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• Starbucks Again..... -- Spring Fling, 14:44:12 03/16/06 Thu
  Starbucks has NHSRA's support:
  
  Let’s all take a minute to show our support of Starbucks for their support of rodeo and assure them of the care and treatment that is provided to livestock used in rodeos. We cannot stand by and let another sponsor go by the way side from an attack by animal rights organizations without fighting back. Visit the website listed below and then send a response to Starbucks with a positive message and thanks for their support. I am sending animal welfare information to Starbucks corporate offices from the NHSRA. But we all need to show our support of that company and let them know rodeo does care about its animals and its sponsors.
  
  
  
  Thanks,
  
  Kent L. Sturman, Executive Director
  
  National High School Rodeo Association, Inc
  
  National High School Finals Rodeo
  July 24-30, 2006 - Springfield, Illinois
  
  
  Wrangler Junior High Finals Rodeo
  July 10-15, 2006 - Gallup, New Mexico
  
  
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  From:
  Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:58 PM
  To: saverodeo@yahoo.com
  Subject: Save Rodeo, Fight Back Against www.buckstarbucks.com
  
  
  
  First I want to apologize for this unsolicited email but I wanted to ask for your help.
  
  
  
  I work for Starbucks Coffee and we have recently been targeted by a radical group called SHARK (sharkonline.org) and they are slamming us with emails and calls complaining about some very limited sponsorships by us of some local rodeo related events. Though my company has been very supportive thus far, I'm concerned due to the volume of contacts by SHARK against us and virtually no contacts by Rodeo folks in support, they may change their minds.
  
  
  
  Please go to www.buckstarbucks.com to see what they are saying and how they are driving contacts to us by phone and by email. Perhaps you can use the same links to email your support. The protesters from SHARK have been outside our corporate offices the past two days handing out fliers to us as we left the office, trying to get our employees to exert pressure from the inside.
  
  
  
  Now I realize our company doesn't sponsor rodeos in a big way and likely never will, but we are getting so many contacts from this organization, that I am concerned we may soon change our policies. If they are successful in their efforts, I'm concerned they will just move on to other corporations to try and cut off any funding for rodeos. I love rodeos and would hate to see this happen.
  
  
  
  I have not included my name, because I'm concerned about how it may affect my continued employment here, if we do begin to get a lot of emails. I do hope you take this seriously and don't just delete it as spam.
  
  
  
  Thank you and please spread the word to your associates.
  

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  • Varmit, how about you and me going out there and head and heel that guy. You head him, and since I ain't much of a heeler, just keep dragging and I'll keep rebuilding. No trhee loops rule. (NT) -- Hap, 07:48:11 03/17/06 Fri
  • Now THAT's a team ropin I'd actually pay to watch! (NT) -- Crystal, 10:47:45 03/17/06 Fri
    • Whats your paying price Crystal?... Hap if there is no crossfire rule, you'll heel just fine if I am able to turn'em. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:14:30 03/17/06 Fri
      • I've reached the age where they let me tie on if I choose and I might have to do just that. No cross fire, no illegal head catches, no nothing. (NT) -- Hap, 19:20:27 03/17/06 Fri

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• Heck, he can't expect to get it right every time. Hang in there, Dubya,. -- Hap, 09:02:03 03/13/06 Mon
  ***Breaking News***
  
  In an attempt to thwart the spread of Bird flu,
  
  George W. Bush has bombed the Canary Islands
  

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  • LOL! (NT) -- Crystal, 11:36:29 03/13/06 Mon
  • I sent your important message to my Republican't sister! Her reply was; "Those canaries are so small. He really should go bomb Turkey. Seems to me they are much more dangerous. " (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:34:31 03/13/06 Mon
    • I sent it to my Democrat brother and actually recieved it from another Democrat brother. (NT) -- Hap, 08:21:48 03/16/06 Thu
      • Well, you come from a pretty good herd then. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 12:32:48 03/16/06 Thu
        • One thing for sure, it was a herd. Was eleven kids ,down to six and nobody calls us kids any more for some reason. Oldest still kicking is fixing to be 78 next month. (NT) -- Hap, 07:38:01 03/17/06 Fri

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• Them bull riders could learn a little from the team ropers. -- Varmit, 11:20:26 03/15/06 Wed
  Be able to enter 3 times and win a bunch more money like Speed did. Scroll down the page to see payoff:
  
  http://worldofrodeo.com/006news/georgestrait.htm
  

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  • Don't forget, Ross Coleman rode one bull for $100,000 and Owen Washburn rode one for $90,000, and that doesn't include the money won during the regular weekend payoff. (NT) -- Hap, 08:14:39 03/16/06 Thu
    • 3 times $100,000 and 3 times $90,000 equals a bunch. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:27:18 03/16/06 Thu
      • But how many times have you seen Speed win three times $100,000 or three times $90,000? How many times has he won what he did that week? (NT) -- Hap, 08:33:36 03/16/06 Thu

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• I was doing good the first half, then missed numbers 13, 15, 16, and 19. -- Hap, 08:25:57 03/13/06 Mon
  Everyone over 40 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 40 you can claim a handicap.
  
  1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
  a. On the floor shift knob
  b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch
  c. Next to the horn
  
  2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
  a. Capture lightning bugs
  b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
  c. Large salt shaker
  
  3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
  a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk
  b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
  c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.
  
  4. What was the popular chewi ng gum named for a game of chance?
  a. Blackjack
  b. Gin
  c. Craps!
  
  5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during W.W.II
  a. Suntan
  b. Leg painting
  c. Wearing slacks
  
  6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
  a. Studebaker
  b. Nash Metro
  c. Tucker
  
  7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
  a. Strips of dried peanut butter
  b. Chocolate licorice bars
  c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside
  
  8. How was Butch wax used?
  a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up
  b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
  c. On the wheels of roller skates to prevent rust
  
  9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoe s?
  a With clamps, tightened by a skate key
  b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
  c. Long pieces of twine
  
  10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
  a. Consider all the facts
  b. Ask Mom
  c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo
  
  11. What was the most dreaded disease in the 1940's?
  a. Smallpox
  b. AIDS
  c. Polio
  
  12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
  a. SUV
  b. Taxi
  c. Streetcar
  
  13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
  a. Old Blue
  b. Paint
  c.. Macaroni
  
  14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
  a. Part of the game of hide and seek
  b What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores
  c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.
  
  15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
  a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
  b. Princess Sacajawea
  c. Princess Moonshadow
  
  16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
  a. Immediately sniffed the purple ink, as this was believed to get you high
  b.. Made paper airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window
  c. Wrote another pupil's name on the top, to avoid their failure
  
  17. Why did your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
  a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum
  b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items
  c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos
  
  18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
  a Meatballs
  b. Dames
  c. Ammunition
  
  19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cabdriver" a hit?
  a. The Ink Spots
  b. The Supremes
  c. The Esquires
  
  20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
  a. Tony Bennett
  b. Xavier Cugat
  c. George Gershwin
  

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  • They don't have a catagory for me, which would be kind of old but not very smart. Answers inside>>>>> -- Hap, 08:29:31 03/13/06 Mon
    • Since some of the questions are about the 1940's.. maybe people over 65 might have an easy time...lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:00:43 03/13/06 Mon
  • Dang, I got 'em all right but wasn't real sure about that puppet's name. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:15:51 03/13/06 Mon
    • See ZD is proof its for older people....lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:57:20 03/13/06 Mon
  • Don't know about that, Varmit! I'm under 35 and only got 2 wrong...... I thought Butch wax was for floors, and when I was a kid my rollerskates laced over top of my shoes (the key was for adjusting length). ;) (NT) -- Albertagirl, 08:04:28 03/14/06 Tue
  • I'm under 35 as well & only missed 2. Thought the wax was for the floor & never heard of a band called inkspots. The man credited with saying #18 was a good friend of my grandfather's. In fact he performed my grandparents' marriage ceremony & baptised my dad & his 3 older siblings. (NT) -- rose, 08:24:44 03/14/06 Tue
    • I probably shouldn't be telling this, but what the heck, it's funny now that I think about it. When the dimmer was moved to the steering column, I hadn't driven anything that had it there, nor had I heard of it. I drove a new El Camino home from work and was intending to get an early start on a five hour drive to a jobsite up at Questa, NM, and when I headed out before daylight, I couldn't dim my lights and everybody was flashing their lights. I pulled over and looked for the owner's manuel, which was gone, so I turned around and came back home and drank coffee till daylight. (NT) -- Hap, 08:54:39 03/14/06 Tue
      • I think I spent to much time on the road as a kid to know all this stuff. Plus we didn't have a TV until I was about 14. And then here at home we only got 1 TV station with the rabbit ears. I think this test discriminates against us rodeo kids...lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:24:09 03/14/06 Tue
  • We only had a wind charger and a generator for power and th ey only put out DC. In order to watch TV at that time, we had a converter next to the TV that we plugged in to because it converted it to AC. IThe converter was pretty loud and now that I think about it, I don't know why we didn't run some cord out side instead of having it drown out the TV. (NT) -- Hap, 08:30:10 03/16/06 Thu

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• An article well worth reading -- Varmit, 17:45:32 03/10/06 Fri
  http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46440
  

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  • Couldn't have said it better myself Varmit! Good article. And oh no, it was written by a man of color. He truly his own for what they have become and had the guts to stand up and say it. (NT) -- Julie, 07:10:43 03/11/06 Sat
    • I guess Katrina should have happened under Clinton, he wasn't doing much else anyway so he could have been a hero and Jessie would talk him up. (NT) -- Hap, 08:46:04 03/13/06 Mon
      • Good article. I wonder if he fears for his life? (NT) -- Bruce, 13:14:17 03/13/06 Mon
        • He better have a big bodygaurd. I also wonder about Geraldo. Ever see him approach mobsters on the sidwalk? (NT) -- Hap, 08:57:48 03/14/06 Tue

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• Keep an eye on your sheep out there. -- Varmit, 09:42:26 03/09/06 Thu
  http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1702874
  

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  • The guys at the station are going to have fun with that. Looks like the sheepherding fags in the movie could have taken lessons from that guy, but then there wouldn't have been a movie. (NT) -- Hap, 07:40:49 03/10/06 Fri
    • And the little Lamb thought it was only Mary it had to be scared of. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:03:18 03/13/06 Mon

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• Musta been about panhandle/feedlot cowboys :) :) -- Julie, 18:44:32 03/10/06 Fri
  Before `Brokeback Mountain'
  Willie Nelson's gay cowboy ballad was written in N.M.
  
  Ol' Willie's red-necked fans must have turned redder when he sang "Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other" on Howard Stern's satellite radio show last month -- a somewhat satirical suggestion that cowboys were paying attention to more than their horses out there riding the range.
  
  But did you know that the song was written nearly 25 years ago in Portales, N.M.?
  
  Thanks to a story in today's Portales News-Tribune, we now know that the song was written by singer-songwriter Ned Sublette while he spent time in his parents' Portales home in the summer of 1981.
  
  Sublette, 54, was born in Lubbock and grew up in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico, and began his musical career, according to the News-Tribune, playing in bars in Clovis.
  
  He spent his teenage years in Portales, where his father taught science at Eastern New Mexico University, and after a year at ENMU, Sublette went on to graduate from the University of New Mexico with degrees in classical guitar and musical composition.
  
  Sublette told the News-Tribune he wrote the song with Willie Nelson -- famous for "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" -- in mind.
  
  "It fits him like an old shoe, and he sings it like he's comfortable with it," Sublette said of Nelson, who recorded the song after the release of the movie "Brokeback Mountain," the story of star-crossed gay sheepherders.
  
  "Although ("Cowboys") is a funny song, with a lot of tenderness, it is not about being sure or unsure of one's masculinity," Sublette told the News-Tribune in an interview. "At some point, everybody feels there is something about them that is a little different."
  
  We learn about cowboys from the movies, Sublette told the paper.
  
  "The cowboy has become kind of American ideal of fantasy masculinity," said Sublette, who said that image is pushed on males at a steep cost.
  
