Slipstream - January 2011

Happy Hour - November HH @ Mac’s Steaks & Seafood
Chris Christensen, Happy Hour Chair
We were a little surprised and at
the same time pleased to see
almost 40
Maverick’s
come out
on a brisk
fall evening
to share in conversation and
good food at Mac’s. Needless
to say that Mac’s is a favorite
restaurant for many, but can be
slow going getting there with all
the road construction going on
with 121 and 114 that narrows
down to one or two lanes in
spots. We thought there might
be a road closure during the day
and were somewhat concerned, but believe it was reserved
for the less traveled evening hours. Anyway, thanks to
everyone for joining in the Maverick camaraderie!
Well, with another year coming to a close, we can hope that
this holiday season is going to prove to our friendly economists
that the gray skies will clear and 2011 will be on track for
new growth and prosperity. We like to call our prognosticator
for 2011 the “Porsche sales indicator to economic growth.”
If Porsche
sales are
down…well
we know
where we’re
headed, and
if they are
up, we are
cheering. It
would seem
that our three
Porsche
Rick Burnham and Suzanne Lynch dealerships
in the
Metroplex
are doing pretty well. So, there you go, put away your Wall
Street Journal and just check the sales figures at your friendly
Porsche dealer, and pass the results on to your financial
advisor. Of course this is a little tongue in cheek economic
humor, but just maybe it is a pretty good indicator, since
sales of higher end cars is a market driven phenomenon.
So we are not going to pretend to be economists or try and
re-invent Keynesian or supply side economic theory, but
what we are going to do is to enjoy our Porsches and maybe
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...the girls having fun... Come out and join us!
Photos by Chris Christensen
add to or replace them in 2011. Unfortunately the “add-to”
theory requires additional stable space, but the application
of the “scatter theory” works
well too; i.e. find a friend
with extra garage space and
negotiate a deal. That could be
the best holiday present of all!
For those of you who requested
name tags, we should have had
them ready at our next Happy
Hour in December. There
were a number of Mavericks
that ordered tags at earlier
Happy Hours and I hope you
stopped by the Bavarian Grill in
December and picked them up.
Make plans to come out in
2011 and visit with some new friends at our Happy Hour in
January. You will find a large gathering of fellow Mavericks
at Love & War in Texas located at 601 E. Plano Pkwy, Plano,
TX. The telephone number is 972.422.6201. See you all
there!