An Old Goat Ranch in Texas

[looknlearn]

Great thread, terry.dinerman.:thumbsup: I just decided to look at it today and then read thought the whole thread. The way you write is very entertaining and it cracked me up at many times. Keep at it and take care as you ship out.

 

[terry.dinerman]

Great thread, terry.dinerman.:thumbsup: I just decided to look at it today and then read thought the whole thread. The way you write is very entertaining and it cracked me up at many times. Keep at it and take care as you ship out.

Thank you Tucker! I will be careful....:thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Terry, keep on posting bro'. Every now and then (mostly now) I detect your NY accent in your writing. In fact, I now read it too myself in NY dialect but not sure on the accent. You know I haven't been there but am old enough to know how much it varies just crossing a bridge.

Hope you have a safe and relatively uneventful work trip.

 

[terry.dinerman]

Terry, keep on posting bro'. Every now and then (mostly now) I detect your NY accent in your writing. In fact, I now read it too myself in NY dialect but not sure on the accent. You know I haven't been there but am old enough to know how much it varies just crossing a bridge.

Hope you have a safe and relatively uneventful work trip.

Thanks for reading Kyle....you are not the first person to tell me my accent is so thick it comes thru in print...:laughing:

...even with the dilution of 30 years in Texas, if you want to hear me go 100% Noo Yawk on ya, take a ride with me in heavy traffic in Houston...

Precious Bride says I sound somewhere in between Andrew Dice Clay and Danny DeVito, and just a hint of Phil Gramm...

(I didn't know Phil Gramm swore that much....)

I will definitely be careful...I have THINGS to do when I get home...

BE SAFE!

Terry

 

[dcyrilc]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and BP, Terry. When do you actually ship out?

 

[terry.dinerman]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and BP, Terry. When do you actually ship out?

Thanks, My Brother! The same to you and yours.

I have been on the ship since the 17th....

As we have in the past, the family will just have to put an another feast when I get home...til then, have some buttermilk pie with a blob of Homemade Vanilla for me...:licking:

T

 

[scoutcub]

I have been on the ship since the 17th....



T

Keep an eye on the horizon, I also arrived in country on the 17th......but I'm 6/6.....so I think you'll be enjoying the next holiday with PB!
Hope you had a better meal than me.....I asked for a ham/egg/onion sandwich for lunch, got a tomato/onion/egg/cheese sandwich.......

Worst thing is, I said "not bad" after trying it out......

Frank

 

[terry.dinerman]

Keep an eye on the horizon, I also arrived in country on the 17th......but I'm 6/6.....so I think you'll be enjoying the next holiday with PB!
Hope you had a better meal than me.....I asked for a ham/egg/onion sandwich for lunch, got a tomato/onion/egg/cheese sandwich.......

Worst thing is, I said "not bad" after trying it out......

Frank

"...not bad..."???!!!! That's GOURMET, Fellah...!

During a particularly crummy week during a crummy job in a crummy town, my group had to live on a Conex full of kosher "Humanitarian Daily Rations"...the yellow ones designed to be dropped from 10,000 feet without benefit of a parachute ...they looked like cluster bomb sub-munitions and had to be recalled to keep folks from picking up the wrong yellow thingies....

But they were good enough to feed to us...

I got a box from 2001...I am here to tell ya guy can only go so far on potatoes, lentils, beans and rice, to be eaten on pieces of drywall they called "flatbread" slathered with some sort of "strawberry jam"-like substance that smelled a lot like cosmoline, peanut butter solidified into a nut-scented tarball all gently aged in the sun for 5 years in plastic bags within a plastic bag in a steel box...

FEH...

It's things like that that make you appreciate a nice Waffle House...

Yep...this is the first time in 5 years I will spend Xmas and New Year at home with family!

The Dafter plans to roast a leg of lamb and make a bunch of sides, so I don't have to cook...but if I don't bake a bunch of my buttermilk pies and some yeast bread, Precious Bride will make me eat at McDonalds ....

Like Marcel Johnson used to say...."NOBODY don't like PIE..."

As always, I will hoist a glass to ALL my "Afwesig Vriende" (absent friends), and this year, you too shall be held in that number.

Stay sharp...you only have 5 weeks left...

T

 

[mojoinco]

Ha-ha!
Hey, how long afore you pronounced Houston the correct way?
Wife (North NJ) told me about a friend that went to NYC recently and asked for Houston Street. Apparently it took a bit to realize that it is so properly pronounced 'House-ton' there.

I got a kick out of it.

Especially when a local town here is so inundated with Texan's that Buena Vista is pronounced 'Buna Vista' by a lot of the residents.

 

[terry.dinerman]

Ha-ha!
Hey, how long afore you pronounced Houston the correct way?
Wife (North NJ) told me about a friend that went to NYC recently and asked for Houston Street. Apparently it took a bit to realize that it is so properly pronounced 'House-ton' there.

I got a kick out of it.

Especially when a local town here is so inundated with Texan's that Buena Vista is pronounced 'Buna Vista' by a lot of the residents.

...twern't nuthin but a thang, Bubba...

I fell in with a good bunch from the start...I found out quickly that the merciless picking about my accent and all things Yankee, was in fact, a show of their affection for me...so I just returned fire...

...and the REST, as they say, is HISTORY...

PB says I belonged here...my parents hadn't got around to immigrating yet, so I took up for them...

I am now at that point where all the hard feelings from the "Great Yankee Migration" have long ago worn off, and I automatically reply: "Texas" when asked where I am from....I DO know how to properly pronounce "Houston" ("Eee-YOO'-ston"), I know that it takes smoke to barbecue and fire to grill, I can conduct myself honorably at a proper dance-hall (Gruene, Texas), a Dallas game, a Wafffle House, hunting lease and any number of flavors of houses of worship, I know how to properly wave at people as you pass them on "FM" roads (The "Full House", the "Index Finger 12 O'Clock Steering Wheel Salute" and the "Chin Lift"), I learned to take the husk OFF the tamale, I had several people in tears when I read "Travis' Letter" aloud to my Native Born Precious Bride and our 10 and 8 year-olds at the Alamo, and I can tell you EXACTLY how deep the San Antonio River is under the bridge at the corner of Commerce and Lo Soya....

But I still look as natural as a chicken in socks when I try to wear a Stetson....

Some things just AIN'T gonna happen, Pal...

Be Safe!

T