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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 05:17 PM
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Would it fucking kill ZZ Top to say what state their songs take place in?
I just got back from LaGrange, Georgia.

The air was not fine.

The were no nice girls, er, hookers.

Worst damn trip of my entire life.

How the fuck was I supposed to know they were talking about LaGrange, Texas.

:mad: :mad: :mad:
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 05:39 PM
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1. Yeah, I'll bet LaGrange Texas is a veritable paradise ...
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 06:32 PM
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5. Did you listen to the fucking song?
The air is fine.

They got a lot of nice girls there.

What more could you possibly want?
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 06:46 PM
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6. I want a Polka Lover's Club of Texas
and it turns out, they've got it in LaGrange! :woohoo:

POLKA LOVERS CLUB OF TEXAS

Mission: To provide a facility for the preservation of the history of polka music, song and dance with displays of memorabilia associated with the Club; to recognize supporters of the mission, provide a facility where visitors may both listen to and dance polka music; and to operate as an outreach facility for the education of future generations in the promotion of polka music and dance.

The Polka Lovers Club of Texas Museum located in the restored late 1870’s Anton, Jr. and Elizabeth Bruse Hoelscher haus in the Texas Czech Village on the grounds of the 70-acre Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center in La Grange, TX opened for visitors on May 13, 2006.

Tour hours are: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
On weekdays by appointment and 24 hours’ notice.

Call the Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center (TCHCC) at 979-968-9399 or 1-888-785-4500.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 06:49 PM
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7. A Polka Lovers Club and a whorehouse
La Grange is indeed a veritable paradise.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 06:49 PM
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8. Oh, so that's what they're calling 'em these days?
Do you still need a ten to get yourself in? :P
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:12 PM
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10. You want a poke-ah, you pay ten doll-ah
:D
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 05:47 PM
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2. But now I might be mistaken, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
They are known as that little 'ol band from Texas, are they not?
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pulledpork Donating Member (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 05:53 PM
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3. The song does tell you
In the opening line, in fact:

Rumour spreadin' a-'round in that Texas town
'bout that shack outside La Grange
and you know what I'm talkin' about.
Just let me know if you wanna go
to that home out on the range.
They gotta lotta nice girls ah.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 06:02 PM
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4. I never understood what they were saying in that first stanza
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txwhitedove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:03 PM
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9. Yes, Texas. Except the Chicken Ranch was closed down some time ago, as in
"Best Little Whorehouse in Texas".
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:19 PM
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11. try to keep up.
next thing you'll be saying you thought they were a rolling paper.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 07:38 PM
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12. They just wanted to be at the end of the bin back when record stores existed
Back in the 70s the only albums I owned were by Abba and ZZ Top.
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 09:49 AM
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13. Oh, there's a few ho's in LaGrange.
You just have to look for them. :P

Oh, and I think they have an Appleby's. What more do you need, taterguy?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 09:53 AM
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14. ZZ Top-The little ol' band from TX wasn't a clue?
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 09:53 AM
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15. Sometimes they do
"Deep in the South of Texas Not so long ago, There on a crowded island In the Gulf of Mexico" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4yR2BciEnc
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 10:27 AM
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16. Half the fun is not knowing.
Well, 47.3% of the fun, anyway.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 12:58 PM
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17. and Jesus just left which Chicago?
Chicago IL?
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 01:20 PM
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18. LaGrange, Arkansas was no pic-a-nic either, my friend
Population 122 and not a hooker in sight.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 01:39 PM
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19. All of their songs take place in a state of altered consciousness...
...occasionally crossing the border into a state of grace.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 01:59 PM
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20. You must've been in the wrong part of LaGrange, Georgia. They got a lot a nice girlsa.
I think they're Muslim, however, cause of the way they keep on lookin' to the east.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 02:06 PM
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21. The Chicken Ranch was shut down in 1973, thanks to Marvin Zindler.
That was the summer of Elmer Wayne Henley showing the cops bodies, in the biggest mass murder in the U.S. up to that time.

Dean Corll was the murderer and his house in Pasadena, TX, was about a mile from my parents' house where I grew up.

ZZ Top is from houston.

Then there's China Grove, Texas, immortalized in the Doobie Brothers song. It's south of San Antonio.

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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-11 03:58 PM
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22. And the chlorine tanker wreck that gassed motorists on the freeway (trapped by fencing)
And the Candyman who killed his child and a neighbor's with poisoned Pixie Sticks in the Bowling Green subdivision of Deepwater Pasadena.

What was the name of the guy the cops handcuffed and tossed in Buffalo Bayou to drown? (wait, Google) Jose Campos Torres.

There was more...

The 1970s in Houston.
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