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Big Tex gets big unveiling at State Fair of Texas year after fire burned icon
Washington Post ^
| 9/26/13
| AP
Posted on 09/27/2013 7:18:06 AM PDT by mylife
The new Big Tex made his debut Thursday afternoon, a year after the towering cowboy that’s an icon of the State Fair of Texas was destroyed in a blaze.
The new Big Tex is supposed to look similar to the old one, though at 55-feet tall, he is 3 feet taller. And unlike the figure that was destroyed last year, he has a fire-suppression system.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bigmex; bigtex; methtex; newbigtex
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To: mylife
‘I’m Cal Worthington, and this is my dog, Spot.”
To: fwdude
Ahh well.
I was just curious.
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:47:41 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: SoCal Pubbie
How in the hell can a man be expected to do business without a Cowboy hat and his dog? ☺
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:49:32 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
Maybe it was John Wiley Price posting, “he’s still white, go to hell!!!”
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:49:43 AM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: fwdude
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:50:27 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: fwdude
"I find the new Big Tex, Insensitive, Lacking Style, Tasteless, Offensive, Outrageous,Egregious!!!"
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:55:25 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: deport
Photo #5 makes him look like BIG MEX!
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:57:17 AM PDT
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
To: DH
That is one of the nicknames floating around LOL
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:59:32 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
He looks like Cotton Hill. No shins!
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:14:52 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
To: rawcatslyentist
Big Tex aint near as big as Cotton Hill LOL
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:20:42 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:25:37 AM PDT
by
McBuff
To: McBuff
Haw Hoo!!! ☺
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:26:38 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: deport
He needs a couple of six-guns on his hips.
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:29:34 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(Quality Factory Loaded Ammunition ----- The New Gold!)
To: Lockbar
TX is not an open carry state.
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posted on
09/27/2013 8:31:57 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife; fwdude
What did I miss in post #12? My pictures of Big Tex. I guess I used a source that allows no posting.
I also said, just like me, Big Tex today wears Fire Protective Clothing.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:43:23 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: GeronL
With them pants stuck inside those metro boots, BigTex must be one of our recent moved in “drugstore cowboys” from Massa2shits.
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:53:13 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: McBuff
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posted on
09/27/2013 9:55:39 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: X-spurt
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:01:25 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
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posted on
09/27/2013 10:33:43 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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