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12/16/21 05:35 PM #23220    

 

David Cordell

Lowell,

I have an almost-connection with the University of the South (Sewanee). It is owned/sponsored by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church. When we lived in Lubbock, I was selected to represent the Episcopal Diocese of Northwest Texas on the Board of Trustees of Sewanee. However, before I could take the position, we moved from Lubbock to Plano. Thus, I was no longer in the Diocese of Northwest Texas and couldn't represent that Diocese. That was a very, very big disappointment for me.


12/16/21 10:53 PM #23221    

 

David Cordell


12/17/21 09:26 AM #23222    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Wouldn't Martin Luther King be SO proud of us Americans to see this, David?

It's truly a stark moment for our country at this time, to have segregation making a lovely comeback under the leadership of Joe Biden, who is being coached from across the street by Obama and his minions, and by Susan Rice there in the West Wing.  Progressives are something else, aren't they?

How much more progress can we stand in one year?

Good ol' JoeJoe, evidently still harboring old segregationist beliefs deep in his profoundly Catholic soul, pondering those thoughts, although not speaking of them, especially in the same breath of his and Hunter's Chinese and Ukraine dealings, only to have them appear once again, at times of his aging and malfunctioning brain's divulging long-held secrets (Oh Dear!) for all to hear and behold.

 

Merry Could-You-Be-More-Delusional-Christmas America!

 

 

Pray for mercy and guidance for this glorious country, all ye who are heavy laden with trepidations for this wonderous land of freedom and opportunity!  May we survive the erring direction of our leadership lunatics, who have lost their way and are heading for the precipice from which there is no return.

 


12/18/21 12:25 PM #23223    

 

Bob Davidson

I'm at the Ford dealership where I bought my truck getting the regular service. It's pouring rain and outside looks like midnight. There is a really nice new Bronco sitting right next to the waiting room. I was talking to a couple of salesmen, who don't have any customers now. I commented on the lot full of new vehicles and the contrast with the Toyota place with the empty lot. They told me that the vehicles they have lack computer chips. You buy a car and get it when they get a chip. Toyota doesn't send out cars without chips so you order a car there and wait for it. I said it mist be hell to sell that way...they said all the vehicles on the lot are sold and they have bunches if people waiting backorder. Wow! This seems like a huge deal to me so why isn't it on the news?

12/18/21 04:57 PM #23224    

 

David Cordell

Bob,

Just a guess about the difference btw Ford and Toyota. Maybe Ford is able to book the sale for reporting purposes to show revenue in the current period. Maybe Toyota, from Japan, a culture which is focused more on the long term, chooses to book the sale in the period when the actual exchange takes place.Just a guess.. 


12/18/21 06:44 PM #23225    

Jim Bedwell

Not scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to Stanley Kowalski:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Kowalski

Here's my grandmother's 4th cousin - quit smoking at 102:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Meilleur


12/19/21 07:07 AM #23226    

 

David Cordell

Jim B., 

Never heard of Stanislaw Kowalski, but Marlon Brando, who played Stanley Kowalski in the movie Streetcar Named Desire, would be 97 if he were alive. Loved him in the movie The Freshman. Great send-up of his Godfather character.

Went to the Granada Theater last night with Jerry and Ellen May to see performance by Desperado, an Eagles tribute band. The lead guitarist ws a cousin of Ellen. Theperformance was fabulous. If you like the Eagles and have a chance to see/hear Desperado, don't miss the opportunity. 


12/19/21 08:21 AM #23227    

 

Steve Keene

 

Chief Bedwell.

I have finally decided to come clean with you about shaving my mustasche.  I think I gave you some kind of  line about seeing references in movies about girls not wanting to kiss guys with mustaches because it tickled and they did not want to know what I had for lunch yesterday.  The truth is a friend told me I should shave it.  Beyond the fact that it might make me look younger, he said "With a nose like yours, why underline it?"

                                                      Chief Nostasche


12/19/21 08:50 AM #23228    

 

Wayne Gary

For those4 of you missing "Mallard filmore" in the Dallas News, her is todays


12/19/21 09:24 AM #23229    

 

Steve Keene

David, Janalu and Wayne,

On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a little something not P.C.

It was a redneck tale by Joe Diffie:




12/19/21 09:00 PM #23230    

 

Wayne Gary

David,

I just watched on KERA World "Earths Sacred Wonders: Closer to the Devine"  It is about a number of sacred places around the world.  The last segment was about the St Francis Day  service at The Cathedral of St John the Devine in New York City.

You should be able to watch on KERA Passport. 

Here is the clip of the procession.

https://video.kera.org/video/procession-animals-st-john-divine-dxupr2/


12/20/21 07:02 AM #23231    

 

David Cordell

Wayne,

My brother's wedding in 1972 was in a side chapel at St. John the Divine, which is an Episcopal cathedral. (His Jewish wife is from Manhattan. A priest and a Rabbi officiated.) We have the Blessing of the Animals at our church, also, but I haven't seen any exotic animals -- just dogs and cats. And it is held outside!


12/20/21 08:43 AM #23232    

 

Steve Keene

Janalu, Hollis and Sandra,

I have met someone, but a large question hangs in the air.  Can a never boosted senior find love with a double boosted girl?  How can I tell if she has Faucified her chart?  I fear the combination of our two souls will result only in death for us both.  I live for the day the omega variant comes out.  I have read the great Greek physicians and they tell me it is the last one.   Savings tip:  Sprinkle crushed leftover candy canes on your masks before you try to kiss through them to avoid the inflationary high cost of altoids.  For a more holistic muzzling, crush peppermint leaves and rub on your masks to get the same effect.  To give credit where it is due,  I got the tips from Ann Panders and ......... Hello Louise.


