[AGL] Film and Xmas

[Forrest Gunter]

I'all, on the udder hand, could contemplate, conversate, and opine on 
DANGEROUS JOBS HELD, or at least knowed about, were one not so dad-blamed 
humble, self-abnegating and the like. Sidelicus


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>All.
>
>One of my summer jobs, whilst a sophomore at UT, whilst  working for my, 
>uh, general contractor step-grandfather....was "connecting" new sewer lines 
>to existing sewer lines.  That is, breaking into the existing active sewage 
>line with a hammer and chisel, breaking new concrete pipe to fit and then 
>applying appropriate oakum and concrete to seal.  All in the bottom of a 
>ditch in Round Rock with ground temp around a 100F.
>
>My previous "bad job"...again for same person, was hauling off the dead and 
>dying sheep to our own personal disposal pit every morning before I left 
>for high school.  This time, ground temp around 10 to 20F which was good 
>because it kept  the smell of rotting animals to a minimum.  I would do 
>this chore after I had slopped the hogs (sour milk, molasses and 
>cotton-seed hulls) and retreived whatever mal-formed baby pigs that hadn't 
>been eaten by the sows during the night.   Nothing like a wintry Texas 
>sunrise reflecting its golden light off the partially chewed carcass of a 
>two-headed baby pig.  Pure poetry in motion.
>
>By contrast, hunting rats would have been like dining at Four Seasons.  
>What a bunch of weenies!  These people don't know Dirty Jobs from Jack 
>Spratt
>
>Happy Holidays.
>
>Rev. B
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Connie Clark
>   To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
>   Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:04 PM
>   Subject: Re: [AGL] Film and Xmas
>
>
>   Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I just got this dish thing and it came with three months of movies.
>
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>     <reply>
>
>     No movies that you like - I am the same.  I've got premium channels, 
>and seldom watch the movies.  There is one good one running this month on 
>HBO, if you have that.  It was made for HBO, and is called "Yesterday".  
>Lovel y movie set in rural South Africa where folks have a difficult time 
>eeking by.  It is about a woman who gets AIDS from her hubby who is off 
>working in a coal mine somewhere else, and she has to go find him and tell 
>him.  Anyway, it is worth the time.
>
>     If you have a lot of channels now, there is a new series on one of the 
>obscure learning or discover channel, I can't remember which - I just found 
>it surfing.  It is called 'Dirty Jobs'.  I think it is an hour-long show 
>once a week where the host goes up close to people who do really nasty 
>jobs.  Last week, I saw him follow an exterminator around in Louisiana, 
>where they were hired to get rid of chicken snakes and rats (big Norway 
>rats) in the attic.  Then they went into a mobile home where there was a 
>German cockroach invasion - open a drawer or cabinet and roaches pour out! 
>Great TV drama, right, and made me nostagic for the old ghetto and just 
>about every apartment I lived in Austin. I recommend that funny show if you 
>can find it.
>
>     Connie
>
>
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