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09/02/23 02:16 PM #28011    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

In loving memory of Jimmy Buffett.



Danny and I saw Jimmy Buffett in Fort Worth in the mid 70's, I think 1975 or 76.  Great concert!  We were on the floor of the convention center just a few rows from the stage.  During the concert there were two cowboys sitting in seats in front of us on the next row.  From the beginning of the concert they left frequently (we assumed to get alcohol from their cars or the parking lot).  Two hippies kept their eyes on the seats and when the cowboys were gone for more than 15 or 20 minutes took them over.  Then the cowboys returned.  The hippies were not easily evicted.  The entire row was shoved two seats over.  Most of us were standing anyway.  So for a short while the cowboys and hippies were side by side, but it was tense.  Then the fun began. One hippie slapped the cowboy with a wide clap of his hands.  Then the fight started.  We were front row and center watching as the music continued to play. The cops showed up and carted cowboys and hippies away.  30 minutes later the cowboys returned.  The wild west prevailed.  And that's the way it was.

Rest in peace Jimmy Buffett.  A life well lived.


09/02/23 03:03 PM #28012    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Fruitcakes everywhere!  Oh Jimmy you were so right!




09/02/23 04:28 PM #28013    

 

Lowell Tuttle

I am saying Jack Mildren played both ways at OU early in his career there.   I can find no evidence as his story is clogged with later life accomplishments.   I know he was both ways at Abelien Cooper.   

Can any of you OU alums or fans confirm this in light of the Colorado Buffs player Trays Hunter, who today has 11 receptions for 119 yards and also played cornerback on defense getting an interception and three tackles as well as a bunch of defended passes.   All in 95 degree heat...and I am guessing the field temperature must have been 120 or so...

Pretty fun game to watch...

Apparently, Mildren play no college defense...At least his stat page has no tackles.


09/02/23 04:50 PM #28014    

 

Wayne Gary

David C

I just watched "Berlin Express" on OK.  Very good.

In 1997 I was in Austria and on the highways I saw road signs left from the occupation.,

Another film is "four in A Jeep" whichwas from 1950 about MPs in Vienna and shows the city then and how the patrols had an MP from each of the 4 powers.  It also showes a lot of the city.


09/02/23 09:32 PM #28015    

 

David Cordell

Saw Buffett in Baton Rouge in the early '80s. Good concert, but he made a gratuitous insult of President Reagan. I didn't pay to hear that.

Yeah, the Colorado - TCU game was a lot of fun. Prime Time's son can really throw the ball. 510 yards?? Ridiculous! And no interceptions. 

Seems like Mildren played safety in the pros for a while. He was very fast as a hurdler, if I recall correctly.

I think Chuck Bednarik and E.J. Holub played both ways in the pros, at least for a while. I'm sure many did back in the olden days.

That said, the Colorado kid was exceptional on both sides of the ball in oppressive heat. Very, very impressive. 

I was rooting for Colorado because of Prime Time. He caught a lot of grief for supposedly not knowing what he was doing. Turned out that did some things right, including having a talented son and coaching that other player from when he was a kid.

Watching Tech versus Wyoming. Looks like it won't be over until 11:30 because of lightning delay.


09/02/23 10:07 PM #28016    

 

David Cordell

A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, “God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and good-bye Grandpa.”

The father asked, ‘Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?’

The little girl said, “I don’t know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do.”

The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence.

A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this, “God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and good-bye Grandma.”

The next day the grandmother died.

“Holy crap” thought the father, “this kid is in contact with the other side!”

Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, “God bless Mommy and good-bye Daddy.”

He practically went into shock. He couldn’t sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay.

He felt safer in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home. When he got home his wife said, “I’ve never seen you work so late. What’s the matter?”

He said, “I don’t want to talk about it; I’ve just spent the worst day of my life.

“You think you had a bad day, you’ll never believe what happened to me,” she said. “This morning my golf pro dropped dead in the middle of my lesson!”

 


09/03/23 08:00 AM #28017    

 

David Cordell

Double rainbow seen in the west from my backyard this morning. Unfortunately, more bow and less rain.


09/04/23 10:02 AM #28018    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Susie, Ryan, and myself were on our earliest long drive from Houston to Murray River, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1991...Ryan was not quite 2.   We were driving up through Tennessee, then, Ithaca, NY, and then across through Maine up through New Brunswick/Nova Scotia and across the strait by the Wood Islands Ferry near my Mom's home on the Island.   Relatives visited along the way...

