[NA] What is the Modern Gypsy?

[Van Johnston]

Growing up my parents always threatened to sell me to the gypsies if I didn't get my act together.

I was threatened w/ a religious military boarding school. I think you got a better offer.

 

[Zeldman]

I was threatened w/ a religious military boarding school.

I got the military boarding school.

I don't know if it turned me around, but I like to think I turned out Ok...

 

[Van Johnston]

I got the military boarding school.

I don't know if it turned me around, but I like to think I turned out Ok...

Ouch. San Marcos Academy? Or the place in Harlingen?

 

[Zeldman]

Ouch. San Marcos Academy? Or the place in Harlingen?

It was in Bryan, TX. It is now just a day college preparatory school, nothing like it was when I was there. It was a change for the better.

Sometime in the mid 80s the location moved to a new campus and gave up the military affiliation. The old location became a minimum security prison...

 

[GaryM]

It was in Bryan, TX. It is now just a day college preparatory school, nothing like it was when I was there. It was a change for the better.

Sometime in the mid 80s the location moved to a new campus and gave up the military affiliation. The old location became a minimum security prison...

Many years ago when I was showing my not-yet wife around my hometown, we drove past the the country prison, and I noted that it was built on the site of Dad's former high school.

Dad, from the backseat, adds "and a lot of the same guys are still there".

 

[Rich Holt]

Ouch. San Marcos Academy? Or the place in Harlingen?

I got the one outside of Amarillo. The one that starts with Boys and ends with Ranch, it did turn me around.

 

[Mason]

There you go....you made me look it up.

From the "Trivia" section of the IMDB listing for "Trapper John M.D.":

The name of Gonzo's (Gregory Harrison's) RV, was the "Titanic"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078704/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Ron Wanttaja

Okay.