Congrats to Hornius Emeritus

[tchookem 3919]

Just saw your Traces of Texas 10th Anniversary post. You're doing God's work. Here's to the next 10 years and beyond.

[PatrickMcHorn 376]

Congrats man. Love following you (no homo).

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[Dbeasy 15095]

Ditto. Awesome.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

He is an awesome dude and a great Texan.  Also is contributing to Texas Highways these days.  Many of my last memories of my dad were of him looking at ToT posts and discussing them together.  Thanks for making a small part of the internet a better place.

 

Edited July 21, 2020 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Hornius Emeritus 12491]

Well, this is pretty amazing to me.  It's not unusual for me to post something on Traces of Texas/Facebook and have 3 thousand, 5 thousand, even 10 thousand people "like" the post, but this one, posted five days ago, has 80 thousand  "likes" and is still climbing like a rocket. It might go over 100 thousand, which would make it # 1 among all the posts I've ever posted. 

https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTexas/photos/3855928371105930

 

Also, I didn't see this thread when it was posted. Thanks for the congratulations. What a long, strange trip it's been!

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Congrats but........


I just made a comment on Twitter that many of your followers are fucking retards. Jesus Christ. The post about a texas Mount Rushmore and the comments made me almost delete the app. Why in the actual fuck is wrong with people? And I am probably left of center in regards to most things, but holy shit.

Anyways, keep it up.

[CooterBrown 18032]

Have you gotten any money or pussy from this endeavor?

[hookemATL 11916]

13 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Have you gotten any money or pussy from this endeavor?

[Cajun 11750]

13 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Have you gotten any money or pussy from this endeavor?

You get the first, you'll have the second.

Tony Montana out front shoulda toldya.

[Lat22 4018]

On 3/28/2021 at 6:26 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Congrats but........


I just made a comment on Twitter that many of your followers are fucking retards. Jesus Christ. The post about a texas Mount Rushmore and the comments made me almost delete the app. Why in the actual fuck is wrong with people? And I am probably left of center in regards to most things, but holy shit.

Anyways, keep it up.

You're just figuring out that twitter is an absolute cesspool?

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

You're just figuring out that twitter is an absolute cesspool?

No. My naive assumption was that ToT followers would be slightly above the average. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

3 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

No. My naive assumption was that ToT followers would be slightly above the average. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Most probably are, they just don’t bother wrestling with pigs.  Jac does a really fantastic job of posting both visual and proverbial facts, or at least history, without a political bent.  Small minded people with nothing better to do will naturally make that all about themselves and their public grievances. Most of us just look, read, and enjoy.  And maybe cringe and cry now and then at the comments.  

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

3 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

No. My naive assumption was that ToT followers would be slightly above the average. Sadly, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

To put it another way, imagine if you had a page called Graffiti of Texas, where you posted some of the awesome images you’ve done over the years.   The comments on that graffiti and the 5th ward pics would be... spectacular I would imagine. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

To put it another way, imagine if you had a page called Graffiti of Texas, where you posted some of the awesome images you’ve done over the years.   The comments on that graffiti and the 5th ward pics would be... spectacular I would imagine. 

Oh no doubt. But I am talking about his recent post about a Texas Mount Rushmore. It is amazing how many people said not to deface the mountains. It was purely hypothetical. That level of stupid was surprising. What wasn’t so surprising was the virtue signaling and calling Jac a sexist racist because he picked two white men to be part of his Texas Mt Rushmore (leaving two spots open for suggestions).

I think ToT is great. He featured a photo of my great grandfather and need to scan some other photos to send him.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

20 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Oh no doubt. But I am talking about his recent post about a Texas Mount Rushmore. It is amazing how many people said not to deface the mountains. It was purely hypothetical. That level of stupid was surprising. What wasn’t so surprising was the virtue signaling and calling Jac a sexist racist because he picked two white men to be part of his Texas Mt Rushmore (leaving two spots open for suggestions).

I think ToT is great. He featured a photo of my great grandfather and need to scan some other photos to send him.

Oh sure, I agree with your consternation, my point was no matter how artistic or benign the content, some motherfuckers are going to shit all over it.  

[atomheartbevo 89822]

56 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

But I am talking about his recent post about a Texas Mount Rushmore. It is amazing how many people said not to deface the mountains. It was purely hypothetical. That level of stupid was surprising. What wasn’t so surprising was the virtue signaling and calling Jac a sexist racist because he picked two white men to be part of his Texas Mt Rushmore (leaving two spots open for suggestions).

There shouldn't be any arguments about a Texas Mount Rushmore, assuming the rule is that they were born/raised here (which rules out the Alamo folks, but they have counties/cities/schools/etc. out the ass named for them).

• Roy Benavidez

• Audie Murphy

• Dorie Miller

• Barbara Jordan

• Tom Landry

• Bum Phillips

[troph 24912]

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

There shouldn't be any arguments about a Texas Mount Rushmore, assuming the rule is that they were born/raised here (which rules out the Alamo folks, but they have counties/cities/schools/etc. out the ass named for them).

• Roy Benavidez

• Audie Murphy

• Dorie Miller

• Barbara Jordan

• Tom Landry

• Bum Phillips

Man I’m with you but LBJ has to be on the list. And then I argue with Earl Campbell and Guy Clark but they can only replace Tom Landry and Bum Phillips because you can’t replace the others. And hell yeah for Barbara Jordan, she was amazing. Black, queer, disabled and broke through AND led!! When I think of bad ass women she’s first that comes to mind. 

[troph 24912]

And congrats on the success, I love ToT.

[Lat22 4018]

The recent picture of 1987 Spring Break at South Padre brought back the memories.

[Native Horn 3516]

I loved that pic too.  I was very likely somewhere in that crowd, if not in the actual picture.  Good times.

[davidg 4038]

1 hour ago, Native Horn said:

I loved that pic too.  I was very likely somewhere in that crowd, if not in the actual picture.  Good times.

This right here.  DTFH Spring Break '87!

[Cajun 11750]

20 hours ago, Lat22 said:

You're just figuring out that twitter is an absolute cesspool?

A cesspool?  I am SHOCKED!  No WAI!!!

The people who run it seem like such good folk?

Edited March 31, 2021 by Cajun