I Like to Play OWNED on FaceBook

Some Notes from activities on the Social Network OWNED\FaceBook
by Pat Darnell and Friends

Ongoing Discussion in our series of "Ask Brian Jones:

Name: Efraín Boliche
Network: Mexico
Interested In: female
About Me: I've two eyes & prefer to squeeze love handles than smelling feet. I belive in the rrrrumble of the drums and the bubble of the gum, and my mother always made me eat broccoli and now look at me i'm as strong as can be so put some spice in my sauce honey in my tea an ace up my sleeve and a slinky plan b

http:// apps.new. facebook.com /humangifts /view / 6928027

OWNED is kind of a messy game... lots of non-action, and even less police action. Much of thegame is about Photo's. In sync with a barrel of "play money" I go about sorting out the most averse from the less averse subjects of the photos.

Your Lunch Money...

L$1,269,207

Cash Out 82 Photos!

Earn More L$

I like to inflate the prices, and make it look like a hot item. Just like Madoff -- when I Purchase a Photo, I over bid by ten thousand or more fake dollars. Then someone discovers my purchase, and walks into my squirrel trap, I make back the inflated price plus profit.. so when I sign in each day my net worth steadily increases.

Now my net worth is flipping about two million a day. I just passed our previous leader from my group of friends, Rosa Pagan.. Kind of weird to think about, so I don't think as I flip through thousands of faces and other photos stuff... fills lots of time that I could be doing other useful things.

The comment from the kid in Mexico comes from that game.. I thought it was kind of funny. It is from the slot where the subject tells a brief fact or two about himself, herself, or itself; where they are from, and other half-truths.

Also, I have tried to find a set of Cheat Notes for OWNED\FaceBook, but yet to zero in on a way to amass a billion in play money. I notice some bidders, supposedly from Greece, have figured a way to inflate the purchase prices of scantily clad women up to a billion L-Dollars. I am speculating this is a territorial, Cardinals versus the Mockingbirds, nesting rights, scuffle tendency like twist, to the game.

Again, I really don't want to think... I just want to bid, bid, bid for bidness in OWNED -- Capito? Ciao, yous'e.

Over-Night Scaled-back Massive Mandatory Evacuation in Bryan

Eagle Staff Report
Published Friday, July 31, 2009 6:05 AM
Blaze prompts mass evacuation in Bryan

Officials scaled back a massive mandatory evacuation in Bryan to just 500 homes Thursday evening, allowing most residents to return after a chemical fire at a plant forced them out hours earlier.

At least 35 people were treated and released at area hospitals for respiratory problems after the blaze at El Dorado Chemical Co. on Texas 21 shot a plume of brown-orange smoke that hung high over the area through much of the day. A thin, low-lying cloud could be seen late Thursday.

No life-threatening injuries were reported; however, one patient was kept overnight, officials said.


Dispatchers said that the chemical that caught fire -- possibly as an employee performed welding work -- was ammonium nitrate, which the company produces to be sold as a fertilizer.

Bryan Fire Chief Mike Donoho said a small crew of about eight officials from the Bryan and College Station fire departments, along with a hazardous materials team, would remain at the command center at Smetana Exxon on Texas 21 overnight to monitor the blaze.

Bryan Residents Ordered To Evacuate Because Of Chemical Plant Fire

Bryan Residents Ordered To Evacuate Because Of Chemical Plant Fire

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UPDATE :: Evacuation of Bryan :: UPDATE

Published Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:43 PM
Information for evacuees

Hundreds of people have poured into Texas A&M’s Reed Arena and A&M Consolidated Middle School, which have opened as shelters for Bryan and rural Brazos County residents.
Residents and workers in Bryan, as well as parts of rural Brazos County, were asked to evacuate after a fire at a Bryan plant at about noon created a chemical cloud that’s been slow to leave the area. Texas A&M University’s flagship campus and Blinn College in Bryan both have closed until further notice.

Reed Arena, which seats 12,500, is a block off Wellborn Road on Olsen Boulevard; A&M Consolidated Middle School at 105 Holick in College Station.

Should you leave your house?


The evacuation is mandatory for people north of University Drive and Hardy Weeden Road from the Brazos River in west Brazos County to the eastern Brazos County line, which means most of Bryan. Drive south and do not travel into the smoke.


Who to call?


Authorities said 911 dispatchers in Brazos County have been inundated with non-emergency calls related to the chemical cloud in Bryan.

Officials are asking people with concerns and questions to call 821-1000, which is the Brazos County Emergency Operations Center in downtown Bryan.

A shelter has been set up at Reed Arena on the Texas A&M University campus for residents needing a place to stay.

Anyone with significant signs of respiratory distress should call 911.

