Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
My family also. Some of my family still lives in Tyler County.
Gary P. Nunn. One of my favorite songs. Have you heard Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Screw you, we're from Texas?"
I live in California now. Last year, my son had a multi-cultural day at school. Each child was supposed to bring food and other things from the country their family came from.
I told my son his family came from the country of Texas. I think some people thought I was crazy, however I'm proud of the fact that my family is really native Texans.
My family did not immigrate to the US. One side fought in the American Revolution, and the other side fought for Texas' Independence.
I know absolutely nothing about Sheila Jackson Lee. I know a bit about Ann Richards. After Clayton made his remark about lying back and enjoying the rape (not verbatim) I preferred Ann Richards.
I despise her politics but for some reason I like her. People can make fun of the way she looks and the way she talks but she's Texan and it shows. When she was Governor, she was plain spoken and not given to all that flowery type talk.
People say she looks and sounds like she was rode hard and put up wet. Well, it's no secret in Texas that she's a recovering alcoholic and it's not uncommon to see her in an AA meeting there. Women alcoholics tend to hide their alcoholism longer and it takes a bigger toll on their looks than if does men. I can respect the fact that she did something about her alcoholism and made something out of her life. Others would have ended up in a gutter somewhere.
Is she a great Texan? I guess it all depends on your definition of great. I disagree with her ideas about what's best for Texas but there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that she loves Texas. She's a great Texan in the same way I'm a great Texan. I love my state and couldn't imagine being from anywhere else. She's a character who adds a little something to Texas.
Tell ya what! If Texas has to have liberals, I'd rather have an Ann Richards liberal than a Teddy Kennedy liberal anyday!
"If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas" - General William Tecumseh Sherman (Attrib)
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Sherman was a smart man.
He knew renting out Texas would make him much more money than renting out Hell.
He knew Texas was bigger than Hell and would bring a huge profit.
He knew Texas was hotter than Hell and that many fellow yankees were tired of freezing their butts off up north.
Sherman must have been a greedy man to live in Hell and rent out Texas.
We Texans live in Texas because we love it.
Sherman can stay in Hell.
That's why air conditioning was invented. Up until I was in the 6th grade our schools had no a/c. I can remember coming in from recess and pushing/shoving to get to be front and center in front of the big fan.
I've become acclimated now and used to count the days until fall when I lived there. You learn to not sit on car seats right after you open the car door because it feels like strips of your skin are going to be left on the seat. Touching the steering wheel, need another towel. Covered parking places were coveted.
There's still no place like Texas. Maybe part of it is a state of mind.
See my post 265. I can't find any other state where it says they can fly there flag the same hight as the usa flag... : ) <<< me
Unfortunately AC doesn't work too well outdoors.
There's still no place like Texas.
Or it's hot humid weather.
That would be great, but we do not know where yet. Every time we go we want to buy where we are: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Waco, somewhere in west Texas, somewhere in south Texas. Altho the weather has me sorta deciding that the coast may not be for us. Guess we will have to make lots more trips to decide where.
Texas will be annexed my Mexico in the year 2013.
bttt for sometime next year when I can find this bump somewhere in 'my bumps' to go back and actually read this
That is the last thing a "Texan" has, that is the thing a "wanna be" has... : ) <<< me
No, No, and most definitely YES.
I have horses, when I was a kid, but that was in Nebraska. We've also got an oil well a couple of blocks up the street, and several more within 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile, so I guess that means we're sitting atop a bunch of oil. Both sides of the Red River hereabouts have lots of oil wells. Old ones, but many are pumping these days, and serveral have been redrilled in the past few years. Only bad thing, we don't own the mineral rights. :(, although one of my wife's friends does, which she inherited from two of her three husbands. (She only ditched one of them, the one without any oil :), the other two died on her, #1 and #3 were brothers, with oil).
We had dinner at that same table week before last. Went to the Saints/Bills game and then met there after the game. Always fun trying to figure out which people are real and which are generic in the mural. And no, it is not me who shoots spitball wads at the painting of Clinton in the corner.
Texas has 4 Presidents who served 5 separate terms before it became the 28th state to join the United States. They were:
David Burnet, our first President
Sam Houston, first term
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Sam Houston, second term
Anson Jones, our last President and the one who led us into becoming the 28th state.
Just as a side note my great, great, great Grandfather served in the Confederate Army. He was taken prisoner and sent to a Yankee prison camp in New York. To pass the time he carved a complete chess set. The dark pieces were stained with berry juice while the light pieces were kept in their natural state. We still have the set except for one pawn which has been misplaced through the years. The set is stored in an ice cream carton dated sometime in the late 1800's. My sister has the set or else I'd be able to tell you the exact date on the ice cream carton.
That actually is the official song of the University of Texas. Eyes of Texas
Texas, Our Texas is the Official state song.
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