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08/28/20 09:01 PM #18816    

 

Wayne Gary

Lance,

I learned when I was 5 how to take a shot.

1: Have your mother bribe you with  a dime if you take it

2: Look away from the shot.  Might even close your eyes

 


08/28/20 09:03 PM #18817    

 

Wayne Gary

For you baseball fans




08/29/20 06:49 AM #18818    

 

Steve Keene

Hull

I will eventually send you a video.  Right now during the honeymoon period, I am trying to let her satisfy the pent up demand!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


08/29/20 10:04 AM #18819    

 

Jerry May

I am sorry Steve, not wearing glasses just now. Did you say "tent up" demands?


08/29/20 11:52 AM #18820    

 

Randy Rushing

Speaker Pelosi, is a very smart person, and very crazy.
Third in line and first to be taken out if the unthinkable came about

08/29/20 02:45 PM #18821    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Randy,

I remember you from years ago, when you were on the track team with my brother, Wes Jeanes. 

He said YOU were smart and crazy too!   It's an unusual combination to possess, I think.

But with Pelosi, it's a dangerous combination for those who depend upon her to be balanced and reasonable.

Just my opinion.........

 

We enjoy your posts from afar!   Scotland, is it?

I must say you look distinquished in you white beard and lean face!  Are you still a runner?

Can you see the Northern Lights from your front porch?


08/29/20 05:03 PM #18822    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Just read a newspaper headline that said, "New survey: 98% of Americans Who Support Socialism Reject  Biblical Wordview."

No surprise there, huh?

 

 

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."   --John Adams


08/30/20 08:21 AM #18823    

Debbie Cathey (Havens)

Janalu
No surprise at all. Sadly, ee have not done a great job of carrying out thr Vommission that our Lord gave us. Also, many who believe in Biblical Worldview fail in attempts in the area of apologetics... (defending the faith not apologizing for it).

08/31/20 10:15 AM #18824    

 

Bob Davidson

Houston Restaurant Week has been going on for the last month -- other years it's for one week only.  Various high end restaurants have special fixed price menus, for $35 or $45 per person for a three-course dinner or $25 or $35 for brunch or lunch.  We started going out three weeks ago, to places that are usually too high end for me -- like Brennan's, Maison Pechu, Damian's, Harolds in the Heights, Brenner's on the Bayou, etc.  It's been fun trying these places, or going again after an absence, but one thing struck me:  there are no white people under 60 eating there, and not too many under 70. We see lots and lots of blacks of all ages, some younger Middle Easterners and Indians, a fair number of Hispanic family groups (often three generations together), and plenty of white haired Anglos.  A large percentage of the staff is young Anglos, but no customers.  Is it a Houston thing or are our younger folks in general too cowed by the coronavirus or, possibly, just innumerate?

It also occurred to me that we have seen no Asians.

 

 


08/31/20 10:52 AM #18825    

 

David Cordell

Bob,

Not sure about your implied hypothesis, but here is another observation.

A friend in Austin told me that his dry cleaner told him that, among his regular customers, the ones he knows to be  conservatives have kept coming in, but the liberals have not. 

I'm not sure if that means that conservatives are less concerned about the virus, or that liberals are more comfortable in dirty clothes. Or maybe Austin's liberals are so wealthy that they haven't run out of clean clothes yet.


08/31/20 11:17 AM #18826    

 

Bob Davidson

David,

Maybe liberals are more likely to wear clothes that don't have to be dry cleaned?


08/31/20 11:20 AM #18827    

 

David Cordell

About the stock market ... 

I have been suffering from FOMO - fear of missing out.

I am considerably overweighted in equities for someone my age, and it has worked out well so far. I have hit the portfolio goal that I set, and it is more than sufficient to provide for my wife and me.

Now is the time to cut back, but I am having a hard time pulling the trigger. (Excuse the mixed metaphor.) I see the market going up, and I don't like the idea of watching it from the sidelines. That said, I think it is difficult to justify some of the P/E ratios out there. Tech seems to be dominating the market gains, and it seems very speculative to me. (P/E ratio of 1250.) I saw one target estimate that Tesla will be worth three times the current price in one year and another that says that it is seriously overvalued.

I am an investor, not a speculator, and I need to take a conservative turn with my portfolio. At this point in my life, I am starting to identify  with the quotation attributed to Will Rogers: " I am more concerned with the return OF my money than the return ON my money."


