From: kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chronic Town Man)
Newsgroups: alt.abortion.inequity
Subject: Re: a woman's choice
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:19:01 GMT
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Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Ron
>Patrick
>>Kevin


>>>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.

>>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. 


Hey, I do particularly like my home state.  So what?  What's all this
defend my birth state crap?

>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.

Allegations, allegations.  More unproven words.  Do unto others . . ..

>>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.:-)

I just said I was.

>He just spouted some rhetoric that he's maybe seen on TV or read.:-) 

Never believe anything I say, do you.

>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.

SO what?  I lived there.  I know the scum and the heat that lingers
around Brownsville.  I know how hot the military strips get on
NAS Corpus Christi.  I've been there.  I've been to El Paso.  I've been
to San Antonio.  I've been to Dallas.  It's all hot.  It all sucks.

>Besides that, if he had lived there when he was actually conscious,

ooooooooooooooo.   The rubutalls.  The fuel your character.

>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?

Probably the largest mall is in Puerto Rico.  it has over five stories of
shops.  I've been back and forth all over the United States.  I love
this land.  It's beauty is only surpassed by that of Ireland.

(Plug for Irish free state there)

>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.

I've been there.  I wasn't as impressed with Texas as I was with the rest
of the west.  I kept on being mowed over by tumbleweed and dust storms.

>Ron

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

just like the tumbleweed in your front yard.  

kcw


--
Laocoon and her two sons                                 -=( Kevin C. Welch )=-
Pressured by the storm try to move          -=( kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu )=-
Love them more emotion bound
Martyr misconstrued							-R.E.M.
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