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!"
I was born in San Antonio (Dad was an AF NCO stationed at Randolph). Years later, I went to pilot training in Lubbock (and met and married my wife of 27+ years there). Then, a few years later, was stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene. I left the AF at that time, stayed in Abilene for a while, then moved to Austin and lived there for a couple of absolutely incredible years.
San Antonio.......Lubbock.........Abilene.........Austin.........
I may now live in the truly great state of North Carolina, and I may have lived here for ten + years......but I still feel more like a Texan than a North Carolinian.
God Blessed Texas
Little Texas
I've seen a lot of places,
I've been around the world.
I've seen some pretty faces,
Been with some beautiful girls.
After all I've witnessed,
One thing still amazes me,
Just like a miracle,
You have to see to believe.
'Cause God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.
First He made the sunshine,
Then He made the water deep.
Then He gave us moonlight
For all the world to see.
Well, everybody knows
That the Lord works in mysterious ways.
He took a rest,
Then on the very next day
God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.
God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.
Mmm-mmm.
I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.
"ChilE" is the yellow/green/red/orange thing that grows on plants. "ChilI" is the beef, chili powder, cumin, garlic, etc., ambrosia that is a creation of the Texans.
Not as good but ok
The Hub City (Lubbock) has changed A LOT. The TTU Ghetto just east of Jones Stadium on 4th and University was BULLDOZED in the biggest entirely privately-funded redevelopment effort in the nation.
The Tahoka Traffic Circle is gone. The city limits now extend to FM 1585, which is a few miles South of "the Strip".
Lubbock is one of four finalists for the G.W. Bush library.
There ya go!
Texas is, Texas.
Ain't nothing like it.
Pancho's is a newcomer. Sometime in the sixties. If I remember the sixties...
LOL. No, the real Richmond, as in Virginia. But I do love Texas for being so big and friendly.
My ancestors had a sheep ranch that was the result of a Spanish Land Grant. I'll just say it was South of San Antonio.
LOL
Again
I was born and raised on a ranch about 4 miles from the Rio Grande river.........
I grew up on food like chicken mole.
I guess it must be an acquired taste........
I've never met a yankee who liked it.....
As for myself, I love it
My ex-father-in-law witnessed one of his buddies putting on a pair of those high, lace up boots. The poor sob had laced them up for five minutes when the scorpion began to sting. It took him a couple of minutes to get the damn things off.
Another one that proves everything in Texas bites, stings, itches, hurts and smells bad is the canoe story. I decided to buy a canoe trailer and two canoes from my father-in-law. When I went out to load the canoes on the trailor I turned them over and they were both full of black widow spiders.
You know how the song goes: "If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band". Well, if you're gonna walk around in Texas, you gotta have a repellant. LOL>
This is what I found with a quick google, http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/GV/content/htm/gv.011.00.003100.00.htm#3100.051.00 , I have seen beter sites, this does say it tho... : ) <<< me
That's more than I know. mine had 500 acres 4 or 5 slaves. Since he shot a carpetbagger, I assume he lost it all....
Leesville in Stark(?) county.
Who owns him? Since you guys have bulls, do you know Jerry Nelson? That guy has one of the best eyes for young buckin' bulls in the country. He only bucks with the PBR, and he's got some hellacious stock.
So you must like Nopalitos too. It's no coincidence that Hispanics have the highest diabetes rates in the country, and that most of them are 2 generations removed from eating Nopalitos, which are a best-kept secret as a diabetes miracle drug from Mother Nature.
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