When we were going through Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania on the interstate, as we wound around the road going through or near the Blue Ridge area, we approached a rainbow.  We actually drove right through the rainbow and we looked behind us as we drove through and it was behind us.   I did not think that could happen due to where light is reflected off the prisms of water vapor, relative to the sunlight, but it did.   I suppose the winding of the road caused that effect.   Something I will never forget.

I also remember how horrible the driving on that trip was.   My wife hates to drive long distances, gets carsick easily, so takes dramamine.   My two year old in the car seat behind me was a perfect kid, on the trip, but only while the car was stopped.   When I was driving and my wife ignoring him, he basically screamed, kicked, and yelled, throwing any entertainment toy we gave him...but he did sleep a lot too.   It was a chore....

I had remembered station wagon vacations from my childhood, driving up there from DC...with Mom tending the three siblings in the back of the car...My family driviing vacation dreams had been shattered by actual parenthood relized from the other side.   

Fun to look back at this now...and I suppose the rainbow was a sign of how happy we would be later in our lives, but certainly not on that trip, at least the driving part...


09/04/23 06:48 PM #28019    

 

David Cordell

Lowell, I can relate.

I went on several long distance drives with my father -- Montana and California. One trip to California in about 1959 included my father, mother, aunt, sister, cousin, and me in our 57 Chevy Belaire. I spent some of the trip lying down on the deck behind the back seat, under the back windshield. I don't recall any carrying on, though.


09/05/23 10:58 AM #28020    

 

Lowell Tuttle

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Fantasy football (NFL) draft last night.   I am league commissioner.   Draft night at a Pub is fun.  Lots of trash talking.   We only see each other once a year...mix of my darts friends, golf friends, and pub friends...though I don't pub much anymore...I didn't get any great players as I drafted 11th in a 12 team league, but I snagged Patrick Mahommes...the best QB.   I hope it doesn't hex him.

Everyone was bored with my back surgery story.   Most of us talked Astros.  

What has happened to the Rangers.   They have lost their mojo...

They are still in it though.   Seattle is a tough cookie...


09/05/23 11:35 AM #28021    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Kyle Arnold, writer for Dallas Morning News had an article this morning in the Houston Chronicle about how American Airlines and Google are possibly making changes in time and routes of airlines to reduce "contrails," which are clouds formed by jets from condensation on exaust from jets.   The clouding is significant and has a big impact on the earth holding in heat.

I remembered an article I read about a study they were tyring to make on this from some think tank or University research project somewhere.   They just happened to be doing this as 9 / 11 happened.  

The effect of jet fuel exaust on the atmosphere could be measured at that time, as virtually all air traffic stopped for about 7 days.

I wish I could find and read the results of that research.   Now looking...

This article contains a cool satellite video of how air traffic stopped after the attacks...

https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/


09/05/23 03:07 PM #28022    

Jim Bedwell

Lowell et al,

Yes, Gil Brandt via his leading the then-advanced usage of computers at Boys' HQ really gave them an advantage in scouting, drafting, etc.

And Tex Schramm was amazing too. He deserves his election to the Hall of Fame. He was behind a bunch of innovations, as documented in this Wikipedia excerpt:

Schramm was known for advocating for a number of changes and innovations that helped modernize the NFL. These included instant replay, using computer technology in scouting, multi-color striping of the 20- and 50-yard lines, 30-second clock between plays, extra-wide sideline borders, wind-direction stripes on the goal post uprights, the referee's microphone, headsets in the quarterback's helmet for hearing plays, and hiring Dee Brock to establish the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. While leading the league's Competition Committee, he oversaw rule changes such as using overtime in the regular season, putting the official time on the scoreboard, moving goalposts from the front of the end zone to the back, and protecting quarterbacks through the in-the-grasp rule. Schramm's desire for a more comprehensive scouting combine led to the annual offseason NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Don Shula said of Schramm, "I truly believe he had as much, or more, to do with the success of professional football as anyone who has ever been connected with the league."

Of course the foremost accomplishment in the preceding paragraph was the item concerning Dee Brock. 

Also I seem to remember Tex was behind getting the pull-up screen behind the goal post to keep the football from going into the stands on kicks PLUS extending the goalposts upward to help the decisions on the kicks. I could be wrong about these last 2 items concerning Schramm however.

Yes, then we had Tex and now we have Jerry. Reminds me for some reason of that Twain quote: "Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get."


