Reminder to the Texans...

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:57 pm

Part of Texas is in Mexico. 'EX'

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:30 am

Trying to get ready for retirement from the Corps.
Potential employment there teaching Marine Corps JROTC in Amarillo.....

Thoughts on the area?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:25 am

Doc wrote:"When you leave Amarillo, turn out the light."

Just as long as it's not "..., put the seat down."

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:18 pm

Don't forget Pantex (http://www.pantex.com/). There is always the potential for more excitement in Amarillo than you can imagine and in only a microsecond.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:46 pm

Are NNSA hammers like NASA diapers?

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:07 pm

About the only thing I remember from my one travel in Amarillo is how awkward the streets are downtown. They just don't make any sense and it was hard to get around in.

Well, that and how north of Amarillo, on my way to Colorado, there is literally NOTHING. The cartoons with skulls next to dirt out in the desert-ish areas isn't far from the truth.

(although caddy ranch is an interesting concept)

People that live there garner a lot of respect from me.

Bill Troiano · Post by **Bill Troiano** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:46 am

I was in Texas for one week when I was with the Guy Lombardo Band. I almost got the @#% kicked out of me when I was at the Ramada Inn in Amarillo because I was from New York. I was glad to get out of Texas alive. Now, my daughter is graduating college with a mus. ed. degree and is in love with a Texas music teacher (Austin). She wants to move there and teach in Texas when she graduates. Needless to say, the Mrs. and I are not happy about this move. No offense guys!

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:59 pm

schlepporello wrote:I can't remember which high school has the Marine ROTC program...

It is Caprock. That is the job I am considering. You know, 22 years in the big green gun club makes it a bit hard to run away directly.
Am trying to get out there for an interview and a look-see.

Am told that there is nothing to stop the wind once it starts....

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:32 pm

Brassdad wrote: Am told that there is nothing to stop the wind once it starts....

Doc "ain't" lying. It is windy from Amarillo to North Dakota.

We don't have any trees, any real hills.... just be glad the wind in Amarillo is warm and dry.

Bill Troiano · Post by **Bill Troiano** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:10 pm

Doc, I was just "funnin.'" I know there are turds in every state as turdism is not a geographic thing. We are friendly in New York, though! We say "ow ya dune" to everybody. Not that we care for an answer!
Thanks for the invite. If my daughter does move to Texas and I come to visit, I'll look you up. Then, if my 2 sons end up moving there to teach also, I might have to move there too! Like Texas needs more tuba players!

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:43 pm

A fellow cub scout father and Marine veteran told me his favorite, a take-off on a recent overnight delivery service advertisement:

Marines: when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:38 pm

Indeed.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:15 pm

schlepporello wrote:[There's a golf course just south of Caprock's campus and a skeet and trap range just a couple of miles to the southeast of the campus.

There is also an indoor range on the school grounds capable of handling .22 cal rifles....I'd be coaching the rifle team as well as teaching.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:08 pm

the elephant wrote:All joking aside, I would live there. It is a very nice community full of some very nice people (Schlep being an excellent example). It is isolated, but that is perfectly okay by me. But it is a little "scalped" looking if you are used to living in the Pine Belt, however . . .

And if you absolutely need trees, you can do what a lot of folks in that part of Texas do... buy a cabin near a ski resort in New Mexico or Colorado. On a clear day you might be able to see your cabin from Amarillo.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:15 pm

Doc wrote:There's not a tree between there and Canada.

When I was a kid, I lived in Borger and my family had a farm near Gruver. There was still a SAC base in Amarillo then and the lack of trees was apparently too tempting for the B-52 pilots heading north. I remember more than one occasion when a B-52 flew over the farm so low that I'm sure the windmills turned faster.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:58 am

Since you're from Amarillo, Wayne, do you eat at the Big Texan Steak Ranch? Ever finished one of the 72-ouncers?

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:51 pm

Bill Troiano wrote:I was in Texas for one week when I was with the Guy Lombardo Band. I almost got the @#% kicked out of me when I was at the Ramada Inn in Amarillo because I was from New York. I was glad to get out of Texas alive. Now, my daughter is graduating college with a mus. ed. degree and is in love with a Texas music teacher (Austin). She wants to move there and teach in Texas when she graduates. Needless to say, the Mrs. and I are not happy about this move. No offense guys!

Weeeeelll, I can think of a few places in New York where the risks are higher.

The Texas music education system is about the best there is (which isn't saying much), and Austin is far more cosmopolitan than Amarillo (though you can get in trouble there, too). I think you and the Mrs should be looking forward to it. For one thing, you'll have a good vacation destination in the dead of winter that's a bit less cliche than Florida.

Rick "who has been able to make detailed comparisons between Texas and New York" Denney

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:53 pm

Doc wrote:
Brassdad wrote:
Am told that there is nothing to stop the wind once it starts....
There's not a tree between there and Canada.

Doc

Nay, there's no tree between Amarillo and the North Pole. Maybe even southern Siberia. Those arctic air masses can swoop down on North Texas and do a number for a few days, though they only last a few days and then relative mildness returns.

Rick "ready for Spring" Denney

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:00 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:Since you're from Amarillo, Wayne, do you eat at the Big Texan Steak Ranch? Ever finished one of the 72-ouncers?

I bet I've eaten there as often as Schlep. It really is a tourist joint, right on I-40. I'll bet the local avoid it or only go there when trying to impress out-of-town guests.

I've never attempted the challenge and wouldn't dream of doing so. I have the money for a normal steak, and can't see making myself nauseated on purpose.

Rick "who ate there once right after coming quite close to being a tornado statistic on northbound I-27 about 8 miles south of town" Denney

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:25 am

I never tried it because I didn't want to pay over fifty bucks for the mistake of not being able to finish it.

By the way, I went to grad school in Texas. As a dyed-in-the-wool native Californian, I have nothing to say but nice things about Texas. The public education system is fantastic. I shoulda stayed (maybe I would be still married to my first wife.)