Ah, we call them cowpats
I read the news today oh boy! Page 642
Yeah, DaButt, you wrong'n.
The state just raised the speed limit to 75 MPH on another 1500 miles of Texas highways. That makes more than 3500 miles of 75+ MPH highways in the state; the rest are mostly 70. It's a blessing when your state is almost 900 miles wide.
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/texas-politics/2012/01/want-to-drive-75-here-you-go/
Quote: AJGO @ January 26 2012, 8:55 PM GMTAh, we call them cowpats
That's one of the many names they go by here. The question is: do you have throwing contests?
Not official ones that I know of but maybe a country person can tell us more
I can quite imagine they do that somewhere. Probably Devon...
Quote: DaButt @ January 26 2012, 9:03 PM GMTThe state just raised the speed limit to 75 MPH on another 1500 miles of Texas highways. That makes more than 3500 miles of 75+ MPH highways in the state; the rest are mostly 70. It's a blessing when your state is almost 900 miles wide.
I got a ticket in Arizona in 1982 for doing 62mph. I think the limit in the USA was 55 then?
Anyway the case came up the week after I arrived home so I wasn't there ! 
But as Bill Cosby said (was it?) tickets are like savings bonds, they accumulate in value over the years so I reckon I now owe about one fifth of the US budgetary deficit !
Quote: DaButt @ January 26 2012, 8:53 PM GMTJust what it sounds like: throwing a dried disc of cow poop as far as you can.
Wash your hands before having your Rice Crispies . .
Quote: Oldrocker @ January 26 2012, 9:28 PM GMTI got a ticket in Arizona in 1982 for doing 62mph. I think the limit in the USA was 55 then?
Anyway the case came up the week after I arrived home so I wasn't there !
Yeah, the federal government enacted a national 55 MPH speed limit in 1973 that was designed to save fuel but failed to do so and only pissed off the populace. They returned the power to set speed limits to the individual states about 20 years later.
If you ignored a court date and didn't pay the fine you might want to be careful about visiting again. If it's in a computer somewhere you'll be arrested if you have further dealings with American cops. It's probably an old enough citation that it no longer exists anywhere but modern records don't go away and would probably bar you from entering the country.
Quote: zooo @ January 25 2012, 4:51 PM GMTClaire Goose
Zoe Salmon
Laura Haddock
Sandra Bullock
Quote: AJGO @ January 26 2012, 8:55 PM GMTAh, we call them cowpats
We call them 'plabbers'.
Quote: DaButt @ January 26 2012, 9:49 PM GMTIf you ignored a court date and didn't pay the fine you might want to be careful about visiting again.
And no Johnny Cash concert to cheer me up . . . . 
Quote: Oldrocker @ January 27 2012, 12:02 AM GMTAnd no Johnny Cash concert to cheer me up . . . .
There's always Willie Nelson ...
Quote: DaButt @ January 26 2012, 9:03 PM GMTThat's one of the many names they go by here. The question is: do you have throwing contests?
I can assure you DaButt, the British countryside is full of weird and wonderful rural past times - cheese rolling, welly tossing, cowpat throwing, incest, devil worship - it's got the lot.
Wherever you have a rural setting, young people, f**k all to do and enough land to grow a secret stash of dope - then you will get some creative rural past times.
Quote: DaButt @ January 27 2012, 12:06 AM GMTThere's always Willie Nelson ...
Hey! Saw him over here a couple of years ago ! Main man !
Quote: Oldrocker @ January 27 2012, 12:17 AM GMTHey! Saw him over here a couple of years ago ! Main man !
He's a Texas hero. He just lives up the road in Austin so he plays here once or twice a year. My neighbors and I went to see him a couple months ago at the same San Antonio dancehall that he's been playing for more than 50 years.
Quote: DaButt @ January 27 2012, 12:21 AM GMTHe's a Texas hero. He just lives up the road in Austin so he plays here once or twice a year. My neighbors and I went to see him a couple months ago at the same San Antonio dancehall that he's been playing for more than 50 years.
Does he always do the bandanna thing?
Y'know throwing it to the audience and then putting another one on x 20 !