  "The point of the song is (that) love is better than hating, and everybody has the right to love, however it comes to them," said Sublette.
  
  Nelson got a copy of the song passed to him in the late 1980s but didn't record it until last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas, a spokesman for Nelson's Lost Highway record label said in a story last month by The Associated Press.
  
  The song was recorded in 1995 by a band called Pansy Division, the AP reported.
  

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  • I bet you New Mexicans are proud of that name tag. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:17:18 03/13/06 Mon
    • The writer was born in Texas and Willie is from Texas, so let's call them Texans. Who would have ever thought? Queers are not ashamed of being queers anymore. In fact, seems like lots of guys are jumping on the queer band wagon. (NT) -- Hap, 08:38:37 03/13/06 Mon

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• Article about Harry Tompkins -- Varmit, 06:24:13 03/10/06 Fri
  I like the very last line of the article the best.
  
  http://sports.espn.go.com/prorodeo/news/story?page=g_col_White_HarryTompkins_060309
  

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  • I sometimes wonder if that has something to do with a guy being young at the time, because there's no doubt it seemed more enjoyable during Harry's day, and Mahan's day which is also my age, but I also realize everything is much more fun when you're young, including chousing pretty girls. On the other hand, I ain't done neither for so many years I'm only guessing, but can't picture anything being as much fun as it was when I was young. (NT) -- Hap, 07:27:50 03/10/06 Fri
    • Even when I started in the late 60's, you could win a rodeo and keep going for a month on your winnings. With todays guys, if they are not already rich, have to depend on sponsors. They have to cater to the sponsors. Back in our day (dang I makin us sound old now) I think you felt more freedom. Todays guys with sponsors are forced to keep winning at the big ones to keep their sponsors. Where we could make a living going to a few big ones but mostly mediocre ones. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:41:20 03/10/06 Fri
      • Another thing I forgot to mention... todays guys made the limited rodeo rule so they could be home more... where when I was going we would leave in around the end May and stay gone until after Labor Day, and because that was the prime time of rodeo back then compared to today, we dredded seeing Labor Day come around. Being gone from work for a little over 3 months was Fun. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:44:50 03/10/06 Fri
        • I went to the first NFR in Dallas as a spectator. Went with my Dad and Grandad. It was funny because that year I had made a little over $5,000.00 goin' to little punkin rollins and have never heard of Harry Tomkins. The next year I went to a party he had after our college rodeo. A pal of mine furnished some bulls for a buckin' that Tomkins put on. It was pure ammy but was a pretty good show as the bulls matched the riders. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 15:12:38 03/10/06 Fri

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• She said...... He said -- Varmit, 16:30:21 03/08/06 Wed
  Has anybody been able to figure out over on the Tinker board who is telling the truth?
  
  She said Jim Bob changed his decision. Jim Bob said he never considered changing his decision.
  
  Who are you suppose to believe?
  
  And what about Jody's quote referring to the old days guys using them rowels and probably had alot to do with why guys couldn't ride.
  
  I wonder if D. Gay used them.
  

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  • I got lost when Peachy came into the conversation quoting her husband than claiming to not be female, saying she was involved in the PBR for 3 years or from the beginning :-( My head hurts from reading all that.Oh & I believe both. JB & Amanda HAHA. My opinion JB really did think he saw Jody hook his spurr & Amanda probably was told JB was going to reverse the call. That doesn't mean JB said that, just that somebody misunderstood what was really said. Another words I think there was a breakdown in communication & JB's eyes might have played a trick on him. How's that for diplomacy & I'm not being PC here this really is what I suspect happened! (NT) -- rose, 21:36:43 03/09/06 Thu
    • Well having been around guys all my life at rodeos there has been times when I have heard the phone conversation of a guy to his wife after a run at a rodeo and I was thinking to myself, "Thats not what happened". Some guys always have a tendency to make excuses to their wives instead of just telling them the absolute truth. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:04:43 03/10/06 Fri
  • They have plenty of experts over there, don't they? I can't see where that Josh guy is doing any favors for the PBR to have that deal. (NT) -- Hap, 07:43:36 03/10/06 Fri
    • Reminds me of some guys in their late 30's I know down here. They were raised in the grove business when their dad bought about 200 acres of grove in different areas around here. Then the different bugs and diseases started wiping out most of the groves, so they cleared off the grove land, fenced it in and started buying cattle to raise about 3 years ago. Within 6 months, they knew more about cattle then I supposely ever will. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:50:07 03/10/06 Fri
      • Some people can talk hours on end about any given subject, and if they actually know something about the subject, well you'd have to shoot them to shut them up! I don't think Josh cares if the PBR looses fans because of the BS he keeps stirring up. In fact the fans being pissed at the PBR works in his favor. The angrier they are the more likely they are to by his book talking about all the problems in the PBR. I find it funny all those people profess to be fans and yet have nothing good to say... (NT) -- rose, 08:01:05 03/10/06 Fri
        • Your right rose, his main agenda is get people to buy stuff. And he does bring up controversal stuff which does attract more people to the site. So guess you could say, he is a good salesman. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:38:17 03/10/06 Fri

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• 404 Errors can be boring.... except for this one. -- Varmit, 15:05:15 03/08/06 Wed
  Just let it play until the door closes.
  
  http://www.lookitsme.co.uk/404_me
  

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  • Here is another one. Sells for around $250 according to the e-mail I get from PC World........ http://www.bassfiles.net/hydra foam.wmv (NT) -- Varmit, 15:36:28 03/08/06 Wed
  • Thanks Varmit! I like the 404 error one, that's funny. :-) (NT) -- rose, 21:38:09 03/09/06 Thu

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• Timed event finals -- Julie, 19:29:04 03/05/06 Sun
  Sunday, March 05, 2006
  
  TIMED EVENT CHAMPIONSHIP
  
  The standings and times after four full rounds:
  
  1. Trevor Brazile-------251.1
  2. Kyle Lockett---------264.3
  3. Jimmie Cooper--------271.1
  4. Paul Tierney---------275.8
  5. K.C. Jones-----------289.1
  6. Cash Myers-----------289.5
  7. Jim Locke------------328.2
  8. Ryan Jarrett---------342.9
  
  Those times are after 20 runs and are unofficial. The final round starts tomorrow at 1pm.
  
  Scott Snedecor and Luke Branquinho are out of the competition due to injury. Snedecor broke a rib in the steer wrestling in the second round and Branqhinho tore his groin in the calf roping in the third round.
  
  Trevor Brazille broke his own record for fastest round, with a 43.5 on five head in the third round. He gets $3000 for breaking the record, and will get $10,000 if it remains the fastest round of this weekend. So, probably a $13,000 round for Brazile.
  
  Cash Myers missed his dogging steer in the third round. He jumped on his hazer's horse and threw the steer in 39 seconds, keeping himself in the hunt. Good watching.
  

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  • Thanks Julie. Now Trevor needs to get hot at the rodeos. I remember a few years ago some bull dogger getting crippled from calf roping. You said, "good watching". Are you there? (NT) -- Varmit, 06:31:10 03/06/06 Mon
    • LOL..no, sorry, the good watching came with the "report" for a guy from NM who is there---and is posting it on his blog. Another interesting story too about somethiing that happened in the team roping...I'll dig that out. Always controversy you know... (NT) -- Julie, 08:17:03 03/06/06 Mon
  • more details from TEC in Guthrie--from the Dubois blog--see inside>>>> -- Julie, 08:23:09 03/06/06 Mon
    • Julie, you got a URL for that blog? I thought maybe you took a vacation and went to Guthrie. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:50:58 03/06/06 Mon
  • Vacation? What's that? See address inside: -- Julie, 11:47:16 03/06/06 Mon
    • Thanks Julie... now I know who won.. whats the odds after that many head it would end up in a tie? (NT) -- Varmit, 18:02:24 03/06/06 Mon
  • Trevor did it again! http://www.lazye.com/arena/article.php?sid=93 (NT) -- Julie, 18:05:39 03/06/06 Mon

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• Something about the Colorado Springs head guys doesn't seem on the up and up. I'm not so sure I'm all for getting to know them as the Albuquerque head guys. You guys, please remember, I worry that this whole thing is a train wreck, with our governor as the engineer and Troy as the conductor and it could be a squirrely trip. Troy must feel like a homeless guy that just won the lottery and now has the option to step on toes without thinking things through. I'd hate to put all my eggs in Richardson's basket. -- Hap, 21:18:01 03/02/06 Thu
  http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1315200
  

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  • In my experience (a whole 4 years) of covering many different facets, levels and types of goverment, organizations and dumbshits....this article is a complete bunch of political wishy washy double talking butt covering hog wash! I'd bet the PRCA has already ordered their new letterhead! (NT) -- Julie, 21:39:58 03/02/06 Thu
    • Here's the caption from the board where I copied that,"Rodeo sending mixed signals (PRCA moving to Albuquerque)" (NT) -- Hap, 23:19:02 03/02/06 Thu
      • Our governor and his buddy. What's in this for them? Inside>>>>> -- Hap, 07:21:57 03/03/06 Fri
        • Hold on.... I gotta go get my finacial business interpreter to explain this for me. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:08:58 03/03/06 Fri
          • Crooks think of everything... but our man Bronson is after them...inside...>>> -- Varmit, 13:42:26 03/03/06 Fri
  • I was checking over on R B and see some joking about NM being changed from Land of Enchantment to Land of Enticement. That's pretty good, but I think they may someday feel like it's The Land Of Entrapment. Honestly, I hope rodeo and rural folks in NM don't take the bait. So far, the ones I've seem, are aware of what the deal is, but also say bring on the moola, we'll take it. (NT) -- Hap, 06:04:15 03/05/06 Sun

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• Pigs -- Hap, 07:37:43 03/02/06 Thu
  http://www.slashfood.com/2006/02/28/peta-says-pigs-should-get-lottery-winnings/
  

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  • I got a better idea, why doesn't Ingrid give some of their corportation money to the pigs. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:01:56 03/02/06 Thu
  • Well I wish somebody would send me a bus load of those PETA folks. I need for them to RESCUE all those poor wild pigs that are running all over our part of the country. I trapped 31 in Feb. and my son shot a big boar. This morning I saw 8 more but didn't get my shot off right and they all survived. If some of those PETA folks would just come rescue those poor un cared for porcines the world would be a whole lot better and it would sure save me a lot of time and trouble. Geez-- what a bunch of nuts. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 13:03:48 03/02/06 Thu
    • ZD... them wild hogs are really good sodbusters. I think they can out plow a tractor and disk when they set their minds to it. They haven't been much of a problem here lately, but I been trappin racoons every night. Anybody need some coon skin hats? Hap.. would kind of wild animals you have in your parts... beside women? (NT) -- Varmit, 15:41:09 03/02/06 Thu
      • It's the Lewis & Clark Expedition Bicentennial, and there are functions all over this part of the country. Found a booth that sold REAL coonskin caps!! Actually, they are made of rabbit hide, but have a coon tail. He loves it and wears it all the time. It was the first time I've seen any made from real, used-to-be-alive animals! And I don't think they were all that expensive, $20??? (NT) -- Crystal, 16:33:47 03/02/06 Thu

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• Why do they have to make it so complicated. -- Varmit, 10:02:41 03/01/06 Wed
  Maybe rose can find an easier path.
  
  When you go to the sitemap and click on rodeo results the following page comes up:
  
  http://www99.rodeohouston.com/media/mediaall.aspx
  
  Then you click on rodeo results in the catagory column.
  Then another window over to the right opens with each event listed.
  
  Then when you click on the event, nothing comes up, even though there was a performance about 18 hours ago.
  

