all y'all texans --

[froggorino]

while browsing for armoire ideas on ebay, i found this. if i was near it, i'd buy the hell out of it. pickup only. great price for what looks like a cool piece.

just thought i'd pass it along. ends in 13 hours.

frog"pretty slapdash incongruous of me, i know..."gy

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beautiful-One-Of-a- ... dZViewItem

[KathrynTheGreat]

"Item location: Lancaster, Texas, United States"

"Current bid: US $132.53"

I wonder if that price includes the crack cocaine hidden in the secret compartment.

[James]

"Item location: Lancaster, Texas, United States"

"Current bid: US $132.53"

I wonder if that price includes the crack cocaine hidden in the secret compartment.

Having lived in Lancaster for three years, I can safely say: LOL!

[Steveums]

erm, it's an antique TV unit?

antique... TV unit?

...

[James]

erm, it's an antique TV unit?

antique... TV unit?

...

Antique has a different meaning in the US, as the country isn't as old. For example, a lady used "old" to describe the church my friend got married in. It was built in 1907. By Euro standards that's fairly new. The church in my town center has been there in part since 600; the US has nothing to match that.

It's all relative.

[Steveums]

Antique has a different meaning in the US, as the country isn't as old. For example, a lady used "old" to describe the church my friend got married in. It was built in 1907. By Euro standards that's fairly new. The church in my town center has been there in part since 600; the US has nothing to match that.

It's all relative.

well, over here Antique means some cheap pine furniture made a year or two ago, given woodworm, painted in olde worlde colours, distressed and then given an even more distressing price tag

but yeah, i get your drift. i would just consider that "retro" rather than antique.

[Irock]

That amazed me when I went to the UK. Here, a building that's 100 years old is an historic landmark. Over there, it's real estate.

Still, I don't think something becomes an actual antique here til it's fifty years old. It actually kind of bugs me when people take a beautiful old wardrobe and make it a TV cabinet, but I have to admit they look nice in people's living rooms.

[froggorino]

you'd almost pay more in that for the wood if you made that yourself. look at the dimensions. that thing is huge. plus, you'd have to have tools, and the know-how and talent. and time. time is a big one.


frog"or you could just hit the nearest target and get some pressboard"gy

[KathrynTheGreat]

"Item location: Lancaster, Texas, United States"

"Current bid: US $132.53"

I wonder if that price includes the crack cocaine hidden in the secret compartment.

Having lived in Lancaster for three years, I can safely say: LOL!

Having lived in Lancaster for the past sixteen years, I can safely say: I see your LOL and raise you a ROFLMAO.

[froggorino]

i always think it is funny to observe the texas dynamic. it's all like a karazay family cause texans can make fun of each other and themselves, but let someone from another region do it and "KAPOW!" all wrath is released in force, and all county lines disappear.

frog"lancaster, haaaaaaaaaaaa! freakin lancaster!"gy

*ducks*

[Irock]

This is true. On a side note, I was watching Urban Cowboy last night and I would like to say:

A Texas cowboy wouldn't have a beard as scruffy as Travolta's in the beginning. He looks more like an Kentukian.

If his wife were a Texan, she would wear makeup.

Travolta's accent sucks.

Barry Corbin is a badass.

Houston used to look so little.

I only rode a mechanical bull once, and it was in Vegas.

[Dalya]

The church in my town center has been there in part since 600; the US has nothing to match that..

but we have serpent mound!!!

*brain explodes from too much school*

[mere1975]

i always think it is funny to observe the texas dynamic. it's all like a karazay family cause texans can make fun of each other and themselves, but let someone from another region do it and "KAPOW!" all wrath is released in force, and all county lines disappear.

I don't have a problem with anyone talking trash about Texas or Dallas. . . unless he's mocking the community that directly supports him; e.g., in a Dallas-based band and supported consistently by lots of Dallas fans.

- Mere "of course, I have only been here for 13 years" 1975

[froggorino]

oh yeah. what was that idiot's name again?***

frog"dismissed long ago as unimportant"gy


***question is rhetorical

[James]

i always think it is funny to observe the texas dynamic. it's all like a karazay family cause texans can make fun of each other and themselves, but let someone from another region do it and "KAPOW!" all wrath is released in force, and all county lines disappear.

I don't have a problem with anyone talking trash about Texas or Dallas. . . unless he's mocking the community that directly supports him; e.g., in a Dallas-based band and supported consistently by lots of Dallas fans.

- Mere "of course, I have only been here for 13 years" 1975

yeah, well, some people are just assholes.

I do my fair share of dissing on Texas, but I've also changed a lot of people's perception of Texans. They think Bush; I show them we're not all that way. Then they make me do the accent and it becomes silly.
I don't mind people dissin' it, as long as what they're dissin' is actually true...