The unofficial biography and anecdotes of tomjtexas. Stories are in random order and posted as I can remember them. He passed away on January 17th 2013.

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Kill him George, KILL HIM!

Dad's friend George and his wife Mary had a big party. Skipper and the boys were there, Russell and Tom too. Russell had brought his brand new pickup truck and Mary was admiring it. Russell had talked John and Shawn into getting in the pickup and playing a prank on Mary. So Russell was telling Mary about all the new stuff that his truck had...including speech recognition. Mary was amazed and kept asking more about the truck. So Russell decided to show her his remotely controlled truck. He shouted, "Truck...Start!" To Mary's amazement the truck just cranked right up. Russell shouted again, "Truck...Pull Forward!" and the truck inched up just a bit. He yelled, "Truck..STOP!" Mary watched intently and it did indeed stop. She was ecstatic....until the boys got out of the truck. She turned to George and screamed, "Kill him George!!! Kill him!!" She literally told George to shoot Russell.