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Katfish #43 yesterday;
#39 – WOW who filmed Shannon out on FM529? LMAO
Some weeks ago I was dropping off a couple of young ladies from a Houston Dash game. We waited at least 8 minutes to turn left onto their street due to lots of cyclists riding down the opposite lane we needed to cross. Many of which had to suddenly switch from our lane back to the correct lane to avoid hitting my Hyundai straight on. I found out later it was some sort of protest against over population It tell you, unleashing a John Wayne / Shannon at that point was sure tempting. 🙂
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Shannon yesterday:
#40;
Worth the $10 admission, eh? 🙂
#50;
My understanding is that those Visas are for employment positions which cannot be filled by Americans. I have driven many waiters and waitresses around the Houston area. From that experience I’d conclude that there are no shortages of Americans willing to do that job. Maybe The Donald should drive for Uber.
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Congratulations, congratulations, congrATulations, congraaaaaatulations, congratulations to you, aaaaand, congratulations to you too, and, finally, congratulations.
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President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services implemented a rule change to the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) last week mandating that all health providers receiving taxpayer dollars must perform sex-change operations or lose their federal funding.
The final rule states that, under Title IX, any hospital receiving funding from HHS must “treat individuals consistent with their gender identity.” The rule provides no religious exemption. In other words, religious hospitals that receive taxpayer dollars via Medicaid or Medicare will be required to perform sex-change operations or get cut off financially.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/23/obama-to-religious-hospitals-perform-sex-changes-or-else/
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Dang, we’re up early. Great picture BTW.
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Hey, I just got my new copy of Technology Today, from Southwest Research! Lot’s of neat stuff in there. If you’re not familiar with SWRI, it’s a nonprofit research and testing center in San Antonio.
I’ve worked there three different times for NASA, the first, on nondestructive testing and the last two with the Shuttle wing leading edge, RSS panel, cannon shot. -
Dad’s not doing well. He survived his tracheotomy yesterday, but the long text message from sis wasn’t good – 3 types of infection from 3 different sites; bad color; neck swelling again; some kind of bleeding that they’re having a problem identifying its source; low heart rate.
The low heart rate is what concerns me the most (not that the other items don’t) – my experience with Mom is that when the rate drops too low, they just can’t stimulate the patient enough to recover.
Sis is obviously undergoing stress. When I texted her my support for whatever decision she has to make…..well, let’s just say that her reply wasn’t pretty. My elder brother called me immediately to give me his support. “She has a problem with you, Sis, and I think everyone can see that now.” We talked, and I didn’t reply back to the ugly things Crazy Sis said; she has a need to have the last word, else things go thermonuclear crazy. She needs to focus on Dad and the doctors. I haven’t gone to see my father for that reason. There’s no need to have a row in the waiting room because my face is there. Other family members don’t need to be exposed to her anger (even though they ALL got to see it in her text message last night!) and I’d be a distraction to her focus.
My elder sister emailed me her support later, saying she now understood what I was trying to explain to her about Crazy Sis. She’ll keep me in the loop if Crazy cuts me out of the information flow.
Hubby has been extremely supportive and loving as well. Besides his loving phone conversation last night, I woke up to another love note this morning. I have Noona duty this weekend, and he told me to focus on the babies and just drop the other. I told LD I may need baby therapy by the weekend, if Crazy Sis decides to go on another tirade against me.
Y’all pray for my Dad and my sister. They both need help right now.
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This is an anomaly with no obvious answer.
Article and maps here.Notice that major capital cities such as London, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, etc., are much richer than the surrounding regions. There’s also a rich area centered on Europe’s two biggest ports (Antwerp and Rotterdam). Again, no big surprise. Nor is the wealth of coastal Norway, which is rich in oil. But I am sort of surprised by the richest area of all, right in the center of Western Europe.
This area includes Switzerland, western Austria, northern Italy and southern Germany. What’s going on there? It doesn’t seem to be cultural in any obvious way, as it includes both Nordic and Mediterranean elements. It also includes both Catholic and Protestant cultures. It includes successful countries and dysfunctional countries. So the quality of governance doesn’t seem like a complete explanation either. Indeed northern Italy is rich despite bad governance.
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Good morning, Hamsterville! ™
I’m having breakfast, preparatory to voting in today’s runoff. In my precinct, I have only 5 races to tie-break. In 3 of them, my original choice made it to the runoff. In the other 2, I had to do a wee bit of research last night.
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I voted last week. I went in late in the afternoon, and only four other people had voted that day. I joked with the poll workers. The three of us had some good laughs, and I left. Good people, those poll people.
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#9 – Brother my best guess is geography / topography
in the old west WHO made the most $$$$$ along impassable rivers?