08/31/20 11:25 AM #18828    

 

David Cordell

Bob said, "Maybe liberals are more likely to wear clothes that don't have to be dry cleaned."

David responds, "Maybe so. When you're rich, you can wear a T-shirt to work, like Mark Zuckerburg."


08/31/20 12:00 PM #18829    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Also in the Texas heat, many Texans choose to wear cotton since it 'breathes' for better air circulation around your body, as the Southerners of yore knew, which is why they grew cotton.  We can launder cotton clothes ourselves, as you know.

As for the restaurants, the middleclass Anglos are flat broke, with their businesses going under, I assume, so they can't afford to eat out, and also, they also are taxed to death paying for the minority 'security net.'  That fact may factor into the equation.


08/31/20 03:52 PM #18830    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Houstonian here.

I think it's demographics and geographics....

Our Loop 12 is 610.   Our 635 is Beltway 8...Way further out than Dallas'

I am guessing not many in Plano or Desoto or Gran Prairie go out to eat at inner loop 12 Dallas restaurants.  Most inner loop 610 dwellers in Houston are renters. 

Most restaurants on the list I have seen are inner 610.

My wife and I have not been out to eat since March....and then we ate at El Palenque's off 249 nearly to Tomball.   Our last nice restaurant was Peli Peli...S. African...Does Dallas have that?

She's a retirred nurse, so I trust her health wisdom...

I have been in Houston 42 years and have never been to Houston Restaurant Week.

Galveston?  A couple of times...New Orleans? Once.


08/31/20 06:00 PM #18831    

 

Wayne Gary

 

Dallas started with a restaurant week 23 years ago and now it is a month long from Aug 31 to Sept 27.  It has 90 restaurants that includes Ft Worth and most of DFW area with funds going to the food banks in both cities and between.


08/31/20 07:14 PM #18832    

 

Wayne Gary

Randy,

In GB do they have southern style biscuts like here and if so what do they call them?  I know they call cookies biscuts and then they have scones which are quite different from our biscutes.


09/01/20 05:59 AM #18833    

 

David Cordell

For those of you who like rock concerts, this set of clips is from Turner Classic Movies. Starts with Stones and ends with Beatles (She Loves You from from Hard Day's Night) and Hendrix.




09/01/20 06:05 AM #18834    

 

David Cordell

I can't remember if this was already posted, but it is great fun. Easily worth the 22 minutes to watch

 


09/01/20 06:48 AM #18835    

Debbie Cathey (Havens)

Hi Lance.
Yes, I do believe that ee are entering into the "End Times" While unique weather changes certainly point to these prophetic days, I also look at how America has turned away from its Biblical moral foundation...Persecution (which purifies the Church) is beginning to show up in our country. The vurrent violence etc shows how we Christians have failed to boldly proclaim Jesus Christ Who alone brings lasting meaning, peace, love, joy...etc into the souls of mankind, created to fellowship with our Maker...only possible through relationship with Christ.
What am I doing? I ask God to provide opportunity to speak with those who have questions...He has brought many across my path...all ages and races. I am not shy about asking strangers what they think of Jesus. This question has brought about opportunities for great discussionListening to their answer clues me in to where they are...and helps me know where to go in discussing my faith with them. I hope that answers your question. I also help parents of young children in helping them to bring their children up in the faith. Sadly, I have seen many "church kids" turn away once they leave high school. We need to be more diligent in buiding a strong foundation in our youth. "Fellowship" is much more than eating and games...

09/01/20 10:56 AM #18836    

Bob Fleming

I hope my classmates indulge this post.  It occurs to me that given the fact we are all the same age, you will understand it.  I'm not sure any one else will.

I woke up this morning and it suddenly dawned on me that today marks my father's 100th birthday and that my mother's 100th birthday is this coming Monday.

My father died when I was 14 and my mother when I was 38.  It's a funny thing how few actual honest to God memories I have of them at this point given the fact that I Always feel their Presence.  

Coincidentally I have been doing a lot of reading duirng the pandemic and just re-read last week one of my favorite novels - The City of God by E.L. Doctorow.  I vaguely rembered a remark one of the characters makes in the book  and looked it up.

"As I worked . . . making up songs in my head to go with the rhythmns  . . . somehow these songs were in my mother's voice , or my father's, and the voices were really more in the nature of evanescent images of my mother and father, and the images  . . momentary perceptions of thier moral natures . . .

That's it i think . . . somehow I hear or perceive their voices and their laughs and really remember precious little else.  But somehow I know who they were and what they stood for.  And that they were Good.

