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09/20/09 02:48 AM #203     Derrick Hagler I was walking down the road heading to 2-A-Days my first year in Farmersville. These guys pull over and ask if I need a ride. Three strangers in a "land-cruiser" with a pitchfork on the back floorboard and I'm thinking to myself, what the hell am I doing here? Little did I know then that I had just met a few of the many people that were to become important, influential & lifelong friends. You realize how fortunate you are when 20 years later you still see & do things with those same people except now they are part of your family and you a part of theirs. I've met others along the way that seem lost because they never made those bonds, never quite fit in and come and go over the years. I think to myself was it luck that brought me to the ville or was it something more?

09/21/09 12:30 PM #204     Rusty Brackett Taco Rolls (melted cheese inside) with the packages of taco sauce Crispitos Getting seconds in eighth grade. There were almost fights over getting in line first. No bake cookies (choc/oatmeal) Anyone remember working in the lunch room in 4th grade? Doris Tarrant (God rest her soul) was a slave driver.

09/21/09 02:01 PM #205     Renee Latimer (Flint) how about the taco sauce on the pizza rolls. nicole, remember when several of us were at your house and we wanted to go riding around and i was the only one 16 and didn't have a car? you convinced your dad i new how to drive a stick, so he would let us take out the celica. he went outside with us and stayed until we left. i sat in the driver seat while you sat on the console to reach the clutch and all. now that we're older, has he ever told you he knew what we were doing? it had to have been obvious! i remember one year while waiting at the f'ettes tryouts, we were sitting in a little huddle and carla wright was making us all laugh so hard with her @@@@ noises. does any one else remember that? she always made us laugh. someone else who always made us laugh... chriti taylor. i remember you with your wild hair barking at the freshmen. you introduced me to patsy cline and i sing her songs all the time to my baby.

09/21/09 11:02 PM #206     Chris Spain food.. crispitos movie.. Purple Rain.. Inspiration, Rockin Music, and my Pornography all wrapped into a single badass flick... fav teacher.. Mrs. Page.. she was more than a teacher to me.. after losing my dad in 8th grade I was lost, and life was a struggle... and although I tried to rebel and make everyone hate me, she didn't .. she listened.. she helped.. she was patient.. she never quit on me.. I don't think that it's a coincidence that I am a computer programmer making a good living with no more education than what she taught me and I taught myself.

09/22/09 08:34 AM #207     Beau Bridges Those taco rolls were good but you had to take into consideration what day of the week it was. If it was a Thursday then you were good because football practice was light those days but on a Monday or Tuesday with a heavy practice and a greasy ass taco roll sitting on you stomach......ugh, it made for a miserable time. I remember in elementary school they had that pencil vending machine with pencils of all the pro football teams and I would put all my money in trying to get a Cowboys one. And every time you went in the bathroom, there was Troy the janitor dropping the kids off at the pool and there were no doors on the stalls. Nasty! I can't say that my favorite teacher was my mom because I could never get away with anything in her class without hearing about it at home, but I definately enjoyed it when she was the cheerleading and drill team coordinator and all the girls had to come to the house to get their uniforms. Ahh yeah, good times.

09/22/09 09:39 AM #208     Rusty Brackett Favorite teachers: Elementary Ms. Hunt, Mrs. Spain, and Mrs. Hemby (she had mostly boys in 4th grade/had a paddle with "Red Hot") Middle: Mrs. Bishop (favorite all time/great personality, made it fun) Mrs. Highsmith High school Mr Morrison-prepared me for college Coach Leinart's biology Mrs. Page *others left out but these always come to mind Good call, Beau, on Troy dropping the deuce. Remember James the janitor in middle school and Martha. Shane Mauldin once wrote her a juicy love letter and flirted with her. She told the principal. How about Mrs. Clay's coffee/Winston cig breath.

09/22/09 10:18 AM #209     Chris Spain LMAO!!! I had forgot about all that stuff, but as soon as you reminded me I remembered and visualized it all. The brain is a funny thing. How it can keep those memories all stored away and never accessed. Some of those things ya'll are talking about happened in elementary school. Remember how big that hallway at Tatum seemed when we were going to school. Going back in High School for that talent show freaked me out. Oh yea.. about the pencils.. I still have several of the football pencils. No Steelers because Evans always was willing trade whatever for them. Seems like Rusty always wanted the Oilers?

09/22/09 11:43 AM #210     Sam Day LMAO!!! Ms. Clay smoking those nasty cigarettes! Uggghhh....She would walk into that little broom closet inside of that classroom and puff a whole pack down during class and then walk back out and as the door opened that nasty smoke would just roll out into the classroom!

09/22/09 12:34 PM #211     Rusty Brackett You would avoid asking Mrs. Clay any kind of question b/c her breath would make you sick. I can still smell it to this day. Also, you didn't want to make her mad or she would tell "Max" (her husband). The mind is amazing. I can still visualize every class I was in at all schools. Especially Tatum. David Brewer running up the slope in the hallway by Ms. Hunt's room trying to get to the rest room. He puked in the hall b/c we were dipping Copenhagen at recess. Of course, the playground. Beau's wrist. Sitting in the flower box if you got in trouble. Manuel Torres out throwing everyone tossing rocks. Playing tackle football. Chicken Fights. Jump rope for heart. The memories are endless. Remember the old vending machine. The cup would drop, fill with ice, and the soda would pour. We also figured out if you pushed your 10 cents in the pencil machine slowly enough, you would get around 6 pencils. Yes, Chris, Robert Norman and I had a contest on Houston Oilers pencils. Chris. Do you remember having to listen to those tapes in Mr. Schkade's office during lunch? I think it was you, me, Jeff, and Craig.

09/22/09 12:58 PM #212     Chris Spain Skade's tapes... LOL that sucked so bad for a while then they stopped paying attention to us after a while and we goofed off.. What the hell kind of punishment was that? Considering the lick contest we were having, beating us became a reward we could go back and brag about. I guess the torture of boredom was a desperate reach for a punishment. That's really kind of funny to anaylize what Skade must of been thinking to decide to do that. How the hell did he pull that idea out his ass? That monolithic voice on the cassette tapes using a subliminal brain washing. WTF? THATS SO CLASSIC I WANT A COPY OF THOSE TAPES!!! Do you remember any subject names or subject matter I might could search on? I would love to hear some of them now as an adult and understand what all that was about.

09/22/09 01:05 PM #213     Chris Spain there is something about the 8th grade that I have never gotten over... I'm currious if anyone else can remember this without an explanation. CoaCoa Nursty hahaha CoaCoa Nursty Puff anyone else remember the 2 perpetrators of this saying?

09/22/09 01:11 PM #214     Beau Bridges Chris, that saying was the work of one Ross Stooksberry. I distinctly remember hearing it fir the first time in Mrs. Clay's class.

09/22/09 01:27 PM #215     Beau Bridges Man! This is making me remember all kinds of stuff from back in the day! I remember Rusty and Addington in 8th grade chasing each other around the lunch room just so they could get busted and gets licks for that contest. I think that they were up to 80 or so for the year. And I have to confess something about the pencil machine in Tatum. Once Kyle and I took my moms master key up there in the summer or one of the holiday breaks and got the key to that thing out of the office and took all the teams we wanted. I guess the statute of limitations is out on that particular crime. Does anyone remember me getting busted in 8th grade with all the answers to every science test for the year? That was not a fun day for me when I got home. But what kid wouldn't have done the same? Looking back I think how stupid it was since I was good at science anyway. What about when Rusty had his jaw wired shut from flipping his truck? That had to suck.

09/22/09 01:38 PM #216     Beau Bridges And I used to love working the cafeteria in Tatum, unless your duty was scrapping food off the trays or working that dishwasher. Handing out milk was the sweetest gig. And remember they used to give us snacks during the day? Only they were either chopped peanuts unsalted, whole salted peanuts or cotton seeds! Try giving a kid cotton seeds and telling him 'enjoy'. They used to give me five dollars to walk down to McClouds to buy a piece of gum for everyone in the class and I could always pick one person to go with me, but I can't remember for the life of me anyone in particular that I took. Does anyone remember that?

