Contest Entry

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I used to eat at Whataburger all the time when I lived in Texas.

Since this is a contest entry, I am just submitting the first ad. (If that's not okay, I will pull this as an entry.) In the second ad, they finish his sentences, which is not cool.

Mel Tillis is a country singer and has been in some movies.

Comments

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Yes!

I loved Whataburger burgers when I lived in Austin in the 80s. There was one not too far from where I lived. I only ate out once a month and the place I'd usually go was Whataburger.

I remember when they added a drive-through to the restaurant. To me it seemed like one of the dumbest things ever. They didn't cook the burgers til you ordered them, so why not go inside and wait instead of sitting with the engine idling forever.

Somewhere, I still have a really awful looking plastic coffee mug from Whataburger. With it you got 5 cent coffee refills for life.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

A lot of them are also open 24 hours like the one close to where I used to work in Dallas. I was grateful for the drive-thru as I would have been too scared to get out of my car at 3 a.m. I felt safer in my car though I probably really wasn't. It was close to Parkland Hospital so they got a lot of customers from there, too. That place was always hoppin'.

My favorite thing to order was the chicken strips. I loved that white gravy! It's so hard to get anything like that here in the Carolinas.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

fun thing about mel tillis is that he does not stutter when he sings. :) that's a normal fact in most people with stammers! (it's also how i got trained out of it...)

i got to eat at the ORIGINAL whataburger once. that was a cool factoid of my life. *G*

right before i left florida, they opened up 3 whataburgers in jacksonville. i was GLAD to get a chocolate malt done RIGHT again!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I have heard that singing and speaking are controlled by different parts of the brain. I had an aunt who was mentally challenged and had trouble speaking, but she could sing just fine. It also reminds me of a conversation I was having with my son's former speech therapist. Somehow we got on the topic of "The King's Speech". She hadn't see it (what?) and I was describing the swearing scene. She said it made sense because swearing is controlled by the limbic system, which is a very primal part of the brain and evolved before part that controls the rest of our speech. Or something like that. Maybe the part that controls singing is more primal too. I should probably look it up and learn something. :D

Neat factoid! I wish I could eat any ANY Whataburger now. I think Jacksonville is closest, but still a good 5.5 hour drive and that's if there's no slowdowns on 95, which there ALWAYS are.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

my daughter, granddaughter, and my ex husband are back in jacksonville now...and i miss them terribly. :/ they were in lousiana, about 7 hours from where i live in houston.

and i SO get you about 95 (lived in jax for 15 years...) and trust me, the traffic here in houston is JUST as bad. I-10, I-45, I-59, the 610 loop around houston, beltway 8 which is a toll road that makes a *larger* loop around houston, and several other toll roads and texas highways...all converging on houston.

what is COOL is knowing that most of the highways coming into houston? actually follow the train tracks that lead into the port of houston. that's really a neat thing to know. (plus going over to the port of galveston, and the train bridge is a drawbridge. that always fascinated me when i was a kid.)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about Houston roads. I just know I've been caught in traffic on them pretty much every time I've been there. Been awhile, though. I think I do recall that about the train bridge, though never seen it drawn.

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

I worked at a place in South Phoenix on the Salt River. There was a Whataburger a few blocks up. It was always open for a burger run at any time. That was a plus as I ran IT out of that place for a chain of of supermarkets with pharmacies etc. and would find myself at work there all hours of the day and night.

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

YES! for the ad itself.