Being human is a funny thing I guess.


09/01/20 02:31 PM #18837    

 

Hull Barbee

Bobby .......... wonderful musings from a great classmate....... my Dad died almost 10 years ago so I have great recollections of him and his voice ...... but Mom is another story ........ pretty sure Id recognize her voice if heard but still miss her wisdom ....... never heard her say a bad thing about anybody except one person .... " Plaintiff " .......... and Dad just never said much period. But I , like you , just remember they were good people....... and the world could sure use some more of them. 


09/01/20 08:01 PM #18838    

 

David Cordell

My parents made it to 80 and 85, but I really wasn't around them very much as an adult. Left for school at 18 and never lived near them as an adult. I feel like Bobby and Hull, but more fortunate since my parents lived longer. I really do wish I had lived closer to them.

Meanwhile, as a marked change of pace, here are a few chuckles from doctors and nurses, forwarded to me by a non-posting observer.

 

1.  A man comes into the ER and yells . . .  'My wife's going to have her baby in the cab.'

I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress and began to take off her underwear.

Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - - -  and I was in the wrong one.

Submitted by:  Dr. Mark MacDonald,
San Francisco

2.  At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.

'Big breaths,’ I instructed.
'Yes, they used to be,’ Replied the patient.

Submitted by:  Dr. Richard Byrnes,
Seattle, WA

3.  One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct.

Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a 'massive internal fart.'

Submitted by:  Dr. Susan Steinberg

4.  During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications.
'Which one?’ I asked.
'The patch.'
'The Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!'

I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see.  Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body!

Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one.

Submitted by:  Dr. Rebecca St. Clair,
Norfolk, VA

5.  While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, 'How long have you been bedridden?'

After a look of complete confusion she answered, 'Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'

Submitted by: Dr. Steven Swanson,
Corvallis, OR

6. I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a man I asked . . .  ' So how's your breakfast this morning?'
'It's very good except for the Kentucky Jelly.  I can't seem to get used to the taste,' Bob replied.

I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced a foil packet labeled 'KY Jelly.'

Submitted by:  Dr. Leonard Kransdorf,
Detroit

7.  A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room when a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered.  It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery.

When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green and above it there was a Tattoo that read . . .  ' Keep off the grass.'

Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said, 'Sorry . . .   Had to mow the lawn.'

Submitted by:  RN no name,

AND FINALLY!!

8.  As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB, I was quite embarrassed when performing female pelvic exams.
To cover my embarrassment I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly.

The middle-aged lady upon whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing, further embarrassing me.

I looked up from my work and sheepishly said . . .  'I'm sorry. . .  Was I tickling you?'

She replied with tears running down her cheeks from laughing so hard . . .

'No doctor but the song you were whistling was, 'I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener.'

Dr. wouldn't submit his name...

1 MORE. . .

Baby's First Doctor Visit

This made me laugh out loud.  I hope it will give you a smile!

A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam.

The doctor arrived, and examined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed  or bottle-fed.

'Breast-fed,' she replied.

'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered.

She did.   He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination.  Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said,
'No wonder this baby is underweight.  You don't have any milk.'

'I know,' she said, 'I'm his Grandma, but I'm glad I came.' 


09/02/20 01:41 PM #18839    

 

Bob Davidson

Lowell is right, everywhere we went is inner city Houston. Where I live is a mile or so from downtown in a neighborhood "gentrifying" from professional middle class to trust fund asshole rapidly. Every week a couple of 100+ year old houses are demolished so they can build million dollar plus mcmansions.

The people buying the new houses seem to be Anglos in their 30s, drive Rovers and Mercedes Benzes, and put up black lives matter and Biden signs in their gated yards. Most of them don't go to work -- and didn't even before the coronavirus. Inner loop Houston has lots and lots of very young white people who have more money than I've ever dreamed of. (We had several of them in our Scout troop -- one where dad is writing a novel and mom works for a non-profit and they live in a $2 million house.)

Before the pandemic, they were everywhere in the restaurants in the trendy inner city: Montrose, the Heights, Midtown, West U, the Washington Corridor, Museum District, etc. Now they aren't in public.


09/02/20 02:17 PM #18840    

Debbie Cathey (Havens)

Lance,
Thank you for your kind words. Honestly, I am not sure why I have been hesitant in using my voice here until recently. You may be sorry now...lol...Blessings!

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