At 09:19 PM 1/31/2004, you wrote:<<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58473-2004Jan28.html?nav=hptop_tb>>
Can we start calling you The Ronn! like the other list member who posits links with no info about why we might want to read them?
Course, I don't read The Idiot's posts anyway
Kevin T.- VRWC Wondering if it's about p*rn st*r
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No, the deep psychological rumbling in the nation's fourth-largest city is unrelated to Super Bowl plans, Super Bowl parties or Super Bowl football. Rather, Houstonians are fretting that tens of thousands of visitors and fans will sweep into town for Sunday's game only to find the Bayou City . . . super-ugly.
"People who move to Houston fall in love with this place, but before you get here you have a lot of misconceptions -- is it prairie? Is it a swamp? What the hell is it?" said Don Henderson, a native Chicagoan who arrived in Houston a decade ago and is now vice president and managing director of the Hyatt Regency Houston, as well as a key figure in the city's Super Bowl Host Committee. "Maybe more than any other city I've been in, people here care what [visitors] think of them. . . . Sure, it's insecurity."
Already, snarky out-of-towners are making comments. "Featureless terrain, uncontrolled sprawl, billboard-cluttered freeways," sniffed the Dallas Morning News. That reminded Houstonians of the New York Post's screaming headline about the city a decade ago: "This Place Is a Hellhole!"
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Thought Some Of The Texans Here Might Want To Weigh In Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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