From: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity
Subject: Re: a woman's choice
Date: 17 Apr 92 17:48:20 GMT
Reply-To: bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense)
Followup-To: talk.abortion
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In talk.abortion, patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>In article <74590@netnews.upenn.edu> kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Geisha Dawn)
>writes:
>>In article <1992Apr17.043025.3769@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Hum
>phrey) writes:
->>In article <74555@netnews.upenn.edu> kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Geisha Dawn
>) writes:
->>>Patrick
->>>>Kevin W.
->>>>>Patrick

->>>>If you ever set foot in Houston, you will do much better if you don't let
->>>>me know.  And that's a fact.

->>>Why?  What would you do if let you know?  Would you threaten me
->>>with violence?

->>Why should I do that?  Just leaving you outside in the heat of a typical
->>summer afternoon would do the job...

>>Lived in Texas.  It's no big deal.  Lived in Corpus Christi for three years.
>>Sucked donkey.  Blew rhino.  Nothing is in Texas.  It's nothing but a
>>oil pit and a big tumbleweed.

Empty insults, see below.

>Then do us the favor and stay out.  Americans with your attitude still
>aren't welcome down here.  (Especially if they stay, as all too many of them
>did towards the end of the '70s...)

Hello Patrick,
    Sorry to but in here, but I really take offense to what welch said
about my old home state. But it doesn't suprise me what he said, primarily
because he's the first twit I've ever heard that didn't like Texas after
spending more than a year there. Probably too busy ruining his eyes
in front of a Nintendo or a computer with games on it.

>Summer in Corpus is a cakewalk compared to what we have -- we're not on the
>Gulf, remember, but we're close enough to have all that humidity *and* the
>heat.  You'd be fried on the sidewalk soon enough.

I don't know if he was ever there, or maybe he was just a small child.:-)
He just spouted some rhetoric that he's maybe seen on TV or read.:-) 
And Kevin, no I'm not making that up. I lived in Houston for 12 years, 
College Station for 7, and Dallas for 1, so I know what I'm talking 
about. Imagine a 100F heat with 100% humidity. Asphalt and concrete 
that make a reality of the saying frying eggs on the sidewalk. Sunglasses 
(plastic) and tapes melt in May. Everyone tries to crack their windows 
of their cars from May to October, so the inside of the car won't cook 
them in three minutes. That's Texas, at least in the Houston area. The 
others are much more liveable, even though Dallas gets considerably 
hotter.

Besides that, if he had lived there when he was actually conscious,
he would have seen that there are river valleys unspoiled by civilization,
hill country that is exceptional, mesas (if he even knows where that
part is), rolling prairie-like country, the eastern timberlands, and
the plateau (at least, I don't know any other name for it except the
obvious one:). He would also know that Houston is home to the largest
mall in the US if not the world (something like 400 stores, with more
coming in) called the Galleria - I wonder if he even knows that it has
sections with different designations?

So, I guess I really shouldn't be offended after all, if he'd actually
come and seen it and then had a basis for his insults, I might be able
to roust up some indignation.

Ron

PS - Never made it to Willy's, I decided to become an Aggie instead.
Watch the jokes roll.....