Wearing all my OU garb and ready to do battle with my Tide kin for week. Will be back Saturday just in time for TCU. This may be my last trip to my birth state. I'm getting too old to take all that Bama crap that I get. LOL. BOOMER!
Leaving for Bama visit
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Fill me in if you visit Morgan County. See any kilometer posts or white paint bars every 1000 meters (6/10 mile) on the fog line on interstates? Posts will be without km numbers. Every 5 kilometers found a 5, 10, 15, 20 across the state well off the shoulder facing the highway. This is how I left Alabama in early 2003. It was our only state to measure highways in kilometers. President Clinton ended the highway changeover. Said we didn't have the money. Kentucky was to be next in line, but never took the posts and numbers out of the warehouse.
Mmm, that metric crap they tried to foist on us.
I didn't know that Indian.
Let us know how it feels to hang around a fanbase that actually can expect national titles in it's foreseeable future!!! Lol
Most of my kin came from Alabama and settled in Mississippi back during the great depression. I always used to ask my grandfather, how bad was it in Bama that you moved to Mississippi? Wow
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I sometimes wonder "would I be a Tide fan today?" without President Jackson's signature on the "Indian Removal Act" of 1830. But how could my white Arkansas mother have found my father in Haskell County (Choctaw land), Oklahoma without the signature?
fitty, "the metric crap they tried to foist upon us" is ongoing. NASA now demands all contractors to use metric measure only. You might remember the $150 million tax payer hit from the bouncing Mars lander. Boeing was using English measure at the time and contributed to mistakes in conversion.
I can't buy a 1/2 gallon (1.89 liter) major brand orange juice anymore. My store shelves now display a hard metric 1.75 liter carton or jar. My 10 oz. 296 ml caulk at Home Depot is gone. Today I buy a hard metric 300 ml (10.2 oz) caulk. My Old Spice after shave is now 125 ml (4.25 fl. oz.)
We've been at this changeover since 1975. I figure in another 45 years we'll get there.
fitty, "the metric crap they tried to foist upon us" is ongoing. NASA now demands all contractors to use metric measure only. You might remember the $150 million tax payer hit from the bouncing Mars lander. Boeing was using English measure at the time and contributed to mistakes in conversion.
I can't buy a 1/2 gallon (1.89 liter) major brand orange juice anymore. My store shelves now display a hard metric 1.75 liter carton or jar. My 10 oz. 296 ml caulk at Home Depot is gone. Today I buy a hard metric 300 ml (10.2 oz) caulk. My Old Spice after shave is now 125 ml (4.25 fl. oz.)
We've been at this changeover since 1975. I figure in another 45 years we'll get there.
Ah... That would raise the question of would you have ever been... Would your mother inadvertently met your father in Alabama had he not been in Haskell County? My Menominee great grandfather came to Indian Territory via Wisconsin, so would I even "be" so to speak, had those things not happened?