THE COWBOYS HAVE LANDED!@!@!

[Sam]

GOD BLESS THE NFR

I'm thinking Levi Strauss needs to be canonized dammit, where's that eyebrow waggle

Like this city REALLY needed yet another reason for 10k drunk tourists to congregate. Every single one of them in their $500 Tony Llamas, $100 Stetsons, belt buckles big enough to surf on and driving $80k penile substitutes that ain't never seen a horse hitch, let alone a speck of dirt in its life.

Aaaaah, but we forgive them all with those Wrangler butts.

9 glorious days for me and a handful of girlfriends to hang out on the strip, wolf whistle at the REAL cowboys -- they tend to be the ones with the dirty blue jeans and mud caked, broke in boots -- (gotta be careful when you do that though .. men tend to think it's actually an invitation) and laugh at the tourists.

[Stellaspeed]

Adriano Moraes is a stud.

[Thunder]

I'm planning to be at the NFR next week. Have fun and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

[Lei Owen]

Delores Toole of Kansas came in 2nd in the barrelracing to win almost 12K last night. But most will remember her for being the first to wear a helmet at the NFR. Kudo's to her!! In barrel racing accident's, the 2nd most reported injury is head injuries. I sure hope this catch's on. BUT, most barrel racer's would rather eat worm's than wear one!

Sam, I hate to tell you, but $100 won't buy you much of a hat nowaday's. They run closer to $300. Now, how would you like to have a hoof planted on that? And they'd better be wearing Wrangler jean's! Seeing as how Wrangler is a major, major sponsor. WRANGLER NATIONAL FINALS RODEO. WNFR.

If you have the chance, go look at some of the rig's these cowboy's and cowgirl's are pulling. 200K living quarter trailer's pulled with a 200K Kenworth! All the comfort's of home on the rodeo road.

Watch the little horse that the #1 All Around contender, Trevor Brazile, is riding. This little horse at one time was a 100K futurity cutting stud! BUT he didn't like cow's!! That just goes to show you that pedigree isn't everything. His shout's cutting horse, but he's not one.

[Sam]

Sam, I hate to tell you, but $100 won't buy you much of a hat nowaday's.

*shrug* Been a long time since I had to buy one. I bought both of mine almost 15 years ago. The felt has been put away (and is buried in a box somewhere since I've still never really bothered to unpack from the move) and I've not really worn the straw since the ex and I split. I never liked to ride in it .. much preferred my 20 year old Yankees hat.

If you have the chance, go look at some of the rig's these cowboy's and cowgirl's are pulling. 200K living quarter trailer's pulled with a 200K Kenworth! All the comfort's of home on the rodeo road.

We went into the convention center in the Mandalay Bay and they had about 10 of them in there. SWEET! There was one over by the mechanical bull (NO! I didn't ride it .. I've already made that spectacle of myself and I won't do it again) that was GORGEOUS inside. I'm a sucker for that homey natural wood decor.

[Lucy]

Adriano Moraes is a stud.

Ya know, I rarely fancy the rugged cowboy type (I have a partiality for skinny musicians ), but one of the bronc riders this year is a real looker. Cimmaron somethingorother.....I forget his surname, but it's nearly as silly as his first name, something like Gerkin (I was thinking 'good heavens, the boy's named for a pickle' before I got a look at him).

The fact that he's far too young for me to be looking at is something I'd rather not think about right now.

[Sam]

The fact that he's far too young for me to be looking at is something I'd rather not think about right now.

My mother has suddenly taken it to mind that she is going to point out all the single men in my age range that are buying houses in the track that her company is building or set me up with someone in her office.

After three straight days (and not being able to tell if she was joking .. nor really giving a damn if she was) I told her to "knock it off. I really don't think it's funny, I don't even think it's amusing. In fact, I think it's pretty goddamn insulting and having just blown up my car, I am NOT in the mood."

She's not really talked to me since ... It's been nice.

[Mike]

Sam
Go find a bloke and surprise her!!!

[Sam]

Go find a bloke and surprise her!!!

No way. Not worth it right now. Getting involved with someone and having to deal with all the crap that comes with it is so extraordinarily low on my list of priorities right now, it's not funny.

[Mike]

Go race a good horse then!!

[Mahubah]

Good advice is one thing. Pushing is another. Apparently your mom hasn't learned the difference yet.

What's the fuss anyway? Aren't you self-supporting, with a good job? It's not like you need a man or you're going to starve in your old age! If you happen to come across one that shares some of your vision in life (it's never 100%) and is willing to embark on the give and take of walking the same path side by side -- AND that's what you want too -- great. If not, you've got a life and plenty of things to do with it -- you obviously don't need a man just to have one.

I think Mike's right -- for now, at least, you should get a horse instead!

