The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 93, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1996 Page: 12 of 36
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Friday, December 20, 1996
The Boerne Star
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43 TXism: "cut __
some slack"
33 take home pay
34 TX Constitution
sect, number that
grants oil rights
38 this Keenan was
Digger on "Dallas"
40 hitting a cowboy
with a gun (2 wds.)
42 the "Wink Sink,"
"Kermit Crater," or
"Guacamole__"
43 this "Skip" was TX
educ. commissioner
singer Ketchum
25 TXism: "fits like
scales__fish"
26 TX AG Morales is
a Harvard ___
School graduate
27 Emmitt has _____
off the field often
28 Steinbeck's TX wife
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“Good,” Cameron said. “Too
much money?”
“No, I think we spooked the exec-
utives a little on that scene idea with
Barney floating along the rainbow
singing John Lennon....a little
too...drug like.”
“That’s why the car was brought
in.”
“What car?”
“You know, the one the ghost of
Christmas Future drives. No floating
needed.”
“Oh that’s right, exactly. Now I
wonder if there’s any money in a
brand name there...”
stern ivy
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45 TXism: "a __piece"
48 "Eagles" TX Don
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37 Crystal City has
statue of cartoon
_______Popeye
44 he killed a rare albino
buffalo near Snyder
45 hunt for food
46 TX town or Bible garden
47 TXism: "not__
___nickle" (worthless)
49 tiered
50 cable network news
source for many Texans
51 "shop '__you drop"
52 to Beaumont from Houston
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16 "bear in Spanish" 8
17 TXism: "couldn't ■
___under
a sitting hen" (dumb)
20 _ Braunfels, TX
22 Texans thought 55
mph was this (2 wds.)
24 TX country
12 TXism: "call __the
cavalry" (get help)
13 TXism for "also"
(2 wds.)
14 TXism: "scarce as
a wildcatter with _
___balance"
15 TX pro football
Hall-of-Famer Yale
June 26, 1986
• The Ingenhuett Homestead, the
old Ingenhuett-Faust Hotel and the
old Comfort Post Office were
awarded historical markers this
week. The three buildings were all
remodeled when Dr. and Mrs. Potter
purchased the property in 1984.
• Kendall County 4-H Range
Team walked away with top honors
at the State 4-H Judging Contest
held in College Station.
The team includes Brad Spenrath,
Chuck Ely, Kip Giles and Hoyt
Seidensticker.
• Benedictine nuns showed up
with a standing room only delega-
tion Monday night.
But their efforts to discourage a
proposal to construct a new water
tower at the northeast corner of
Highland and School Streets failed
during a meeting of the Boerne City
Council.
derful. It could work, if Pretty were
backed up by sack-toting elves.”
"Will work. Do it.”
The secretary made a mental note
and nodded.
Nixon stopped him at the door.
“Oh, and we’ll need ID.”
“ID sir?”
“Yeah, ID. Santa. I want
a real DMV thing, nothing
faked.”
“Right. I’ll get right on
it.”
“Drive?”
“...the future he sees what his love
will bring—a happy family of chil-
dren, some natural born, some
adopted and from other races, that
are sharing a bountiful meal at the
dinner table.”
“Wait wait wait...how does all this
make the old greedy guy repent, you
know, turn good and all.”
“He’s already good.”
“Already good.”
“Yeah. This isn’t a story about
change so much as a story about the
changes love and kindness can bring
about.”
“But what about the possibilities?
If you take away possibilities you
cheapen the story, you lose the
meaning.”
“Possibilities,” the director said
raising his eyebrows, “are the seeds
of that ambiguity I was speaking
about before. Clarity is what we
want.” The director could tell that
Cameron was down. “By the way, I
have some news that might cheer
you up. We’ve decided not to pur-
chase the Beatles’ rights.”
It was good news for Cameron,
who began to sicken on the idea of
ments were the political sentiments,
aspirations and possibly detailed
plans of the Left, put unwittingly
into words by their little brats—soon
to be Socialists. Heck, they may
even have some dirt, references to...”
“It’s a matter of scale,” the secre-
tary said. “In other words, how do
you abscond that many documents.”
