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Article #405Re: Bring on the Swing
From: Benjamin J. Sloan
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <41549v$o71@sierra.onr.com>, C.Moss <cbm@onr.com> wrote: >Wake the hell up Austin! This is a great opportunity that is the city >will eventually regret if it doesn't happen. I for one am going to organize >a movement to bring this team to town and pave the way for more things of >this kind. Why don't you sell refundable season tickets to a few thousand like-minded folk? Then, take this money and your plan to every bank president in Austin and see if you can't get one of them to lend you some money. If it sounds like a good idea, I'm sure they'll be happy to finance it. Austin doesn't seem like a sports-minded town to me, so I can't imagine selling bonds for a ball park without a vote. Maybe the reason this isn't being put to a vote is that someone is afraid it wouldn't pass. >Austin is known as the clean air city. It's also probably the >most boring place to be in all of Texas! Ask anyone from Austin what there >is to do here - sixth street and that's all. And if you don't like to >hang out and drink, there's really not much else. Drink, or hear live music, or see art, or museums, or great libraries, or parks, pools, or springs, or eat out. You're right, we're pretty much screwed. Packing my bags for a vacation in glamorous Midland-Odessa, Ben -- Benjamin Sloan "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu but most stupid people are conservatives." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>-John Stuart Mill>>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1064d2,1b89b68bfa9014e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1064d2,public X-Google-Thread: 10b82c,1b89b68bfa9014e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b82c,public X-Google-Thread: ffea8,12c496ade263387b X-Google-Attributes: gidffea8,public From: ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu (Benjamin J. Sloan) Subject: Re: Bring on the Swing Date: 1995/08/19 Message-ID: <4158q2$f99@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> X-Deja-AN: 108494848 distribution: austin references: <40vvbp$c08@Sierra.onr.com> <414ger$66s@anarchy.io.com> <41549v$o71@sierra.onr.com> organization: House of Boiled Muskrats From Space reply-to: ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu newsgroups: austin.talk,austin.general,austin.music