The holiday decorations are getting easier to put up every year.
Hmm. Thought provoking. I have a yucca located midway between the Post Office and the bank. Maybe I should add a bit of glitter to the otherwise dull neighborhood. Trouble is that there are enough rednecks in town that I can visualize some target practicing going on.
> Maybe I should add a bit of glitter to the otherwise dull neighborhood. Trouble is that there are enough rednecks in town that I can visualize some target practicing going on.
Well, if you have enough corks, you could attach some icons of redneck culture to them like figurines of Dolly Parton or John Wayne, the latter dressed as Santa Claus, of course, and impale (the corks) on the terminal spines of the leaves.
Maybe. Just maybe. Must give it some thought. Wouldn't want some perv tryin' to fondle Dolly. He'd probably get a little prick instead.
> Maybe. Just maybe. Must give it some thought. Wouldn't want some perv tryin' to fondle Dolly. He'd probably get a little prick instead.
You'd put the Dolly Parton figure higher in the yucca (which I hope is a Spanish Dagger or something really up to the task of giving Dolly the support she needs). In case any of your neighbors are students of history, you could put a box of Breeze at the base of the yucca with a Porter Wagoner figure either on a much lower point of the yucca or fallen into the box of Breeze.
> In case any of your neighbors are students of history, you could put a box of Breeze at the base of the yucca with a Porter Wagoner figure either on a much lower point of the yucca or fallen into the box of Breeze.
Thanks, Kent... I just spit a good amount of 12 year old Scotch on my monitor! 😛
Is there really a "Porter & Dolly History" curriculum at College Station? :snarky:
> Thanks, Kent... I just spit a good amount of 12 year old Scotch on my monitor! 😛
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Excellent graphic! Porter Wagoner manages to almost (keyword being "almost") not look like a sleaze on that album cover. Dolly, of course, has her eye on that theme park in her own future.
Wouldn't Lone Star beer cans/bottles be more authentic?
B-)
> Wouldn't Lone Star beer cans/bottles be more authentic?
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Yes, if a person didn't like beer. Authenticity just isn't that colorful as witness this authentic can (note church key marks) from about 1948.
>Yes, if a person didn't like beer...
Boy you got that right, almost as bad as Canadian beer!
o.O
> Boy you got that right, almost as bad as Canadian beer!
Fortunately, these days there are enough really good beers being produced in Texas that the discerning surveyor doesn't need to look beyond the state boundaries in most cases (aside from the very good house brews that Trader Jose has for sale, that is).
Perhaps I should not admit to such things on this board, but...........I went to a Porter Wagoner concert a few years ago. Although he had to sit on a chair or stool much of the time it really was a quite entertaining event. A few months later, the geriatric Statler Brothers performed at the same small town venue and were quite entertaining, as well. When you live as far out in the sticks as we do, you take what you can get and be happy to get it.
The PW concert must have been in 2006 as he expired in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Wagoner
Hey Cow, how did you get "Dolly" and "little prick" into the same paragraph...;-)
Hey - lookie there...
a tin can! It's an arkeeological site!!
About 10-15 years ago, Trader Joe's used to carry many imported beers for dirt cheap. $2-4 a six pack. They were mostly obscured brands that you didn't see everyday and generally were pretty decent. Don't see that as much anymore but their prices are still in line.
And then there's the two buck chuck....
> About 10-15 years ago, Trader Joe's used to carry many imported beers for dirt cheap. $2-4 a six pack. They were mostly obscured brands that you didn't see everyday and generally were pretty decent. Don't see that as much anymore but their prices are still in line.
The Josefsbrau house brands I've tried are well above average, particularly the seasonal Winterfest, and the Heller Bock. Apparently, they're made for Josef by Gordon Biersch Brewing company in San Jose.
American breweries/microbrews have really come a long way in the past 20 years or so. Even the Germans are salivating over American beers these days...
I remember the days of Schaefer's, Jax, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Beast etc. eewww...
> American breweries/microbrews have really come a long way in the past 20 years or so. Even the Germans are salivating over American beers these days...
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> I remember the days of Schaefer's, Jax, Old Milwaukee, Milwaukee's Beast etc. eewww...
Interesting article. I agree that we now have plenty of good beers made in the US that I wouldn't hesitate to offer anyone familiar with German beer. I thought the Josefsbrau Oktoberfest was markedly superior to the Spaten version, if not the Ayling.
I did some work on a project at the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio back in the early '90s. That place was a timewarp stuck in the '40s. Very interesting sights and sounds.