Where to take your pets

Pearce Pavilion is across the street from Reed Arena and volunteers there will house your household pets.

The following roads are closed:


F.M. 2818 SB at Texas 6 west frontage road (North of town)

Texas Ave SB at Texas 6 (North)

F.M. 974 SB at Texas 6 west frontage road

Tabor Rd. at Texas 6 west frontage road

Texas 21 westbound at Texas 6 west frontage road

F.M. 158 westbound at Texas 6 west frontage road

F.M. 1179 westbound at Texas 6 west frontage road

Texas Ave. northbound at F.M. 60 (University Drive)

Traffic is being required to turn left or right to head east/west down F.M. 60

F.M. 2818 NB at F.M. 60

F.M. 1179 (Villa Maria) eastbound at Texas 47 (West side of town)

F.M. 1688 (Leonard) eastbound at Texas 47 (West side of town)

Texas 21 eastbound at Texas 47

Traffic required to turn around or head southbound on Texas 47

F.M. 1687 eastbound at F.M. 2818

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Published Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:35 PM

Fire forces evacuations

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Fire officials are asking all Bryan residents and businesses to evacuate south to College Station as a precaution after a blaze at a chemical plant on Texas 21 shot a plume of cream-orange smoke that can be seen for miles.

No time limit has been placed on the Thursday evacuation order, but officials said they hope the chemical cloud will continue to fade in time for residents and business owners to return tonight.

Fire Chief Mike Donoho said everyone north of University Drive in Bryan should leave the city limits until further notice.

“I’m sorry if it’s an inconvenience to people, but we’re erring on the side of caution,” Donoho said. “This is a dangerous chemical and we don’t want to wait and see if it’s going to be bad. We need to take action now.”

Evacuations started just after the noon fire within a four-mile radius of the factory, which is between Texas 47 and F.M. 2818.

Hospitals in Bryan and College Station were put on notice that they soon will be receiving patients experiencing respiratory problems from inhaling the chemicals.

Authorities urged anyone who can "smell it or see it" to leave the area immediately.

Government officials have activated the Community Emergency Operations Center in Downtown Bryan. A worker at the center who answered the phone said they were trying to get a handle on the situation just before 3 p.m.

“Right now we really don’t know,” he said, when asked what the public should be doing. “We have a lot of misinformation and we are trying to get some confirmed information. They are talking about evacuating a lot of the area of Bryan.”

More specifics were expected soon. People need to evacuate going south, away from the smoke, he said.

No injuries have been reported and firefighters are letting the chemical burn off rather than fight the dangerous fire up close. The chemical is an irritant to the respiratory system, the skin and eyes.

A shelter has been set up at Reed Arena on the Texas A&M University campus. Anyone with pressing concerns or questions should call the fire department at 209-5960.

Texas 21 between F.M. 2818 and Texas 47 was closed, as well as all roads leading to Texas 21 in the area, officials said.

Motorists trying to get into Bryan and College Station on Texas 21 from Caldwell need to take Texas 47, which goes to F.M. 60.

Dispatchers on police scanners discussed that the chemical that caught fire — possibly from a worker welding — likely was ammonium nitrate.

Bryan Fire Department Lt. Blake Barrentine said the fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company began around noon, and officials with his department, along with the Brazos County Precinct 4 Fire Department and the College Station Fire Department’s hazardous materials team are on the scene.

The Brazos County Sheriff’s Department and Texas Department of Public Safety are assisting, he said.

No casualties or injuries have been reported, he said.

Government officials have activated the Community Emergency Operations Center in Downtown Bryan. A worker at the center who answered the phone said they were trying to get a handle on the situation just before 3 p.m.

“Right now we really don’t know,” he said, when asked what the public should be doing. “We have a lot of misinformation and we are trying to get some confirmed information. They are talking about evacuating a lot of the area of Bryan.”

Bryan officials said that the city's compost facility was evacuated, which may cause some interruption in service for the residential brush and bulky collection today. Routes not collected today will be collected as soon as possible, officials said.

• Eagle staff writers Matthew Watkins, Stuart Villanueva and Michelle Casady contributed to this report.

Why I never became a Thespian...

OOOPS !! There I go again...
I am an Abductee Repeater

WARNING:
This might Shock the more sensitive blog readers... Please continue at your own desecration ... huh?
by Pat Darnell

It happens all the time now.. RE-abducted... so everyone just goes about their business...

This was last night at the DQ after church.








As you can imagine the kids love to go to Dairy Queen with Daddy... since that is always an optimum abduction site for me.






Composure, composure... just waiting here with my family for my Triple Meat Belt-buster...








I go silently.... somewhere. I still only see little shadows.












A little prodding and belly painting by the aliens abductors.




And there you have it: I'm back !!

Das Boot

The Frog and the Heckler
by Pat Darnell [SOURCE]

Some events remind me of other events, and then those events get muddled up with events from 1961 and Earnest Borgnine, and Gene Hackman. Sometimes I think I am daft... Hey don't laugh, you might be daft too!

Remember that scene in Blues Brothers when they are performing at a dive, behind a cage? Well, I remember it. All night long the Brothers worked it thinking that the beer was free to the band members. They proceed to drink four hundred dollars in beer, while their share of the door is three hundred dollars.

"I reckon you boys owe me a hundred dollars," says the establishment manager.

Das Boot is another movie, but has nothing to do with previous paragraph. It just has the German word Boot in the title, which means actually boat; neither here nor there.

What's so important is that a ticket buyer went to a Tim McGraw concert, and actually expected some kind of evening's entertainment. Instead this particular patron of the arts felt like he was imprisoned in a submarine where every sound makes him jump out of his skin. But this demon possessed fan-no-more got das boot from Tim McGraw and was ejected from the crowd.

Whose side are you on? The sod buster's, or the sod buster troubadour's?

Apparently, Tim McGraw can do no wrong, as the crowd booed the rowdy patron, and applauded McGraw's stoppage of the said concert until Security threw the bastard out.

That's not all. In a jumbo spin on Tim McGraw's fame and reputation, Def Leppard --

"They've collaborated with Tim McGraw and recently hit the stage at the CMT Music Awards with Taylor Swift - but Def Leppard want to make one thing clear: after three decades these hard-rocking Brits have not "gone country."

Guitarist Vivian Campbell says the crossover buzz is more about country acts channeling their inner rock stars."

Moral of this disharmonious entertainer news could be said: You have a one in twenty thousand chance of getting banned and booted from a Tim McGraw Concert, but a Zero out of Zero chance of buying a Def Leppard Country Album.
-- or -- any woman worth half her salt must drink the beer from the boot.

Oh, what was the heckler in the crowd doing that spurned such scorn from the McGrawster? He was snoring. As a matter of fact he was snoring so loud, a bull frog jumped up on the fella and started humping his face. Which the startled narcoleptic awoke grabbing the aromatic frog, throwing it across the aisle, hitting a mesmerized woman who fits the description of mySpacer Tasha Rednick from Rockford, IL. The unfortunate woman fell forward and smashed her face on the glass Boot of beer she was holding, making positive identification difficult.

Bovine Appreciation Day :: July 29, 2009

Co-dependent, Manageable, Steerable, Dirigible, and EDIBLE
Assumptions by Pat Darnell and Cow College, TAMU


OBAMA Approved

Go ahead, hug your cow, before it becomes a Double Bacon CheeseBurger... go ahead.. Hug.

"Anyone have some Abilify?"

See Also: Future of non-Profit Journalism: TV and Radio

Fortunately, Texas Birds of Brazos Valley are on top of Things

Gives New Meaning to Recycled Material -- for Blogger's Sake
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Last Version of Virgin Image Turtle

[SOURCE]

The Pachuca family says an image on their pickup truck is a miracle. The image, that came in an unlikely form of a bird dropping, appeared Sunday July 12. That was the first time Salvador Pachuca had been back to the home since having an accident there four months ago.

What do you think about the reported image of the Virgin Mary on a truck in Bryan? (Click here to learn more and voice your opinion)
It's a true miracle
It's not a miracle, but it's interesting
It's a coincidence


"I told my brothers come over here and see what this is and they say this is the Virgin," says Salvador Pachuca.

Family members made their way outside to see the image on the truck's side mirror. Cristal Pachuca says she took pictures and began making calls to invite others to see, what she describes as, a miracle.

"We just all feel protected. It's a blessing to our family and to everybody that comes to see it," says Cristal Pachuca.

Cristal says the truck doesn't get much use, but last weekend her husband decided to take it out of their garage and wash it. A few moments later the image appeared. Since Sunday, a steady stream of family, friends, neighbors and strangers have stopped by to pray and take pictures of the image.

The Pachuca's say the image is more than a coincidence especially since it happened on the 12. The family says in Mexico, December 12 is celebrated as the day of The Virgin Guadalupe. Onlookers say the image is a miracle because the distinct colors and outline of the image on the truck match the image of Virgin Guadalupe.

The Pachuca's say they will continue to welcome anyone who wants to see the image, because the image isn't going to go away anytime soon.

"I think we're going to just put it on a shelf outside, probably take off the mirror and keep it there cause its something special to us. I'm not going to wash it off," says Cristal Pachuca.

