Texas - have you seen this one?

email | 10/14 | anonymous

[Ted]

I hear ya'

I'm not sure Dallas even belongs in Texas - it's all about the image. Strange place.

I guess every family has it's embarrassing relative...

[N8VTXNinWV]

Thanks for the ping! You bet'cha we're a proud bunch! Double for you with your two Texans! :o)

[Doctor Stochastic]

You also learn that asphalt has a liquid phase.

You also understand why buzzards carry a lunch-box.

[AgentEcho]

But it's pronounced Umble. So I guess there really isn't anything humble about Texas. (I know this because I was raised there. Humble High class of '88)

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[Ted]

OK! I finally found it - this was NOT written by Bum Phillips. Bob Wheeler wrote both the piece originally posted in post 1 on this thread by phatoldphart, and the piece I posted in 138.

This is confirmed in thread 122 posted last year here on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124396/posts

Purchase Bob Wheeler's book here:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-29077-9

Here's another post that says Bob wrote these, not Bum:
http://longhornmafia.blogspot.com/2005/03/texas-happy-169th-birthday.html

Bob is one colorful fella. He ran the Hornfans and LonghornFanZone website for many years, and held a big tailgating bash before every Texas football game, no matter where they played. I went to some of the tailgates, and got to talk with Bob a few times. He wears a big cowboy hat, and always struck me as a smart, straight shootin' Texan.

If I recall correctly Bob helped start hornfans.com, then had some kind of beef with somebody there and started LonghornFanZone. Hornfans had a head start, and Bob got tired of messing with LFZ, so eventually he shut down LFZ. Hornfans is still going strong, it's a great website. Bob was famous for his pre and post-game write-ups on Texas football games, they had plenty of home-spun humor yet full of spot on analysis. Not sure what he's up to now.

Here's a toast to Bob Wheeler, just one more person I'm proud to call a fellow Texan.

Hook-em, Ted

[Fiddlstix]

You also learn that asphalt has a liquid phase.

LOL!
It is true.

[Dog Gone]

The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.

Hell, I've lived here 25 years and I didn't know that.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My grandfather worked for (H)Umble Oil Company for many years. He was the Field Superintendent in Wink, Texas when he was killed on the job. I also have done a great deal of work in (H)Umble. Oddly enough in the Texaco and Getty fields, no longer a Humble Oil or Exxon field.

[nae]

Ok, I'm going to try one more time, and then I give up.
Texas has ALREADY been divided into 5 states -- New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas. That's why the northern border of the panhandle is at 36 degrees north and thirty minutes. The Missouri Compromise said states north of that had to be free states.

[nae]

Most of the people now live in three huge urban areas. There's nothing new about that. City dwellers may not fit the stereotypical cowboy image, but I assure you, we are Texans. 5th generation urban Texan--

[Fiddlstix]

Maybe this will help...........

[nae]

Thanks.

[Mad Dawgg]

Like I said a few years back when someone on a FR thread asked who can we count on for allies in the next world war.

My answer was "We got all the allies we need right here, we got Texas."

[toomanygrasshoppers]

Wonderful photos! Breaktaking. I've only been to Big Bend once, but I long to go back. Santa Elena canyon is beautiful.

[deport]

I guess we'll have to have differing opinions on what the situation is.... It would be an interesting court test if it could ever come to that. I haven't really searched but it would be interesting to see other stated opinions from law groups on what would be required.

[lormand]

I live in Texas, have plenty of guns, but no horses or cows :( ....yet!

[pamlet]

There is just something about Lukenbach isn't there? We live 35 - 45 minutes from there. Haven't been in a while but it IS a lot of fun on a pretty weekend afternoon...

I heard once when I was there that Waylon had never been - and until a few years ago Willie had only been maybe once. Then he got on a kick having his 4th of July picnic there. He doesn't anymore tho'..

For years the "sheriff" was Marge... a tough kinda cookie who truly had a heart of gold. She passed away a year or so ago.

[pamlet]

I'd heard that Marge died - it truly made me sad. While she had a "tough broad" look to her - she was truly a sweetheart. If you went enough.. she didn't know your name - but she sure knew what you ordered.. laugh...

[lormand]

Turkey Peak, Enchanted Rock State Park

One of my favorite spots in all of Texas

[epaul]

Don't forget that all of old Greer county was Texas also, before they got the Red River wrong.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgreer/ogrmap.htm