And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Astoria in Corpus has a thing like th is. If you will permit me anecdote? Thank you. My coworker and I were there at that very place one time. Tim is looking around the joint, and his eyes got HUGE! There, all of eight feet away was Willy Nelson! 'JC, I could sweat that guy looks just like Willy! I wanna get his autograph!' That is in fact Willy, you parked the truck right to his tour bus. Honeysuckle Rose! Now leave him alone to enjoy his dinner! A couple of minutes later a couple of beers appear. Then some more. We've gotten our food and are giving it our full attention. Didn't notice Willy and his entourage leaving, until we heard that big diesel fire up. Tim was bummed. No autograph. Call for the check. 'Oh, Mr Nelson took care of that! See!' On the check was written (iirc) 'I appreciate your good manners. And here's an autograph. Willy' True story.
The Big Texan. If you're ever in Amarillo, ya gotta stop. Excellent steak, good drinks, get there early! I would've tried the 72 challenge in my younger years. The reigning champion is a competitive eater, skinny gal, she annihilated it in under 10 min, I think. Then had another. On YouTube
When I worked for Uncle Sam, I knew guys who could eat two of these giant steaks inside the allotted time.
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Get rid of all that greenery, but keep the bread and baked potato... paired with a nice Merlot and I'd give it a shot.
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thats about 4 lbs of meat plus....
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ReplyDeleteis. If you will permit me anecdote? Thank you. My coworker and I were there at that very place one time. Tim is looking around the joint, and his eyes got HUGE! There, all of eight feet away was Willy Nelson!
'JC, I could sweat that guy looks just like Willy! I wanna get his autograph!' That is in fact Willy, you parked the truck right to his tour bus. Honeysuckle Rose! Now leave him alone to enjoy his dinner!
A couple of minutes later a couple of beers appear. Then some more. We've gotten our food and are giving it our full attention. Didn't notice Willy and his entourage leaving, until we heard that big diesel fire up. Tim was bummed.
No autograph. Call for the check.
'Oh, Mr Nelson took care of that! See!'
On the check was written (iirc) 'I appreciate your good manners. And here's an autograph. Willy'
True story.
It's the Aster steakhouse, and it's still in business. Been about 40 years or so, but the steaks were good then.
DeleteThe Big Texan. If you're ever in Amarillo, ya gotta stop. Excellent steak, good drinks, get there early! I would've tried the 72 challenge in my younger years. The reigning champion is a competitive eater, skinny gal, she annihilated it in under 10 min, I think. Then had another. On YouTube
ReplyDeleteWhere's John Candy when you need him?? RIP.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtS5BkwA3yU
ReplyDeleteThat might be the same little girl I saw eat TWO of those in <:30 min....
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