OT: Texas Disaster

[Hugh]

Subject: Texas Disaster

Possibly the worst disaster in Texas history occurred today when a
two-seater Cessna 152 airplane, piloted by two Texas A&M students, crashed
into a cemetery early this afternoon in College Station.

Aggie search and rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies and expect the
number to climb as digging continues into the evening. The pilot and
co-pilot survived and are helping in the search.

[wterrell]

Texas earth!
Reminds me of a time about 30 years back when I decided to raise chickens. I purchased 2000 day old chicks from the poultry research farm of Texas A&M.
Upon receipt of the chicks, I plowed deep furrows in the lower fertile 10 acres down by the creek and immediately buried the chicks up to their necks. Next morning all the chicks were dead!
Being quite disturbed with this outcome (and having invested my future profits from the farm in the purchase of the chicks) I complained to the AG. dept. at Texas A&M which promptly replaced the chicks and added an extra 500 as a bonus.
The chicks were promptly buried, with no lost time, with only their heads protruding from the fertile loame, but again the results were 2500 dead chicks.
I immediately wired a telegram to the AG. dept. at Texas A&M to report the results of my chicken raising enterprise.
The reply from Texas A&M: "Send soil sample!"

[ViggoG]

Hugh, <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" />
Yer dang lukky dey didn cresh ner "Begded", Yu No, Det Lil surburbl ef Foot Wuth, <img border="0" alt="[crying]" title="" src="graemlins/crying.gif" /> The numbr ev corpuscles der aint not countabel!!!
<img border="0" alt="[hiha]" title="" src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[ouch]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[ouch]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" />
ViggoG

[Big Norm]

The college kids are always trying to stick a lot of people into small things like telephone booths. But 300 people into a two seat Cessna. Now thats a lot of tight cramming. Where did they bury the survivors?
Big Norm

[Jack Lawman]

I had a dog once and taught him how not to eat. Just when he got really good, he died.

Jack

[Hugh]

<img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" /> Souns lik we got a few Aggie membrs on the Forum. <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" />

[PACKET]

I bought some batteries one time, but they were not included.

[sverre]

so you had to buy them again?

[stymie]

Big Norm...
Hopefully, they didn't bury any survivors!

[Big Norm]

Packet,
on your batteries, did you check your warranty?
Big Norm

[PACKET]

Big Norm, I did check the warranty, its good for one year, but, as the batteries I purchased were not included, the warranty was not included either. Next time I plan to buy a package of inclusion batteries. I have heard that they are included most of the time. Of course, on those occasions when they are not included, you have to fill out an inclusion voucher so you can recieve an inclusion credit. Inclusion credits are almost always included, provided you fill out the paperwork in triplicate, and the paperwork is included.

[sverre]

put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back in time.

[Ron Wood]

Texans ain't all that dumb. Take the guy whose oil well went dry...cut it up into sections and sold them in Arkansas for post holes....made a mint.

[wterrell]

My brother, who resides in Terrell, Texas, was traveling in the northeast states, maybe Wisconsin or something of that ilk.
He stopped at a small store, went up to the counter and ordered a Coka Cola and a moon pie. The old man behind the counter looked at my brother and exclaimed "Your from Texas, aren't you?!"
My brother took great offense at this and harassed the old man with the following tirade:
"Just because I ask for a Coka Cola and a moon pie, you think I'm from Texas? I suppose that if I had come in here and asked for a burrito, I would be from Mexico! Or if I had asked for a pizza that I would have to be from Italy!? Just what is it about me coming in here and asking for a Coka Cola and a moon pie that makes you think that I am from Texas?!"
To which the old man replied "This is a hardware store."

[Hugh]

But I thot all hardware stors had Cokes and Moon Pies????

[John Sabato]

<img border="0" alt="[offtopic]" title="" src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" /> My former neighbors in Augusta, GA while I was serving on active duty at Fort Gordon, have informed me the correct beverage for consumption with a MoonPie is an RC Cola ...