09/05/23 03:24 PM #28023    

Jim Bedwell

I do hope Chief Pay It Forward Forever is continuing his recovery from his (alleged) health drawback. Really miss the opportunity to snipe at, degrade & otherwise abuse him - such is the yoke of OCD and whatever other mental challenges he won't help me pay to fix, I suppose - remember Chief, remember this, BUSTER, what Forrest Gump said about that box of chocolates, those doctors don't know what they might find to help me and the rest of the world would also benefit greatly from the surgery, as you well know, Tommy -...sigh......remember tho, Argentina, don't cry for me........

Instead of "health drawback" I almost said "health backslide" but thought better of going into that chronic catastrophe (backsliding) of the capped caballero & Chem class complainer & coward to the class cutup. You know, kinda like our Donald says, "I'm not going to say that DeSantis is a #^$@!$# or a %#@$#@". YEE HAW!!!!!


09/05/23 08:05 PM #28024    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Bedwell.   You brought back to my mind's eye the image of rascals   catching the kicked extra point and field goal foot balls landing in the stands.   Those guys would get the football and take off running trying to get out of the Cotton Bowl before the authorities could get em.

Also, remember, before the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders went all Hollywood, there was Jimmy Baker and (I think, Mark Adkins as well as Sharon Foster or some other RHS High Schoolers who were the Cowboys cheerleaders in the Cotton Bowl...

Speaking of sports.  At this moment, Altuve has four HR's in a row against the Rangers.   Three tonight through three innings and one his last at bat last night.   Plus, he had another one in the 5th or 6th last night.   Five..Can he get four or five tonight...  Nothing but Stros fans in Globe Life tonght, or so it seems on TV down here in H town.

I have a spiritual question.  Justin Verlander must have someone he fantasizes about.   But, who do you fantasize about when you have Kate Upton at home?

 


09/05/23 08:51 PM #28025    

Jim Bedwell

Lowell,

Concerning Verlander, EXACTLY!!!! Kate Upton is a 10 of 10's so no reason to go into that. By the way, her great grandfather, one Frederick Stanley Upton, co-founded what later became Whirlpool Corporation, with his brother Louis Cassius Upton.

I remember going to the Cotton Bowl to the Cowboys' games in the mid 60's and seeing Jimmy Baker (and I think Debbie Sholtess?), but not Adkins or anybody else, as cheerleaders there. And you'll maybe remember Tommy's saying on one or both forums that since he roomed with Baker before, he can honestly say that he's slept with a Cowboys cheerleader.

Tex Schramm may also have had the idea of the orange markers sticking up at the goal line so that only touching it with the ball means a touchdown. Perhaps he had something to do with updates to the 10-yard markers as well; can't remember. But Tex really had a genius of looking at a problem/issue on the field (and elsewhere?) and finding a novel, practical way to solve it.

Finally, yes, Altuve is awesome. Future Hall of Famer, I think, especially now that they've won 2 World Series with him as one of the key elements (plus 2 World Series they lost with him), not to mention his 3 batting titles, etc. Now if the Rangers could just get a relief pitcher.............


09/05/23 09:17 PM #28026    

 

David Cordell

Lowell,

I just turned on the radio for the Rangers-Astros game. 14-1??? Geez.

About the 9/11 thing, I really enjoyed the musical Come from Away that is shown on Apple TV. It's about how the people of Gander took care of the thousands of travelers who were stranded there on 9/11. Heartwarming.


09/05/23 09:26 PM #28027    

 

Lowell Tuttle

David, a Houston friend of mine who started Rudyard's and The Ale House, as well as The Richmond Arms...and he ran the Houston Home and Garden Show and he had a Yellow Pages Directory for Oil and Gas here, Sean Wymes, was returning from his original home in London when they had to land in St. John's Newfoundland and they were stuck there for (I forget) a week or so?   

Speaking of St. John's Nfl.  I wonder if Fleming has returned from there to this heat.   Now, that would be sad to stay up there 2-3 months and still have 100+ days here when returning.


09/05/23 09:38 PM #28028    

 

David Cordell

See photo on the second page. Baker and Sholtess are noted. I thought that Brenda Brown and Linda Foster might have been involved, but it looks like they spread around the selections among the high schools.


09/05/23 10:11 PM #28029    

 

Jerry May

Lowell,

"Tuve" sure got himself healthy! He came back with a vengeance! All these homers (inc a 406 ft shot) and hitting "the cycle" last week against Boston, proved he's a 5'6 165lb Superman!

(and yes he's been playing since May, but now looks like he's in full form)

I just knew after the Yankees swept them (Astros) they would come in here breathing fire!

As one Ranger fan put it; "If you want to be the best, you need to beat the best!"