The FERRY owner / operatorAnd so goes it with Mountain passes – who controls the limited routes controls commerce…………(likely much more feasible historically than in the present day)
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Runoff voting is usually consolidated from a number of precincts in my area. That always used to be done at the Acres Homes Multiservice Center — not in a very nice part of northwest Houston. Now it is held at the new Lone Star College on Victory, a nicer area with a huge parking lot. I’ve voted there only once before, and I was on my walker then — so the big lot was sort of a bummer.
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On the second map a lot of the purple regions are by mountain ranges. Hydro-electric -cheap energy -factories -production centers? Being close to Switzerland seems to help.
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Skiers spend a lot of money in the local economy. So do hikers, backpackers, and folks taking the fambly camping on their vacations.
I’d suggest that a similar map of the US would show the areas around the various ski and hiking/backpacking destinations such as Jackson Hole, New England, Teluride, etc., would show the same results.
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I think I found Southern Tragedy’s new love.
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I have an IRS question regarding a returned check.
Waited on hold for almost an hour. Finally! Got a real person on the line!
Told her my problem. “Let me transfer you to xxxx.” Click.
I’m back on hold. Probably for another hour, according to the disembodied voice.
Whatever happened to those agents Obama hired? Are they all out harassing deadbeat taxpayers?
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Fastest turnaround runoff vote ever. 15 minutes to mission completed and back in the house.
And that was a good thing. Our Panasonic microwave fritzed out with a door problem last week. It’s sitting in the family room floor till June heavy trash day, although I hope some metal scavenger will take it from the curb before the claw truck arrives.
We thought that we had a 30 y.o. Panasonic in storage upstairs, and brought it down to check it out while we were researching next purchase. The old one actually worked fine, except lacking must-have features such as digital time entry. You really can’t do 25 seconds with a dial control. 😀
In a few days time, we had decided on a GE model and it was available in-store at Walmart, so Hubs went and bought it yesterday afternoon. Then he got grumpy because I was tired, ready for my nap, and didn’t want to mess with any appliances yesterday or last night. I told him, tomorrow will be fine, the only thing I have to do tomorrow is vote. It didn’t take long to put the old one back in storage — downstairs this time — and get the new one extracted from its crate.
Now I just need to find something microwavable for lunch.
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…aaannnnddd the call dropped.
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Whatever happened to those agents Obama hired? Are they all out harassing deadbeat taxpayers?
………………..they are probably taking turns driving TOTUS’s friggin golf cart
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Hubby and I still have our microwave which was a wedding gift. It’s larger than most you can buy today, and it, too, is a dial model. It takes 5 minutes to pop popcorn, but that’s fine. We’ve only had to have it worked on once, and the repair guy told us that “It was the Cadillac” of microwaves for that time. It supposedly has some special gadget that moves the microwaves around, so theoretically, I never have to turn food. I do, anyway, just ‘cuz it’s become habit. It was made before the turntables were put into them. It also has a browning element at the top.
We have a newer one, which is supposed to have convection cooking. I tried using it once; it’s now upstairs awaiting the eventual death of MW the First. But that sucker’s been around for quite a while, and could be around quite a while more.
It’s survived a few arcing moments and is still kicking…
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#18
Now I just need to find something microwavable for lunch.
Well, you do have a new kitty in the house…
NO NO NO I’M JUST JOKING! GET THAT HOT POKER AWAY FROM MY EYYYYESSSS!!
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She could make a “grilled cheese” sammich.
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I wanted a big hot “real” meal, melted cheese sammich is better suited to a light supper. To my mind a “real” meal is a serving of meat, 2 nutritionally balanced veggies, half of a buttered yeast roll, and cold green tea. I had to add some broccoli to the frozen meal I selected, to make the veggies balance. I am not a gourmet but I am happy.
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You should just move into a Luby’s.
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25 WB
Thinking the same thing. But she has to have blue hair and really comfortable shoes before they’ll let her in.
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And bossing husband around the whole way down the food line then pointing him toward where to sit, slapping him for looking at the young 50 yr old waitresses…
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…and she has to get to Luby’s for the Early Early Bird Special supper deal at 4:00 PM.
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As she slowed, BARB rolled 40 degrees. A wave buried the bow and she began to go under. Ricci felt himself float off the sail plane, tethered to a submerging ship. Hastily, Rushing ordered the helmsman back to his original course on forward speed.
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I want a REAL meal with MEAT you Luby people!!
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I have fond memories of standing in line at Piccadilly in Northline Mall and the blue haired lady in front of me ordered seafood gumbo. When she got to the cashier she asked her to take the fish out. The look on the cashier’s face was worth the wait.
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Piccadilly. Panchos. Luby’s.
