WHAT IS TEXAS

[DCWilson]

Paris, TX has its own Eiffel tower, and they put the world's biggest cowboy hat on it to dress it up. Eat your heart out, Jean-Pierre!

The picture you see is actually a Texas thumbnail. Click on it to see it full size. Yes, it is a big picture. Anything else would be inappropriate.

(photo credit: porterbriggs.com)

 

[TX-Dennis]

we definitely have the 4 seasons of change here.

Sometimes all in the same day.

 

[Straightshooter2]

They moved there from GA and KY. around 1870.

Probably along with a bunch of my family. When we lived in San Antonio, I went to school with a girl with the same last name. People always asked if we were related and I said no, I was born in Georgia and she was born in Texas. Didn't find out until a few years later that my great ganddaddy and her great granddaddy were brothers. I have to say we only lived in Texas two years but I did love it.

CW

 

[Jim Kuykendall]

A $45.00 cab ride from Ft. Polk. Thank God for Houston.

 

[williamlayton]

HUMMMMM !
Seems like some of you boys are bragging.
God bless ya !
Blessings

 

[williamlayton]

Texas, by GOD is my signature and it is an honest statement.
I could live anyplace I wanted----and I do.
Blessings

 

[Farmer17]

I lived near Dallas, Austin, and Ft. Worth and it was O.K. but I wouldn't really want to move back there, but there are definitely worse places to live in the US. There is a lot of state pride with the natives but near the big cities most people you meet are not "from" Texas. The Hill Country around Austin was pretty but very crowded and expensive. The DFW area is crowded and fast paced with lots of heavy traffic like most big cities, my wife likes to take a shopping trip there with the girls once a year. But since our Cabelas is opening there nothing I can think of I want to shop for there that we don't have here.

 

[Brian41]

I was stationed in Oklahoma City in 1976 when my car got shipped from overseas to New Orleans and I had to pick it up from the docks there. I flew there early morning and picked up my Ford Maverick with no A/C in summer and headed home. I figured I'd make it home that night as I only had a part of Texas to drive through and how far could that be? Well I drove and drove sweating in the heat expecting to get out of Texas soon but didn't happen. I wound up getting a cheap motel room for the night and finishing the trip next day. You guys do have a big state.
That was my second time there if you can count basic training in San Antonio. I found the people very friendly and do plan a return visit there some day.

 

[XD40inTX]

I spent about the last 15 years before I retired shuttling back and forth between Houston and two cities in Japan--Tokyo and another city that I can't name because the first three letters are the same as the first three letters of a banned word. Starts with "F."

Anyway--you can go into any bar in Japan and sketch the outline of Texas on a bar napkin. Within five minutes a Japanese man will point to it and exclaim "Texas!" Soon you'll be surrounded by half a dozen Japanese men and women wanting to talk about Texas--and buying you as many drinks as it takes to keep you talking.

Just as a test I tried it with several other state outlines like California and Florida. Didn't get any reaction to any of them.

 

[finesse_r]

Glad to hear that our Texas BS has been spread far and wide.

 

[williamlayton]

Texas is a good honest conversation.
Blessings

 

[Old TexMex]

Willie Nelson said:
"Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the hell are they you gotta lie to them?"

 

[ddixie884]

I was gone from Texas for several years, we won't discus why. I had drivers liscenses from several states. I moved home to live in my Dad's old place a few years ago. I got a lump in my throat when I got the first TDL I'd had in nearly 30yrs.

 

[Bkreutz]

I spent a year in Texas one summer. The Army sent me TDY to an Air Force base in San Angelo.

 

[Jinglebob]

How to spot a foreigner in Texas

There is a city in Limestone County named Mexia. Folks not from Texas always seem to pronounce it like it's spelled. The correct pronunciation is "meh-HAY'-uh".

The city was named after General José Antonio Mexía, a Hispanic hero for the Republic of Texas Army during the Texas Revolution.

 

[lagavulin62]

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!"

It takes 5 mins online to renew. No testing, they use your old info.

 

[williamlayton]

Then there is the old joke---
Guy from somewhere else was passing thru Mexia and stopped for a burger at Dairy Queen.
He ordered and asked how do you pronounce the name of this place ?
The girl said Dairy Queen.
I'll shut up !
Blessings