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  • The only results I found on that website are inside. >>>>>>>>>>> -- rose, 10:34:45 03/01/06 Wed
    • Thanks rose.... I see it is coming up now on that page. Did you find it elsewhere or did you copy and paste each one into this board? (NT) -- Varmit, 12:24:48 03/01/06 Wed

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• Colorado Springs counteroffer in the works.. -- Hap, 15:21:47 02/26/06 Sun
  http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1315072&secid=1
  

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  • This applies to this post and the one I posted below. I do not trust politicians no matter what their party is and I think attorneys are in the same catagory. A public announced deal was made and the only way it should not be considered is if the contract were to read differently then what was annouced. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:48:41 02/26/06 Sun
  • The move--see inside -- Julie, 06:05:24 02/27/06 Mon
    • I think you're right, Julie. I think most rural and rodeo people in NM are smarter than that. This move, along with the state wide tax refund he recently handed out to every NM tax payer, looks like an attempt to kiss up for votes. He needs us, but so far I don't think it's working. I shouldn't say taxpayer I have heard of guys who don't pay taxes that recieved it. (NT) -- Hap, 07:52:43 02/27/06 Mon
      • I though deal with NM was done deal. Did I miss something or just misunderstand? If it's a done deal wouldn't the PRCA be in breach of contract if they decided to back out of the deal with NM and accept another offer? Sorry I'm not sure I'm understanding how Colorado Springs could be making an offer now... (NT) -- rose, 09:19:12 02/27/06 Mon
        • rose... I think it was a done deal by word of mouth, but according to the article, nothing has been signed yet. So much for a man's word. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:28:35 02/27/06 Mon
          • That’s what I thought. I guess question really is, wouldn’t it be considered a breach of a verbal contract? I mean with all the former press releases saying it was a done deal wouldn’t that be grounds for it to be considered a verbal contract between the PRCA & New Mexico or with the amount of money that would be changing hands would there be no grounds for a verbal contract? Anybody know about business law, I was lousy at that myself. (NT) -- rose, 08:57:37 02/28/06 Tue
            • rose... I am probably on the bottom of the list on this board when it comes to the interpretation of laws by judges and lawyers. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:15:07 03/01/06 Wed
            • Haha... You and me both. I had to take business law when I was in college. I hated that class! The way business law is interpreted & written really annoyed me. It's a subject in my opinion that suspends all forms of logic, responsibility and integrity. No one can covince me differently after some of the garbage cases I had to analyze for that class. I'm pretty much in the same court as you, what happened to person's word being their marker for what they agree to do... (NT) -- rose, 10:43:55 03/01/06 Wed

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• RIP -- Varmit, 14:16:34 02/27/06 Mon
  Loosing alot of good actors.
  
  Don Knotts
  Darren McGavin
  and now
  Dennis Weaver
  

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  • Don Knotts is one of the first guys I remember seeing on TV. Can't remember what he was on then but he had a trademark type of saying that he did all the time. I never thought anybody could ever be funnier. Seems like it might have been the Steve Allen Show he was on. (NT) -- Hap, 19:41:15 02/27/06 Mon
    • I think it just popped into my head. Seems like he would be shaking like crazy and with wide eyes he would say "What, me nervous?" You guys might be too young to remember that and I might not have it right but it sounds familiar.. (NT) -- Hap, 19:46:38 02/27/06 Mon
      • I ain't to young Hap... just didn't have a TV back then. But your right, it was the Steve Allen show he started on and acted the same as he did in the Shakiest Gun in the West and Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Not quite as nervous on the Andy show, but still the same trademark. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:03:12 02/27/06 Mon
        • And don't forget his series on tv---GET SMART...with Agent 99 and of course, the famous shoe phone! (NT) -- Julie, 04:51:17 02/28/06 Tue
          • Wrong guy Julie.... your thinkin of Don Adams:) (NT) -- Varmit, 06:20:55 02/28/06 Tue
            • RATS...you're right! (NT) -- Julie, 19:40:44 02/28/06 Tue
  • I usually just call him Barney Fife, because that really fit him. He would strut like one bad dude when he arrested somebody and locked them in the Mayberry jail. I bet most towns had at least one guy, cop or deputy, that the kids called Barney Fife. I know we did, but it was not something we did except amoung ourselves. I likes Dennis best as McCloud, but he was OK in Gunsmoke. Trouble is, I never liked Gunsmoke as much when Festus wasn't on. (NT) -- Hap, 08:20:18 02/28/06 Tue
    • They had a few shows where him and Burt Reynolds were kinda spotlighted together. They were pretty good shows. Not many of the originals from that show left around anymore. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:49:28 02/28/06 Tue

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• Taos -- Hap, 07:35:32 02/25/06 Sat
  He got moved to 2nd Thursday night, but the important thing is he's in there with the big boys and holding his own.
  Craig Latham has to be one happy coach. If he rides bulls in college, that will have him working every event except the dogging,if I'm counting right, and who knows, he might start that since Robert Etbauer's son is there and is a real good dogger.
  
  
  http://www.sanangelostandardtimes.com/sast/sp_local/article/0,1897,SAST_4974_4492931,00.html
  

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  • Your gonna have to copy and paste Hap.... some of us are not registered. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:27:50 02/25/06 Sat
    • Here ya go, Varmit. I didn't even realize this was the one I registered for a couple of days ago. Rose, I'm ruining my reputation here.>>>> -- Hap, 19:06:57 02/25/06 Sat
      • Thanks Hap....I see that $200,000 barrel horse is winning. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:51:07 02/25/06 Sat
      • Oh no! Does this mean I'm fired? You now jobs finding & posting news articles are hard to come by I don't think I'd be able to find another. LOL :-) Seriously though, I've been swamped with work.Both my real job & the on the side dancing. I also agreed to take over teaching a friend's conversational Greek class. You are getting good at that cut & paste deal though. (NT) -- rose, 09:15:11 02/27/06 Mon
  • Nope, Rose, your've got job security as long as they keep having those newspaper sites where thet require registration. I've been doing pretty good at cutting and pasting for a while now, but dang I hate to register. Greek, huh? I ought to do good in that class because seems like everything's Greek to me. (NT) -- Hap, 21:46:52 02/27/06 Mon
    • Yippee I have job security, well at least in something. On the Greek class you’d be way ahead on some of these kids. I’m awestruck they’re in college. I had one make the claim a couple weeks ago that peaches scream when you pick them. I can’t remember what we were talking about but there you have it peaches scream! I think she might be on something. I had another kid on the first night, after I finished going over the syllabus ask if I ever "taught a Gay student Greek or any language before?” My reply was “Yeah well, there’s nothing in your pants that will help you speak or understand Greek & if you think there is you’re under a gross misconception concerning human anatomy.” He didn’t show up to the second class, Wonder why…:-) (NT) -- rose, 08:52:27 02/28/06 Tue

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• Took me awhile -- Varmit, 15:36:10 02/26/06 Sun
  To find his address, but I found it and used this website to map it. However, his exact house did not show up yet on the search, but you can find out how much the houses run in the area he is in.
  
  Yeah, I am speaking of S.H.
  
  Putting the link inside
  

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  • Inside..>>> -- Varmit, 15:41:13 02/26/06 Sun
    • I don't have the things downloaded to read that. How much they selling for? I think you brought this up because he claims he's not making money off little old ladies pension checks, right? (NT) -- Hap, 07:56:54 02/27/06 Mon
      • Looks like 315k. I'd say the average for that part of the state is probably 230k-250k, judging by the map. (NT) -- rose, 09:08:12 02/27/06 Mon
        • Yeah Hap.... they just came out with that website the other day. So thought I would go snooping around. They got aways to go with their database though. I put in my address and it says I do not have a house. Yikes, I am homeless. Now we gotta see if we can find out about old Ingrid. I found the area where they work out of, but not the exact building. Looks from the map they right next to some kind of a bay. I take it, that property is like lake front or ocean front property. Big yacht looking boat parked in the satalite photo. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:36:57 02/27/06 Mon
    • I tried looking up my place. They don't have my county yet. And, I tried to check out my old hometown. NOTHING at all from Idaho. (NT) -- Crystal, 15:43:21 02/27/06 Mon
      • Crystal.... I tried to find the article again, but its been a few days. But think I remember ready something about Idaho, Oregon and Washington not being in their data base yet. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:35:46 02/27/06 Mon

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• PSN Interview.... -- Spring Fling, 12:05:25 02/27/06 Mon
  ...with Troy Ellerman
  

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• Stinkin Democrats pushing to ban rodeo. -- Varmit, 17:28:57 02/25/06 Sat
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1578343.htm
  

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  • I guess I never gave it any thought but I think it's a safe bet that Hindi and all those type of guys are Democrats. My parents would roll over in their graves right now if they knew that half their kids turned out to be republican. They would switch over now if they were alive, I think, since the big dogs have become so far left. That dang sure wasn't their style. (NT) -- Hap, 19:25:32 02/25/06 Sat

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• How to count cows.... -- Hap, 05:04:14 02/25/06 Sat
  DEMOCRATIC:
  You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being
  successful. You vote people into office that put a tax on your cows,
  forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you
  voted for then take the tax money, buy a cow and give it to your
  neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbara Streisand sings for you.
  
  REPUBLICAN:
  You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So?
  
  
  SOCIALIST:
  You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your
  neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
  
  COMMUNIST:
  You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with
  milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour.
  
  CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE:
  You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
  
  DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
  You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to
  sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow,
  which was a gift from your government.
  
  BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
  You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks
  the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.
  
  AMERICAN CORPORATE:
  You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an
  IPO on the 2nd one. You force the 2 cows to produce the milk of four
  cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an
  announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing
  expenses. Your stock goes up.
  
  FRENCH CORPORATE:
  You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You
  go to lunch. Life is good.
  
  JAPANESE CORPORATE:
  You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of
  an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel
  on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at
  cow school.
  
  GERMAN CORPORATE:
  You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots
  of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
  Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
  
  ITALIAN CORPORATE:
  You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling
  around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good.
  
  RUSSIAN CORPORATE:
  You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You
  have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
  You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows
  and open another bottle of vodka. You produce your 10th, 5-year plan in
  the last 3 months. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows
  you really have.
  
  
  TALIBAN :
  You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. You don't milk
  them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
  

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  • I think the Italians have figured it out the best. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:06:29 02/25/06 Sat

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• Getting Fancy on here. -- Varmit, 17:42:19 02/24/06 Fri
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• Jake -- Hap, 06:41:38 02/23/06 Thu
  You've all probably seen this, but here it is just in case.
  
  Wednesday, February 22, 2006
  No Rush
  After suffering an amputated thumb and a shoulder injury in December, seven-time world champion team roper Jake Barnes has been rehabilitating and working to get himself back to a championship level one day at a time.
  By Kristen White
  PSN Writer
  
  Jake Barnes is just taking it one day at a time.
  
  Really, that's all the seven-time world champion team roper can do after sustaining an amputated right thumb and shoulder injury during the fifth round of the 2005 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. These days, Barnes said his shoulder actually gives him more trouble than his hand, so he's rehabilitating and taking rodeos as they come.
  
  In his first rodeo back in competition, the Yuma Jaycees Silver Spur Rodeo in Yuma, Ariz., Barnes won some money with young partner Brock Hanson. The team placed second in the first round, then placed fourth in the average. Each cowboy pocketed $676, and the boost for Barnes was not just financial.
  
  "Most definitely, it's a confidence-builder," he said. "I'm not back to my normal self, I'm just gradually starting back. It's just week to week, what I'm entering and what I'm going to."
  
  In the accident, Barnes' hand was caught in his dally. He said he got a "real hard yank" that likely tore something in his shoulder. Doctors grafted his thumb to his abdomen to help maintain strong blood flow. After being in that position for about a month, Barnes said he developed atrophy in his shoulder and wrist, so strengthening and conditioning the shoulder became even more important. He lifts light weights to help rebuild the muscles in his shoulder.
  
  "I have to get my arm loosened back up, but day to day it's getting better," he said.
  
  Barnes was told he'd have to undergo another surgery on his thumb, but recently, his doctors have said it might not be necessary. He still experiences some swelling, and said he just needs time to heal.
  
  "I feel fine, it's just some setbacks, and you just have to deal with them day to day," he said. "I'm not 100 percent, by any means. I'm just kind of testing the waters by entering a few of these rodeos and seeing what I can do and what my limitations are."
  