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Serving time at Ben Taub with their basement McDonalds, I was glad to eat some normal food at Lubys a few times.
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Furr’s!!
Oh man Furr’s is closed again.
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Always liked Panchos too, those that say they don’t, really do.
Worked at the one on Long Point when I was 15, bussing tables, washin’ dishes, oggling the 18-20 yr old waitresses.
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Long Point/Gessner/Witte ????
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Yessir
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Dang GJT – we generated some o those dishes I can assure ya!
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Yeah, y’all were the older cool guys tripping the long haired busboy with a load of dishes.
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I grew up going to the theater there. Saw a lot of Elvis movies there. Sneaking into the Loge section to smoke. Hard to believe you used to be able to smoke in a theater.
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I told y’all before I was a Spring Branch kid, my parents still live at Hammerly and Campbell Rd.
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Surfer movies. Endless Summer.
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For me it was Morrison Cafeteria in Montgomery Alabama, we only went there about once or twice a year, Christmas and when my mom had to buy shoes. They had the best, homemade Blue Cheese dressing that I’ve ever had except, from the Seabrook Classic Café. As a side-bar, when I was a Tech Rep for Narco and worked at Gulfstream in Savannah Georgia, they contracted Morrison’s to run their cafeteria and not only did you get great food, but at a reduced cost! Wives would meet their husbands for lunch. Good stuff Maynard!
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The theater was farther down wasn’t it?
Midnight movies, now that was a great idea. 😀
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That was one helluva fire in the Branch a while back, eh?
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Theater was on the Witte Road end of that strip.
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But Panchos was more towards Campbell wasn’t it?
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I could look it up but that’s no fun.
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My #43, I guess that I should S’plain the shoes, my mother was an accountant @ Fort Rucker and had to dress appropriately, IE, the female version of a suit. So she wore size 4 1/2 AAA shoes and there weren’t any in south Alabama so she had to go to Montgomery every now and then to buy 4 or 5 pairs to last until she could make the trip again. Raised during the depression, she hated that she was forced to buy shoes at an expensive store, the only place that she could get them.
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There was a Panchos further in near Campbell.
But there was another one at Gessner. I believe that strip was Oak Village…or the theater was.We’ll ask Texpat. He’ll remember. Or make something up.
Ahhhhahahahaha
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Ohhhhh, somebody just found out the maternal grandparents, the ones who dominate every holiday, every birthday, most every weekend, are going with the kids on their Florida vacation next week.
Think I’ll stay over on this end of the couch, move over Shannon.
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Well the one I worked at was further down, I ain’t as old as y’all.
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Pancho’s was in the middle of the big strip center on the northwest corner of Long Point and Wirt. I used to be a plumber’s helper in high school for a guy who had that account. I knew the place inside and out.
It was also a place for broke teenage boys to eat because the portions were huge and dirt cheap. I could eat lunch for $2.
The theater on Long Point was several miles west in the strip center on the northwest corner of Long Point and Witte Road. It was at the east end of the center.
The cafeteria was Wyatt’s Cafeteria towards the west end near Gessner and had some cheap and incredibly good food items. Our mother took us there almost every Friday night. Tuesday nights we went to Monterey House.
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Occasionally, we’d opt out on Tuesdays for Whataburger (first one in Houston) just east of Wirt on Long Point in that old tall A-Frame building.
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Forgot about Wyatt’s. Good food.
The Mytiburger is still on Kempwood at Blalock, always liked that place.
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There used to be a Youngblood’s Fried Chicken at Campbell and Long Point on the southwest corner.
Food of the Gods. I’ve never tasted fried chicken that good again in my life.
Church’s took over the place when Youngblood’s went out of business. They were near great, but not as good as Youngblood’s.
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I have a hundred bucks that says there was a Panchos at the Gessner/Witte center also.
Dang I wish Mom was here to back me up. She and I used to go there too.
You are correct about Wyatts.
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Awright all you Luby’s smarta$$es: I love Luby’s and we used to eat there once a week, but it was on the way home from work. Whole different story when you are already home, but would have to go down there to eat. When there is already food, and a microwave, right here at home. But when we do still go occasionally, YES, we go at 4:00. 🙂
Blue hair, my (comfortably shod) foot. Have I not mentioned here how embarrassing it is to have dark hair at 72, when most people assume that means you dye it?? I’m finally get some silver at the temples, especially on those annoying hairs that hang in front of the ears, if they get long enough to do so. I used to keep those trimmed short because they tend to get snarled up in the hinges of my eyeglasses when I put them on. Now they are silvery, I never trim them, like to comb them up and back to make a silver streak on each side.
