WHAT IS TEXAS

I was born in Texas so I guess that makes me a Texan. I moved from there when I was 10. The cemeteries around Lubbock are full of my ancestors. They moved there from GA and KY. around 1870.

I move around a lot. Pass the burritos.
 
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Two more sayings.

1 GET OFF MY LAWN.

2 Keep your hands off my guns.

3. Hold my beer and watch this. :D

Old story:

A Texan is visiting Niagara Falls and doesn't seem too impressed. His host says, "Come on, man admit it, I'll bet you don't have anything like that in Texas."

"Nope," says the Texan, "but in my home town we have a plumber who could fix it."

Clearly Texas is a state of mind.
 
A couple of years before I retired I was working out of Houston. I had two colleagues in the office who were from the Northeast. I took them on a driving trip to introduce them to our agents in Austin and Waco. As we were driving through the country on US290 we passed a ranch house flying a giant Texas flag in the front yard.

One of them commented "I never saw anyone fly the New Jersey flag in their yard."
 
A couple of years before I retired I was working out of Houston. I had two colleagues in the office who were from the Northeast. I took them on a driving trip to introduce them to our agents in Austin and Waco. As we were driving through the country on US290 we passed a ranch house flying a giant Texas flag in the front yard.

One of them commented "I never saw anyone fly the New Jersey flag in their yard."


And he probably never will.
 
Texas is a state that wants to make it easy for its law-abiding citizens to carry. Here's how easy: After submitting my application online, taking a short, interesting class, and passing the easy written and shooting tests (see Rastoff's Challenge II for the shooting test), all I had left to do was submit my fingerprints for the background check. Apparently, I have no fingerprints, because both sets that were submitted were rejected by the Department of Public Safety as unreadable. When I called DPS to inquire about what I could do to get my license in the absence of fingerprints, the friendly young woman I talked to said, "Your license is in the mail." I got it a couple of days later.

You gotta love a friendly handgun licensing bureaucracy that says, "We don't need no stinkin' fingerprints!"
 
East Texians squabble and cuss at West Texians---but nobody else is allowed too.
NE Texas is a strange place. Dallas claims it is in NE Texas but most in that area scoff and deny.
Speaking of Dallas--which is a strange conversation amongst Texans--it seems to think that it speaks for Texans. Folks there are pretty self contained and have the attitude that if you don't live in Dallas you are some kind of Hick.
I speak of that attitude from a job interview I had up there when I was fresh out of school. I don't think that ol boy appreciated my answers when he questioned me about my political beliefs. Dallas has always been super conservative to the point of being akward about anybody elses opinions. If you don't act like a Dallasonian you are backwards.
Ft Worth is just about as opposite as Europeans and Asians from Dallas.
Where I grew up--in the 40's--there was an attitude you could only find in the old South. I never really understood that attitude.
What I would like is a place about a tankfull of gas from my closest neighbor . That is tongue-in-cheek. perhaps it would be better to say that my neighbors wish that. :D
I knew an ol boy once--he was a Cowboy and managed ranches for rich folks--he said that a working man only has one right--to quit a job whenever he wanted too--and--he aught to do that on a fairly regular basis.
I like heat and humidity and have a great disdain for any season that gets below 70 degrees. I'll take the Texas Gulf Coast, the bugs and the skeeters.
Beer didn't originate in Texas but we got some as soon as we could.
Blessings
 
Just wondering but, is there any other state that awards a Medal of Honor? Not to be confused with the other Medal of Honor.
 
Or Order of the Eastern Star, mebbe.;)

Lil brother, that would be very true around here too... the few ladies that were non gun lovers switched, when I asked my mother in law how she would protect her new grand daughters if she ever had a home invasion... she was at our farm , within several days, mastered a Ruger .22 auto pistol, a Rem 1100 20 ga, a Colt Python in .357 & a CAR 15 .223 (AR15 carbine back in 1987), she got to stay with her new grand daughter for near 6 weeks & shot every day... she convinced her friends.... using the same logic.... pistols that fit in purses started being common around here........
 
TEXAS:
My Wife's Grandfather E.B. Coon was a Constable/Deputy in Marshall, Texas who was shot with His own service revolver on duty by two African-Americans in 1923. His Widow was left destitute and His seven children were sent to a orphanage. My Wife and Her family was unable to have His name added to the Texas Memorial to Texas Officers killed in the line of duty. I have always wondered why ?
 
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