09/22/09 02:08 PM #217     Rusty Brackett Beau's favorite moments Rusty getting hit in the "nuts" and yelling...in football. Rusty flipping his dad's truck and having his jaw wired shut for 6 weeks. Is there a pattern here? ...And all this time I thought you liked me. (Laughs) I guess I did mention your injury on the tractor tire.

09/22/09 02:12 PM #218     Beau Bridges Nuthin but love for ya man. Nuthin but love. They're just memorable.

09/22/09 02:14 PM #219     Chris Spain beau, i went with you once to get the gum, but I think I remember you picking Craig most of the time.. from 7th grade on, the most important thing to me and I assume most of the guys, was girls and sex It never seises to amaze me the new things I find out on this subject matter that I never knew 20 years later over a drink. Can't wait for the reunion... ;)

09/22/09 02:47 PM #220     Rusty Brackett Love you too man. Let's keep this going. Math addition contest in 3rd grade, Mrs Leinart's class. Kelly Jarmon always whooped my butt. You would go around the room, head to head, until you lost. Mrs. Reavis' paddle "Cute little deer with a bear behind it." James Grant stealing milk in the lunch line in M. S. and passing it under the table. We had a good system. I remember you having the test answers. Who was it that wrote down the answers to a different test and missed almost every questions? We had a good thing going until that happened. Mr. Leech's "study skills" class in 8th. Some of us got caught dipping Skoal Bandits. Mr. Schkade lit us up.

09/22/09 03:38 PM #221     Beau Bridges That was Tony Driggs and Jason smith that got me busted. They came and got me from coach Pryors' class out by the field house and I knew immediately what it was about. We convinced them it was only on 2 tests when it was more like 5 so I guess we're lucky.

09/22/09 04:54 PM #222     Beau Bridges Remember HODAT?

09/22/09 05:30 PM #223     Beau Bridges Ok, last thing. I remember in middle school we used to have to put any leftover food in one trashcan so they could give it to the pigs at the ag barn. Then they made us stop because it was determined that the food the fed us wasn't fit for pigs consumption.

09/22/09 06:56 PM #224     Jeff Addington Chris I believe it was you that made me a Rusty get more licks because of the thud Mr. Skade heard when he hit you. I think you had on like 4 pairs of shorts.

09/23/09 09:36 AM #225     Rusty Brackett Mr. Schkade brought me in his office, shut the door, and said "Drop your drawers Brackett." He then got all of us and said "Let's see if I can get through these shorts." Those were the hardest licks I ever got. I remember going in the bathroom afterwards. I had a bruise across my butt. Remember he always said "You're checking my oil" or "You're monkeying with me." We left the basketball game the night before after he specifically told us not to. We went to the cemetery and played war or something like that. Jeff, I believe you dominated in licks 8th grade year. You finished the year in a blaze of glory with the pulling of the fire extinguisher in the hallway. Classic.

09/23/09 10:19 AM #226     Chris Spain hey Jeff.. long time no see.. I don't think that cemetary thing was tied to the tapes though. What did we do to cause Skade to try and kill us with Boredom at lunches? I can not remember.

09/23/09 10:50 AM #227     Rusty Brackett I don't remember either. Maybe it was just a series of events. He probably knew more about things we were doing in and out of school than we thought at the time. Remember also that he always referred to us as the "Slobberknockers" because of athletics. I still have a note he wrote me my senior year. In my opinion he was a great man and a positive influence for me in my teen years. I have a lot of respect for him, and how he handled us as a group. We definitely "checked his oil". Same goes for Coach Pryor. Yeah, the tapes were kind of worthless, but at least he cared enough about us to try a different approach. He could have easily just expelled us. I definitely get some of my teaching/coaching style from both of them.

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