“Sometimes I wonder why I pay
you people. It’s simple. Get Pretty in
a Santa suit, with the fat and all, and
give him a big knapsack.”
The secretary wanted to kiss the
Christmas President. “Not bad...In fact, won-
“Go figure,” Mom said. “Anyway, Barney singing “All you need is
on the way down to darken love...”
Christmas, will you remember to
pick up a card for Aunt
Cara. She’s had a rough
time with the gout.”
enlighten anyone. All the pagans are
doing is lighting a bunch of can-
dles—big deal. The Temple initiates
will be erecting a black-flocked pine
with obsidian ornaments fashioned
into the shape of a black ram. It’s
allegorical in the sense...”
“Al Gore?”
“All-e-gor-i-cal, Mom.”
Mom breathed deeply herself. “No
light, I suppose.”
“Of course not. Instead of shed-
ding light, it will envelope it. Why
illuminate when you can be illumi-
nated.”
“Why what?”
“Look Mom, there’s nothing
wrong with the white, with the light,
but that’s another life. This is my
sponge life. I want to drown
myself.”
“Sponges don’t drown, . god
they live under water." ,
The idea actually fasci-T .”.
nated Helena for a few"
moments when she envisioned
sponges living on the ocean bottom,
already saturated with liquid but liv-
ing in its midst. But she snapped
back to her reality. “I was speaking
in an figurative sense.”
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1 • Lillian Booth of Comfort placed
first in the Kendall Soil and Water
Conservation District essay contst
and second in area II in the Texas
awards contest. Pamela Flach and
Michael Livingston, also of
Comfort, placed second and third.
, • The Boerne Class of 1971 vale-
dictorian was Denise Zoeller.
Phyllis Sanders was salutatorian.
• • Tears are the safety valve of the
heart when too much pressure is laid
on it - Albert Smith.
May 23, 1946
• Infantile paralysis has hit 26
Texas counties with 47 cases report-
ed through May 4, according to the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
• In order to comply with the
Polio prevention regulations, the
Cascade Theatre will remain closed
until Monday, May 27.
. On that date the show will reopen
and allow patrons only over 21 yeas
of age. This restriction will remain
in force until the regulations are lift-
ed. - Cascade Theatre, H.L.
D’Spain, owner.
• O.P.A. Wednesday raised retail-
price ceilings for 16 makes of new
autos from $33 to $167 to offset
higher costs of steel, other materials
and parts.
The increase ranges from four to
eight percent about preset ceilings,
the average being about $75.
‘ Three despicable
scenes unraveled.
JTeelena wished her
II mom would stop
addressing
—----Christmas cards to her old-
life name. “Uhh...‘Mary’
is so old-life.” Then the
phone rang, and Helena
sensed it was the woman
herself, the Mom.
“Hello dear,” Mom said.
“How are you doing?”
“I imagine you’ve already
read the papers,” Helena
replied.
“Since your so intent to
get to the point...why yes, I
did read them, and I have to
tell you it won’t do your
father any good to see you traipsing
around in robes blaspheming the
Lord.”
“I really shouldn’t spend the time
defending myself,” Helena said, “but
I’ll try...for papa’s benefit.” She
picked up the San Francisco
Chronicle and read over the headline
again:
Temple Priestess fights for public
recognition:
East Bay woman says her ‘faith’
should share spotlight with
Christians, Jews and pagans.
Mom butt in. “Before you try, tell
me why you have to bother with
your fad when the pagans will
already be there?”
Helena squeezed the phone and
twirled the cord around her pointer
finger. “Look, Mom, the City of
Berkeley offers public space to these
different faiths and is therefore pro-
moting them. We—we being the
Temple—simply want equal time.
It’s not even a matter of tax money.
It’s a matter of recognizing the dif-
ferent cultural and spiritual lives of
Berkeley...in their entirety.”
“A pagan’s a pagan,” Mom said.
“I knew you wouldn’t understand.
You never have.”
“Try to enlighten me.”
Helena breathed deeply. “That’s
the point, Mom, we’re not out to
38 in San Antonio:
Sea ___
29 this Thurmond was 39 TX poet Naomi
nominated in TX by Shihab ---
States Rights Party 41 TXism: pulled the
30 "Dallas" was prime ---over his eyes
time ___opera
ACROSS
1 TXism: "wearing
nothing__
smile" (naked)
5 TXism: "happy as _
__in a candy store"
6 Big -___Nat. Park
7 "do it or _____!"
8 LLano is the "___
_______Texas"
18 TXism: ”___rattle
the President sat hunched over
a legal pad doodling the
A words “No Good” in several
different configurations. He felt a
small spittle of drool sliding down
his chin and went to wipe it, but
found nothing there.
A White House aide
awoke him. “Mr.
Nixon...I’ve got those
figures you wanted.”
The President was in
no mood for figures. His
head popped to attention
and he barked, “Get me
more detailed figures.”
The aide scurried out the
door backwards.
Then the secretary—he couldn’t
tell if it was the one under or over—
came in and plopped down in the
chair in front of his desk. “Such
cockiness,” he thought.
. “You wanted to see me,” the sec-
fetary said.
. Nixon dug his pen into the pad and
was about to dismiss the man, but
changed his mind. “Why yes, I did.
Tell me, whata you have on the letter
thing.”
: “I’ve got a lot.”
i “Such as...”
1 “Such as the blueprints, the low-
down on the security guard...Heck, I
even got a key.”
■ Nixon’s eyes gleamed and he
rocked back in his leather chair.
"Good. I want it taken care of.”
J “Meaning....”
' “Meaning get me copies of the let-
ters.”
’“That is one problem, Mr.
President...since the national office
Of the Santa’s Letters Foundation
alone is expecting about 56,000 let-
ters."
’ “And?”
, “So I’m not sure...well, I’m rather
sure there’s no way to get copies of
all those documents.” The secretary
fidgeted.
Nixon leaned the chair forward
and glared. “Grrrr. There’s got to be
a way. Get Mr. Pretty on it.” a
“That is the word from
Pretty...sir."
■ “Well then take the suckers, all of
them."
: “You want to steal 56,000 letters?”
' “I didn’t say steal.” Nixon started
to breathe through his nose. "Oh
these arrogant little bureaucrats,” he
thought. “I bet they’d love to be sit-
ting where I am.” He knew he had to
have them. Mixed in those docu-
g 1 ameron took a test
■ bite of a dark
chocolate candy left
in his dressing room.
“Ahhg. Too bitter,” he said
and chucked it at the waste
paper basket across the
room. It bounced off the
rim and fell on the floor.
The Barney suit sat in the corner
staring at him, so he went over and
picked up the candy and let it roll off
his fingers into the basket. “I used to
love dark chocolate,” he thought. He
flicked his tongue out at the suit.
“That thing must be rubbing off on
me.”
The director burst through the
door. “Almost ready? Why your not
even suited up.”
“Ahhh. I just wanted to go over
the story line a bit more.”
“Don’t bother,” the director said,
and hurried over to examine the
Barney suit, a humongous mass of
pink hung on a specially-designed
12-foot rack. “We’ve changed the
plot a bit, just a little bit, and you’ll
have to incorporate the changes on
the go, so to speak.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, it was a little too scary, a
little to dreary and a little too
ambiguous...you know what I mean?
“No.”
“It’s just a few changes. For
instance, when the old guy goes to
Christmas past, he sees the love and
cheer that he’s spread and how it’s
fostered the loving atmosphere of
the present...”
“I don’t think...”
“And when the ghost of Christmas
Future drives him to...”
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22 TXism: "the ___is
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23 A&M BB coach Tony
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30 ___Pictures makes
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31 Cowboy Dave who's 2 instrument played
now head Bear (init.) by TX Ginger Rogers
32 TXism: "couldn't drive 3 X-mas tree material
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bank" (incompetent) his fingers & toes
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fancy to" (attracted) "Savior of the Alamo"
35 this Ames played 10 Washington wasn't
Daniel Boone (init.) a Texan cause he
36 Austin politicos couldn't "tell___"
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