I guess the Rangers now will need some help!


09/05/23 10:35 PM #28030    

Jim Bedwell

David/Jerry/Lowell,

This is a colossal Rangers nosedive, even for them. If they keep this up, they'll miss the playoffs. And here I thought that Bruce Bochy was really making a difference (still do actually but it's kinda hard to turn it all around in just one year).


09/05/23 11:34 PM #28031    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Rangers will bounce back.   I hope.   Astros are first in my heart, but Rangers second.   Dunning looked pretty good.   Surely there are some better relievers.   The good guys are held back for when it's close, I would assume.   

It only takes one game and a couple of good defensive plays.   Scherzer tomorrow against Verlander.  I have seen Schertzer once for a few innings.   Verlander has been spotty.   Has to stay ahead in the count and keep number of pitches down.  His stuff isn't as good as it was last year.   Just look at his strikeouts....way down.   I like Verlander as an inning eater... Though, the Astros bull pen is in pretty good shape...and they are off Thursday...  Tomorrow you will get to see Brantley.  His swing is as smooth as they get...

 


09/06/23 09:20 AM #28032    

 

Ron Knight

COVID WARNING

Just FYI. The Southeast has a strain that is running rampant in this part of the country. My daughter in Atlanta caught it 9 + days ago and still is positive as of this morning. My ex (RHS 69 grad) Shari Taylor (Tant) and her husband caught it. He is still positive 10 days later. Shari has been negative since day 7, both as of this morning as well. My son went to a concert Saturday night and came home from work last night feeling horrible. His girlfriend went to the store to get test kits. He tested positive. We are Asheville, NC. I am not showing any symptoms currently.

The strain is not as severe as others, but has been lasting longer. Mask up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


09/06/23 10:16 AM #28033    

Jan Alexander

Monarchs...

I was amazed that it takes 4 to 5 generations of  monarchs to do just one north and south migration cycle in the year. They can even travel up to over 200 miles a day , including riding a wind stream.

"The first generation offspring from the overwintering population continue the journey from the southern U.S. to recolonize the eastern breeding grounds, migrating north through the central latitudes in approximately late April through May. Second and third generations populate the breeding grounds throughout the summer. It is generally the fourth generation that begins where we started this paragraph, migrating through the central and southern U.S. and northern Mexico to the wintering sites in central Mexico. It is the fourth last generation lives up to 9 months to migrate south , up to 3000 miles."

There are two different routes they take. The western path up thru California and the eastern path.

The I-35 corridor follows Interstate 35 through six states from Minnesota south to Texas, following the central flyway of monarch migration. In 2016, these states signed a memorandum of understanding that informally named I-35 the “Monarch Highway” and agreed to implement coordinated management practices along the corridor that benefit monarchs and other pollinators.

So, plant your butterfly bush and milk weed. .

I  walk by a house alot and notice alot of butterfly attracting plants and one day the man was out side , so I stopped to talk to him.  He and his wife are from California and at their house they had a big butterfly garden.  One year they put netting with stakes around a big area to protect the larvae from being eaten by wasps...  They released over 150 butterflies that year .  SOOO cool ,

My one and only butterfly bush from Lowes.. :-) for now.


09/06/23 12:20 PM #28034    

 

David Cordell

Very cool video of Monarchs. Love the drone, too.


09/06/23 02:29 PM #28035    

Jan Alexander

Now you all got my mind a wandering... 

Where I used to live , I had 14 hummingbird feeders up around the porch.  How it all got started was I bought one feeder and at hummer "happy hour" or" last call " for the hummers which was is almost at dark, there would be a bunch swarming / hovering above the ones that were at the feeder.. waitilng in line..  So I went a bought another .... then another , then another.  Still with ones at dusk waiting in line... By the end of summer , I would count atleast 150 hummers in the evenings. I got so used to them and them to me, that I would walk arounfd the porch without even noticing them  We all would just go about our business... They would all move out of the way... The only time i would worry would be if i was going around the corner... 

I would go to walmart and buy 20 lb bags of sugar. .. at a time , I would go thru up to 100 lbs a season.  I had big pans to boil the water for the sugar... If you do that , the syrup lasts longer in the bottle and doesn't get as murky.   That was my job all friggin summer..  I would go out for a while , drive up to the house and they would almost all be empty.  It was a job.  

It all started around 2003 and by 2013 the numbers had definitely dwindled.. 

Always 4 parts water , one part sugar... no fooding coloring or red ... the red gives them liver problems. 

The end.. ;-) 


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