I can't vouch for their taste ... and I am only the messenger... Moon Pies, are like grits (how appropriately named)... I just could never bring myself to develop a taste for them...

For the benefit of all... here is the History of the Moonpie as stolen directly from Moonpie.com

The History of the Great American MoonPie

The Chattanooga Bakery was founded in the early 1900's as a subsidiary of the Mountain City Flour Mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The bakery's original purpose was to use the excess flour produced by the mill. By 1910, the bakery offered over 200 different confectionery items. In 1917, the bakery developed a product which is still known as the MoonPie. The exact history of how the MoonPie was invented was never documented by the Chattanooga Bakery, but one historian, Ronald Dickson of Charlotte, North Carolina, believes he found the "missing link."

In his book, "The Great American MoonPie Handbook", Mr. Dickson had written of the MoonPie's�® lost history. Not long after his book was published, he received a telephone call from Earl Mitchell, Jr., identifying his deceased father, Earl Mitchell, Sr., as the person responsible for the invention of the MoonPie�®.

Mr. Mitchellâ??s story goes like this ... Early in the 1900s, while servicing his territory of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, Mr. Mitchell was visiting a company store that catered to the coal miners. He asked them what they might enjoy as a snack. The miners said they wanted something for their lunch pails. It had to be solid and filling. â??About how big?,!â?� Mr. Mitchell asked. Well about that time the moon was rising, so a miner held out his big hands, framing the moon and said, â??About that big!â?� So, with that in mind, Mr. Mitchell headed back to the bakery with an idea. Upon his return he noticed some of the workers dipping graham cookies into marshmallow and laying them on the window sill to harden. So they added another cookie and a generous coating of chocolate and sent them back for the workers to try. In fact, they sent MoonPie�® samples around with their other salespeople, too. The response they got back was so enormous that the MoonPie�® became a regular item for the bakery.

By the late 1950's, the MoonPie�® had grown in popularity, so much that the bakery did not have the resources available to produce anything else. The phrase "RC Cola and a MoonPie�®" became well known around the South, as many people enjoyed this delicious, bargain-priced combination.

P.S. I think some of us have WAY TOO MUCH time on our hands... (or should be doing something else) <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

[Edward Tinker]

As craZy as it sounds, I found moonpies at the grocery store in town, here in Wershington this last weekend! Bought two, cuz the Southern wife is always saying, "Oh I remember how those moonpies taste!!"

She said, "well, its not as good as I remember..."

And RC Cola, well, it tastes really good, just not as good as a Dr. Pepper...

[Roadkill]

The difference tween a yankee and a damn yankee is that a yankee comes to visit or whatever and marries a southern girl where a damn yankee stays after marrying one and trash talks us southerners down here for his whole life after he does it. Good to know you aren't the latter Ed. And less'un you put peanuts in your Arrah See (RC)cold drink with your moon pie... ya'll wouldn't understand nohow.

later Ya'll
<img border="0" alt="[byebye]" title="" src="graemlins/wave.gif" />

rk

[wterrell]

Hugh,
As you and I both know all hardware stores (filling stations, barber shops, salvage yards, etc.) in Texas have moon pies and soda pop. And to us it is unfunny.

But if we juxtapose Texas (Southern) culture to the rest of the 'civilized' world, I suppose that there is no accounting for other people's humor.

For the life of me, though, I cannot understand anyone who would get a chuckle out of a farmer losing his whole crop of chickens!

[Hugh]

John & RK is kerect Ah kin remember gittin outa class in grade school evry day and walkin up to the local grocery/fillin station/hardware/cafe stor and gittin a Moon Pie, and R-oh-C and pouring them salty Planters Pnuts in it. UUUUUMMMM GOOD! <img border="0" alt="[jumper]" title="" src="graemlins/jumper.gif" /> Evry now & then we'd try sumthin different and git one of them little Grapette's. I always kinda felt like I wuz gittin "short changed" when I bought a Grapette tho! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />