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Colonel Mareth,

You say you came to love rap music. OK.................I bet you were a good dancer!!!

Concerning your 70's, please remember, it's all downhill from here!! hahahahaha!!!

11/16/21 06:07 PM

#22960

It occurred to me suddenly the other day that I remember, I think it was in the 90's, seeing a list of US Congressmen and their net worths. Well, at the very bottom, one of the VERY FEW less than a million, was guess who? Yep, Joe Biden with about 350K from what I remember.

Well, now he and his entire family, including at least 1 brother, are multi-millionaires! Hmmmm.....he, via his son Hunter primarily, was influence peddling after he became Vice President, with China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan. Oh, well, at least the Cowboys are looking good again..........

11/16/21 06:27 PM

#22961

David C,

I didn't get those 2 comments about Lance that Steve got - must be a Castilian thing.

11/16/21 07:34 PM

#22962

Chief Dense Bedpost,

Parish the thought. Lance spelled perish as parish. Does that help? Now he has muffed his barber test. His Christian credentials just keep on giving. However, in my opinion it does not seem better to receive what he keeps giving.

11/16/21 08:22 PM

#22963

Wayne Gary

Lance and Martha,

Lance< I hope you have changed your mind since you claimed you were and arsonist at UT and set the ROTC building on fire.

I just saw where A&M has announce these new scholarships:

Texas A&M University announced today it will award $5 million in scholarships annually for 10 years to cover room and board for members of the Corps of Cadets who are ROTC scholarship recipients, which currently is more than 700 students.

ROTC scholarships cover all tuition and fees, but not room and board, so Texas A&M’s funding will close the gap, providing full ride scholarships.

This new funding, known as “Texas A&M University Patriot Scholarships,” will go into effect immediately, retroactively covering room and board for the fall 2021 semester. The scholarships will continue to cover room and board for all ROTC scholarship recipients for every subsequent semester. All cadets on any ROTC scholarship are eligible to receive the additional scholarship dollars.

“Not that there was ever any doubt, but the Patriot scholarship proves that Texas A&M is the most military-friendly university in the country,” said Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp. “The Texas A&M community always will do whatever it can to support our troops and those preparing to serve our country in the armed forces. Also today, Dr. Banks showed us her strong commitment to the Corps of Cadets.”

11/16/21 08:34 PM

#22964

Jim B,

Umm, they weren't very clever. Play on words. Parish for perish for parish (Louisiana equivalent of county). Under a spell? Jut about spelling. Like I said, not very clever.

11/16/21 09:25 PM

#22965

David C,

Thanks for the clarifications. I was just now beginning to try to figure it out when Steve said, about Lance, " Now he has muffed his barber test." I think I'll make ignorance the better part of valor and blow off that investigation now; probably not worth the time.

11/17/21 12:45 AM

#22966

Chief,

I was referring to Lance post 24452. What he described after Oh by the way MMM.

11/17/21 07:45 AM

#22967

Wayne and Lance,

As spelling experts, do you know the one word that is spelled incorrectly in every Modern English dictionary?

I won't keep you guessing, it is the word "incorrectly."

Lance, I do appreciate you standing up for me answering the rant from Rob Stockhash. As Jehovah is his Witness he will need to keep quiet in the afterlife, because his girlfriend thinks she is the only one there, wherever there is.

11/17/21 09:20 AM

#22968

David,

I have another suggestion to improve the RHS Class Website. This idea would not have been possible until we reached our current age. I suggest we install a weather prediction tab, so we know what days it is going to rain. We enlist the classmates who have had knee, hip or other joint surgery in a committee to acurately predict the weather since they can feel it in their bones. It would be a great benefit for those classmates who have not been blessed with one of these surgeries.

11/17/21 09:59 AM

#22969

Bob Davidson

Martha -- if yesterday was your 70th, day late happy birthday. It's also my late sister Dana's birthday. As to your hip hop dancing -- I've always thought dance music was very different from listening to music. If you like hip hop for both, have fun.

11/17/21 10:11 AM

#22970

Bob Davidson

Jim -- when Brandon was named Obama's veep, they made a fairly big deal that he was the poorest sitting senator. My guess is that being around the Obamas and Clintons even he caught on to the grift and went for the big bucks. Like Nancy Pelosi, he's managed to save many, many millions of dollars during his subsequent government service. One quick way to cull out the grifters in politics is to see who gets rich in office.