  Barnes said his intent in these early rodeos is to try for money in the average, but not so much for a win in a round, unless he draws a slower steer. He's "relying on consistency" until he gets full range of motion back in his shoulder.
  
  Hanson understands Barnes might have to stop competing at any point, but said in the meantime it's giving him some quality experience and is allowing Barnes to rehab and improve.
  
  "I feel I'm way ahead of schedule, but I'm going to say I'm still only 60 or 70 percent," Barnes said. "I have to heal from the inside out."
  

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  • The article didn't explain it.. but I take it, that they were able to sew the thumb back on? (NT) -- Varmit, 09:47:52 02/23/06 Thu
    • No, they didn't make the attempt. I think right now his main concern might be that shoulder, if it's anything like my problems. I broke an ankle and leg at the same time in '65 and they put hardware in there and in a few months, I was healed and did great for 34 years, till they operated on a knee and had me on crutches for 14 weeks. The ankle did the same as his shoulder and so far, after three more surgeries, it's trashed Even had the main ankle joint fused and it still swells up every day and won't rehab. Sure hope he has a better go at it. (NT) -- Hap, 12:27:53 02/23/06 Thu

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• Off rodeo topic... but good story.. and Hap I checked this one before posting. -- Varmit, 14:18:32 02/21/06 Tue
  Thought these stories were pretty interesting..............................
  
  STORY NUMBER ONE
  Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was his lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time. To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but also Eddie got special dividends. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago city block.
  Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocities that went on around him. Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had the best of everything: clothes, cars and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object.
  
  And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was. Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his son; he couldn't pass on a good name and a good example.
  One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done. He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. So, he testified.
  
  Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago Street . But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he would ever pay. Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine. The poem read:
  The clock of life is wound but once,
  
  and no man has the power
  To tell just when the hands will stop,
  
  at late or early hour.
  Now is the only time you own.
  
  Live, love, toil with a will.
  Place no faith in time.
  
  For the clock may soon be still.
  
  
  
  STORY NUMBER TWO
  
  World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific.
  One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank. He would not have enough fuel
  to complete his mission and get back to his ship. His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet. As he was returning to the mother ship he saw something that turned his blood cold. A squadron of Japanese aircraft were speeding their way toward the American fleet.
  The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the
  approaching danger.
  There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet. Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 caliber's blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent. Undaunted, he continued the assault.
  He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible and rendering them unfit to fly. Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction. Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier. Upon arrival he reported in and related the event surrounding his return.
  The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He had in fact destroyed five enemy aircraft. This took place on February 20, 1942, and for that action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Congressional Medal of Honor.
  A year later Butch was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man. So the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International, give some thought to visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his Medal of Honor. It's located between
  Terminals 1 and 2.
  SO, WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER? Butch O'Hare was Easy Eddie's son.
  

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  • Finally somebody speaks out against Gumbels remarks..... http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRBryantGumbelOlympics206.html (NT) -- Varmit, 15:36:16 02/21/06 Tue
    • Never cared for him. Another one is Katie Curic (sp?) The local news is on NBC and I like to catch it early in the morning, but don't like listening to her, so I wait till evening which is pretty much the same local stuff. I can't remember why Katie and Bryant are worth all that money. I guess there's something I'm missing there. (NT) -- Hap, 06:58:45 02/23/06 Thu

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• We had a terrible icestorm in Arkansas about 5 years ago. We lost electricity for 7 days and had to chainsaw our way out to the road. I thought the following was interesting. Hope it comes through.>>> -- Bruce, 06:51:11 02/21/06 Tue
  THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT
  >>
  >> North Dakota News
  >>
  >> This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of
  >> North Dakota after a recent s now storm.
  >>
  >> WEATHER BULLETIN
  >>
  >> Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a historic event
  >> --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with
  >> a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH
  >> that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds
  >> of
  >> motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of
  >> communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
  >>
  >> FYI:
  >>
  >> George Bush did not come ..
  >>
  >> FEMA did nothing ..
  >>
  >> No one howled for the government ...
  >>
  >> No one blamed the government ...
  >>
  >> No one even uttered an expletive on TV ...
  >>
  >> Neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton visited ...
  >>
  >> Our Mayor's did not blame Bush or anyone else ..
  >>
  >> Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either.
  >>
  >> CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
  >> snow
  >> storm.
  >>
  >> Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards ..
  >>
  >> No one expected a FEMA Trailer House ..
  >>
  >> No one looted ...
  >>
  >> Nobody - I mean nobody demanded, or even expected, the government do
  >> something anything.
  >>
  >> No Larry King, no Bill O'Rielly, no Oprah, no Chris Mathews and no
  >> Geraldo
  >> Rivera.
  >>
  >> No Sean Penn, no Barbra Steisand .. No Hollywood-types to be found.
  >>
  >> Nope, we just melted the snow for water ...
  >>
  >> Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck p eople out of snow engulfed cars ..
  >>
  >> Truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
  >> penny.
  >>
  >> Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments
  >> delivered it
  >> to the snow bound families.
  >>
  >> Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
  >>
  >> We Fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman
  >> lanterns.
  >>
  >> We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or
  >> Die".
  >>
  >> We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of
  >> a
  >> mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
  >> for
  >> 'sittin at home' checks.
  >>
  >> Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this
  >> early .. we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
  >>
  >> In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48
  >> degrees North Latitude, 90% most of the world's social problems
  >> evaporate.
  >>
  >> It does seem that way, at least to me .. I hope this gets passed on.
  >>
  >> Maybe, SOME people will get the message: "The world does not owe you a
  >> living."
  

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  • Bruce I remember hearing about that storm. Guess the news media goes to Arkansas more then North Dakota... not to get off subject, but reading about Hollywood western movies I ran across this... inside>>>> -- Varmit, 11:46:33 02/21/06 Tue

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• Where's Bruce? -- Varmit, 13:54:18 02/17/06 Fri
  I heard on the news people in his part of the country are stocking up on supplies like they do down here for the hurricanes in anticapation of the major ice storm that is fixin to hit them in a few days.
  
  I am still waiting to find out about CT Jones also?
  

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  • Anybody else get this e-mail about Starbucks.....inside>> -- Varmit, 18:03:01 02/17/06 Fri
    • I did some checking and here's what I found................................................................http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_starbucks_statement.htm (NT) -- Hap, 19:13:46 02/17/06 Fri
      • I was going to check out that web site, but could not think of the name of it at the time.... but I still do have a question.. why can't they donate coffee? This is a free country isn't it?... or is it just can't donate and take it off as a write off?... I bet if you do not write it off, you could send as much free stuff as you wanted. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:20:56 02/18/06 Sat
  • I'm still alive, the "ice storm" was a huge non-event.-thankfully. I do get mad at the Weather Channel- I am convinced they overhype the possibility of bad weather to attract viewers. Still haven't heard back from my friend on the search for the elusive CT. I'll keep looking though. (NT) -- Bruce, 06:40:54 02/21/06 Tue

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• Taos winning SB in San Angelo -- Julie, 13:22:28 02/20/06 Mon
  Johnnie wrote last night that Taos had called and was winning the SB riding in San Angelo with an 84---he's hoping to make the short round and if he does trying to figure out how (all things going well)how he can be up in Scottsdale on Wednesday, trade and be up in Manhattan, KS (college rodeo) on Friday then back to the short round in San Angelo Saturday night and hopefully back to the short round at Manhattan on Sunday...
  I got tired reading it ...............:)but am so thrilled that the lad has the energy and the skill to do it all!!!
  

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  • Julie, we all had energy at that age. I seen where weather, ( I take it was the ice storm ) prevented Billy Etbauer from competing at San Antonio. He was leading the average going into the short round. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:32:43 02/20/06 Mon
    • " We all had energy at that age" Did we?? I can't remember :) :).... (NT) -- Julie, 15:46:17 02/20/06 Mon
      • Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... that energized bunny couldn't hold a candle to me in my late teens and early 20's. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:46:53 02/20/06 Mon
        • This mentions 2nd and 4th because they've been around, but never mentions 1st. I think they will be talking about Taos soon(inside)>> -- Hap, 20:04:12 02/20/06 Mon
  • Rose, I had to register to read that. Dang near killed me. At least they called calf roping by it's right name. (NT) -- Hap, 20:08:43 02/20/06 Mon
    • Julie, I had much a much different situation than Taos is dealing with as far as trying to figure out how to fit all that traveling in. All I had to worry about was if I was still within distance to get home in time to milk the cow. Main thing I got real accomplished at was milking the cow while half asleep. (NT) -- Hap, 20:17:21 02/20/06 Mon

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• Willie is Losing It! -- Crystal, 08:03:48 02/15/06 Wed
  Willie Nelson releases a gay cowboy song.
  
  So much for My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys....
  

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  • "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" Willy says "don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks" and since he's a picker and that qualifies them as cowboys, could he be talking about himself" Is Willy a tinkerbelle? (NT) -- Hap, 06:24:46 02/16/06 Thu
    • Ain't seen him with no woman. Did he go figure skating to?... yikes. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:56:05 02/17/06 Fri
      • Joking aside, I don't really think Willy is a fag, but he's a guy that lives in an entirely different world than we do where they get used to them and accept them, but I can't picture a guy singing about them. Wonder if he's just needing the money and making it off the queer sheepherder movie. Queers seem to be a novelty right now. I refuse to call them gay. Gay means happy, queer means queer. (NT) -- Hap, 16:54:01 02/17/06 Fri
        • Willie did it because Willie is Willie. He is about the only one that could get by with it. Can you imagine George Strait singing that? Of course not and nobody else would either. Willie is Willie and pretty much does as he pleases. His home town built a sign near the interstate and Willie didn't like it so he and Zeke set a fire to the poles and burned the sign down. Willie was driving from Hillsboro to Austin and got tired arround Waco and stopped on the side of the road to take a nap. A cop woke him up and took him to jail because his ash tray had a few roaches in it. It took 2 years but the cop is gone and Willie is still in the area. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 16:07:16 02/19/06 Sun
          • Too bad that old stoner can get a cop canned for doing his job. They should have charged him with arson for burning down somebody's property. Not impressed. (NT) -- Hap, 06:29:48 02/20/06 Mon
            • Yes, they should B-U-T Willie is Willie and everybody loves Willie. He's not well kept, always needs a shave and usually smells funy but people like him. I can't explain it but I can tell you that he can get by with more in a day than any of us could in a lifetime. There is no other way to explain it. Willie is Willie. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 12:01:19 02/20/06 Mon

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• Meth -- Hap, 06:16:51 02/18/06 Sat
  My Name IS "Meth"
  
  I destory homes,I tear families apart,
  take your children,and that's just the start.
  I'm more costly than diamonds,more precious than gold,
  The sorrow I bring is a sight to behold.
  If you need me, remember I'm easily found,
  I live all around you - in schools and in town
  I live with the rich; I live with the poor,
  I live down the street, and maybe next door.
  I'm made in a lab, but not like you think,
  I can be made under the kitchen sink.
  In your child's closet, and even in the woods,
  If this scares you to death, well it certainly should.
  I have many names, but there's one you know best,
  I'm sure you've heard of me, my name is crystal meth.
  My power is awesome; try me you'll see,
  But if you do, you may never break free.
  Just try me once and I might let you go,
  But try me twice, and I'll own your soul.
  When I possess you, you'll steal and you'll lie,
  You do what you have to -- just to get high.
  The crimes you'll commit for my narcotic charms
  Will be worth the pleasure you'll feel in your arms.
  You'll lie to your mother; you'll steal from your dad,
  When you see their tears, you should feel sad.
  But you'll forget your morals and how you were raised,
  I'll be your conscience, I'll teach you my ways.
  I take kids from parents, and parents from kids,
  I turn people from God,and separate friends.
  I take everything from you, your looks and your pride,
  I'll be with you always--right by your side.
  You'll give up everything-your family,your home,
  Your friends, your money, then you'll be alone.
  I'll take and take, till you have nothing more to give,
  When I'm finished with you, you'll be lucky to live.
  If you try me be warned-this is no game,
  If given the chance, I'll drive you insane.
  I'll ravish your body, I'll control your mind,
  I'll own you completely, your soul will be mine.
  The nightmares I'll give you while lying in bed,
  The voices you'll hear, from inside your head.
  The sweats,the shakes, the visions you'll see,
  I want you know, these are all gifts from me.
  But then it's too late, and you'll know in your heart,
  That you are mine,and we shall not part.
  You'll regret that you tried me, they always do,
  But you came to me, not I to you.
  You knew this would happen, many times you were told,
  But you challenged my power, and chose to be bold.
  You could have said no, and just walked away,
  If you could live that day over, now what you say?
  I'll be your master, you will be my slave,
  I'll even go with you, when you go to your grave.
  Now that you have met me, what will you do?
  Will you try me or not? It's all up to you.
  I can bring you more misery than words can tell,
  Come take my hand, let me lead you to hell.
  

