Bob Wills is still the king!
Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
The first word spoken on the surface of the Moon was "Houston", followed by "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
And then the D@mn roadhogs won't move over to the slow lanes and let the fast traffic by.
I am an unabashed Conservative. But, you echo my views of Ann Richards. Couldn't vote for either one in that election.
Your school had a fan? You big sissy!
Tex-Mex cuisine is related to, but not the same as, that of northern Mexico.
But here's a clue, since you obviously need one, The Mexicans were here before us Gringos! All the early Texas Heros, save Davey Crocket and his bunch, were Mexican citizens, before they told old Santa Anna to go **** himself. At that time Mexico was about on par with the US culturally speaking. Mexico never progressed much farther, or at least progressed much more slowly, but old Santa Anna and Andrew Jackson had a lot in common.
The 13 is right, but, it was inches of snow, not days.
Davey Crockett, at least the one who died at the Alamo, was born August 17, 1786 in a small cabin on the banks of the romantic Nolichucky River, near the mouth of Limestone Creek, which today lies about three and a half miles off 11-E Highway near Limestone, Tennessee.
Also see here and here too among others when you Google "Davey Crockett born".
The rest of your post is just as accurate as that first sentence.
Real food??? All you guys do is switch between different kinds of peppers and throw in a piece of meat and a couple of beans for color and texture...
Ah, ok so it wasn't 13 days, it was 13 inches.
I believe it. Went to Austin a couple of years ago on business and couldn't believe the growth.
I was also terribly disappointed to see how "California-ized" Austin had become. I remember Austin for smoke-filled bars with chugging blues filling the air as people drank (yes, alcohol); instead, I found place after place smoke-free with yuppies sipping bottled water. HUGELY disturbing.
http://www.house.state.tx.us/resources/flag/rules.htm
When the Texas Flag and the Flag of the United States of America are displayed at the same time, they should be flown on separate flagpoles of equal length, and the Flags should be approximately the same size.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/GV/content/htm/gv.011.00.003100.00.htm#3100.051.00
§ 3100.055.
(b) If the state flag and the flag of the United States are
displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs at the same location:
(1) the flags should be displayed on flagpoles or
flagstaffs of the same height;
(2) the flags should be of approximately equal size;
(3) the flag of the United States should be, from the
perspective of an observer, to the left of the state flag;
(4) the flag of the United States should be hoisted
before the state flag is hoisted; and
(5) the state flag should be lowered before the flag of
the United States is lowered.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, § 7.001, eff. Sept. 1,
2001.
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YUP Texas even has the BIGGEST clowns on earth! When we do it...we do it BIG! LOL!!!
That wasn't Davy Crockett:
It was Daniel Boone:
Crockett was born in Greene County, Tennessee.
OOPS! My bad...
Funny you should mention the snow on Christmas Day last year. That was my fault.
Oh, what a story it is, too. My son was at Parris Island. His first Christmas away from us. My Dad, his Gramp, who was a Marine died unexpectedly on Christmas in 2000. I knew how much they loved to GIVE gifts and could not. So I prayed for snow, for Christmas.
I watched in awe when it started west of Houston the town of his birth, and continued to watch in awe as it traveled across the gulf, up the coast to PI, we in NC were blessed with the most beautiful ice storm, and his sweetheart traveled up the coast from here to NJ on the sleigh ride of her life.
What was probably the second-most weirdest Christmas for us, became another awesome day.
Sounds yummy! Thanks for the recipe.
King Ranch is bigger than the State of Rhode Island
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation
El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.
The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.
With more than 267,000 square miles, Texas is as large as all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois combined.
The largest military base in the world, Fort Hood, is located in Killeen, in central Texas
Texas has more churches than any state in the union, with 16,969
Texas ranks number one in the United States in production of oil, natural gas, cattle, sheep, wool, rice, watermelon, and cotton
The hamburger was invented in Athens, Texas
The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston"
The area around Abilene TX is so rich with oil that when the city put up a demonstration oil-drilling rig on the county fairgrounds, just to illustrate the techniques of "making a hole," it struck oil
Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by treaty, instead of annexation. It was a sovereign nation and is the only state under the flag code that can fly the state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
Texas is the largest petroleum producing state in the US. If Texas was an independent nation, it would rank as the world*s fifth largest petroleum producing country.
Texas has the nation*s largest State Capitol building. The dome of the Capitol stands seven feet higher than that of the nation*s Capitol.
The Texas Medical Center in Houston is the world's largest medical complex.
"Never ask a man where he's from! If he's from Texas, you won't have to ask, he'll tell you! And if he isn't from Texas, you shouldn't embarrass him by calling attention to it!"
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