Tracking TomInTib. (Tom's Early Years and Family Background)
First Some Family Background:
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-07-06 10:12 PM
Response to Reply #2
3. You bet! Only one slight problem..
I now live in California.
I am from around Houston, as well.
And my ancestors settled in what is now E Texas (Angelina County) in 1630.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-14-06 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #26
28. Thanks, txindy. I have been hunting with Legget. Great guy.
I am an original Texan (family in what is now Angelina County since 1630) and it is always good to see something positive on DU from our much-maligned home.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed May-21-08 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #5
6. Oh, I'm for real, all right.
One of my Father's friends blew up the Longview, Texas school bus yard the night before the first day of mandated integration of the Longview School District. Destroyed every bus in the yard.
I won't even tell you what my barber did.
My Great-Grandfather was the Sheriff of Angelina County, Texas for quite some time. He used to brag that any (substitute N-word, here) who was charged with a robbery or sexual assault against a White Person would never go to trial in his County.
He would just take 'em out into the Angelina Forest and come back alone.
I could tell at least a dozen more stories such as that one. Growing up in ultra-rural SE Texas will do that, you know.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-26-07 05:46 PM
Response to Reply #72
73. There's some bragging rights. But the first guy doesn't stand a chance.
My family comes from a clan of four families who settled in what is now Angelina County in 1630.
Yep, we were in Texas before the Mayflower landed.
The first Anglo families south of the Red and west of the Sabine.
We still have two of our original Grants.
I am the only person in my huge family (going back to second cousins, anyway) who lives outside of the State.
And I really miss it. Every day.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-14-06 01:06 AM
Response to Reply #12
13. My two favorite states..
My family crossed the Sabine River in 1630 to settle in what is now Angelina County.
They left behind family in present-day Jennings, Houma, Vinton, etc. .
Even tho I am most recently from Dallas, the upper Texas coast owns my heart.
But I did not spend 27 months in combat (SE Asia) to enable our government to outsource basically everything.
I do not enjoy losing. Losing anything.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-02-06 08:33 PM
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6. This day is always special to me. My family was the first Anglo...
family of record in what is now known as Texas. Settling in present-day Angelina County in 1630, our folks witnessed every development (good and bad) from then to the present. I am the only member of my extended family who doesn't reside within the borders of the Greatest State in the Union.
But I can feel the tug of the land every time the airplane crosses the Red River.
!Viva Tejas!
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So, sifting through the detrius of a clearly deranged mind, the result is That Tom claimes he comes from a family (apparantly one of four "anglo" families that can lay the claim to being "first" across the river) that has been in Angelina County, TX since circa 1630, after having crossed the Sabine River and leaving behind familym members in other places. Emphasis is given to the supposed size of this family. They still own two of the original land grants from for the region. It appears that a distant relative was the sherrif Angelina County at some time.
Tom's YouthTomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-12-05 10:42 AM
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For Tomintib's birthday today, I'm giving him his 1000+ post...
Won't you all wish him a Happy Birthday?
Thanks,
Ms. Tomintib
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Sun Oct-14-07 09:32 PM
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A big Happy Birthday to a great DUer: TomInTib!
Since Tom eschews The Lounge, we need to have a big party for him here in GD. What say?
Happy Birthday, Tom. Thanks for making it back to The World, and - ultimately - to DU. You are an asset here and to the cause. I love having another fighter on our team.
Cheers,
Mac
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Tom apparently came into the world, on either Oct-12th or Oct-14th depending on which of the above you use. (year is presently undetermined).
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-19-08 08:07 PM
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3. Civil War
As a kid growing up in rural Texas in a Southern Baptist environment, nearly every adult I knew was still fighting it.
Only no one was doing any shooting.
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So he was "raised" Southern Baptist but ..
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-11-08 08:51 PM
Response to Reply #4
5. Goodness
I grew up in a fundie, tho less crazy (Southern Baptist) environment.
But, at about the age of 7 or 8, I realized it was all a bunch of malarkey.
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At age 7 or 8 he'd dismissed all that as malarkey. My what a precocious child.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-29-07 04:53 PM
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6. Man, I cannot even bear to go over there.
Even though I never attended school, I imagine that the Lounge resembles a middle-school lunch room.
Sort of like MySpace or something.
Maybe I am just old.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-11-08 09:54 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. Nope.
I never attended school a day of my life.
But I wanted to. So badly.
No TV, either.
I led a more isolated life than those kids in El Dorado could even imagine.
Tom
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-11-08 11:31 PM
Response to Reply #8
9. Well....
I am not going into it here.
Those fools from that "Other Place" track me, incessantly.
Jerking off in their Mother's basement.
PM me, remind me.
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He's Never attended school ...
...And here's a free hint Tom. You stop spouting bullshit tales on the net and we won't have anything to work with.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-17-07 12:00 AM
Response to Reply #10
11. I am just a fool for non-domesticated animals.
I had an elephant for a companion until I was 13 years old (she slept outside my bedroom window).
And I am involved in "rescue" (Marin Humane Society).
But a coyote hybrid would just blow you away.
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...had an elephant for a pet....
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #46
64. I grew up along the Texas border.
I can spot an immigrant from a mile away.
Just the same as I can pick out any junkie in a crowd, being a fellow (long-time) heroin addict.
You should know what I mean.
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And has been able to use his growing up "along the border" to be able to spot a Illegal Migrant from a mile away , presumably with some form of super secret CitizoSnoopa Binoculars (now with 10X zoom).
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-06-07 08:17 PM
Response to Reply #22
23. Yep, nothing like it.
I first smoke opium in Mexico in 1962 (I was twelve years old).
My life was changed.
I didn't smoke pot until three years later, while trying to tamp down a brain gone spikey due to a drowning incident that I managed to get myself into.
Drowning - The Ultimate Gateway Drug
At least, that's my excuse.
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Such a widely traveled young southern baptist that he smoked opium when he was 12 in Mexico. (and also narrows his apparant year of birth to 1950 - ish)
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Dec-07-06 02:57 AM
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1. Life is curious, ain't it?
I spent my youth on a ranch and was never able to go to any kind of school.
And then I drowned and took a few years to relearn to do everything.
And then I went wild.
Ended up in some crazy places.
And now we meet here.
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And then he drowned and was reborn...
[to be continued ...(contributions are welcome)