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  • I really can't figure out where all the activists are on this stuff.... now cigarettes, they get up in arms on... but not drugs.... crazy world we live in. or should I say Stupid world? (NT) -- Varmit, 08:05:25 02/18/06 Sat
    • Here's one problem caused by meth. It's hard to find guys that can pass the drug test. Many that can't, just break in to houses and steal to get money. Can't see why anybody would brag about their old drug days................http://www.daily-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060219/OPINION01/602190310/1013/ARCHIVE (NT) -- Hap, 08:44:34 02/20/06 Mon
      • Good article. I know the police can do much more then they are doing, but most are just ignoring them. Its like catching DUI drivers. You never see the police sitting outside staking out a bar. Would that not be the perfect place to catch DUI drivers? (NT) -- Varmit, 10:04:31 02/20/06 Mon

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• HOF & RH Moving. -- Hap, 14:48:24 02/11/06 Sat
  
  http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1314579&secid=1
  

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  • This article says Santa Fe but I've been hearing Albuquerque. (NT) -- Hap, 14:59:15 02/11/06 Sat
    • I have plenty to say on the subject, none of which is probably fit for internet public eyes :) (NT) -- Julie, 16:12:51 02/11/06 Sat
      • Julie, does it have anything to do with being a New Mexico tax payer?...lol... sounds like a done deal from this article..... http://www.krdotv.com/DisplayStory.asp?id=10829 (NT) -- Varmit, 19:54:52 02/11/06 Sat
        • Yah that too...and they spelled Albuquerque wrong :) (NT) -- Julie, 05:32:48 02/12/06 Sun
          • Dang Hap, me and you gonna be in big trouble when it comes to spelling on this board. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:46:46 02/12/06 Sun
  • Hap's Link: HOF & RH Moving (NT) -- Crystal - this should be interesting!, 07:53:06 02/13/06 Mon
    • Varmit you and Hap are excused (as is anyone) in a chatty blog....in a newspaper, webnews site etc..it's a BIG BOO BOO---it happens, but something like misspelling the name of a city as big as Albq. is a BIG mistake for the paper. So you two don't worry about it and just keep typin' what your are thinkin'!!! (NT) -- Julie, 13:53:58 02/13/06 Mon
      • I know how to spell Albuquerque, but it is SO MUCH easier to just use the 3-letter airport codes. Not just for ABQ, but for everywhere. So RH/HOF is moving from COS to ABQ. :-) The problem is that most people don't talk "travel agent". (NT) -- Crystal, 14:20:32 02/13/06 Mon
        • Travel agent talk would be okay if they stuck to the obvious... Like Denver is.... DEN... but Orlando is.... MCO....?.... who would ever figure that one out? (NT) -- Varmit, 19:48:30 02/13/06 Mon
          • MCO = Mickey & CO. ;-) (NT) -- Crystal, 07:39:48 02/14/06 Tue
  • MORE ON PRCA MOVE--see inside -- Julie, 05:18:09 02/14/06 Tue

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• Travis Briscoe article -- Julie, 09:53:32 02/11/06 Sat
  Edgewood Bull Rider Is Making a Name for Himself
  
  By Harold Smith
  Mountain View Telegraph
  Edgewood bull-rider Travis Briscoe has come a long way since his second-place finish at the Chilili Rodeo on June 26.
  
  
  http://www.mvtelegraph.com/mountain/432172mtnview02-09-06.htm
  

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• S. Head is staying hooked. -- Hap, 21:38:47 02/09/06 Thu
  http://www.sandiego.com/localnews_fullstory.jsp?ItemId=story.37966.html
  

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  • Hap's Link: S. Head, Hap? :-) (NT) -- Crystal, 07:00:03 02/10/06 Fri
    • You know, no matter what that groundhog said, its pretty dang cold in Illinois in Feb. Where would you go on a nice warm vacation at the expense of donators? San Diego maybe? Where the temp is suppose to be a nice 75 degrees tomorrow. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:32:25 02/10/06 Fri
      • I'm only an hour away from San Diego, so I wouldn't pick there. Kind of think of it I don't like him having picked that close to me. We have enough crazies, we do not need to import any! It's a good place to pick though. Lot's of neglected rich brats just looking validate their self worth be saving the world. They seem to be big suckers for animal & enviromental causes. Don't anybody tell him but it was in the mid 80's up here in the hills & not a cloud or breeze in sight. :-) (NT) -- rose, 19:31:50 02/10/06 Fri

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• Bull Riding fastest growing sport -- Julie, 04:26:03 02/07/06 Tue
  putting article inside--
  

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  • From Fox News--------> -- Julie, 04:27:04 02/07/06 Tue
    • I see the guy who claims Cotton is his great buddy thinks otherwise. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:29:19 02/07/06 Tue
      • Pro Rodeo needs to forget about trying to stay up with PBR and keep the rodeos they have as solid as possible. If I was to go just to attend a rodeo or bullriding, naturally my first choice would be a full rodeo. But, here's the problem, and fans are getting to where they realize it. Too many 15 or 16 point broncs and bulls, too many turnouts, which can't be avoided, and at many rodeos a real rodeo fan has to pay big money for a concert / rodeo combo and could care less about the concert. That's why I feel many smaller rodeos are doing OK while bigger ones are boring and overpriced. PBR is taking away PRCA rodeos at an alarming rate. Whether you choose rodeo over PBR or not, PBR is better watching for fans. (NT) -- Hap, 08:39:23 02/07/06 Tue
  • The Starbucks battle is still hot and heavy....>>>> -- SF, 14:16:15 02/07/06 Tue
    • Pretty damning photos on buckstarbucks.com ....... they don't look good even to someone who is highly educated in rodeo and knows the score. Imagine how those photos impact an animal lover who has never been to a rodeo. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 15:15:21 02/07/06 Tue
      • The rodeo committee better start doing a background check on who they are allowing into the camera pit area between the arena and racetrack, which only official prca photographers and press are allowed to film from that area. As most of the photos look like they were taken from the camera pit. (NT) -- Varmit, 21:28:58 02/07/06 Tue
        • If that horse had been crippled before they ran him in he wouldn't have been used. He had to do it in the chute or at least where they didn't notice it. Looks like some fresh red paint in the chute and how do we know SH didn't splartter it? Up towards the fromt it's smeared and that could be blood. I don't know. The looks of fright on the horses faces is meaningless too. Ever notice photos of basketball players in action in the news paper? They can be pretty contorted and I'm sure guys get a kick out of seeing themselves look that way. The horse that is fixing to fall, they say his "face is being driven into the dirt" as if somebody's doing it on purpose. As usual, how would a guy defend the tripping? I can't answer that. (NT) -- Hap, 21:47:31 02/07/06 Tue
          • That's what I mean, Hap. I know several pics are not what they appear.... but there is no defence for some, even to me. Yes, there is a lot of paint in that chute, but there is a lot of blood as well. It's obvious to me that the blood is from the horse pictured, but how many others would realize that? The pic of the horse in pain looks terrible, especially if it didn't occur to you that his droopy ears were probably frostbitten. I can't and won't defend the wild horse race or steer tripping. IMO, both events should be banned (Canadian events do not allow steer tripping). Varmit is right.... those photos were taken by a pro, with a pro camera, in the pro area. No one else could have gotten those shots. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 10:41:19 02/08/06 Wed
            • Here is one way I would defend the steer roping. Down here there is no set of rules on how fat cattle need to be. And I have seen plenty of starved cattle that could barely walk into the sale ring. But you never hear the ara's complain about starving cattle. Horses you hear plenty of stories and see plenty of articles. So its okay to take a herd of fat steers and turn them out with nothing to eat and let them starve to death, but it's not okay to take a fat steer, rope and trip him. Not sure if that is defending anything, but it sure as hell don't make no sense to me. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:55:48 02/08/06 Wed
              • Why Starbucks?...... I went through a few of the rodeos that had websites and found these companies as sponsors...inside>>> -- Varmit, 19:38:01 02/08/06 Wed
                • Because Starbucks "betrayed" them. It's a do-gooder enviro outfit. So they must have figured that Starbucks would have been on their side. (NT) -- Crystal, 07:53:06 02/09/06 Thu
                  • I thought they were in big trouble for what they were charging people during 911. Where is rose? I know there is an article out there somewhere about them during the terrorist attack and what they were charging for water. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:00:33 02/09/06 Thu
                    • Yeah there was an article about that.It is partially true & false. It was worker from Starbucks who charged a $130 for 3 cases of water. Starbucks did not, in fact when they found out what one of their employees did, they reimbursed the ambulance company & apologized. Now granted that happened after press coverage, but heres something to think about. How is the corporate office supposed to know this even truely occured with complaints that lead to media coverage? It was one person by the way. I have 2 articles for you. This 1st one is about the chain letter & charging for water. -- rose, 12:07:43 02/09/06 Thu
                    • Here's the second article inside. This one is an interview with Starbucks chief Howard Schulz. It explains exactly what Starbucks did do to help after the attacks. Something the media left out when they were roasting Starbucks for the stupidity & crummy behavior of 1 employee.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- rose, 12:11:09 02/09/06 Thu
  • There's a Starbucks being built here at Bloomfield. I didn't know they would put one in such little town. (NT) -- Hap, 10:27:01 02/09/06 Thu
    • Thanks rose as always..... ahh Hap, the big city is moving closer to you. Nearest store to us is about 35 miles. You would of thought they would of bought that 9.7 million dollar piece of property.. geesh (NT) -- varmit, 14:07:54 02/09/06 Thu
      • Yeah, the city of Juarez has already moved about a jillion of them here. (NT) -- Hap, 21:42:29 02/09/06 Thu

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• Funny Stuff -- Hap, 09:47:57 02/06/06 Mon
  I saw that and thought the worm might have showed up here so I tucked my tail.
  

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  • I wonder if Crystal gave them a tongue lashing. If I remember correctly, either the website addy or e-mail was attached. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:52:50 02/06/06 Mon
  • No. Not going to click on nothing I don't know about! Just delete them and go on my merry way! :-) (NT) -- Crystal, 12:04:28 02/06/06 Mon

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• Guess its time to Hunker down -- Varmit, 20:40:54 02/02/06 Thu
  The worm is coming at midnight. They say the 3rd day of the next 3 months. Guess the safest is to stay offline until the 4th gets here. Geez.. I gotta watch TV now.
  

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  • I hadn't heard about it but I guess this is the one. http://news.yahoo.com/fc/tech/computer_security (NT) -- Hap, 08:13:45 02/03/06 Fri
    • That story didn't say much about it. They had it all over AOL. Claimed it would wipe out all kinds of files, photos and said it would even attack your virus protection software. Vicous little worm. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:02:45 02/04/06 Sat

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• Groundhog Day -- Varmit, 07:44:41 02/02/06 Thu
  What does he know about the seasons?
  
