[AGL] Film and Xmas

[Wayne Johnson]

Now, now, Forrest.

Don't be shy.

You are among friends.

No one would ever giggle behind their hands.

I'm sure.

Really.

No. Really.

Rev. B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Forrest Gunter" <fpgunter at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Film and Xmas


> I'all, on the udder hand, could contemplate, conversate, and opine on 
> DANGEROUS JOBS HELD, or at least knowed about, were one not so dad-blamed 
> humble, self-abnegating and the like. Sidelicus
>
>
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>>All.
>>
>>One of my summer jobs, whilst a sophomore at UT, whilst  working for my, 
>>uh, general contractor step-grandfather....was "connecting" new sewer 
>>lines to existing sewer lines.  That is, breaking into the existing active 
>>sewage line with a hammer and chisel, breaking new concrete pipe to fit 
>>and then applying appropriate oakum and concrete to seal.  All in the 
>>bottom of a ditch in Round Rock with ground temp around a 100F.
>>
>>My previous "bad job"...again for same person, was hauling off the dead 
>>and dying sheep to our own personal disposal pit every morning before I 
>>left for high school.  This time, ground temp around 10 to 20F which was 
>>good because it kept  the smell of rotting animals to a minimum.  I would 
>>do this chore after I had slopped the hogs (sour milk, molasses and 
>>cotton-seed hulls) and retreived whatever mal-formed baby pigs that hadn't 
>>been eaten by the sows during the night.   Nothing like a wintry Texas 
>>sunrise reflecting its golden light off the partially chewed carcass of a 
>>two-headed baby pig.  Pure poetry in motion.
>>
>>By contrast, hunting rats would have been like dining at Four Seasons. 
>>What a bunch of weenies!  These people don't know Dirty Jobs from Jack 
>>Spratt
>>
>>Happy Holidays.
>>
>>Rev. B
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Connie Clark
>>   To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
>>   Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:04 PM
>>   Subject: Re: [AGL] Film and Xmas
>>
>>
>>   Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     I just got this dish thing and it came with three months of movies.
>>
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>>     <reply>
>>
>>     No movies that you like - I am the same.  I've got premium channels, 
>> and seldom watch the movies.  There is one good one running this month on 
>> HBO, if you have that.  It was made for HBO, and is called "Yesterday". 
>> Lovel y movie set in rural South Africa where folks have a difficult time 
>> eeking by.  It is about a woman who gets AIDS from her hubby who is off 
>> working in a coal mine somewhere else, and she has to go find him and 
>> tell him.  Anyway, it is worth the time.
>>
>>     If you have a lot of channels now, there is a new series on one of 
>> the obscure learning or discover channel, I can't remember which - I just 
>> found it surfing.  It is called 'Dirty Jobs'.  I think it is an hour-long 
>> show once a week where the host goes up close to people who do really 
>> nasty jobs.  Last week, I saw him follow an exterminator around in 
>> Louisiana, where they were hired to get rid of chicken snakes and rats 
>> (big Norway rats) in the attic.  Then they went into a mobile home where 
>> there was a German cockroach invasion - open a drawer or cabinet and 
>> roaches pour out! Great TV drama, right, and made me nostagic for the old 
>> ghetto and just about every apartment I lived in Austin. I recommend that 
>> funny show if you can find it.
>>
>>     Connie
>>
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