Some good news (non-BB)

[Phil_in_CS]

for me, anyway

The Pinnacle of Man's Achievement is opening a store in College Station. At least I will be able to drown my sorrows more cost effectively.

[JimR]

for me, anyway

The Pinnacle of Man's Achievement is opening a store in College Station. At least I will be able to drown my sorrows more cost effectively.

celebrate!

[MRaup]

for me, anyway

The Pinnacle of Man's Achievement is opening a store in College Station. At least I will be able to drown my sorrows more cost effectively.

Its no Dixie Chicken, but it'll do.

[Phil_in_CS]

Its no Dixie Chicken, but it'll do.

Population here went from 45,000 to 100,000 last week, 15,000 of whom are away from momma the first time, and 2,000 are foreign grad students who just bought their first car (after having bought one month's worth of insurance so they could get it registered)

Good time to find a case of something good, fire up the bbq, and stay the hell home for a while.

[JimR]

Population here went from 45,000 to 100,000 last week, 15,000 of whom are away from momma the first time, and 2,000 are foreign grad students who just bought their first car (after having bought one month's worth of insurance so they could get it registered)

Good time to find a case of something good, fire up the bbq, and stay the hell home for a while.

there is one opening about 5 minutes from my house. the good times get better!

[S.P. Rodriguez]

Population here went from 45,000 to 100,000 last week, 15,000 of whom are away from momma the first time, and 2,000 are foreign grad students who just bought their first car (after having bought one month's worth of insurance so they could get it registered)

Good time to find a case of something good, fire up the bbq, and stay the hell home for a while.

The last couple years I was at A&M, I actually enjoyed it more in between semesters.  It's a great town when the students are acting like they own the entire place.  And screw the chicken.  It's only good for lunch and weekdays.  Come weekends, it's dominated by snobby types.  When in doubt, head for Dudley's Draw.  It may smell like puke but it helps keeps out the undesirables.  At least, that's how it was 10 yrs ago... man I'm gettin' old

[Jacksonian]

When in doubt, head for Dudley's Draw.  It may smell like puke but it helps keeps out the undesirables. 

Ah, College Station.  Where the smell of puke means good eatin'.

[Andyzipp]

Ah, College Station.  Where the smell of puke means good eatin'.

Just drinkin'.  I mean I assume that they serve food there, but I've never eaten it.  But DD was the place to go if you wanted cheap beer but didn't want to listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard.

[tophfar]

...didn't want to listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard.

whoa..slow down there....this happens?

[S.P. Rodriguez]

Just drinkin'.  I mean I assume that they serve food there, but I've never eaten it.  But DD was the place to go if you wanted cheap beer but didn't want to listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard.

Oh man, eat at Dudley's only as a last resort.  It should only be considered above food from EZ Mart.  There's only so many servings of "death nachos" one can take from sl-EZ Mart.  And Taco Caba/Two Pesos was beyond my budget. 

The good music at the Chicken ended about 4pm Friday and didn't return until Mon/Tues.  Dudley's would play just about everything, from Willy Nelson to Al Green.  I know alot of people hated it but I loved when the owner came in and played The Midnight Special by CCR. 

[Jacksonian]

Just drinkin'.  I mean I assume that they serve food there, but I've never eaten it.  But DD was the place to go if you wanted cheap beer but didn't want to listen to Ray Wylie Hubbard.

So Aggies are cheap beer snobs.

While in college when the object was to drink cheap beer ambiance was never a criterion for selecting the establishment.  Proximity to my apartment and cost were about it.

[S.P. Rodriguez]

So Aggies are cheap beer snobs.

While in college when the object was to drink cheap beer ambiance was never a criterion for selecting the establishment.  Proximity to my apartment and cost were about it.

$1.25 Lone Star my friend.  Beat that price!  I could afford to buy my beer and leave a tip!

[Phil_in_CS]

$1.25 Lone Star my friend.  Beat that price!  I could afford to buy my beer and leave a tip!

and you thought you were old. I was drinking $1 shiner long necks at the chicken and dudleys. drinking age was 18 then, too, not that any one ever carded.

I don't know if its just here, but college kids are a whole lot richer these days. Seems like the high school graduation present of choice is a $40,000 beemer or SUV. I drive by the big school on my way to work and the dorm parking lots are full of pricey cars, and they are building thousands of luxury condo's for students all over town.