  Down here we have 2 seasons:
  
  Hurricane Season and Hurricane Repair Season
  

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  • Yeah, the northern groundhogs don't know much about Florida. Around here, I always welcome groundhog day because the way I see it, no matter what he sees or don't see, spring is not far off. (NT) -- Hap, 09:10:53 02/02/06 Thu
    • The repair season is going to be a long season in New Orleans, looks like. Maybe they should start by building a railroad track from here to New Orleans and move a mountain down there and bring it up to above sea level, since they insist on living there. That's just being silly, of course, but how silly is it to build in a natural lake bed? That RR track would cost billions, but looks to me like billions are spent in an attempt to keep the water out and that don't always work. How's it looking where you're at, as a whole? (NT) -- Hap, 11:28:51 02/02/06 Thu
  • Have you got any grazing Varmit? I have a little ryegrass but not yet big enough to graze. Normally I can stop feeding by now but not this year. My steers look good but I sure don't need the horses to check them. Just drive out in the pasture and pour out the cubes and every one of them will follow you anywhere you want and then line up to eat. My Bermuda is breaking dormancy but it'll sure get killed back as there is no way to avoid a heavy freeze this early in the year. Besides, bermuda can't compete wtih the ryegrass that is coming. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:57:41 02/02/06 Thu
    • Hap, people are still building, as I am myself. But I got behind when I was so crippled last year. But still have plenty to do and working on it almost everyday. People are still living in some Fema trailers with time about to run out and they are still repairing. All the workers left when Katrina hit New Orleans, so there is a shortage of constuction workers, plus they have all these new housing developements going in, its unreal. So just get roads and then they sit as there is nobody to do all the work........ ZD.. we are really dry. I am rotating right now and getting by. But if it doesn't rain soon, I will have to start feeding. Its warm enough that the grass wants to grow, if we don't get anymore frost. Had a frost yesterday morning and was 82 degrees today. But need the rain and things may change with this flip flopping weather. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:35:22 02/02/06 Thu
      • Last week when I said $25.00 would buy you an acre of land on the beach back when guys at the Finals were winning $2000.00. Well today on the front page of the paper, they sold a vacant 1 acre on the beach for 9.7 million dollars. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:37:50 02/02/06 Thu
        • Dang, I wish I'd of had twelve dollars and fifty cents back then to buy a half acre. Wonder what it will be in another fifty years. (NT) -- Hp, 08:18:08 02/03/06 Fri

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• Thanks Canadians..... geesh... what next? -- Varmit, 03:49:31 02/01/06 Wed
  The Canadians are testing out a system that combines onboard Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology with a digital speed limit map. It works very much like the in-car GPS navigation systems which have become so common on late model cars -- but with a twist. Instead of helping you find a destination, the system, prevents you from driving any faster than the posted speed limit of the road you happen to be on.
  
  
  As in a conventional GPS-equipped car or truck, the system knows which road you're on, as well as the direction you're traveling. This information is continuously updating as you move. But in addition to this, the system also acquires information about the posted speed limit on each road, as you drive. Once your vehicle reaches that limit, the car's computer makes it increasingly difficult to go any faster.
  

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  • It will be like the catalytic converter, just disconnect it! (NT) -- Crystal, 07:41:00 02/01/06 Wed
    • The way technology has gotten, if you disconnet it, it might not run. Either that or a space beam with melt it down. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:52:25 02/01/06 Wed
  • See inside for my latest Hillary email.... -- Crystal, 10:33:46 02/01/06 Wed
    • Funny thing, I got one this morning that included her and a few others near and dear to her. Inside>>>>> -- Hap, 11:17:59 02/01/06 Wed

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• Political Correctness -- Hap, 18:16:11 01/30/06 Mon
  NOTE:
  Due to the climate of political correctness now pervading America, Kentuckians, Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as "HILLBILLIES."
  
  You must now refer to them as "APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS."
  

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  • Dang that political correctness.... what we gonna call them Californee's now? (NT) -- Varmit, 22:04:12 01/30/06 Mon
    • Are you referring to the lunatics I live amongst? I prefer to call them aliens. Yep definetely aliens, because half of them are illegal & well the other half could seriously make any skeptic believe in little green men from outer space. I just wish their home planet would take them back now! :) (NT) -- rose, 22:21:19 01/30/06 Mon
      • Sorry rose.... I don't think aliens is politically correct... however Alien-Americans might work. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:10:16 01/31/06 Tue
        • Did you see the tunnel running from Mexico to the US? They used it to smuggle drugs and Alien Americans. One huge problem for us and it's being taken lightly. Too many politicians connected to the drug industry on both sides of the border. Seems like they do just enough to make it look like they're trying to fight drugs. Balony Somewhere there are politicians really PO'd about that tunnel being discovered. (NT) -- Hap, 09:34:43 01/31/06 Tue
          • I remember in school watching a documentary about drug trafficking from Mexico to the US. It was one of those investigative reports or crime documentarys that A&E does. Any how the whole episode was about tunnels from Mexico to Arizona & California, that were used by a big drug cartel in Mexico to bring Cocaine into the country. I can't remember how long the tunnels where but I do remember them comparing it to the tunnel that connects London to Paris. That left me in awe at the time... It showed the inside of the tunnel and it looked like an old miners tunnel... with tracks on the ground & the carts they used in mines... I did hear about this new one discovered. I agree about it not changing. Politicians & the gov. for that matter, make way to much off their failed war on drugs, to want to do anything. (NT) -- rose, 10:05:02 01/31/06 Tue
            • About 20 years ago the city where I live (pop. 8,000) changed from well water to lake water. The agency I worked for financed the project. When the intake structure was being built the extra long reach back hoe, or track hoe ran into some bones of some dead Indian and the project had to stop. The contractor then sent a truck to the border and came back wtih a truck load of Mexicans and they finished the project by tunneling to the treatment station. All the dirt they took out they put in a pile to let the preservationsist sift through. When they finished they found out it was cheaper to tunnel with shovels than dig with big machines. Go figure? (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 11:46:37 01/31/06 Tue
              • Well ZD.. they have a point. Everybody is out to rip everybody off on parts, labor, etc. Got a friend who has 2 dump trucks and some end loaders for land clearing. Says he cannot get parts to either dump truck once they get over 8 years old. You have to go to the junkyard or go buy a new one. He says nobody but a computer nerd can work on the endloaders. They get $250 for showing up and $140 an hour for working on it., plus the highly over priced parts. Manual ditch diggers do sound cheaper. (NT) -- Varmit, 03:54:21 02/01/06 Wed
        • I no, your not going to turn me into the tolerance police are you?!? I guess that means I can't call them lunatics either huh... Will reality challenged do, think that's politicaly correct enough that I won't get in trouble? Hey true story, when we first moved out here there was a guy being sentenced to tolerance school. His crime he noticed his town was overrun with Spanish only speaking neighbors. So he moved & left a sign on the flag pole in the front yard, saying; "Would the last American please remove the flag!" I laughed at the whole thing no wonder we can't find a cop when we need one. If their not eating donuts, their busy making sure peoples feelings are not hurt by jokes... Sheesh. I mean really if bothered the people that much why not just take the damn sign down & burn it... What a waste of time & tax money... (NT) -- rose, 09:49:03 01/31/06 Tue
          • That should be "Oh no" at the beginning of that by the way. (NT) -- rose, 10:13:37 01/31/06 Tue

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• LJ Jenkins hurt bad at PBR in Oklahoma -- Julie, 22:20:58 01/29/06 Sun
  Got the following email tonite:
  Sunday afternoon at the PBR in OK, City, L.J made a nice ride on his bull.
  When he got off the bull stepped hard on his back. He has been at the hospital all afternoon and evening. He has broken ribs, a punctured lung, and bruised kidney. They are running more test for other possible internal
  injuries. He will go into intensive care when they get all the test ran and know what all was injured. Please pray for him
  

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  • Always hate to see that. I notice there was another young NM bullrider doing good at OKC, which was also his first in the big shows, Bo Selman. I have seen all those NM kids ride but don't know any of them, although I know Travis Brisco's dad. Travis is sitting second right now and really riding some good ones. I saw where Taos won the bullriding at the New Year's rodeo in Ignacio, Co. In fact, he won all three riding events. I didn't know he was riding bulls now. (NT) -- Hap, 10:00:57 01/30/06 Mon
    • He rode a few bulls in High School but out of respect to his mother, didn't carry his rope his senior year. But she also knew that when he got to college he'd probably take it up again. Apparently he has. (NT) -- Julie, 13:14:52 01/30/06 Mon
      • Seems like those bulls are getting to more and more of them every year. I think all the Florida guys are crippled now. I know Hap said some people like it because they can follow the same guys week after week. In another few years, it might be a different crew every few weeks. (NT) -- Varmit, 22:08:49 01/30/06 Mon
        • Gilbert Carillo has had 11 concussions in the last four years. It ain't easy, but there will always be lots of bullriders, but yeah, those bulls are getting ranker all the time. (NT) -- Hap, 09:51:00 01/31/06 Tue
          • They need that bull that jumped into the crowd down there in Mexico. He jumped that arena wall like it wasn't there. Maybe created a new sport for the bull riding fans that want to stay around at the end of the perf. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:14:46 01/31/06 Tue

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• FSN and CBS to Broadcast 23 rodeos this season -- Hap, 10:36:52 01/29/06 Sun
  FSN and CBS to Broadcast 23 rodeos this season
  PRCA
  
  Pro Rodeo Tour LLC recently announced it will broadcast 20 rodeos from the 2006 Wrangler ProRodeo Tour nationally on Fox Sports Net (FSN) and the three ProRodeo Tour Finales on CBS.
  
  “The Rodeo represents everything that a sports enthusiast would look for: action, drama and a battle-tested champion,” said George Greenberg, FSN’s executive vice president of Programming and Production. “Modern-day cowboys are some of the most amazing athletes in professional sports, and we’re happy to showcase their talents in our partnership with the Wrangler Pro Rodeo Tour.”
  
  The FSN rodeo broadcast schedule for the 20 Tour events will be available soon at www.ProRodeoTour.com. FSN’s regional networks will broadcast the 20 Tour events several times in their local regions, including prime time.
  
  CBS Sports has once again partnered with the PRCA and Pro Rodeo Tour LLC to televise the final rounds of the three Tour Finales. Each show will be hour-long programs.
  
  “The ProRodeo Tour Finales have been a staple of CBS Sports Spectacular for four years,” said Rob Correa, senior vice president, Programming, CBS Sports. “We are extremely pleased to once again be partners with such an exciting sport.”
  
  The Pace Picante ProRodeo Chute-out will be held for the first time at the Tulsa Convention Center in Tulsa, Okla., May 13-14. CBS will broadcast the semifinal and final rounds on Saturday, June 3, at 2 p.m. ET. The Summer ProRodeo Tour Finale will return to the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., Sept. 29-30, and will be seen nationally on CBS on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. ET. The final CBS telecast of the 2006 rodeo season will be the ProRodeo Tour Championship Finale from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Nov. 10-12. Fans can see the final-round action from Dallas on CBS on Nov. 18 at 2 p.m.
  

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  • Hey your getting pretty niffty at posting the whole articles for us now... Are sure you really can't be left alone to figure out the computer yourself, or you just trying to trick us :) (NT) -- rose, 13:17:25 01/29/06 Sun
  • Thanks Hap, that's good to hear. Do you know if they are all going to be in the one hour format. I hate the one hour thing. You just can't see a rodeo in an hour. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:59:23 01/29/06 Sun
    • Sure you can ZD. You just get to watch 4 or 5 of the top 12 that they take. Without instant replay, they could show all 12 in each event in one hour. They use to have a half hour TV show of the Canadian rodeos and they showed the 6 money winners in each event and they did that in a half hour show. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:31:59 01/30/06 Mon
      • Right about now I'm just going to enjoy what we're getting, although another half hour would be nice. Rodeos and bullridings have to purchace air time, while football and other sports are paid millions by the networks. An hour of rodeo beats all day of anything else. (NT) -- Hap, 10:06:28 01/30/06 Mon
        • Well I have to admit..... I do kinda like some of those events coming up on the Winter Olympics next month. That downhill is kinda like rodeo. One shot is all you get.... but hey its a timie event. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:40:59 01/30/06 Mon

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• Denver on Fox -- Hap, 19:37:19 01/28/06 Sat
  Anybody catch Denver? I caught half of it, but looks like it comes on three more times in the next week.
  There's ten more tour rodeos and then I think they should have the summer tours on, shouldn't they?
  Butch talked to Ellerman and he seemed OK. It appears he's listened and understands we don't want to see rodeos several months later, for one thing.
  Things are looking up I think.Heck, I've also been enjoying the Sports News here lately and that's a change from how it was for awhile there.
  