I would like a system where congresscritters live in a modest dorm or apartment buidling while in session and, except for the ones representing the area, be prohibited from owning real estate within 100 miles of D.C. i would also make them put their investments in a blind trust while they are in office, prohibit their spouses or kids from dealing with the federal government, and hang them for treason from the trees in front of the Capitol if they get caught accepting anything of value from a person with business with the governent. Of course, that would mean that we couldn't have the ad campaigns for elections and all that. After I wrote that, I realized that I just don't much like Congress.

11/17/21 12:12 PM

#22971

Wayne Gary

Steve,

How do you feel the weather in "your Bones" when your bones have been replaced with metal? Do you feel the weather "in your metal"?

11/17/21 01:44 PM

#22972

Colonel Mareth,

I saw a Dick Cavett interview with Billy Joel out on his Long Island estate from the last millennium. Billy was saying how rap "music" is actually all vocals & rhythm, not really music. So yes, great to dance to, but some of us are not much into dancing.........

By the way, baseball slugger Roger Maris's father changed their surname from Maras. I just wish Steve had approved my name change to Jim Crow.....so sick of Bedwell..........I really like the sound of that new name for some reason, but I'm still having trouble trying to figure out why...........

Jay Leno used to have wedding announcements on his Tonight show. One time he mentioned a celestial Bedwell-Virgin wedding. There was a woman named Angie Freelove working at the Health Department in Anchorage, AK when I worked for the city - if our kids had become engaged it would have been the momentous Bedwell-Freelove union!!!

11/17/21 05:48 PM

#22973

Lowell Tuttle

Lance, i get your 'edited' post. First one directed my way had me wonderin...

Jim B i once had a customer who was named Ruth Nonesuch. She married into the Hadnot famil, so her new name was Ruth Nonesuch Hadnot.

11/17/21 05:59 PM

#22974

Saw Biden driving a 1000 HP General Motors Hummer. Can't believe they haven't taken the keys away from that guy!

Today is Eddy Norton's birthday.

Totally unrelated:

11/17/21 06:09 PM

#22975

At least Biden doesn't post mean tweets!

Biden embarrassment.

11/17/21 07:22 PM

#22976

Information and registration

For history junkies -- The Texas Historical Society is sponsoring an online webinar tomorrow about "Mr. Sam" -- long-time Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, from Bonham, Texas

11/18/21 12:45 AM

#22977

Lowell,

COOL!!!! How about that old English surname Rotynheryng (spelling was SO non-standardized in those days so I guess it was pronounced Rotten Herring?)? And some early Puritan/spiritual pioneers had odd names sometimes like Preserved Fish. Janis Joplin's ancestry includes the Hoar family - is there any other way to pronounce that? They changed it to Hanson long before Janis was born. Finally MANY American pioneer women had the given/Christian/first name Mehitable (or a variation). Apparently that was a name from the Bible but you can see why it didn't proliferate much the last coupla hundred years after its early numerous examples in our nation's history!

11/18/21 06:24 AM

#22978

Wayne,

I don't. You will have to ask the committee!

11/18/21 09:27 AM

#22979

Jerry May

Lance,

In follow up to two of your posts,

I too am exasperated with the "Horns"! I thought this guy was supposed to be good! I'm wondering without counting.......how many games he lost in the 4th quarter or over-time when they were ahead? I also wonder how many U.T. coaches have gotten the "axe" after just one year? Whatever the case, ultimately this should fall back on recruiting......but also the HEAD COACH! Well, they'll probably keep him until he can have his first recruiting class, see if he can beat O.U.and then he'll be gone if not successful. For now though I wouldn't be a bit surprised if his Defensive coordinator is history, and perhaps others. (All just my opinion)

And, your post regarding the "crazy" at the Mcdonalds hearkens back a post I made a couple of months ago....along with Bob Davidson's post about his near run-in with some troublemakers.

Mine had to do with a man swiftly walking towards my car thinking perhaps......my being on the phone was a distraction. I made a move......which scared him away.

The parking lot I was sitting in.......happened to be the very same one (Costco Business) where the man was loading groceries and was shot and killed by four individuals. I suspect he was not aware of his surroundings and was concentrating on loading up his purchases. (such a terrible shame) And I was told it was in broad daylight!

Please everyone, be mindful of your surroundings......and if you dont believe in firearms there are a host of other items one can carry. But avoidance is the best action you can take.

One of the first points our instructor (in LTC class) made was; "Please be VERY mindful and observant of your surroundings no matter where you are"~j

11/18/21 10:06 AM

#22980

Bob D.,

11/18/21 10:17 AM

#22981

Wayne,

11/18/21 12:52 PM

#22982

11/18/21 12:58 PM

#22983