CONFESS!!! Who went to Gilley's after seein' Urban Cowboy?

[jus_the_facts]

.....I never did...I was too young...but this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine...eventhough it's *country music*....I wore my album soundtrack OUT doin' the two-step!! :evilgrin:

This movie defines the REDNECKS and all that that entails....watched it again this weekend and wondered if anyone around here ever went to Gilley's in Pasadena, Texas....it was in the Guiness Book o'World Records for bein' the largest bar in the world...3.5 acres of BAR before it burned down in 1989!! :crazy:

Oh and cousins...Mickey Gilley...Jerry Lee Lewis...and Jimmy Swaggart all grew up in a little town southeast of where I sit...Ferriday, Louisiana...and my Uncle went to high school with 'em!! :D






http://www.gilleys.com/Biography.html

[Bunny]

1. I was in Houston around 1984,

and we did the obligatory trip to Gilley's. It was an interesting place. I did not dance, nor ride the bull, but drank Lone Star beer (yeccch) and people-watched!!

[jus_the_facts]

2. Yeee...f'n'...haw.......

.....was it a huge cavern of a place or what? I can't even begin to imagine a bar that size!! :D

[Bunny]

4. Yes, it was enormous.

You could walk around inside it for days, it seemed. I'm not sure, but I think it had three stages, and a souvenir store?? Help me out someone, it was quite a while ago and I drank a lot back in those days! :)

Edit - I forgot about this: they would put a Gilley's bumper sticker on your car while you were inside the bar!

[Fenris]

3. Did he tip his hat at you? DID HE TIP HIS HAT AT YOU?

HEY! TATOO!

[jus_the_facts]

8. "Dammit Sissy.......OH Bud!! I wanna ride that BULL!!!"

...."....GO SEE YER DADDY...YA LIKE 'IM BETTER!!" :7

[Fenris]

9. That movie cracks me up every time I see it

:7

[jus_the_facts]

"If it weren't for Corene and the kids..I'd just be another pile o'shit..

....in a cantalope patch drawin' flies!" :D :D :D


ME TOO!!! :hi:

[RushIsRot]

5. As far as Lone Star Beer goes...

They should just leave it in the horse!

[Fenris]

6. Heehee!

:P

[GOPisEvil]

7. Now, now...as long as Lone Star is served ICE COLD and consumed quickly,

it makes a fine swill. Of course, when I started drinking at The Dixie Chicken in College Station, Lone Stars were 69 cents; everything else was a 99 cents. I wasn't a math major, but I figured I could get drunker, cheaper on Lone Star. :beer:

[RushIsRot]

10. And I should take the word of an...

AGGIE?!?!?!?

[GOPisEvil]

11. Aggies do not lie, cheat or steal, nor do they tolerate those who do.

Aggie Republicans exempt, of course...

[Fenris]

13. Rick Perry: Aggie Cheerleader

At least HIS tuition was regulated. What a schmuck!

[GOPisEvil]

14. That's "Yell Leader" thank you very much!

But, yeah, he's a schmuck. Majored in "animal science". ;-)

[Fenris]

16. Hee hee! Animal Science!

Of course, with those rumours about him floating around, working with sheep seems right up his alley!

[GOPisEvil]

19. Well, he was in the Corps, so you know he likes to keep close quarter with

other guys. ;-)

*unfair cheap shot - sorry Silas Soule*

[RushIsRot]

21. I guess -technically- I'm now an...

AGGIE myself. At the time I graduated it was ETSU, but now it's TAMU at Commerce.

[jus_the_facts]

22. Gawl'Damn threadjackers....why..I or'ta kick yer asses!!

:hi: :evilgrin:

[RushIsRot]

24. Sorry Darlin'!

It was all that Lone Star Beer!

[GOPisEvil]

25. We started out on topic. Really!

But we couldn't help ourselves. The devil made us do it! :evilgrin:

[jus_the_facts]

26. "...kickin' *AGGIES* asses and raisin' HELL!!"......come on sing it......

...."...UP AGAINST THE WALL...REDNECK MOTHER!!" :D :loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

27. Thbbbtttt!

:spank:

[jus_the_facts]

28. aww come on...you know I just could not resist bringin' that song up.....

.....so spank me it ya must!! :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

23. Nah...I think the name should have stayed the same.

I never understood why we have to have all these schools carry the name of the main campus. Who cares, as long as everyone knows which system they fall under? Oh well...

[Fenris]

12. Ruh Roh!

Ma! Bring the young'uns out! We's 'bout to see a REAL Texas brawl!

[trumad]

15. I did.... LOL

That movie should be turned into a Rocky Horror picture type of movie... It was seriously the hokiest movie ever made...

OH BUD!!! Ya bought us a trailer....

When Bud's aunt walked out to Bud shortly after his Uncle died and said, Bud, Yur Uncle wanted you to have this, and then handed Bud his Uncles belt buckle, I thought I was going to blow chunks out my nose....

[jus_the_facts]

29. Oh yeah definitely...there were many guys I knew who thought they were....

....BUD...some still do...goat-ropers from HELL I say!! :evilgrin:

[Bridget Burke]

17. Houston's light rail has had too many accidents....

Since its startup on 1/1/04. (Mostly SUV's doing illegal left turns--turns that were illegal on Main Street long before we had rail.)

Anyway, the City of Houston has a plan. They've hired a team of safety consultants to look into the matter. Consultants from Texas A&M. (No joke.)

---And, yes, I went to Gilley's. Went with a group of hippy weirdos to hear Willy Nelson.

[GOPisEvil]

18. Ah, the good ol' Texas Transportation Institute!

Had a friend go to work there after graduation.

[Burma Jones]

20. Gilley's was in Pasadena, TX

Home of XXX Drive-In theatres and quite possibly the worst smelling place on earth. We referred to it as Stinkadena over by NASA.

[mitchum]

30. No, but I went to The Anvil after seeing "Cruising"

not really

[trumad]

31. Snarf...

Hope ya didn't drop anything...;-)

[mitchum]

32. I did, but a nice man with a big mustache said he would help me find it

not really, again

[jus_the_facts]

shit kickin'......

:kick:

:evilgrin:

[jus_the_facts]

33. shit kickin'......

:kick:

:evilgrin: