Synthetic Diamonds
 

Just because his name is "Mr. Man" does not mean that he's a big stud (in fact, it probably means the opposite). There's no need to be so nice to him.

Power outage
 

Robust Puppy is a Texan? She is awfully sneaky to have hidden that for so long.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Thank you for that unusual display of humanity here. Are you bucking for some free Texas sized drinks at some point? Working well so far... (then again, you may have been using my lack of skills of the language to be sarcastic)

Just for the record, I didn't start it. However, I felt the impressive audio knowledge that was being displayed was going to waste without a spirited and lively discussion. Oh, and I was trying to feel less guilty about my knowledge of when the Kate Spade bags became really popular, and when the replacement faux animal skin bag took over for the plain black bag.

It's like I live in Minnesota or something.

Yes, primarily the west-nile carrying mosquitos and the pollen and mold counts. My secretary's ass has ballooned lately too, but I don't think that's a Texan influence, per se, just too many Big Macs.

-TL

Synthetic Diamonds
 

No drinks for you!

Alas, the name was provided to me by one of my "Oak Lawn" friends (NTTAWWT), so you are probably not too far off on that one. I guess I should also rescind my "everything is bigger in Texas" post?

On the other hand, I did mention speaker cables earlier so maybe the whole magnet thing is working out after all...

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I've heard he gets some action. Mainly when Closer by NIN is playing.

Don't forget the ENORMOUS roaches.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

:D Much nicer than the typical "only guys that are 50+ that have no hair and wear buttless leather chaps hit on you (NTTAWWT?)."

I thought people called them "water bugs" here? BTW, is Texas the only place with power now? Or have our fearsome numbers finally taken over the FB too?

Synthetic Diamonds
 

Now that was the post I was waiting for.

Nicely played.

Thanks - I was trying. Last week I went to eat and the woman next to me had a whole, live tree roach in her SALAD. Eww. (Note to Houstonians - eat at the Souper Salad at Wesleyan & Bissonnet at your own risk - you have been warned).

-TL

Synthetic Diamonds
 

You're fucking him?

Only when you have guests over and don't want to admit you have a cockroach in your house.

The latter. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

-TL

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Just as long as it's one with the little flag that pops up and reads "The Judge" when the Ram Air kicks in.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I can admit this is getting a little out of hand.

I guess ltl claims to be the only non-Texan here, and she's an ex-Texan.

Power outage
 

Hey, you missed some of my socks.

Synthetic Diamonds
 

You brought your SO to the FB? Oh baby, you've just totally killed off your bangability score. Killed it like an animal.

Tax(bedroom theme song is Jumpin' with Symphony Sid)wonk

Oddly enough, most of them are now migrating rapidly towards NY.


Tax(mother?)wonk

Mr. (Mystery) Man
 

Is this who I think it is?

Nah, couldn't be. He wouldn't even know a Kate Spade bag from a paper bag.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I have only been driven through Texas. So I guess it's just me today - the lone non-Texan/not-former-Texan. NotFromThere

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Sheesh. And despite my upper-Midwestern roots, my family is about to be overrun by Texans as my sister is marrying one and joining her SO's motherjumping huge family. He says they're in the oil business for several generations... Is pretty much everybody there in the oil business??

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I'm still a Texan. The comment earlier was because rb made a comment about batteries (as if I didn't have power, and TX has power).

Synthetic Diamonds
 

I had a bangability score that wasn't already dead?! Cool.

n(actually the responsible party for Mr. Man posting here is pretermitted child)cs

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Damn near. And so they will understand you, remember it's properly pronounced "aaal business."

-TL

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Is the last name Ewing? I think I might have heard of them.

Yes. Everyone here is in the oil business. They hand an oil lease to every U-Haul that crosses the state line. And you have to take the bar to figure out what the hell it says.

n(and now I must run to my first ever IRL FB imaginary friend meeting)cs

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

That didn't help me at all - I never took Oil and Gas and just guessed on the O&G essays. Come to think of it - I did the same with the rest of the test...

-T(time to go home)L

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

My sister's SO's already used the word root (as in foot), and that threw me... I'm just happy there's no real discernable accent in my family. If they had the thick Chi-kaw-go accent, future family get-togethers would be a horror show (moreso than they are already).

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

It's part of a welcome package that also includes the hat, the boots and the spurs.

Everything's Bigger in Tex
 

a Tex-Ass, as it were.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I thought that was an upper midwest thing, not a TX thing (uh instead of ooooo). I could be wrong. Not originally from TX.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I've been to Texas quite a bit on business in the past few years (mostly Austin and vicinity), and some of the more unusual images I've come away with are:

1. Tons of pickup trucks, often driven by people who don't look like they need them;
2. Nasty T-storms and heat in summer;
3. "Check your gun at the reception desk" signs on the front doors of businesses;
4. Industrial parks along the interstate with, for some reason, Longhorn steers in a fenced-off field out front;
5. Having to buy a license to buy a beer at a restaurant;
6. Strip clubs galore... NTTAWWT
and 7. being told "Ya'll come back now" by the hostess at an Italian restaurant (what an ambiance killer)...

I love Texas, but it's truly a whole different world down there.

Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
 

Current odds on California’s governor:

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 2/3
GRAY DAVIS (NO RECALL) 4/1
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE 6/1
TOM MCCLINTOCK 40/1
BILL SIMON 40/1
PETER UEBERROTH 40/1
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 50/1
LORETTA SANCHEZ 50/1
LARRY FLYNT 50/1
PETER CAMEJO 50/1
GALLAGHER 100/1
GARY COLEMAN 100/1
MICHAEL JACKSON 100/1

I may take some of that Gray Davis action.

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Originally posted by RT

Originally posted by ltl/fb

If you want 1, doubtful. The only way a jetpack could stay on you is if you were suspended, in part, by a crotchstrap.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Austin is in a very wet county. I think you're either visiting the country, or my friends in South Oklahoma.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Which reminds of a joke: You know why Texas doesn't fall off into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks.

T. (oww -- not sure I want a jet pack now) S.

Totally Unfashionable
 

Originally posted by ltl/fb

It's not the firm, it's the benefits work. Course, I'm sure benefits has its upside. I doubt you'd like being, say, a litigator that gets a hotel room by the office for a month and bills 300 or 350 hours. Unless you're paigow, she might actually bill her minimum if she did that for six months.

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Ahh, muscle cars. I love muscle cars. I live not too far away from a dealership that only sells car guy cars -- muscle cars, Porsches, Ferraris, Cobra replicas, etc. It's like car guy heaven there. The other day, they had a Boss Mustang from the 1970s (not the modern knock-off). Man, that thing was sweet. The only thing that would have been better is if it were in some swinging '70s color, like Grabber Orange. (It was dark blue, with the black stripes.)

One day, some how, some way, I will own a 427 Cobra replica, dark blue, with white stripes, and a 427.

Power outage
 

Right back at ya. :waggle:

Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
 

How about Mary Cary, the only candidate that really matters?

Power outage
 

Not Exactly. He said Bilmore. I am his sock, and you are mine. He makes your strawman arguments look silly on the politics board and I come in for comic relief. Sort of like the three stooges, or Abbot, Costello and Costello's brother from Denver who is trying to make sense of the conversation.