Friday, August 12, 2005

I love this bar.

When in the Hub City, after a long, hard day of repressing and proselytizing, I like to kick back with a beer. And the Lone Star Oyster Bar is a prime choice. $1.50 schooners every day, all day and plenty of sports. You'll notice the Big XII conference flags above the bar. You'll also notice that two of them are upside down. One is Texas A&M and the orange one is the University of Texas, Bread's school. Generally, the rivalries are good-natured, but they can get out of hand. Like the time in 2001 when Tech stomped the Aggies in football. Some of the fans (reports say about 1,000) thought we needed to add a little injury to the already achieved insult. The goal posts were torn down - happens often. Then, the fans leveled them and started running toward the A&M fan section attempting to skewer some Aggies. Well,the height of the wall separating the field from the stands made it a difficult angle to score direct hits. Nonetheless, one solid body shot was achieved, as well as some assorted crunching when the goal posts were dropped. Aggies like to fight and Raiders like to drink. Being the courteous hosts, we obliged our guests.We'd already been doing our drinking anyway. In the ensuing Level 2 melee, confused Aggies began pummeling Rick Perry, Gov. of Texas, and his chief of staff. Perry is an Aggie alum and the chief of staff's son is the A&M center.

On the right side of the photo you can see something obscuring the U.S. flag. Those would be bras. Seems that whenever the ladies feel the urge, they are allowed to take off their boob hats and place them on the rafters - but only in the back half so they don't block the view of the hi-def TV. Just prior to taking this photo, two girls came in the back door from the bar across the alley. They were wearing only cut-off jeans. They said they had declared it topless Thursday and just wanted to say "hi." The two turned around, walked back to the other bar and took every male with them. I love this bar, and the other one's not bad, either.

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