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Texapede66 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm just going to assume that symbol in the middle there is some kind of pedo signal.

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Texapede66 1 point ago +1 / -0

"They sold to the Spanish company that now owns it..."

Ah. Well, I suspect I know how their "investigation" will go, although I could be wrong. Hope so. But it reminds me of a big code violation issue in Dallas that was mysteriously dropped, where all parties involved (violator, property owner, city attorney, fire dept. chief) just happened to have Spanish names, and none of them could tell the reporter what happened. If I wanted to live in north Mexico... I could stay right here, actually.

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Texapede66 5 points ago +5 / -0

The best friend of a former boss of mine came by our office to visit once. They got to talking about their early days, when they lived next door to each other in apartments. They were so "poor" that all they had was a card table and a deck of cards, and they would just play Spades to pass the time. They said they were completely happy in those days. Human beings do not require a complicated lifestyle to thrive. Quite the opposite.

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

Some people seem very confused about what the word "minority" actually means. A law firm that perfectly reflected the racial balance of the U.S. would have 12-13% black employees. They're supposed to do half the work?

In reality, it's one dude, and he's the IT Guy. I've worked in large buildings with multiple law firms. They all had the Black IT Guy.

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Texapede66 1 point ago +1 / -0

Texas has a State Guard. They mainly do disaster relief and also have practically no budget, as far as I know. They were kind of a joke when I was in the Texas Army National Guard, but that was 30 years ago.

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Texapede66 10 points ago +10 / -0

I was in LA for a few months in 1986. Compared to D/FW, the drivers out there were amazingly good. People TOOK TURNS merging onto the freeways (in Dallas, it's a duel to the death). People used hand and arm signals in addition to turn signals. ALL TRAFFIC STOPPED FOR PEDESTRIANS, EVEN IF THEY WERE JAYWALKING. Incredible! Everybody also had curb-feelers and back-up alarms, which was weird.

That was a long time ago, though, in an LA galaxy that is now far away.

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

I made a young guy in an old pickup blow his engine trying to pull that on me. With his girl right there with him. Too bad!

(I was in a rental box truck. He really chose badly)

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

Space Force official song should be power metal. "We're the Guardians of SPAAAAACE!" {insane guitar solo}

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress," then read the original rough draft of "Star Wars" (should be online somewhere, I read it years ago). Lucas changed the story quite a lot by the final draft, but the rough draft is so close that he would have had to pay Kurosawa royalties.

Little known fact: when Lucas wrote the second draft, he wrote Princess Leia out of the movie. Realizing that he now had no female characters, he changed Luke to a girl. There is concept art of Girl Luke by Ralph McQuarrie in "The Making of Star Wars." That lasted for about 2 weeks, after which Lucas wrote Leia back in.

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

When federal agents arrive to arrest her, she will refuse to comply, and they will literally drag her out of her office while she says, "No, no no!" or cries or something, and I just hope there's video of it so I can watch it every year at Christmas.

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Texapede66 8 points ago +8 / -0

This is the kind of statement that is most likely to make modern people, men and women, completely lose their minds. As I've grown older, I've come to realize the truth of it. Modernism is entirely about degrading the human being. Reducing the God-ordained use of sexual intercourse for human beings to consequence-free animalistic rutting is a big part of it.

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Texapede66 2 points ago +2 / -0

I totally get it. You go in hoping to get "your" special piece of equipment. When you do... I mean, you can get a woman practically anywhere. The perfect trailer, though....

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Texapede66 7 points ago +7 / -0

It's like it was in my National Guard unit. There were tanks that I particularly wanted to be assigned to during a drill, and others that would make me hate life. I usually got the second type, but that one drill when I got the really good one... I still think about that tank.

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Texapede66 1 point ago +1 / -0

I love you guys, You old guys like me, who remember a 30 year old commercial.

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