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marble falls

(65,917 posts)
1. Be sure to 'rally' your cap. It just drives some people bananas. Especially in offices at work ...
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:03 PM
17 hrs ago

... extra points if you aren't in cap's team's state.

BOSSHOG

(42,654 posts)
2. What is this "offices at work" you speak of?
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:11 PM
17 hrs ago

Oh, my hat ain’t in teams state. I like it like that.

marble falls

(65,917 posts)
3. My office is called "John Kuhla's Saloon". Least that's what I call it. Best pork tenderloin, sandwich ever.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 10:46 PM
15 hrs ago

BOSSHOG

(42,654 posts)
4. I like the name "The Office" for a bar
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:54 AM
5 hrs ago

Honey, I gotta swing by the office.

There’s a bar in Waveland Mississippi called Third Base. Ya gotta get to third base before you can go home.

marble falls

(65,917 posts)
5. When My kids were little, they'd say to me: 'hey daddy! Let's go to John Kuhla's Saloon and drink a beer" ...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:19 AM
5 hrs ago

... they'd get some great hand cut french fries and an orange pop, I'd get the beer. One of the things I've loved about midwest country towns is they make had a restaurant for breakfast and lunch, but to get a dinner meant going to the town tap. Friday and Saturday nights they were filled with families until ten. It was noisy and fun. Get to see people you miss through the week, especially the farmers.

There's be a special - steak, perch, chicken, specials for Lent (I always ended up in Roman Catholic areas) and we could walk home.

John Kuhla's sister was my secretary. I just love small towns. No place uses 'networking' more than the populations of small towns. His wife was the cook. My wife worked at the small grocery next door, and the butcher there would give us a great deal on steak trimmings that made great breakfast steaks and steak sandwiches.

Once my folks had driven their mobile home in from Arizona and didn't find the hidden key. They just called the hair salon to figure out where my wife was. She was at the hairdressers getting her 'do set.

Couldn't do that in our big city stays: Phoenix, Cleveland, Akron, New London, Chicago, Austin (though right until the dot.com boom, Austin was a small town city. Not anymore).

Gosh, was my life good!


So in Mississippi you got to slide into home!

BOSSHOG

(42,654 posts)
8. Or thrown out.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:43 AM
3 hrs ago

Parking was right out front by the highway. Too conspicuous. I had a nice friendly watering hole in South Louisiana on a Bayou. Everybody knew your name. By shifts. Everybody knew my name from noon to three. I truly miss that place, but most of my crowd have passed on to a heavenly bar in the sky.

marble falls

(65,917 posts)
9. It's hard to find tap/tevern/neighborhood bar any more. We've lived in the last of the golden time, haven't we? ...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:55 AM
3 hrs ago

... I'm the oldest of my generation of all my friends and family. Only my mother is older than I in my family.

I'm beginning to understand how the dinosaurs felt when the small furry mammals showed up.

BOSSHOG

(42,654 posts)
11. There's no doubt we had the best soundtrack
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:44 AM
2 hrs ago

I’m the oldest left on my Moms Side. There’s some shady characters on my Dads side. I don’t keep up with them much. A young man asked me a few years ago if I wished I were 16 again. I said yes. when I was 16 in 1970. He looked offended at my answer. 68-72, pre wife years, were nothing but non stop fun for me.

marble falls

(65,917 posts)
12. I want the whole sixties and most of the seventies again, but I don't need to be 16 ever again ...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:58 AM
2 hrs ago

... Regarding the soundtrack - Fucking A -right! Best ever!

Up until the cancer thing over the last ten years, I've felt 35 right up till 60 - 65. I don't need to younger, just in earlier times. I seem to be over the cancer, but I lost a lot fighting it.

Xavier Breath

(5,679 posts)
6. I saw bits and pieces of that game, and heard the announcers raving about the stadium.
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:32 AM
4 hrs ago

My Mom was a huge Arkansas fan, though mainly basketball and football. She loved Nolan Richardson. She, my aunt, uncle and grandparents lived there for some years in the '50s, and she would tell me stories about the segregated facilities. But, she never stopped loving the place and went back for football games.

Congrats to them for knocking off the reigning champs.

BOSSHOG

(42,654 posts)
7. I graduated UA in 79
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 10:39 AM
3 hrs ago

Was in the Navy, married a Kansas girl, moved around a lot, retired in the Land of Oz. but, Fayetteville is freaking awesome. In the 60s it was half bible thumpers and half hippies and everybody got along. MyWife and I lived Fayetteville for a while. She’s a bigger Hog Fan than me. We don’t get aroun much now but the memories remain.

marble falls

(65,917 posts)
10. Early Austin (pre 2000, when the population was closer to a quarter million, not the 1 Mil+ it is now) ...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 11:00 AM
3 hrs ago

... in the 60s, 70s, 80s - the ropers and dopers got along just fine. The dopers turned the ropers onto pot and the ropers turned the dopers onto Willie Nelson and 'outlaw' country.

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