But it is nice to see him at the Astros games.

(12-05-2013 01:38 PM)JOwl Wrote:  George HW always seemed like a good guy. It's nice that he referred to Rice as "our school", and appreciated that Bailiff is "such a good man for our school" in his voicemail.

It's hard to watch him move so slowly at Astros games, though. He's looked like not a well man for a few years.

But it is nice to see him at the Astros games.

(12-05-2013 01:38 PM)JOwl Wrote:  George HW always seemed like a good guy. It's nice that he referred to Rice as "our school", and appreciated that Bailiff is "such a good man for our school" in his voicemail.

It's hard to watch him move so slowly at Astros games, though. He's looked like not a well man for a few years.

And he was a Phi Beta Kappa at Yale and the starting first baseman for a team that went to the final game of the College World Series so second in the nation.

(12-05-2013 11:16 PM)Barrett Wrote:  In the mid-90s, during the days leading up to the spring final exams, I and a study group were leaving the RMC, only to see a bunch of secret service guys and what looked to be a familiar looking woman, who were all entering the RMC. My mind clicked and I realized it was Barbara Bush. She stopped and chatted with us, and about ten seconds into it, her husband came up and joined in the conversation. He asked if we had all been in the RMC for some jazz class, and we said no, we had been studying. The former president then said, "I'm sure your parents are all proud of you. I should write them a note to tell them you're all studying so hard." GHWB was known to be a prolific letter/card writer, so part of me has since wondered if he would have actually written those notes but-for his inability to get details of names and addresses due to his being pushed along by his security detail. I later found out the reason he was on campus in the first place was to speak at the annual Phi Beta Kappa induction dinner (a trivial affair whose existence no one bothered to tell me about!).

I have always liked George H.W. He has always come across as, at his core, a truly decent human being.

(12-05-2013 09:22 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 08:45 PM)THRILL Wrote:  I have a great story about The President and Barbara , George W. loved it when I told it to him.


Go OWLS

Well?

You should be well aware by now that THRILL spends all of his time rubbing shoulders with the swells like the Bushes and won't waste his good stories with the hoi polloi like us.

(12-06-2013 03:04 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 09:22 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 08:45 PM)THRILL Wrote:  I have a great story about The President and Barbara , George W. loved it when I told it to him.


Go OWLS

Well?

You should be well aware by now that THRILL spends all of his time rubbing shoulders with the swells like the Bushes and won't waste his good stories with the hoi polloi like us.

I know. I know.

(12-06-2013 03:04 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 09:22 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 08:45 PM)THRILL Wrote:  I have a great story about The President and Barbara , George W. loved it when I told it to him.


Go OWLS

Well?

You should be well aware by now that THRILL spends all of his time rubbing shoulders with the swells like the Bushes and won't waste his good stories with the hoi polloi like us.

Swells? He's the cat's meow. Twenty-three skidoo.

(12-06-2013 03:04 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 09:22 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 08:45 PM)THRILL Wrote:  I have a great story about The President and Barbara , George W. loved it when I told it to him.


Go OWLS

Well?

You should be well aware by now that THRILL spends all of his time rubbing shoulders with the swells like the Bushes and won't waste his good stories with the hoi polloi like us.

Is Thrill a Bonesman?



Do we really want Thrill to answer that question?

(12-06-2013 05:38 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(12-06-2013 03:04 PM)Jonathan Sadow Wrote:  You should be well aware by now that THRILL spends all of his time rubbing shoulders with the swells like the Bushes and won't waste his good stories with the hoi polloi like us.

Is Thrill a Bonesman?

If there's a S&B at Rice, then it truly is a secret society. If you're just talking generally, that's best kept secret as well.

(12-05-2013 11:16 PM)Barrett Wrote:  I should write them a note to tell them you're all studying so hard." GHWB was known to be a prolific letter/card writer . . .

I have always liked George H.W. He has always come across as, at his core, a truly decent human being.

I have always heard those things about George H.W. as well.

In particular, some time in my early 20s I remember reading a comment from a colleague of his who said that Bush "wrote thank-you notes in response to thank-you notes." Some of you may be unsurprised to learn that since then, I have tried to model at least that part of my own conduct on his.

There was a George Strait concert at HRS back in the 90s, and I got two VIP seats. My date and I were noshing in the press box when I heard someone ask, "May we join you?" It was GHWB and Barbara, so of course we said yes. When they finished and excused themselves, after a very lively and pleasant conversation, I was thinking my date would be very impressed. Her comment was, "I think if I had been President of the United States, I could find a better barber."

(12-06-2013 05:38 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  Is Thrill a Bonesman?



Do we really want Thrill to answer that question?

I sure as hell wouldn't ask him that way...