been added to some random text group. But yeah, seems kind of strange. But these camps are pretty close knit, and a lot of these kids (now adults) went to high school (smaller, private schools) and college together. So maybe I'm not so surprised that some of them keep in touch regularly.
  2. I think a little better description of it is that it's swimming, and sailing, and fishing, and horseback riding, and all sorts of other fun things for kids to do. So a lot of the kids go back for years until they are in high school, at which point, some transition to being counselors at the camp. But these camps are very expensive. So, as @C-Man mentioned, later, when some of these kids end up at large Texas universities like UT, some of them know each other and end up in fraternities or sororities together or get recommended for bids to these organizations because they knew each other from years of going to summer camp together. I wouldn't call it weird for what it is at its base. It's just fun shit for kids to do during the summer. But because it's expensive and there are limited spots available (and because people have been attending for generations, it is exclusive and because of that, it feeds into the exclusivity of fraternities and sororities later.
  3. I went to high school with her mother and played soccer with her uncle. Sweet people. Chloe was an incoming freshman at UT. Just tragic.
  4. There were a couple of Jewish campers in my cabin and the one above ours. They gathered for a separate service IIRC. I wouldn't have described Longhorn as a "Christian" camp either. But things seemed less in your face back in the 80s, except when it wasn't, in which case, it seemed very in your face.
  5. I show up too. Civic duty, etc. They aren't picking me.
  6. Well, I mean other than not being able to use the walkway to a floating cabin this morning and having to float shit out. But yeah, for sure relatively fine, and I mean that as a relieved parent.
  7. You misspelled DAF.
  8. My son was a counselor in one of those cabins this morning. The water was over the walkway this morning. They had to float everyone's gear to shore on paddle boards. All are safe. End of 2nd term today.
  9. I like the fact that it was posted two posts above your very helpful post that gave us the confidence to tell our son to drive on to Austin. He made it safely, and thanks again for your earlier, in-the-moment info at that time. My wife was pursuing news sights. I went to Surly.
  10. Much appreciated. Just relayed the info to him.
  11. Thank you(s).
  12. Yes. My sister-in-law knows their cousin. Her grandmother is picking her up from camp and has to bear that awful news. They were camping and their camper/vehicle was swept away in the floods.
  13. This is all just horrific. But quick aside: I have question for those in the area. My son just finished up a term as a counselor at Camp Longhorn. He was in one of the water cabins and they had to float their gear out on surfboards when the water started to rise on Inks. But nothing compared to Mystic obviously. He's in Marble Falls at the moment. With all the flooding in Travis and Williamson counties, we thought he might be better off heading home for the weekend (Tyler) rather than driving to Austin. What are the road conditions like and what is a safe route. Thanks in advance.
  14. It's actually not the worst of its genre.
  15. He's showing up. The truth disqualifies him. Why waste everyone's time?
  16. Can't remember the comedian. But he said, "I can spot guilty people just like that."
  17. dcbc replied to squib's topic in Food and Travel
    He didn't make the Top 50. I will say this, the John Mueller cheesy squash progeny I had at the Galveston place was tits, and I used the picture I took of it and memory to get 85% there. So I've got that going for me. Damned loaded baked potato of squash.
  18. For a minute or two.
  19. Years later: I read that in your avatar's voice.
  20. dcbc replied to squib's topic in Food and Travel
    Worked the pits at Dozier's for a couple of years, got #51 again, moved to Colorado and isn't cooking. /sorry for all he apparently screwed over. That sucks
  21. Each? How many per how long? I might have some chronic (hee hee) pain on the weekends. Also, according to what I read early on (and may have been dropped), they are changing the rules to have remote outposts stocked more easily.
  22. dcbc replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    They look poor.
  23. I just noticed that this, which I use to prevent chub rub, is made in Canada. Up by 50%. I was already on the side of good, but this is a further tipping point.
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