OT*****Re: Hello, it's me..

[Shawn Tayler]

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:38:02 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>
exclaimed:

> On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:15 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > From: "Rick Sivernell" <res005ru at verizon.net>
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, well there is TEXAS, we do know BBQ here.
> > 
> > Having lived in the Houston area for 12 years, I'm convinced that
> > Texas is the *only* place that knows real BBQ.
> 
> I fled Houston back when the place went bust. My $65,000 ranch in a deed
> restricted neighborhood in League City, just across the Galveston County
> Line and about 1/2 mile from the Gulf, brought around $20,000 when I
> told them to stick it. You probably bought it for $120,000 and the Hunt
> Brothers recouped their losses in the silver market. I was still licking
> my financial wounds in Montana, when I heard this song, one late night
> on the road, on one of the all night big boomer trucker AM stations...
> "Come on BAAACK to Houston!" You would scarcely believe the words that
> come out of my mouth... it was one of my better rants, I assure you, and
> completely unprintable. So, there is no love lost in Houston, except an
> ex-wife or two. Yah, <counting on my fingers>... just two... there... in
> Houston. 
> 
> Yee Haw... Ric

Spent a year in El Paso and traveling to Midland/Odessa for work in the
80's.  Great Tex/Mex but not much in the BBQ dept and kind of
depressing.....