Monday, January 18, 2010

Rick cracks joke about the drag next to UT's campus...

If you have ever walked or even driven on Guadalupe next to the University of Texas at Austin campus you know about drag worms or drag rats... and how lively and crazy the street can be... even with the old hippies who never left after arriving 40 years ago...

Rick cracked a joke at their expense at an event last week (link). Excerpt follows...

Former U.S. Education Secretary Bill Bennett, a darling of conservatives, introduced Gov. Rick Perry today at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's legislative conference in Austin.

"I gotta think Austin's changed a bit since you were here -- what year was that, Bill?" Perry deadpanned.

"Sixty-six," replied Bennett (right, 2005 AP photo), who earned a Ph.D. at the University of Texas.

Perry, warming to his diehard conservative audience: "Sixty-six, oh, man, has it ever! I promise you! Driving down Guadalupe in 1966 was kinda interesting, wasn't it? It was quite a place -- still pretty interesting." (Laughter.)

Perry continued: "In fact, I think there's some people that were there in '66 still there." (Loud laughter.)

It is funny cuz it's true... although it has become more up scale in recent years... there are still smelly drag people who look like they have lived there for generations... selling hand made goods or heat lamp grown herbs... if you know what I mean...

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