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!"
God Bless ya Tex
We shouldn't be discussing mole, it's after 11pm and the local Mexican restaurant is CLOSED!
I guess I should be really ashamed on this TEXAS thread, but I like the cumin, garlic, peppers , hand chopped roast,will try the chocolate, but I will admit to adding some tomato paste, oh hell I doomed on this thread. While I'm doomed anyway I like to make chili beans, with PINTO beans screw the kidney bean crap,, that IS YANKEE chili.
TEXAS is my Heaven. There are no better people on earth than those in TEXAS. If it is possible to love dirt, I do...G-d Bless my beautiful TEXAS!
Wow. That's even more-self-indulgent crap than I've seen from New Yorkers.
Self indulgent? Hell no, it's true. Even when I was in Russia they made a big deal about me being from Texas and literally asked me about oil wells.
Hmmm....I bet you are a light shade of green.
No I didn't know that and I'll bet you can't prove it. If Henry Cisneros is Spanish for Bill Clinton then groanup is Portugese for Elvis Presley. I actually went to Lukenbach during the fever of the song. It actually exists and it was nothing more than a post offic and a bar. But that didn't matter to the myriad people who flocked there. It was a trip, it was literally in the middle of nowhere and it was neat. The song made it a legend and when I went there, the guitar players and the groupies were everywhere.
Marge, the fierce-looking German-American lady who was the Postmaster, Mayor, Sheriff, J.P., and Bartender, sadly died last year.
No, actually, she probably believed it... her grandparents were born there...
And the ghost of General McCulloch still resides in the Court House...
Mmmmmm.....annexation? My mole-making, nopalito-shaving, Texian-born (that's Texian, not Texan) gggggrandmother was playing Liszt on a grand piano very well before Texas was even a state. What's third world about that?
People in Norcross, GA only WISH they had scorpion problems. The people in Texas really do have scorpion problems. LOL.
Alaska's just a big block of ice with oil under it (which the libs won't let us get anyway). Alaska's only useful if you want to make a really large margarita.
I don't know anyone at Luckenbach. I wish I did, actually, because that was one place that I really had a good time.
Dallas is about as close to NYC as you can get in the South. And everyone drives about 80.
Living in Aubrey here and working in Plano. That's about as far south as I like to go around here.
I said they were little bitty ones. We were surprised that they really were scorpions! I ever knew we had them in GA until I saw them at my friend's house. The exterminator said they were pretty harmless just like a bee sting or non-poisonous spider bite.
The flag that flew above the Alamo was a Mexican flag with 1824 on it. Texas was not trying to secede from Mexico. Santa Anna had declared the 1824 Mexican Constitution void, and the Texans wanted him to reinstate it.
"Houston" was the first word ever spoken on the Moon.
Oh, I know. I just am reminded that this is a thread about Texas. Whew. The scorpions out there are like mosquitos.
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