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I see that Yakuza Ice posted a good aerial photo of it, and Gnu posted a clear photo of a house in that location.

If you reach under your seat and touch a piece of chewing gum, you can feel the sticky sugar content. Then you have to go wash your hands. If you run your hand across a completely dried-up booger, most of the time it will simply fall down and you won't feel anything on your hands.

I watched Batman when I was a kid back in the 1960s. My dad would say: "They must be dumb. Everything in the Batcave and the Batmobile is labeled."

Yes, there were at least three (maybe four) Pig Stand Restaurants in Beaumont. I read that the whole chain is having financial problems and all of the branches might become things of the past. I remember the famous "Pig Sandwich."

Was it a place that made those big, gourmet hamburgers like Fuddrucker's? I love to pig out on those kind of burgers. Why was it called "Blues" Burgers? Did it play blues music? Or did they put blue cheese salad dressing on the burgers? I tried a Blue Cheese burger once. It tasted terrible! I scraped off the blue cheese dressing with a knife, and I could still taste it!

Yes, only two U.S. Senators were elected President in the 1900s: Warren G. Harding of Ohio and John F. Kennedy of Massachusettes.

Yes, it might be good for most of the suburbs to be HISD. It's hard to keep up with Cy-Fair, Galena Park, and all of the other ISDs.

During the Communist scare of the 1950s, I don't think that most people really knew what a Communist actually was. Back then Communists were called "pinko." Why?

There's something I've always wondered about kid's sports. When kids are between 8-13, their Little League Baseball is real popular, but when they play it in high school, it no longer is. When they are between 8-13, football isn't popular, but when they play it in high school, it's real popular. Why is that?

Chewing gum is sticky, a booger isn't. It's like when I was a teenager and I dipped Copenhagen. I would scoop the tobacco with the can lid and empty it into my mouth because I didn't want that stuff to get on my fingers and hands.

Well, not too many people would expect a Mexican restaurant to have spy stuff.

Yes, I'm also Rodney Dangerfield when I'm out on the road.

When I would go to an indoor theatre, my biggest pet peeve was people talking too loud where I couldn't hear the movie. My second biggest pet peeve was whenever I would pick my nose, then would reach under the seat to wipe the booger, and my finger feeling a piece of sticky old chewing gum that someone had stuck there on purpose. That was gross and disgusting!

I looked on DTVanswers.com so that I could learn what to expect when digital takes over on 2/17/2009. At least the Federal Government will do something good for those who don't have cable/dish. People can get up to two $40 coupons to use towards the purchase of one or two of those digital converter boxes. I might have to use one or two of those coupons.

I haven't kept up with college football this season. How is Rice doing?

Every Saturday morning on the History Channel is a series called "America Eats." Day before yesterday the episode was all about the history of hot dogs. It explained the history of the German immigrant named Oscar Mayer and all about the Wienermobile. This coming Saturday the episode will be all about the history of Snack Foods.

Not this payday but the next I'm gonna buy a pair of Neiman-Marcus' $1500 shoes.

And when it does hit $100 a barrel, people will be screaming for a pay raise or threaten to go on strike. Instead, why don't they make a few cuts? Why not stop going out to eat? Eat at home. Why not stop going out to the movies? Wait until that movie comes out at Blockbuster. Why not go to Wal-Mart/Target instead of Macy's/Neiman Marcus? I just realized, Neiman Marcus stores are in Dallas. But are there any of them in Houston?

I'm with you. I've been hoping for about two or three years that I could find someone with a photo of the Winkler Drive-In Theatre. No, it wasn't torn down around 1960 because we went there from 1962-64. I thought someone on another topic/thread said that he was driving down Winkler drive recently and he saw that there still stood an old rusty sign with an arrow pointing saying "Winkler Drive-In Theatre." If you or anyone else is driving down that way in the near future, maybe you could look for it. If it is still there, maybe you can take a photo of it and post it where we all can see it.

Yesterday afternoon Drive-ins.com was up and working. That's the same photo it shows of the South Main DI. How far was it from Rice University? I wonder if it spent its last years showing only X-rated movies like some many of the other closed-down and demolished theatres did?

On page B9 in today's Houston Chronicle is a cartoon of Cheney hammering an Iran war drum, raising gas prices, and Bush is cheering him on.

I'm looking at the new issue (November 2007) of Texas Monthly magazine. On page 78 there's an article about the Houston Metrorail. $2 for a 24-hour-day pass sounds excellent to me. There's only 3 hours and 45 minutes that it doesn't run. If I lived in Houston, I think that I might try to adjust my lifestyle and adapt to that so that I could try to do without a vehicle. Some people say that they need a vehicle to carry all of their groceries. Why not, say, buy a couple of bags full one day, then the next day stop and get a couple more. You don't ten bags of groceries to make it through a day or two.

I also heard on the news that one reason why oil prices are going up is because of Bushiepoo's talk about attacking Iran.

Wasn't it you who said that the Prudential building was in that vicinity? If it is, is it still open?