dadellkatmom

naive twitter user, apathetic dog guy, proud grampa

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@bankertobuilder @Im_goodthanks Top notch face to face customer service. I’m mean it’s refreshing to go into a store front, wait for the clerk who knows less than you but is busy reading instagram.

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@landofthe80s Go have a Coors and think about it some more

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@ConservativeLA Nor can it be said about virtually every politician with an R in front of his name (or of course a D)

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@Rainmaker1973 Should write a book about this

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@landofthe80s Depends if your TV speakers go up to 10 or 11

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@ashleymoirDC @JonahDispatch Big if true….

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@Defundmedianow He got old and started telling how he really feels

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@PostLeftWatch Hollywood must be run by superheroes too because those are the only movies getting made these days

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@landofthe80s Wonderful drinking game

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@landofthe80s Only the good stuff, which was much of it

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@jimperdue21 @LyndaLeininger @Rainmaker1973 Volume, not mass

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@ConservativeLA It’s not the swallowing but rather the extraction that’s rough

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@ConservativeLA Do you really think he knows what Fellate means? Try something more basic, like you did with fuck.

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@badhombre I think we’d have some time

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@Stratocharge @ThatEricAlper Jim Croce, though a different year

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@Rainmaker1973 THIS is why we still need Radio Shack

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@dantypo Tell him to look up Polanski while he is there

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@jaynordlinger Any chance to read Kevin is a good thing

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"A few years ago the great Joe Ely recorded this song that I wrote, then more recently The Highwaymen. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings Kris Kristofferson. They recorded it and put it on their record, and I was so happy because man it was a nice thing. But I always felt that Willie Nelson might help me out sometime because I went to his second picnic, the Willie Nelson Fourth of July picnic. I went to his second one.

I was living in Houston and I had a date. It was my first date, ever. I was about 27 years old and we got in my old car and we drove up to the Texas World Speedway, just south of College Station. And it was back in the days of free love and wonderful, happy, shiny people. Everything was fun and nothing was scary or dangerous and we went there and had a wonderful time in the Willie way.

And I had so much fun that in the afternoon I had to take a nap. And I woke up from my nap and there was a man speaking over the P.A. system and he said 'We've had a fire in the parking lot and about 40 cars have burned up.' And everybody in the land of free love --- in that time, in that wonderful time of free love --- when they heard that they went 'aw.' 10,000 people simultaneously said 'aw.' And then he said 'we have the license plate numbers of the cars and the first winner is RHP-997.'

You might wonder why I remember that so well. And I woke up out of my haze and I said 'that's my car, man.' And in the time of free love and happiness everyone said 'wow, way to go.' And they started clapping for me. And I ran out there and there was not enough of my car left to carbon-14 date. And I sat down on the burnt, black grass --- and I can admit this now --- I wept. I cried big ol' giant tears. And my date was laughing and I said 'what are you laughing about? We don't have a ride.' And she said,'I do.' And it was then that she introduced me to Tarzan and Adonis, who were terminally tan and wearing loincloths. And they said 'we'll take care of her, man.' And because it was that time, that wonderful time, I said 'thanks, dudes.' And they skipped gleefully away.

And a man from the festival came up to me while I was still crying and said, 'well, the least we can do is let you meet Willie.' So they took me backstage to Willie's bus and they opened the door and low and behold Willie came out, pigtails and all. And he shook my hand and said he was sorry he would like to stay and visit with me but he had to go jam with Leon Russell. And now, some 20 years later, the road goes on forever ..."

----- @robertearlkeen describes how his car caught on fire 50 years ago at the Willie Nelson 4th of July picnic in College Station. I transcribed this from Robert's wonderful "No 2. Live Dinner" LP, which came out in 1996 and which every Texan should own.

Here's a photo of the fire, courtesy the @texasarchive