Porchman

Sounds familiar and sounds like a cookbook. Maybe written by someone like Carolyn Farb or Linda Lay?

You're on the right track, marmer.

Sounds like Osteen mumbo jumbo.

I suppose it does a bit. However, Joel prefers you stand around in a former basketball arena, not sit around the table.

What DON'T you know

Oh so much, PuroAztlan!

Here's one to decipher...

What book, locally published in 1996, claims that it "encourages you to discover the everyday pleasure of sitting around the table with those you love, experiencing the joy of remembrance and the promise of renewal."

Whoa, good guess

Here's a good one......

What is situated in the uppermost "rooftop" (boa has no roof so to speak) gables of BOA tower?

HVAC's

Neat tour. I've been interested in doing one of the canoe trips along the bayou for some time. Curious as to what it was like in terms of length of time and rental costs...

If here: http://www.buffalobayou.org/canoekayaktrips.html

Yes, on #2. Mollie Bailey, who was the owner of one of the smaller circuses that eventually became part of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. She is buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/...s/BB/fba12.html

No, on #1, it is not strip clubs. My source is the early-80s Marmac Guide to Houston.

Railroad cossings! Makes sense. It's why I always take Yale on my way to church.

Good one!

Alright. Who is the grandson of the General Manager and Treasurer of the Omaha and South Texas Land Company?

where is courthouse oak located?

Is this the hangin' tree by Bayou Place?

criminal courthouse

Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaalllllllll! As an aside, it had only been open for about 13 months before TSA.

Alright, what trivia do you have for us?

BOA Tower?

Good guess, but no. It probably got the most attention (partially because of that poor paralegal in the elevator). This organization also lost use of another building for two months.

I don't have one offhand.. so I bounce it back to you for another one.

What Downtown building remained out of operation for 11 months after being disrupted by TS Allison?

Candeleri's Pizza opened this weekend in the shopping center off 290 and Spring Cypress, near Newk's and McAllisters, and a new pizza place is also coming near the Chipotle on 290 and hwy 6.

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/sto...6936000^1613220

Ugh! First TXU, now Russo's?

Actually, the whole coal-fired pie is great. Mrs. Porchman and I went through some of the grandfathered joints in Greenwich Village last October. We may make the trip when it opens.

Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley

Correct! Your turn to post a q.

Easy one:

What two Rice professors won the Nobel prize for "buckyballs"?

That was a tough one.

Ok, what is the most expensive house in Houston and its price?

You mean the one at 11682 Arrowwood Circle listed at $16,500,000? (Originally listed at over $19 million)

I.M. Pei!

Party on, Puro

From Wiki: <LI>1981

Sevfiv has a clue. He collaborated with 3D on the corporate headquarters for the same entity. It's located a few blocks away. Think really famous.

That corporate HQ is the tallest building in Houston, by the way.

Clue! Local architect? Time period?

Sevfiv has a clue. He collaborated with 3D on the corporate headquarters for the same entity. It's located a few blocks away. Think really famous.

That's the fanblade bank - no idea about the designer, though

Yes

Kenneth Franzheim?

No

Man you're good at this, I have no idea what that is. . . .

Nice!

Here's an eeeeeeeeeasy one, and give me a year:

What was the first freeway built in H-town?

Gulf Freeway

What's this all about?

Read this..

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKjonesJ.htm

Here's mine...

Who designed this?

Yeah, I thought I had it, but I kept waiting for you to confirm the answer! Then HAIF started doing this thing where all the replies are indexed at the bottom instead of displayed in order and I didn't see this one.

Answer to your second question: Kennedy Trading Post, now La Carafe, 1848?

My question: Name the hotel and suite number where Houston's power brokers would meet back in the day to plot strategies for the city.

Lamar, 8-F

Re-read the above post very carefully, Porchman has hit it directly on the head with this info. I was gonna tell you something similar. I worked for Mezzaluna in Austin for awhile, very extensive and PRICEY winelist there, and they would have us come for classes in the restaurant, taught by the wine sellers themselves to instruct us HOW to tell the different flavors and smells. I would not fancy myself a sa wine expert by any means, but I do know the rules of thumb, and Porchman has it right.

T, I'm blushing!

The pricing posts are also good rules of thumb.

Emerite, please report back on what transpires. Have fun and enjoy the date.

After closing and moving in to my new house for like 3 months, i changed the title to my father since he was moving in with me. No, he is still alive, but i want to move now and he will be going with me. That does bring up an interesting question since you brought it up. If my father passed away, how would the title be changed in my name then?

Well, this whole thing poses several other questions. Does you father have a will? Do you have siblings? Is your father looking to qualify for Medicaid (not Medicare)? What is you father's mental state (Does he have his "wits about him")? How much equity is in the house?

http://houstoncrimemaps.com/neighborhood/greater-heights/

Thank you, Tiko. This really illustrates the crime on corridors.

What I was doing on the spreadsheet project is breaking the Heights into sections, and quantifying the type of crime in each section.