My Favorite Decade

[Lisa]

You sold dirt to him? Hee! Okay, I'll bite - what do people buy dirt for? (Okay, I'm slow, whatever!)

[B_Metal]

Mostly to fill in holes but sometimes for plants and the like.

[Howard]

I was giving the product the more, well, inelegant term. I should have said soil. My first job in accounting, many moons ago, was working for a landscape supply company. In addition, I supervised inside sales/dispatch. HUGE business in Houston. We have 7 locations in Houston and if you didn't buy your soil/mulch/gravel from us, you were buying it from a retailer that bought it from us. About an 85% market share. So, Mr. Gibbons walked in to our Richmond (the city, not the street) location one Sat morning needing some fill (i.e. dirt/soil) for his farm. Fill is generally cheap stuff. Hence why I said dirt instead of soil.

[Lisa]

Aaah, I see! Now, soil I understand! Dirt, you totally threw me off!

[B_Metal]

Is it sad that I knew what he meant by dirt? *sad face*

[Howard]

Not at all. Lisa doesn't live in an area where landscaping is done year round. She has to goto a park for grass.

[B_Metal]

Oh yeahs. I forgot about that. We haz grass in Tejas.

[Lisa]

Not at all. Lisa doesn't live in an area where landscaping is done year round. She has to goto a park for grass.

It's true! "Nature hikes" around here mean hiking from the upper east side to the upper west side through Central Park! Not that I mind, but last summer, George and I went to this huge nursery so I could get a plant for my apartment, and I was like, "Cool, a jungle! Look, I'm behind this row of hydrangeas - RAWWRR!!!"

[BillyG]

ZZ Top story! I'm named after Billy Gibbons. My dad would play at the same clubs around town as them. When I was born I was sent a package from Billy Gibbons with baby sized shirts and caps.

[B_Metal]

I saw Billy Gibbons at a World Series game. Best Billy Gibbons story I got. *sad face*

[BillyG]

My girlfriend lives around the corner from Frank Beard. Dusty? An anomaly.

[Matt]

Hah! Another ZZ Top story: I lived in the same subdivision as Frank Beard (drummer) when I was in Houston. This was in one of the suburbs, Spring Branch, from around 1980-1983. The footprint of his house was easily the square footage of 6-8 regular sized houses, and he had a bunch of expensive sports cars in his driveway.

I never met him, but my brother saw him out and about several times.

[IggytheBorg]

Am I the only one who thinks it's way ironic that the only guy in ZZ Top w/o the crazy beard is NAMED beard?

[Lisa]

I think it's ironic that this many guys have ZZ Top stories on a reasonably small, cozy board!

[B_Metal]

It's all the Houston connections. Actually quite a few for a small board. I just wish I had a Gary Busey story since he's from my fair town.