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There used to be a Shipley’s Donuts that had a steam table for lunch. I always thought that was weird, but it was Hubby’s and his mentor’s favorite place to eat. You could get a pile of food at a good price. Owned by Greeks, we were invited to their house for an Easter celebration. There was a whole lamb on a spit and everything. It was on Washington, not too far from downtown, I believe.
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GJT
Remember when Pancho’s got busted for mixing Mexican mule meat into their beef for their dishes. Probably in the late 60s – early 7os.
Big scandal. I was always amazed they survived and came back from that.
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59 Tedtam
Yeah, I remember that Shipley’s. It had to be the only one ever with a lunch steam table in it.
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57 Shannon
Maybe Pancho’s opened a smaller location in the Oak Village Center later, but the one at Long Point and Wirt was huge. I bet they could seat 400 people in there back in the day.
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dark hair at 72,
I’ll vouch for that. Doesn’t look a day over 49 1/2.
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lol, no I don’t remember mule meat. Might have been before or when we first got here in ’71 from West Texas.
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Hmmm… Texpat does not have an opinion or explanation for #9.
This is an anomaly with no obvious answer.
We’ll I haven’t seen any flying pigs today nor have my compatriots from downstairs reported any freezing temperatures. I think we are in the clear.
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Morrison’s. Hadn’t thought about that in a while. There was one in the Gainesville Mall, right next to Belk Lindsey.
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64 GJT
I learned an early business lesson from that episode. Those Pancho folks were tough survivors.
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I take pride in saying I’ve never ate at Pancho’s.
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Granny Hamous died at 94 with jet black hair with very little gray. Never dyed it. My mother is the same way at 78.
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Granny in the 40s
Granny at 93
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#68
They’re still around, you haven’t missed your chance to raise the flag for more sopapillas! 😛
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They kept their hair and you lost yours altogether. So much for genetics.
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I turned the TV on in the hotel room and Trump was speechifying. Holy cow, what a buffoon.
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Hannity is now virtually fellating trump. This is just sad.
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I absolutely loved the Panchos in Alief on Bellaire between Kirkwood and Bell Park as a kid. I found one somewhere in Houston in my late 20s/early 30s and I was so disillusioned that I have not been back since.
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Tedtam
Is the all night cafe still there on the south side of the Gulf Freeway at Telephone Road ? Was it called the Triangle… something ? Cafe ? Diner ?
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#74 I think I need some eye/brain bleach after the image that just popped into my mind.
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They kept their hair and you lost yours altogether.
I still got hair. What’s left just gets shaved off every few days.
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Tedtam’s daughter worked at a restaurant right around there. Can’t think of the name.
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I think Panchos later got busted for using ‘Gypsy’ meat.
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At some point the Mexicans and the Vietnamese took over the Wirt/Long Point area of the Branch and smart white boys stayed away after dark.
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Wasn’t Gypsy Tedtam’s cat?
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Many of the rough and tough Vietnamese I knew in high school grew up to become respectable adults.
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Yes. Gypsy’s ancestors.
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Of course they can still kick my a$$ if they chose to do so.
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So Tedtam’s cat’s ancestors survived the Panchos genocide…
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I’m not sure which beta male fashion statement is worse. The man bun or the top knot.
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Gypsy is mharper’s stray. How could you guys not know that at this point 😉
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Tedtam’s cat was Barf Kitty.
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lol
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It’s late. I’m tired. I’ll catch ya’ll tomorrow.
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I didn’t know this was a cat blog.
I thought it was a blog about ancient microwave knobs.
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It’s a stray microwave grilled hammock barf cheese barrio kitty blog.
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That’s funny. I don’t care who you are.
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It’s all Phil’s fault.
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I’m not BS’n you.
Channel 11 had another alligator story tonight. In Pasadena.
The blonde hottie alligator wrangler was not involved.
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Dot Restaurant is on I-45 near Gulfgate Mall / Woodridge / Telephone
Lovely Daughter worked at Kelley’s Country Cookin’ at I-45 / Park Place
A bumper sticker that always made me laugh – on a car parked at a Sonic near my bank years ago, mind you: “Cat – the other white meat”.
Sorry, Mharper
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There’s also Tel-Wink Cafe, which is on Telephone Road near Winkler. It’s also a popular local hangout. On Saturday mornings, if the consumers of breakfast take too long and a line forms, the owner is known to blow a whistle and ask all the newspaper readers to pay up and leave. I’ve never witnessed it, but Hubby swears it happens.
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Kelley’s is the one I was thinking about. Home cooked meals as I recall.
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the owner is known to blow a whistle and ask all the newspaper readers to pay up and leave.
One of the best stories I ever heard.
That’s great.
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#50 – Wasn’t that Monterrey House on Gessner?
Panchos was further east – like mebbe on Westview?
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