Bob Wills is still the king!
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!"
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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