How the world sees the USA and why

Jim Strong strongjim@yahoo.com
Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:03:25 -0800 (PST)


Branf em on bub. Sound like the makins" for a good
coffee table book for the barn.
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Billy Jim



--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> Jim Bob.
> 
> Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute.  Don't start
> telling me
> ole-boy-in-High School stories!  Otherwise, I will
> just have to recall
> Ernest & Emory Goethe who ran the Walston Purina
> feed store down by the MKT
> railroad station in Georgetown.  Ernest married one
> of the Palm sisters and
> Emory, well Emory sort of went "the other way." 
> Still for a 6-4" 300# guy
> he was remarkably nice. At least nobody messed with
> him. Ernest and Ida Palm
> produced two sons, Martin Heidegger Bob and Lionel
> Feininger Bob who later
> became enamored of Hollywood and ran off to
> California never to be seen
> again.  Martin Bob drove a really cool chopped &
> channeled green Mercury
> coupe with an awesome chromed Caddy engine.  Willy
> Bob was more into
> bicycles which he built from old tractor parts. 
> Ever seen a 900# bicycle?
> There was also a sister who looked like a cross
> between Marilyn Monroe and
> Kim Novak.  I was madly in love with her as was the
> football team.  Oh,
> well.  I was the one who helped her past, er pass
> algebra.  The old Goethe
> feed store now contains a Crown Book, a Victoria's
> Secrets and a Starbucks
> but many in Georgetown say that is progress.  Many
> in Georgetown can now
> spell progress if you spot them the "p"s ,"r"s and
> "s"s.
> 
> More tales of mythic central Texas of the '40s and
> '50s to follow if you are
> not careful.
> 
> Freddie G. Williamson, UCWCT
> 
> (Unofficial Chronicler of Williamson County, Texas.)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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The peace of the cosmos is infinite motion

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