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2112 <----- Lesbian trapped in man's body <------- notice tongue

Got mixed feeling about it. This

The optimist in me interpreted the original posting in that benign way originally, until I re-read the entire paragraph. Only then, did I succumb to the conspiracy theorist. That post: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...findpost&p=8670

Oh, and, saying something like:

Is it me? Or does anyone else find this phrase funny? "...I've found people take me more seriously if I use words like 'defecate' and 'feces' than the more tempting term..." It's comforting to know there is a more tempting term other than "feces". Strangely, it reminds me of a Jack Nicholson dialogue on "A Few Good Men", where he says: "we used words like honor, code, loyalty..." Only here, we are using words like "defecate" and "feces".

You cannot compare Mexico to Houston. Mexico is TRUE poverty. I mean, the kind of poverty where you ACTUALLy live in a cardboard box. A real cardboard box. It's apples and oranges. Secondly, its funny how since more hispanics have moved into my area, the homes have actually IMPROVED in appearance. There are manicured lawns and shrubs, flower-beds, etc. Before I moved there 15 years ago, it was a little on the redneck side. And now that it is more ethnic, things have actually gotten much nicer. So here is a case where the opposite is true. Oh, there is always one bad apple in any area, as MidtownCoog explained. But your wholesale generalization may have more to do with poverty than with hispanics. There is a difference.

Flooing? I think Coog just coined a new word. Now, lets find a nice definition for it.

Oh God, I'm not alone in my wierd ways! I thought I was the only one who drives through these small tunnels just for the sake of driving through them and enjoying them.

You guys beat me to it!! hahahahah. But anyways, my sentiments exactly: cleaning? CLEANING? This sound more like someone telling you something you want to hear. But hey, I actually have faith in this project. This is Houston. We do the impossible.

Hey, got an idea. Why not allow local artists to set up shop in Market Square, sellling art, hand-made trinkets, etc? I saw this in a small park in Mexico City and it was the epicenter of the entire area. The place made the whole area bustle with activity.

If the intent is to bring people downtown, then all I can say is kudos for doing things that are different. Sure, there will be skeptics. But, if this brings, say, 100 people on average during a normally dead-time, and those people visit restaurants and such, then its all good.

I have to add another favourite, althought it is not a freeway: The Washburn tunnel. What can I say, I'm a sucker for the old-1920's or 1940's tiled walls and cieling in the tunnel. I just wish we had another old-tunnel somewhere closer to downtown. But, being in the heart of the port of Houston, I guess it's kinda cool in its own way.

The 59 below-grade right next to downtown with that mass of ramps, underpasses, overpasses, sidepasses. Especially at night. Like someone else said, it

The thing about Delay, is that I officially hate him. It's engrained in me to hate him after all the ways he has screwed Metro. Yet, if I had to pick a bulldog that could support Houston

Of course, the taller the structure, the more people will live there, the more street activity! But, part of me would prefer midrise on those 3 blocks, something on the order of 5-to-15 floors.

A&M/STCL ??? What, was South Texas College of Law suppose to merge with A&M or something? That would suck.

who?

Uh...no it's not. There is literally NO remnants of Houston's original trolley lines left. In fact, that is one of the main points in the introduction of the book "Houston electric": a book dedicated to the history of the old streetcars in Houston. The author makes the point that Houston is one if not the only city in the U.S. where all of the streetcar infrastructure had been removed, making the authoring of the book more difficult. A main reason for this is that the steel from the tracks was recycled for the efforts of World War II. I highly recommend that book to anyone on this forum. It has some great history and some great black and white photos. Even if there WERE existing lines, they would be incompatible with existing light-rail technology. They would have to be torn down and re-built anyways.

Yea. The one in Webster has a space theme to it (of course)...it looks like the space station from the outside.

Well, sometimes it does work. They built Bayou Place and Rice Apartments, and the DID come.

What are fish balls?

....remember though, it is designed for DRYWALL. The channels are mechanically sturdy enough for hanging drywall, if the channels are spaced by no more than 24 inches. I dont think you can adequately hang exterior materials, like siding, on them. There is more to it, PM me if you want.

Yes it can. In fact, what makes these things so cool is that the space penalty amounts to about half an inch, the cross-section dimension of the channel, plus, of course, half an inch for the new drywall. The absolute best way to contain sound is to build a complete room within the room, completely separated by an air gap. But in my small 12-foot single-car garage, that would have left about 8 feet for actual living space, and probably less. I only lost 1 inch of living space. Let me know off-line if you actually do this, as I have researched the technique, and applied it, and, there are some important details that if are ignored, will destroy any sound containment you would have gained by using the channels.