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| Prompt: So on Wednesday, you told Andre about great places to visit where you live. Now he'd like to know about the people who live or have lived where you do. - Tell us about a famous person or persons who lives or came from your Home Sweet Home I was surprised at the number of famous and well-known people from Athens, Texas. Athens is the birthplace and/or former home of a number of professional football players, politicians, a Major League Baseball pitcher, businessmen, a judge, a writer, and even a rapper. As per Wikipedia, these are the notable people from Athens, Texas:  Fred Agnich, Texas businessman, rancher, state legislator from Dallas; owned a wildlife preserve near Athens Fletcher Davis, one of a number of Americans who lay claim to inventing the modern hamburger Pete Donohue, Major League Baseball pitcher Jakeem Grant, NFL wide receiver for Miami DolphinsWilliam R. Hawn, businessman, sportsman William Wayne Justice, former United States District Court judge Fred LaRue, former aide to President Richard Nixon. Served four and a half months in prison after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for his actions pertaining to the Watergate break-in and the following scandalTerrence McGee, former NFL cornerback for Buffalo Bills Tay Money, rapperClint W. Murchison, Jr., businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football teamSid W. Richardson, native of Athens, Texas, oilman, cattleman, philanthropistJames C. Spencer, former member of Texas House of Representatives, 1939-1941, 1947-1949, Henderson County Judge Stuart Spitzer, surgeon in Kaufman, Texas, and former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives, 2015-2017, born in Athens in 1967Barron Tanner, former NFL defensive linemanand  S.A. Bailey, writer, blogger, semi-professional gun nut, satirist, former paratrooper and veteran of the U.S. ArmyThat's quite a lot of people for such a podunk little town in the middle of nowhere Texas! Word Count: 308  |
| Prompt: Take a drive down memory lane and arrive at the Drive-In Theater. (circa ????) Tell us about your first experience attending a Drive-in movie. Be as descriptive as your memory allows. The first movie I remember watching at the drive-in movie theater was Porky's. I was pretty young, about six I think, but back then, a lot of parents took their kids out to the movies and/or bars with them. We were in my Momma's gold Ford LTD and we had the sunroof removed so we kids could stand up in the car and watch from a more out-door vantage point. The part of the movie that has stuck with me all these years is where the girls are in gym exercising and they are all saying, "We must, we must, we must improve our busts...The bigger the better, the tighter the sweater..." Don't ask me why this particular scene stuck with me all these years, but it did. I think in a way, that scene made me feel less uncomfortable about getting my boobs before any of the other girls at school - and later, proud even of my large bosom. I don't remember much more of it than that. Weird, isn't it? The things we remember and the things we forget. Word count: 212 |
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