# Tell me, Texmam, are you in show business? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010 "2010-06-21T18:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/21 "2010-06-21T20:06:50Z")
Taggart, via ABC Family: “I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City horses.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/22 "2010-06-21T20:08:22Z")
“Think about your secretary.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/23 "2010-06-21T20:11:34Z")
These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know. Morons. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/24 "2010-06-21T20:18:35Z")
Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Hello boys, have a good night’s rest? I missed you! ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/25 "2010-06-21T20:21:03Z")
I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes! Wait, that’s wrong. A drink like that, he gonna die. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/26 "2010-06-21T20:21:58Z")
You’d do it for Randolph Scott. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/27 "2010-06-21T23:29:28Z")
Isn’t anyone going to help that poor man? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/28 "2010-06-21T23:42:21Z")
Hedley Lamarr: Wait a minute… there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching! [grabs a law book] Hedley Lamarr: Land, land… “Land: see Snatch.” [flips back several pages] Hedley Lamarr: Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/29 "2010-06-21T23:44:17Z")
It is my privilege to extend a laurel, and hearty handshake… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/30 "2010-06-21T23:48:57Z")
**Bart** : _Are we awake?_ **Jim** : _We’re not sure. Are we… black?_ **Bart** : _Yes, we are._ **Jim** : \*Then we’re awake… but we’re very puzzled. \* ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/31 "2010-06-21T23:55:28Z")
> [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](#): > > More schnitzengruben? Man, them schnitzengrubens can really wipe you out! ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/32 "2010-06-22T00:26:28Z")
Sorry about the “up yours, nigger.” ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/33 "2010-06-22T00:55:41Z")
> [@shantih](#): > > Isn’t anyone going to help that poor man? Hush **shantih** , that’s a sure way to get him killed! ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/34 "2010-06-22T01:01:53Z")
You watch your ass ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/35 "2010-06-22T01:12:51Z")
Harrumph! Harrumph! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/36 "2010-06-22T02:17:57Z")
Wargamer Johnson’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn\_K\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Shawn\_K\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn_K_1)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/37 "2010-06-22T03:05:22Z")
Hold it! Next man makes a move the nigger gets it!! ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/38 "2010-06-22T03:15:30Z")
He’p me! He’p me! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/39 "2010-06-22T04:10:53Z")
Raisinets! ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-texmam-are-you-in-show-business/544010/40 "2010-06-22T04:18:16Z")
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