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Haymaker- We Beat Texas on One Thing!!

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Anonymous

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I'm sure this must be because of all those drunken tourists we get :wink: :lol:

Montana leads nation in per-capita bar spending
By VINCE DEVLIN
Missoulian

It's a sobering statistic for New Year's Eve.

OK, "sober" might not have anything to do with it.


But Montana, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's economic census, leads the nation in per-capita spending at drinking establishments.
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But the last economic census showed that Montanans definitely like to belly up to the bar.

By dividing the revenue for alcohol sales at drinking establishments by the state's population, it works out to a figure of $258. That's what every man, woman and child in the state would have spent in drinking establishments in 2002 if every man, woman and child in the state drank.

Of course, not every man or woman, and hopefully none of the children, spent that amount in bars, which means some of us spent a lot more than $258.

The national average for per-capita spending at drinking establishments, by the way, was just $52. Forty-three states didn't even reach triple digits.

Only Montana, Nevada, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Wisconsin were over $100 in per-capita spending.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/31/news/state/32-census.txt
 

HAY MAKER

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Thats good news Old Timer,glad to see yall are living right,seems strange Texas aint in there somewhere.
Im counting the hours till the new year,gonna be dull around here because Im staying off the roads tonite ,to many damn drunks,like elmo said.........two things I caint stand.....A drunk when Im sober,or a sober when Im drunk :D
good luck & Happy New Year.
 
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Anonymous

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Yep-- I'm staying home tonite...Going to cook steak and shrimp for Grandma and me- and daughter and SIL...

I don't go out much on amateur night :wink:

My spies tell me our old buddy Jigs started early-- and is not heeding the moderation in everything advice....Here is a pic of jigs earlier tonite:

happy-old-man.jpg


:wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Happy New Year jigs-Haymaker and all the Ranchers crew......
 

jigs

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am I the old man or the hoochie mamma???


old Jigs is staying home tonight himself. one of the boys has a few pals over, so it will be movies and playstation tonight. the oldest daughter has a lock in at the school.... hope that is safe enough.

even gonna skip the annual night at the local pub. first time in a long long time I will not be ringing it in at Pinky's Bar and Grill.
 

lazy ace

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TTB and I are staying home also we are about 20 miles from two little towns and 50 from a little bigger town. It seems like all you get done on New Year's eve is driving around looking for people that are someplace else. Happy New year

have a cold one from our house to yours (and a safe one)

lazy ace
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Staying home as well tonight.

I remember one very cold New Years eve that we stayed home cause it was just to cold to travel. Sat up and watched a scary movie and about 1am Tam said some body was outside. Sure enough a young couple had car trouble about 2 miles down the road. The girl was about froze by the time she got here. A new years never goes by with me remembering that incident.

Happy New Years every one. :D
 

Soapweed

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Big Muddy rancher said:
Staying home as well tonight.

I remember one very cold New Years eve that we stayed home cause it was just to cold to travel. Sat up and watched a scary movie and about 1am Tam said some body was outside. Sure enough a young couple had car trouble about 2 miles down the road. The girl was about froze by the time she got here. A new years never goes by with me remembering that incident.

Happy New Years every one. :D

One New Year's Eve when Peach Blossom and I were newly married (probably about 1980), we had gone to a get-together at the JF Ranch. In the wee hours of the morning, we headed home on the 26 mile drive. The temperature was at about the 20 below zero mark. We were within a few miles from our ranch, when we came upon a stalled car in the middle of the road. We stopped and found Red Dunn (that was his real name) pretty well drunk and passed out. His car had quit so he just went to sleep. He just had on a light jacket, but with plenty of antifreeze in his system, he didn't seem to be too much the worse for wear.

We had along battery cables, and soon got his car started. He took off and within an eighth of a mile, his car conked out again. Once again, we got his automobile started. This time, I said, "Move over, Red. I will drive you home." Peach followed in our pickup, and I drove past our turn-off several miles down to the Minor Ranch, where Red was the official cook. He passed out again and slept until we got to the ranch. I woke him up to tell him we had arrived. He gurgled to life and slurred, "Thank you very much. Come on in and I will cook you up the biggest steaks on the ranch for breakfast." We politely declined and headed once again for home.

This particular road gets very little traffic. I think that had we not come along and rescued old Red, he may have been in fairly bad shape by the time the next vehicle might have happened along.

Red Dunn's main claim to fame was that at one time there was salad dressing on the market that he had invented. It was Red Dunn Salad Dressing. I haven't seen it on any grocery store shelves for years.
 
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