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  • I taped it. Grandson here spending the night. So no use trying to watch it and him playing and asking all those questions he asks....lol. They going to have all the Tour rodeos on Fox. The Tour Finales, I think are going to be on CBS. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:50:51 01/28/06 Sat
    • My four year old Grand daughter is glued to the TV during rodeos. She likes it all and has pretty good savvy of it. She's in her second year of junior rodeo and has two more seasons in the five and under and is getting better. I'm proud of the way my son and DIL handle the rodeo deal. Since they both grew up in it, they both know a little kid doesn't need to win everything they enter to be OK. Lots of times I see parents new to rodeo who seem to think their kids need to be super kids and with all the schools and clinics now, they sometimes come close, but many times as soon as thoose kids get done with junior and HS rodeos, you never see them again. It's as if they planned it that way from the beginning. (NT) -- Hap, 10:47:56 01/29/06 Sun
      • That's any sport anymore Hap. I think too many people are trying to live vicariously(sp?) through their children the way they make kids activities do or die. My stepson he plays soccer, has a full scholorship for it next year actually. Now his best friend Sean had the same chance as him. At the signing for Sean he ripped the contract up saying he hates soccer always has. He stuck with it all these years because of his parents & their constant nagging to be best & practice. Kind of sad that all that would lead to throw away a great opportunity because of the resentment . My stepson says he feels pretty blessed to have school fully paid for & all he has to do is play children's game! I'm gald he sees it that way, that's how it should be with sports. Glad to hear your granddaughter is learning to have fun at rodeo. There's plenty of time for kids to decide if they want to take something seriously & work at or just continue playing at it :) (NT) -- rose, 13:14:27 01/29/06 Sun

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• STARBUCKS... -- Spring Fling, 10:04:10 01/27/06 Fri
  Time to throw a little support towards Starbucks. They are getting hit by P e T A and The Big Mean Fish about some ads they put in rodeo programs in Cheyenne, Belton, St Louis, and Miss Rodeo WA. Drop them a line to say THANKS, and have yourself a Carmel Macchiato next time you see a Starbucks. Click the link below for address & email info.
  
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  • I mean Kansas City, not St Louis!!! (NT) -- SF, 10:06:16 01/27/06 Fri
    • Will S.H. call it the "Money Making Tour"? I noticed Cheyenne was not on his list of places to go with the video truck. Wonder if those video screens are beer bottle proof? (NT) -- Varmit, 21:35:09 01/27/06 Fri
      • Sounds like an extended vacation tour being funded by little old ladies pension checks. (NT) -- Hap, 09:27:55 01/28/06 Sat
        • Good excuse for him to gas up the Fat Mobile. He is so clueless. Such bigger fish to go after that he hasn't found out about. Wonder if they know about Cingular for one? (NT) -- Varmit, 16:09:03 01/28/06 Sat

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• Meanwhile back in Hap's newspaper -- Varmit, 15:16:45 01/26/06 Thu
  Read this article:
  
  http://www.daily-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060126/NEWS01/60
  
  I can just see ol S.H. gassin up the video mobile now and headed back to the NM.
  

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  • The governor is hanging in there and I hope he makes me eat my words from what I felt earlier. I just pretty much don't believe anything any politician says, no matter who he is. I hope he makes me have to eat crow for what I said earlier. Right now I guess I'd better give him the benefit of the doubt, but I still wouldn't vote for him. (NT) -- Hap, 18:25:12 01/26/06 Thu
  • The paper I write for(Ruidoso News) got this same press release...along with a bazillion coming out of Santa Fe right now during legislative session. Lots of promises are made in these few weeks. Richardson is in high gear with his---keeping his profile high for a run at the white house I have no doubt. I'm with Hap, I would love to see some money spent on rodeo and a major facility in NM---but I'll believe it when the checks are signed. (NT) -- Julie, 07:41:16 01/27/06 Fri
    • This sentence was part of the article. Anybody know something about this? "The state will also fund and host the Collegiate Rodeo Finals, which will be held in New Mexico for the first time." (NT) -- Hap, 21:45:36 01/27/06 Fri
      • It is an In-state finals Hap---They are calling it an "annual" event to allow New Mexico's colleges with rodeo programs to face off for a state rodeo title. In an earlier article where he announced $777,000 in funding to promote rodeo around the state, it said $60,000 for these finals and $300,000 to upgrade rodeo facilities at at NMSU, Eastern at Portales, NM Highlands, NM Jr. College and Mesa Lands Community College. Gallup got $100,000 to upgrade Red Rock, Socorro got $40,000, Torrance got $46,000, and few other assorted monies to 4-H rodeo programs, (NT) -- Julie, 08:07:43 01/28/06 Sat
        • Thanks, Julie. I've put a couple of recent articles inside that you've probably already seen, one from today's paper and one from the 23rd. Inside>>>>> -- Hap, 08:36:35 01/28/06 Sat

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• How do you spell FAR? -- Varmit, 21:08:11 01/25/06 Wed
  Well at least he had a good excuse. They did not have spell check back in 1960. But I thought they did have proof readers.
  
  http://www.westernhorseman.com/stories/01232006/rod_20060123006.shtml
  

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  • One T sure makes a difference. This is a chance to see the old style scoring. (NT) -- Hap, 21:48:35 01/25/06 Wed
  • Varmit's Link: Good Excuse? (NT) -- Crystal, 08:09:19 01/26/06 Thu
    • Wonder what the proceeds of that oil well would be now. (NT) -- Hap, 14:49:05 01/26/06 Thu
      • A bunch Hap... I get a kick out of those who think the guys back then were winning no more then peanuts. So I did a little math. Most of them that won the average won about $2000 or a little over according to the article. With that $2000 you could of bought 50 acres of land just inland from the ocean or you could of bought 100 acres along the ocean. The just inland land would cost close to $5 million now for 50 acres. Over on the ocean, wow... you would be buddies with Mr. Gates. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:29:03 01/26/06 Thu

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• Odessa -- Hap, 08:24:16 01/23/06 Mon
  It got within my 36 hour range on the program search and I found it coming on here at 7:30 PM mountain time.
  On the site Rose directed me to it said Denver will be on later this week so now I will catch them.
  It's on a FOX channel up in the higher numbers that I didn't know I have, so now I know.
  

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  • I forgot to mention it's on tonight. I'll know which channel to keep checking for the others coming up. (NT) -- Hap, 08:27:20 01/23/06 Mon
    • I have already seen it. You want me tell you what happens?...lol Didn't know I got FSN Florida either but I did. It was on Saturday at 3 pm, so put the vcr in and taped it. Hap, I did figure out that time deal on Fox web page. It goes so many hours but it changes with each hour that passes and continues ahead an hour. I think Denver is going to be on for us Saturday around the same time. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:27:22 01/23/06 Mon
      • Here's the schedule for the tour rodeos, but it's not correct for my area. I watched it last night(Monday) and it's listed for tonight, but I know what channel to check now so I can find them. I saw the $200,000 horse last night and he's not the one I had heard about selling for $250,000 which was a yellow horse called Vanilla something........................... http://www.prorodeotour.com/ (NT) -- Hap, 09:18:54 01/24/06 Tue
        • I think that Vanilla horse was the one Crystal sold. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:23:02 01/24/06 Tue
          • Hap, did you think the quality of film was a little lower then what we have been use to watching? (NT) -- Varmit, 09:30:17 01/24/06 Tue
          • I could probably sell the horse in the link below for $250000, but his name wouldn't be VAnilla! (NT) -- Crystal, 12:17:35 01/24/06 Tue
            • What link? And I just got new glasses to. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:27:35 01/24/06 Tue
              • Did you mean Hap's link? Dang I thought you had some kind of special horse you were going to tell us about. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:29:09 01/24/06 Tue
              • The "Running Quarter Horse". :-) (NT) -- Crystal, 14:55:05 01/24/06 Tue
                • They could use him on an ostrich ranch. Or maybe a pony horse at an ostrich race. (NT) -- Hap, 15:18:08 01/24/06 Tue
  • Varmit, I didn't notice the quality. I guess I was happy by the time I found the channel and didn't notice. I was happy to see Butch Knowles and Jeff there. I guess TV guys can work for more than one network? (NT) -- Hap, 16:32:06 01/24/06 Tue
    • I am not sure what the deal is. I take it the tour rodeos are all going to be on FSN.... the x-treme bulls on ESPN2... but not sure who is going to be telecasting the NFR. Maybe FSN was Butch's and Jeff's only choice. But I use to see Jeff on some of those horse tv shows. Whether he is still working on that network or just for Fox, guess time will tell. The tours finale's are suppose to be on CBS. I think those football comentators have to stay with the same network, but they getting big bucks anyways. (NT) -- Varmit, 21:17:30 01/24/06 Tue
      • I saw the Odessa schedule in the new sports news and learned more about that Fox channel. I was looking under Arizona and they have the Rocky Mountain area listed so I was reading it wrong in the first place. The schedule is correct and I was incorrect. On cable, I use to watch the Diamondbacks and the Rockies both on that channel, but now that I think about it I think I mostly get the Rockies on Dish. Dang, I'm in over my head with this stuff. (NT) -- Hap, 23:13:35 01/24/06 Tue
        • They should of told us about all this stuff back in school so we could of took more tech classes. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:24:07 01/25/06 Wed
          • In my case, I should never be left to figure things out for myself. I'm one guy that needs some kids around to keep me lined out on this stuff. (NT) -- Hap, 21:52:18 01/25/06 Wed

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• Cartoon -- Varmit, 06:05:53 01/19/06 Thu
  Should of let rose find this for me, but been imposing enough on her.
  
  http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/pccartoons/archives/breen.asp?Action=GetImage
  