No Doubts about this Drought

Droughts are Bigger in Texas
Retrieved in entirety by Pat Darnell

[Read More AP Article HERE]
Published Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:07 AM

Cities' water drying up
By JOHN McFARLAND, Associated Press

DALLAS -- Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. One Texas lake has dipped so low that stolen cars dumped years ago are peeking up through the waterline.

The nation's most drought-stricken state is deep-frying under relentless 100-degree days, and waterways are drying up, especially in the hardest-hit area covering about 350 miles across South-Central Texas. That's making folks worried about the water supply -- and how long it might last.

"The water table's fallin' and fallin' and fallin,' like a whole lot of other people around here," said Wendell McLeod, general manager of Liberty Hill Water Supply Corp. and a 60-year resident of the town northwest of Austin. "This is the worst I can recall seeing it. I tell you, it's just pretty bleak."

There are 230 Texas public water systems under mandatory water restrictions, including those in and near San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Austin. Another 60 or so have asked for voluntary cutbacks. Water levels are down significantly in lakes, rivers and wells around Texas.

Liberty Hill's Web site urges its 1,400 or so residents in all-red letters to stop using unnecessary water with this plea: "If we follow these strict guidelines, we may have drinking water." The town's shortage eased some with the arrival this week of 35,000 gallons a day from a nearby water system, but residents are still worried.

Prophets of Baseball Diamonds and Rust

Tea Sippers still Number One in the Nation, BUT...
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Feral Pigs of Brazos Valley










That's right! There were three teams we infatuated, obsessed, and askew young boys of hot, humid, Houston summer '63, called ourselves. Longhorns, Aggies, or Razorbacks... the latter, often called Sooooeeeee PIGS, were the serious minority in Houston Little League of 1963. That's right, our color scheme did not stray far from Orange, Maroon, or Red.

In rare dramatic form, in the MooPig Baseball Diamond Order of Exemplar Play, Razorbacks have brought great honor and majesty to the history books of unbending sport adage: "It's not if you win or loose; but how you play the game..." baseball legend. This little YouTube does a number on you if you love baseball, it is like the Bolero of sport presentation. You will feel goose flesh somewhere on your bodies.

Thanks to D2R2 for bringing to our attention this Razorback Epic. We are behoove'n to his omniscient awareness of tides, climates, anthropologic shifts, and insect life cycles.

So Say Wee All...

Super 8 mm Film, Remember those?

Any Help on this Sore Subject would be Appreciated
Call for Help by Pat Darnell

Letter to Film Processor:
If your claims are as you say, it holds true that my anxiety is warranted. I live in Bryan-College Station, TX and there are no labs willing to make a DVD-R of our "now very valuable [priceless] family home movies." Why now? The whole family wants their own copy of the few that we have from 1970.

Walgreen's is the only place willing to "take on the task." I suspected foul play.

So I am here with antique, priceless super 8 film, in mint condition.. we just looked at it at a recent family reunion.. that everyone wants. Can you really do it? and how do I willfully release this film to Fed-Ex, without having a bonafide stroke? and how much is this going to cost our, as yet, under-funded, Reunion Tapes Budget?

Super 8 Images

Film Shooting Com
home -- straight 8 -- one super 8 cartridge, no editing
8mm to DVD, Ideas?

Icht lisse dich nicht

One day we will all be small talk... yes we will.
Aye, Paddy and the Old Salts

"The helmsman steered;

the ship moved on;

yet never a breeze up blew."

[Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]

UBUNTU 8.1ZERO

Anyone?
by Pat Darnell and Cute Tribal Linx

I have here a "free source" operating system that can be partitioned with WINDOWS or installed all by itself. It comes out of free OS software LINUX push that was introduced back in the 90's. Before then, UNIX is the birth mother of Linux and offered free as an Operating System for world computing community, if anyone remembers.

Now enters UBUNTU, already in its 8.10 version. It is quick, it is slick, but ... it ain't Windows...

MooPig's question is: "Has a promise made in 1962 by our Commander-in-Chief and his administration at the time, finally found its way to our living rooms?"


This hairdresser wants to know what only his hairdresser has known all this time.

UBUNTU has a birthday. Thank you Al Gore, we think.

1. Men are like Laxatives
They irritate the crap out of you.
2Men are like Bananas
The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like Weather
Nothing can be done to change
them.
4.Men are like Blenders
You need One, but you're not quite sure
why.
5.Men are like Chocolate Bars
Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right
for your hips.
6.Men are like Commercials
You can't believe a word they say.
7.Men are like Department Stores
Their clothes are always 1/2 off!
8.
Men are like Government Bonds
...... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9.Men are like Mascara ... They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10.Men are like Popcorn ... They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11.Men are like Snowstorms ,,, You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12.Men are like Lava Lamps ... Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13.Men are like Parking Spots ... All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.