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Texas - have you seen this one?
email | 10/14 | anonymous

Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart

When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"

They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.

Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.

Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.

Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.

Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.

Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.

Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.

Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.

Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.

Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.

Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.

Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.

Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.

Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.

Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, Rick Husband, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon B.Johnson.

Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.

Texas is NASA.

Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.

Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.

Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.

If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.

NO ONE DOES ANYTHING BIGGER OR BETTER THAN IT'S DONE IN TEXAS.

By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.

Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.

Texas even has its own power grid!!

If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't even need to be told to pass this on!"


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To: phatoldphart

Glad you enjoyed it, I've sent that to a lot of folks and they usually like it.

I do think Bum Phillips wrote the piece you posted.

Regards


181 posted on 10/14/2005 6:48:46 PM PDT by Ted
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To: Squantos

I will find Swishy Rump, Texas one day and give you a mighty whoompin!


182 posted on 10/14/2005 6:48:51 PM PDT by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - I will never take Dix off of my ping list as I have been asked to do.)
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To: The Worthless Miracle
Texas is humble.

Well we're not humble but we do have a Humble, just NE of Houston. They have or had, a great German Restaurant.

183 posted on 10/14/2005 6:49:07 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

There ya go.

We both have done it.


184 posted on 10/14/2005 6:51:30 PM PDT by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - I will never take Dix off of my ping list as I have been asked to do.)
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To: Rocky

Sheila Jackson Lee was born in New York.


185 posted on 10/14/2005 6:51:34 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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To: phatoldphart
Yup, the Texas History Movies - got a copy.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/books/movies.html
186 posted on 10/14/2005 6:52:53 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Even Fisherman in the Farthest Reaches of Brazil on the Paranibia River know Texas and Texans I was told by some of those fishermen that Texans are the friendliest people in the world.


187 posted on 10/14/2005 6:53:06 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (<>< Like $3 a gallon gas? Thank an enviromentalist.)
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To: Eaker

Thanks for this ping. I love it. I was born in Louisiana but have been in Texas for 37 years. Still love both states.


188 posted on 10/14/2005 6:54:22 PM PDT by Texagirl4W ("I am too blessed to be stressed and too anointed to be disappointed!")
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To: Doctor Stochastic
"If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas" - General William Tecumseh Sherman

I assure you we think the same of that yankee low life.

189 posted on 10/14/2005 6:54:55 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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To: Clemenza
"Santa Anna is the second most hated man in Mexican history, after General Huerta."

But he DID popularize chewing gum, so he wasn't ALL bad...
190 posted on 10/14/2005 6:55:44 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: Eaker; humblegunner; All
Hondo Crouch: Legendary Texan

You just can't get any closer to heaven on earth than you can in Luckenbach, Tx.

191 posted on 10/14/2005 6:57:44 PM PDT by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: Iscool
"They call Montana 'God's Country'..."

Never been to Montana, but I DID grow up HERE:

http://thehunterslife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=734
192 posted on 10/14/2005 6:58:55 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: decal
"Santa Anna is the second most hated man in Mexican history, after General Huerta."

Wrong!!
Santa Anna is a little town between Coleman and Brownwood, famous for their yearly Bison Cook Offs.
193 posted on 10/14/2005 7:00:10 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: mtbopfuyn
Boo, hiss, spit. Gig 'em Aggies!

How's the football team doing this year ..........

194 posted on 10/14/2005 7:00:44 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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To: groanup
Everything in Texas either bites, stings, itches, hurts or smells bad. Other than that it's a pretty good place.

Jealousy is not befitting a man of your intellect.

195 posted on 10/14/2005 7:05:27 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

See 191


196 posted on 10/14/2005 7:06:09 PM PDT by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: Hank Rearden

I've lived in New York and I've lived in Texas. New York ain't got nothing on us ... nothing! OH and they're both better than Washington.


197 posted on 10/14/2005 7:09:24 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (A right wing Christian, not part of the Christian Right)
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To: Bigun

Thank you


198 posted on 10/14/2005 7:09:51 PM PDT by phatoldphart ("some people were forged of a hotter fire. Well, that's what it is to be Texan." -Bob Wheeler)
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To: phatoldphart
"Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C..."

Waaaaall, this one isn't right, either - Louisiana's is taller still.

http://www.sec.state.la.us/around/facts/facts-B.htm

But Texas' DOES take up the most square footage.
199 posted on 10/14/2005 7:10:46 PM PDT by decal (Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives; the Progs have never figured this out.)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

You put beans in your chili, don't you?


200 posted on 10/14/2005 7:10:59 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])
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