12/20/21 09:12 AM #23233    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Steve,

The big question is, is she healthier than you are?  If so, you have it made.  A live in caretaker for your "elder" years.  Ask her is she has a strong stomach for feces and urine, especially.  If she has a tendancy toward a weak stomach, or is shy of bodily fluids, I would dump her immediately. 


12/20/21 09:54 AM #23234    

 

Steve Keene

Sandra

It sounds like you think hooking up at my age is a piss poor option and all I can look forward to is the shit hitting the fan.


12/20/21 10:08 AM #23235    

 

Sandra Spieker (Ringo)

Not necessarily, Steve. If you find a sweet lady, who, for whatever reason, adores you, she will look past the infirmities that plague old age and disinfect, scrub and otherwise make the best of it. Love conquers all, even feces.


12/20/21 10:25 AM #23236    

 

Steve Keene

David, Kurt and Fellow Red Raiders,

I have a problem with the fact that Texas Tech is becoming way too P.C.  It has taken me almost three to five years per daughter to try and get the foolish ideas with which their warped progressive tenured professors poisoned their minds replaced with common sense thinking.    The latest beef I have with the school is in the school mascot.  Tech has the nation's number one meat judging program and can differentiate prime from choice using scientific methods.  However, due to equity and inclusiveness, the Red Raider mascot has gotten progressively more effeminent and this year is fat as a cow with multiple chins.  I find the Zorro image tainted by this mascot facade in the name of progress and Peta should be on board because the black stallion she rides is in danger of breaking down with back issues.  There are standards for cheerleaders and drill team girls and the same should apply to the mascot.  I do not like the image projected to the nation and I don't think a Percheron is a great image charging down the field, either.  Her flowing cape looks more like a parachute for slowing down attempts to break landspeed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats.  I like the Red Raider mascot, but the Red Refrigerator Raider Mascot does not carry the same panache.


12/20/21 10:26 AM #23237    

 

Bob Davidson

Ford vs Toyota, interesting idea, David.  That hadn't occurred to me.

I saw where Dusty Hill from ZZ Top died last night.  He was only 72.  The first time I saw a video on MTV (at a time when I didn't own or watch TV), it was ZZ Top with their new beards and sunglasses. 


12/20/21 11:11 AM #23238    

 

Steve Keene

Bob,

I have Dusty Hill's autograph on a napkin.  He ate at the Pizza Restaurant I started at Main and Crowdus (Now Malcolm X Blvd).  The place was called Campizza's and was a half a block from Club X that two of my partners owned, (Bob Cabell and the guy who owned the Strip Club on Samuel that backed up to Highway 80 near Debonair Danceland).  Dusty was living in Deep Ellum at the time and said he would be a regular customer.  I had bought the pizza ovens from J. D. Campisi, my wife's half brother and I brought in two excooks from Campisis Mockingbird that I knew.  Owning that place was what convinced me to never own another restaurant in my life.  There is never enough money unless you franchise it, sell alcohol after hours or run a gambling operation out of it.


12/20/21 11:20 AM #23239    

 

David Cordell

Steve said:  "I fear the combination of our two souls will result only in death for us both."

David responds: "You're both going to die anyway. Just make sure that whoever you hook up with enjoys sex. That way, at least you will die happy. Who wants to die with their boots on? I'd rather die with my boots tossed haphazzardly and hurriedly across the bedroom. Well, except for the fact that I don't own any boots. Loafers are much easier to take off."

By the way, when I first attended a Texas Tech game as a faculty member there, I was surprised that the Masked Rider was a girl. I gather that they're always girls. Not sure if that is a requirement. I suspect that girl barrel racers make good Masked Riders, but it still offends by sense of gender appropriateness It's Zorro, not Zorra.

(Note: I expect incoming for that comment!)


12/20/21 11:41 AM #23240    

 

Steve Keene

David,

They haven't always been girls.  When I entered Tech in 1974 the rider was a girl, but the next one was a boy.   The very first masked rider was Joe Kirk Fulton from Amarillo in 1953 who died last year.  He was a friend of my Dad and a respected rancher and businessman in Amarillo.  The first woman was Anne Lynch in 1974.  Since then there have been 28 girls and 24 boys.  I don't have a problem with that.  The effeminate problem is that at first the majority of the first girls were raised on ranches and towards the last they are city girls that barrel race on weekends.  My main problem is that the original girls looked like cowgirls and the last one looks like a cow.


12/20/21 02:07 PM #23241    

 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Steve!

What wonderful news!  I'm so happy for you to have found a lovely lady to adore your sweet and loving heart!

I hope all goes well for the two of you.  She is a lucky lady!

Best wishes!


12/20/21 02:38 PM #23242    

Jim Bedwell

Chief No Stache,

I guess losing that AWFUL upper lip hair did the trick. I must admit though that I feel AWFULLY sorry for that poor, unknowing female........

And don't let her talk you into getting rid of all the secret cameras & photos you've taken at your place in Texas!!!!

Chief Bedpost


12/20/21 02:40 PM #23243    

Jim Bedwell

Wayne,

Concerning that St. John the Divine pic, was that Larry the Cable Guy with the python wrapped around his neck?


12/20/21 02:46 PM #23244    

Jim Bedwell

David C,

That was a big myth about Stanley Kowalski's not being real. And I've just proved it!!!! Yes, "The Freshman" was quite enjoyable, almost as much as "Reflections in a Golden Eye" - odd script for that 1967 movie - anytime a male prefers another male over Liz Taylor, I can't help but feel that's a little off kilter.


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