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  1. Lowbrow
    When I was heading to Ireland to visit my relatives they all asked for Don't Mess With Texas shirts and stickers. Then again they were still watching Dallas and listening to Madonna.
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    Magnolia Petroleum was originally the John Sealy Company (of Galveston fame) which handled the processing of much of the Spindletop oil. Magnolia got bought by Socony-Vacuum and eventually merged with Socony-Mobil Oil Company. By 1959 it was just called Mobil Oil Company.
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    After the Standard Oil Spin-off (anti-trust 1911) some states black-balled the use of the Esso name and in those states they used the Enco name. In 1973, Esso, Enco and Humble became Exxon.
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    UNOCAL--Union Oil Company of California BP--British Petroleum ESSO--"S.O."--Standard Oil Exxon--Mixture of ESSO and the "double cross company" Pennzoil--merger of South Penn Oil and Zapata Oil Saudi Aramco--Saudi Arabia bought a california company called ARabian AMerican oil COmpany
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    lol.. i love this video description: "pretty self explanatory...i got wrecked. 40ft up- and then got shot straight down. Bruised lung, concussion, coughed blood for 2 days. dangerous poop....Fast forward right to the last 10 seconds of the video"
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    Marfreless shares at least one wall with the theatre if I recall correctly (been at least a year since I've been there). Doesnt that put it in harms way? (It could only have been cooler if it had no name)
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    If it were all about me they'de be building a Wachovia there. The closest one is at Kirkwood and Westheimer. When you live out west, you just hate driving even further out west for this kind of stuff.
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    Thats no house, its a crib. You just know that someone thinks its the bomb. I was scheduled to look at the house next door to it and immediately when driving up to it I knew I could never live next door to that. I mean, way to go to be able to afford such a white elephant, but please.... all they need is a F850 parked out front. In a way it reminds me of the Purple, yellow and red house off of Chimney Rock a couple streets south of sugar hill (Lynbrook?). The other style that I love is people siding thier homes in flagstone. Make thier home look like a 3 dimensional patio. As a prank I'd like to glue some lawn chairs and a bar-b-q on the side of thier house and see if they get it. (thier is an example of this on Chimney Rock south of the purple house.)
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    I was just at the med center across the street from MCM and I saw that they have started tearing into the old department store next to the ice rink... isnt that where the old Foleys was?
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    I eat at Pho 21 at westpark and gessner all the time and love it. I felt Pho 518 was kind of weak but didnt hate it. I was there opening night and it was cute having a 6 year old filling my tea.... she would only fill it about half way... lol. When I lived in pearland I would often get thier pork-bbq with vermicelli for take out when we had guests over. I never knew about Thanh Phuong.
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    I love this house. It sits directly behind mine.... matter of fact was throwing around the idea of trying to buy some of his lot from him to expand mine. As far as letting them build some big monstrosity. I was encouraged by the reaction at the board meeting about subdividing that other lot but then again they are letting both that Electra and Faust houses be build. I mean the Faust house has a turret.....
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    Does anyone have a list of the stores that used to occupy the old Town and Country mall? My wife is trying to find the name of a shop that was there about 10 years ago that sold (among other things) beautifully hand-made jewelry boxes. Any help is appreciated.
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    Hmmm... very tough question. (1993 #s) 808 State, Meat Beat Manifesto, Supreme Love Gods or (1993 some downtown venue) Cocteau Twins
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    The Hydrographic Society used to meet once a month on the second floor of the Ale house (90-94). I was the president of the student chapter of the society throughout college and while I'd like to say we went for the talks, it was really all about the free beer tickets they handed out at the beginning of the meetings. 1 ticket 1 beer... although they never said it couldnt be some 40 oz exotic... and it always was. Yum.
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    The 8801 uses the 850Mhz band instead of the 900Mhz. So its the tri-band american brother of the tri-band european 8800. I don't think its locked to tmobile as I know of a couple other carriers using it. My SLVR is unlocked seeing as they lock them to cingular and I'm with tmobile.
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    I'll never leave netflix... I have some 142 movies in my queue and 1562 movies rated.
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    Me 3. I just picked up a SLVR L7 quad band. I wanted the Nokia 8801 but its only triband and wouldnt work in a lot of countries including the UAE SLVR next to a RAZR 8801
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    I most like the smaller detention pond next to the Waffle House.
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    Lowbrow replied to rps324's topic in Houston Mod

    That 7711 Lakewind house is really nice.
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    I can't believe that home is still for sale. It had a pending on it for awhile. I absolutely love it, minus the putting green.
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    Babylon was essentially somewhere between Baghdad and Karbala, Iraq. So not too close.
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    I really like the design of this one. Cool footprint. And who can't be amazed at a building over a half mile tall?
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    You could probably get a villa at La Colombe d'Or for that. Romantic, private and great food. Built in 1923. I loved it but one of my friends thinks its over-rated and old.
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    Sylvio Fagundes or Brutus Brynmar
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    Nearly cut and paste for me. Especially #8 and #10, maybe replace Zoolander with Happy Gilmore and add The Natural. My closet movie is Highlander. "Its better to burn out than to fade away!"
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