[rocking e]

delores toole is receiveing 1000.00 each go around for wearing that hat i have never seen a girl get a head injury i have been around rodeos and barrel races 30+ years shins cut or a foot broke if ahorse falls

[Sam]

Good advice is one thing. Pushing is another. Apparently your mom hasn't learned the difference yet.

I do think it is partially a joke .. funny how it always intensifies when Grandmother is here, though. Not that she didn't make the comments before ... and always when she met one of my male friends (which I have a lot of ... just none that I would ever consider getting involved, let alone 'physical', with). That's why I stopped introducing my friends to them when I was still in high school.

What's the fuss anyway? Aren't you self-supporting, with a good job?

Admittedly, not at the moment. Not since I was banished to this hellhole. Bad time to be out of work and an even worse city to be looking for it in (I though I had a job a few weeks ago .. the company went bankrupt the day before I was suppose to start).

I'm living in the guesthouse out front and killing my savings/inheritance. Not that that mattered in the slightest. I got the same comments when I was pulling down nearly $40k a year on my own and quite content with life ... it's not good enough for her. Even though she denies it, she'd long ago bought into that brainwashing BS that at some point all women should be married ... at least she's never really pushed the having kids thing, though.

If you happen to come across one that shares some of your vision in life (it's never 100%) and is willing to embark on the give and take of walking the same path side by side -- AND that's what you want too -- great. If not, you've got a life and plenty of things to do with it -- you obviously don't need a man just to have one.

See, this is what kills me about people when they start in on that "when are you going to get married/have kids/settle down" garbage. And of course its always the married breeders who do it. They act like there is a plethora of single, eligible and ACCEPTABLE men out there just dying to get married and procreate.

Maybe there are, damned if I can find them or even know where to look. Most of the guys I know in my age bracket are still narcissistic, over-grown children and have NO desire to grow up. A lot of them change girlfriends so fast, I need a score card to keep up. I have NO problem with that since they are just friends, but I'm sure as hell not going to bring one into MY life.

On top of that ... honestly ... how many men (or women if there are any guys still following this) have you met in your life that you would actually consider making a permanent place for IN your life? I can think of 4 for me and 1 that was just an .. intense infatuation Of the other 3, one was married (so a no go), one I did get involved with (mom adored him) and it got ugly and the third ... the timing was just never right, a lot of which can be blamed on the second (ugly, ugly situation -- I plead temporary insanity).

The idea that I'm going to find someone JUST to get involved with them is crazy. I used to hear that in high school from girls who have NO clue how to be alone. They were generally the ones that wound up pregnant before they'd graduated.

[Mahubah]

And of course its always the married breeders who do it.

Forgive me, Sam, but I find the use of the term "breeder" insulting, though I realize you weren't being personal. You're choosing to remain single and childless and that's fine -- no one has any business trying to push you into marriage and childbearing. If you took my post as implying anything else, I'm sorry, because I certainly had no intention of suggesting that your life is incomplete without a husband. But you don't have the right to denigrate the choice to marry and have children by using a term that implies either a female on a certain type of slave plantation (those, thankfully, went out well over a century ago) or an extremist gay position as to straight females. I am neither a slave nor an animal kept for breeding despite my choice to marry and to procreate.

I can understand your irritation, though -- it's never the single women who are trying to shove marriage on their fellow females. Drat if I know why some of them are so insistent, too, when their own marriages aren't exactly examples of domestic bliss. Misery loves company? Or probably, as you've diagnosed, inability to realize that conventions are only that.

Ah, well, end of rant.

[Sam]

And of course its always the married breeders who do it.

Forgive me, Sam, but I find the use of the term "breeder" insulting, though I realize you weren't being personal.

Sorry. I wasn't thinking of you at all when I wrote that.

Actually, I was specifically thinking of my cousin who thinks the sun rises and sets on her rotten little brats butts, would have ten of them if she could, allows them to do things I wouldn't let a dog do (you wouldn't let a dog jump all over your furniture, barking incessantly .. why would you let your kids do it? AH, that's right, they are "expressing their personality" eye roll) and can't understand why I rarely come visit her anymore or why I never stay long when I do.

I can understand your irritation, though -- it's never the single women who are trying to shove marriage on their fellow females. Drat if I know why some of them are so insistent, too, when their own marriages aren't exactly examples of domestic bliss. Misery loves company? Or probably, as you've diagnosed, inability to realize that conventions are only that.

Ah, well, end of rant.

Duly noted. Hand rightfully ruler cracked.

For some, it's not even a 'convention' so much as it is brainwashing. They'll argue marriage and childbearing as vehemently as some religious fanatics will try to convert you, especially when used in conjunction with the anti-birth control/abortion "God decides when and how many children you should have" rant. It can be a bit creepy at times.

I also think there are a large number of people who don't understand that there is a difference between "Childless" and "Childfree". "Childfree" is a decision and one that rarely is overturned. "Childless" is one of those things that change in the 'right' circumstances.