Kathy -- Too bad you can't read back far enough to enjoy the "ice hole" (Jack Hawkins) story.  It's a classic.  I've learned from reading the GB over the last year+ that our guys have a great wit and sense of humor.  Wish I'd known how clever they all are in h.s., but now am enjoying all their smack and that's what it is.  40 years later, who knew that Bovie would be called "Botox Bovie," Buddy Capps "Baywatch Buddy".  As for the girls, I've gotten to know and enjoy some that I didn't know in h.s. and renew old friendships.  Find out Miss Ada Ann lives in New Hampshire.  Riding in the car through our old haunts for hours with Toni RJ, Sandra Mc, & Debbie Melton was quite an experience.  We did have lots of laughs and and with Sandra at the wheel, well, that was a trip in itself.

Ms McMakin - - No, we don't eat at 4:00.  We start eating about 4:30 and it continues until buttoms start popin' off the jeans!!    We never run out of food, so it's an Eat Fest all afternoon and into the night!!   

I have a cell phone server question.  Is Verizion Wireless in the Dallas area?  Good service from them?  What is the best server?  MIL needs a new cell phone so we are doing some research.

First, thanks Linda P. for the compliment...always a good feeling.  I gotta tell you folks, this is a real hoot reading the postings...this is like retro...I am giggling everytime I sign on...all have a great a 4th...K

I can assure you that the one thing Bobby will never get me for my BD  or Christmas or any event is a vacuum cleaner.  He believes that I don't even know how to plug it in and am not sure what all those attachment things or for .  I make sure that he believes that and anyone that tells him differently I will make up some kind of story to tell your spouse!!!!!

Cheezehead of the frozen Tundra, how ya doing bud? You guys into summer, 45 degree nights? Put my hands on some Taylormade Tour Burner Woods. Sweet clubs, best driver, fairway woods I've ever seen. The Botox Kid whines everytime I pass him 50 yds. I'm taking B. Capps cold cash next week. Did you keep my $20 at the Mini, you rascal?

Sandy McM - Just how far south are you picking up hitchers?  I could meet you somewhere along I-35 near Round Rock or Georgetown.

Gerald - Your name sounds familiar.  I found a 'Jerry' Stark in the Soph section of the '65 Den - that you? 

Richard, interesting info. Thanks for posting.   Don't know about the rest of you . . .  but I'm really looking forward to a 3-day weekend!!

This Friday we are, once again, celebrating the birth of our nation. 232 years ago our Founding Fathers took that fateful step towards making us our own nation. We've come a long way since then. Here are some fun facts you may not have known about our nation:

• The 4th of July was not declared a legal holiday until 1941.

• The "Star-Spangled Banner," is set to the tune of an old English drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven".

• The Liberty Bell has only been rung once, in 1776. Every year since then it has been tapped on July 4th.  

• Only two (2) people actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The majority of the signatures were added over the following month, with most of the signatures added by August 5, 1776. One man, Thomas McKean of Delaware, didn't sign the Declaration of Independence until five years later.

• The iron framework of the Statue of Liberty was devised by French engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, who also built the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

• Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national animal but was outvoted when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson chose the bald eagle.

• The words "Under God" were not added to the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954.

• Three presidents died on July 4th; Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826 and James Monroe in 1831.

• Thomas Jefferson would greet ambassadors in his pajamas to show his disdain for ceremony.

• On April 30, 1939, Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television.

• An urban legend began during the Cold War claiming that the ball on top of every flagpole contained a razor blade, a lighter and a bullet so that if the Russians invaded, the flag could be properly destroyed rather than taken. The legend apparently didn't take into consideration that no one would be interested in climbing to the top of a flagpole during an invasion by a foreign army

Hey Stark, welcome. Perhaps you knew the Murray brothers at Sunset(not one of them under 6'4"), or the Landry's (all with IQ's just under 64...kidding here).