  Click the date to: 1/13/06
  
  Then click on Get Image
  

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  • Varmit's Link: Click Here (NT) -- Crystal, 07:19:24 01/19/06 Thu
  • John Wayne plus many more would react that way. How does a movie win awards? Is it by attendence or voted on by Hollywood? I didn't know there were that many fags out there to make that movie popular. (NT) -- Hap, 12:13:45 01/19/06 Thu
    • *Sigh* the poor Duke, He's probably glad he's no longer part of the scene along with rolling in his grave! Movies & TV programs win awards based on votes from commitees. Now comes what my mother called the narcissistic part. The committees are made up of people involved in the film industry. They make their decisions at the end of the year after being flooded by press packages from very said movie or TV shows in the running for the award. The press package does sometimes include more than just press. You know invites to that premier go a long way to garner awards. Lots and lots politics & rubbing elbows involved in winning! (NT) -- rose, 12:42:27 01/19/06 Thu
  • I going to don my flameproof suit before I even say this. I saw the movie.. didn't pay to see it, but I saw it.... and so did my extremely homophobic bullriding rodeo-every-weekend husband. We both really liked it. It is magnificently acted, scripted, written... and the cinematography is out of this world. Of course, we know most of the people in the rodeo scenes, and my husband has been on all of the bulls shown so it makes a little more interesting for us. Anyway, that's just my opinion... and I know its probably not popular, but I think it is worth seeing from a movie-going point of view. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 15:15:21 01/19/06 Thu
    • I'll be nice, don't worry. As long as I don't have to watch them "do it." Dang, there goes all the sheepherder jokes down the drain. (NT) -- Hap, 18:12:02 01/19/06 Thu
      • Okay Albertagirl.... it must of not had any kissing in it to be able to stand to watch it. I might puke on the person in front of me if it did. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:08:39 01/19/06 Thu
        • Varmit, we remember the good old days when we didn't worry about having to see John Wayne and Randolf Scott in a lip lock. Or how about Gene Autry and Roy Rogers? Marshal Dillon smooching Festus? (NT) -- Hap, 06:43:48 01/20/06 Fri
          • Why didn't you mention Rock Hudson? ;-) (NT) -- Crystal, 07:19:50 01/20/06 Fri
            • Hap, I don't recall them herding sheep either. Maybe there is a connection. Yikes!!! (NT) -- Varmit, 07:35:21 01/20/06 Fri
  • Yeah, Rock would have been a natural for that show, but I still wouldn't want to see him kiss his fellow sheep herder. Years ago, when girls described a guy that wasn't good looking, they would often say "He's no Rock Hudson." Turns out to be a compliment. (NT) -- Hap, 08:14:57 01/20/06 Fri
  • It would probably be more tolerable to most cowboys if they stayed up on the mountain with the sheep..... but they don't. One guy rides the circuit as a bullrider, and the other is a ranch hand (cattle). There is kissing, and there is a scene that would put Hap in his grave. I watch movies a little differently than most in that I am constantly thinking about the acting aspect. I guess that's how I manage to get through the ones with topics that I find offensive in everyday life. I'm not thinking "AGH! Ewww!". I'm thinking more along the lines of, "I wonder what Heath is thinking about to get him through this scene" and how an actor would mentally prepare, etc. Does that make any sense? LOL (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:24:01 01/20/06 Fri
    • I don't know how a guy would prepare himself for that unless he's kinda, you know. Not even eating off the floor of the chicken coup would make a guy that tough. Is fame and fortune that hard to come by? (NT) -- Hap, 09:59:05 01/20/06 Fri
      • Albertagirl.... did you look at the movie as though all people are going to think bull riders are gay? A number of people out there believe everything they see on the movie screen. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:03:44 01/20/06 Fri
        • Varmit.... I don't think the movie would give you that impression at all. In fact, it's the exact opposite. The screenplay was written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Lonesome Dove, etc.) and it does not paint a false picture of cowboys in the least. My only complaint really is that Heath mumbled quite a bit. It suited his character to a T, but it made it tough deciphering for those without acute hearing. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 10:26:09 01/20/06 Fri
          • I think me and Hap are just to stinkin old fashion. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:16:25 01/20/06 Fri
            • I'm with you guys. ALTHOUGH, I have thought about taking my husband to see the "new" western that is out, just to watch him watch the movie! LOL! (NT) -- Crystal, 08:34:39 01/23/06 Mon
              • Crystal, that would cruel, but funny. How about your Dad? You wouldn't pull that on him, would you? You might need to do CPR.HaHa. (NT) -- Hap, 09:24:58 01/24/06 Tue
                • I'm sure my mom has told Dad about BBM. But, I know for a fact that my husband doesn't have a clue what it is about. Some lady asked me about the movie in a store the other day, and he wanted to know what western she was talking about. (NT) -- Crystal, 12:21:28 01/24/06 Tue

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• Trash TV -- Varmit, 06:19:41 01/18/06 Wed
  I watched about 20 minutes of the reality show about the bull riders. That was about all I could stand. This new generation of bull riders sure not like the good ol' days.
  

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  • I don't think it's as bad as those two come across on that show. I saw Albertagirl on the breeders board and she also mentioned she was around bullriders all the time and didn't see that crap. I've also seen enough of that show and don't care to watch it next week. They act like those kids at Sul Ross, and yet I know lots of bullriders and college kids and they ain't that way.. (NT) -- Hap, 07:48:41 01/18/06 Wed
    • Whats the link to that breeder board? Hap I think I found just what you need when your sick, crippled or to cold to go outside.... its a 103 inch plasma TV that suppose to be just as sharp as the smaller ones..... http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/05/news/international/matsushita.reut/ Hang that on the wall and see what the wife thinks. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:05:45 01/18/06 Wed
  • That breeders board is a tough crowd. I got a thorough tongue-lashing for my stand against swearing in public in front of children. I truly cannot believe what this world is coming to when its ok for "cowboys" to treat people with utter disrespect like that! Last night, it was the Brazilians getting badmouthed for nothing other than being Brazilian. I'm not even going to comment on how Brendon treats Anna. Looks like the cowboy way is a dying commodity. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 08:41:08 01/18/06 Wed
  • Link is: http://www.xsorbit2.com/users/thebreedersconnection/index.cgi (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:11:09 01/18/06 Wed
    • Thanks Albertagirl.... I will have to check it out. I know if I had treated my wife when were dating or anytime after that the way those guys do on TV, we wouldn't be fixin to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:47:23 01/18/06 Wed
      • It just seems to me that those guys treating other people poorly and bad mouthing the Brazilians just shows their immaturity. I got to meet Brenden at the finals and he sure came across as a nice guy but he and the other guys were drinking a beer and that may have taken the edge off of him. That little gal isn't going to put up with that for long if they ever get arround to getting married. If those guys want to know what real pressure is they should get married, have 2 or 3 kids, a mortgage, a job, buy health insurance, have a couple of car payments and try to save some money for their kids college. Now that is REAL pressure. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 10:06:20 01/18/06 Wed
        • ZD... that health insurance is getting way out of hand. I am paying 10 K a year just for me and wife. I could invest into one of those 103 inch plasma TV's like Hap is gonna get if I didn't have to pay for that health insurance. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:16:35 01/19/06 Thu
          • You got that right. I am paying $700.00 a month and the Government is SUPPOSED to be paying part of mine as part of my retirement. On top of that I am on Medicare. On the plus side though it costs me absolutely nothing to go to the Dr. though. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:59:58 01/19/06 Thu
  • Albertagirl, you were right on over there. Last week on the PBS board I said I was disappointed with JW. This week that has changed and I am now disgusted with him. That little spoiled twirp needs a spanking. Like I said above, I haven't witnessed none of that behavior in person. I think if it's PBR's goal to win fans through that show, they are loco. Adriano is looking better than the other two. (NT) -- Hap, 10:55:57 01/18/06 Wed
    • I took a look on that board, but couldn't find that thread. I will have to go see what your speaking of Hap on the bull riding board. Randy may be a smart business man, but like you said, they may not realize the damage they are doing to themselves with that show. I think them guys are letting all that money and celebrity status in their small circle go to their head. They don't realize that they may be one ride away from a career ending injury and all they got to show for a resume for a job is that TV show. If you look at cowboys in the past that went on with a career afterwards they all acted like gentlemen when they were competing. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:22:35 01/18/06 Wed
      • That last line, I should of stated that cowboys who went on and stayed popular and was able to stay in the public eye, and make opportunities for themselves acted like gentlemen. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:25:10 01/18/06 Wed
        • I ain't having much luck today. Didn't find the thread on the bull riding board either, unless its covered up inside another thread. Hap, I did see you met some ara women on the board over Allen suspension. Whats the deal with all these buckle bunnies and ara's? Its like they want to watch bull riding but do not hurt the little bulls even if its an accident. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:35:53 01/18/06 Wed
          • Here ya go Varmit this first url is the bullboard. Give me a few minutes & I'll try to find the one on the breedersboard. http://probullstats.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=3740#pid31350 (NT) -- rose, 11:47:22 01/18/06 Wed
          • Here's the url for the breeder board. http://www.xsorbit2.com/users/thebreedersconnection/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&num=1136984499&start=0 (NT) -- rose, 11:49:06 01/18/06 Wed
      • Sugar was disrespectful on the breeder board, not much of a suprise though, she was just as rude on friedtwinkies when someone disagreed with her . Her comment on the breeder board about we have to keep in mind we're only seeing what the producers want us to see is bull. So here's where I give Hap fuel to tease me with, My mother worked in Hollywood for 45 yrs. as a producer mostly. Something to keep in mind they can only show us what they have lots of film of. That means if JW comes off as belittling his fiance & a cussing enough to make the devil blush and Brendan as a spoiled whinning brat than that's mostly what they have filmed. Producers don't tell anyone they need to behave a certian way, nor do they splice what they have the least footage of to paint someone badly. Yeah some of it's manipulated by taking out some of the good, but they are showing us what character traits they have the most footage of. Hence a pic. of the personalities filmed. (NT) -- rose, 11:41:47 01/18/06 Wed
        • That seems to be her MO. If you can't beat them, browbeat them into submission. LOL! I did get a nice private message from her after the furor died down. I got some others that weren't nearly so nice. You wouldn't believe the nasty private messages I got over that from some anonymous members of the board. Totally proved my point about disrespect being the expected these days. Geez... what a world. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 15:35:33 01/18/06 Wed
        • Rose you should post that about the Hollywood producers on the Twink board. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:56:53 01/18/06 Wed
    • Adriano is going to have a halo and wings soon if those other two keep it up (NT) -- Albertagirl, 15:48:41 01/18/06 Wed
      • Thanks Rose for the links. I read that Sugar lady post over on the Tinker board and read it early one morning and thought maybe I had gotten up on the wrong side of the bed and was taking it wrong. But after reading your posts and the ones she did with Albertagirl on the bull board, I guess I did get up on the right side. All along I thought she was an oldie the way she talked about bull riding, but after reading her posts on the bull board, it sounds like she has young kids. I think she has a little of S.H. personality in her. Posting post after post when she is debating or should I say irritating someone. And with that in mind, where is she from, I shouldn't guess, but I almost bet I know. And personally I have never heard of that last name in the rodeo world. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:56:12 01/18/06 Wed
        • I seem to recall that she's 35. After I posted about being in the arena and still minding my manners she asked me if I was Kelly Armstrong's wife. LOL. Kelly's wife is an American, and I don't remember him almost being killed in the arena. ;) (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:03:19 01/19/06 Thu
          • I thought you missed a great opportunity when she was talking about sweeping the porch to ask her if she got on that broom and flew around for awhile when she was done sweeping. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:36:20 01/19/06 Thu
            • LMAO!! Never occured to me. Man, I wish it had! :) (NT) -- Albertagirl, 11:59:10 01/19/06 Thu
        • She strikes me as blowhard know it all & a braggart. Tinker board, I like that. A Tinker fixes things, yet the board comes of as more of check out stand rag mag. Which makes the name Tinker ironic, I think I'm using that for now on. On the tinker board she said she's been involved behind the chutes for 20 years and grew up near Sulfolk Downs and worked in a law firm. Guess that means not only does she know all about the bull business but horse racing & the law too! :) I think she means strictly bull riding though not rodeo, and bull riding as in PBR could be wrong though. Haven't heard of her meslf as well Varmit. Hey Varmit, go ahead guess you'll never get it! Ok so I'm joking, you probably will since her attitude is kind of a dead give away! :) (NT) -- rose, 13:00:19 01/19/06 Thu
          • I was going to guess somewhere close to New Jersey. Am I close? (NT) -- Varmit, 20:06:14 01/19/06 Thu
            • Varmit, she's from west of me several hundred miles. I wouldn't be surprised to see her trying to give advice to Don Kish, John Greoney and Cotton Rosser out there. I think she feels they could use her expertise. (NT) -- Hap, 06:52:42 01/20/06 Fri
              • Calafornee? New Jersey?.... Didn't they migrate from New Jersey to Californee? Hey, I was close.... lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:37:25 01/20/06 Fri
              • Hap's right! I really thought, your were going to guess Fruit & Nut land. I'll say this though her growing up near Suffolck Downs threw me for a loop, had thinking I miss understood everytime she threw out she's a California girl. Unless they moved that track, isn't it in Boston. Well hot dang, guess that means not all of the odd ducks out here are homegrown :) (NT) -- rose, 07:38:19 01/20/06 Fri

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• Running Quarter Horse -- Hap, 11:59:57 01/19/06 Thu
  
  
  http://www.geocities.com/nickmorrisoncd/horse
  

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  • Somebody sure picked the longest headed horse they could find for that... geesh. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:17:39 01/19/06 Thu
  • Hap's Link: Long Headed Horse (NT) -- Crystal, 07:21:32 01/20/06 Fri
    • LOL ..... good Title Crystal. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:33:46 01/20/06 Fri

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