Big plastic boobies seem to be a common high school graduation present too. My wife and I were eating lunch a few weeks ago, at the end of the summer term, and the table next to us had 10 college girls who all had identical big plastic boobs, identical hair cuts, nose jobs, clothes, etc. Undergrads here are 60/40 female these days too, though it is still 90/10 male in engineering.

[Andyzipp]

So Aggies are cheap beer snobs.

While in college when the object was to drink cheap beer ambiance was never a criterion for selecting the establishment.  Proximity to my apartment and cost were about it.

$0.79 Pearl Longnecks.  In 1994.

But I'd rather be listening to the Kinks while I'm drinking it.

[Limey]

Population here went from 45,000 to 100,000 last week, 15,000 of whom are away from momma the first time....

...and have fake IDs.

[The Spleen]

Ah, College Station.  Where the smell of puke means good eatin'.

If it's that good, it's worth eating twice...

[Astroholic]

Big plastic boobies

I don't see the problem.

[Waldo]

there is one opening about 5 minutes from my house. the good times get better!

Arbor Walk?  My wife saw that the other day.  Doesn't look like it's going to be as big as the one on Ben White though.

[JimR]

Arbor Walk?  My wife saw that the other day.  Doesn't look like it's going to be as big as the one on Ben White though.

dunno. it is much, much closer, though.

[Phil_in_CS]

I don't see the problem.

It just seems an odd thing to buy for your daughter

[austro]

It just seems an odd thing to buy for your daughter

No kidding.  It's beyond odd.

[VirtualBob]

there is one opening about 5 minutes from my house. the good times get better!

5 minutes which way? 

[VirtualBob]

No kidding.  It's beyond odd.

"Odd" would be buying them for your son.

[Astroholic]

It just seems an odd thing to buy for your daughter

Oh yeah I agree with that.  I just don't see the problem if others want to.

Guess I should have said
Dont see the problem with looking at fake boobs.

[94CougarGrad]

$1.25 Lone Star my friend.  Beat that price!  I could afford to buy my beer and leave a tip!

Wednesday nights at Valhalla, located in the basement of the chemistry building at Rice, used to be $2 pitcher nights. You could bring in a pitcher and they'd fill it to the rim with with the rich taste of Shiner Bock for $2. Didn't matter what size pitcher, as long as it was shaped like an actual pitcher and not a bucket or barrel. You could also grab your beer and sit outside under some of those wonderful huge trees and enjoy. We used to head over there from the dorms at UH and laugh at all the homemade pitchers our art and architecture students would bring with them.

I heard they quit doing cheap pitcher nights some time ago. Communists.

[Astroholic]

Wednesday nights at Valhalla, located in the basement of the chemistry building at Rice, used to be $2 pitcher nights. You could bring in a pitcher and they'd fill it to the rim with with the rich taste of Shiner Bock for $2. Didn't matter what size pitcher, as long as it was shaped like an actual pitcher and not a bucket or barrel. You could also grab your beer and sit outside under some of those wonderful huge trees and enjoy. We used to head over there from the dorms at UH and laugh at all the homemade pitchers our art and architecture students would bring with them.

I heard they quit doing cheap pitcher nights some time ago. Communists.

Thanks for the memory.  I was at one time one of those architecture students.

[Lefty]

Thanks for the memory.  I was at one time one of those architecture students.

My favorite Valhalla memory was getting paid to drink beer.  It was the end of their fiscal year or something, and being a non-profitish enterprise, they had to balance the books.  Belly up to the bar, here's your beer, here's your 10 cents.

[JimR]

My favorite Valhalla memory was getting paid to drink beer.  It was the end of their fiscal year or something, and being a non-profitish enterprise, they had to balance the books.  Belly up to the bar, here's your beer, here's your 10 cents.

good thing Boras was not your agent. he would have held you out for a quarter, and you would have gotten no beer.

[94CougarGrad]

Thanks for the memory.  I was at one time one of those architecture students.

Architorture! I probably laughed at a pitcher you made, then wished I'd thought of the design myself, as it probably held more beer than the pitcher I brought.  

[Astroholic]

Architorture! I probably laughed at a pitcher you made, then wished I'd thought of the design myself, as it probably held more beer than the pitcher I brought.  

function before form.

[Lefty]

good thing Boras was not your agent. he would have held you out for a quarter, and you would have gotten no beer.

Right, but I could always cherish those memories of my other college experiences & sit around years later telling people about the time I could have been paid for beer.