Lajitas (TX) takes wounding of its mayor seriously - (Mayor castrated in attack)

Austin American Statesman ^ | August 5, 2002 | Jim Yardley

[Damocles]

"I decided that if somebody from Houston can be mayor of Lajitas, then why not my goat?"

I love Texas humor!

[YOMO]

At last a Politician you can trust who won't get your goat.

[jdub]

don't believe all that talk about breathtaking landscapes, wide open spaces, and such. West Texas is mostly composed of landfill brought from mexico and medical waste from New Jersey. The air smells of sulpher, and 120 degrees at midnight is the norm. don't let them sucker you into visiting, stay in your cities.

[Gunrunner2]

>>composed of landfill brought from mexico and medical waste from New Jersey.<<

That would be El Paso. . .thank you very much

[ladtx]

don't believe all that talk about breathtaking landscapes, wide open spaces, and such. West Texas is mostly composed of landfill brought from mexico and medical waste from New Jersey. The air smells of sulpher, and 120 degrees at midnight is the norm. don't let them sucker you into visiting, stay in your cities.

I'll second that. Everyone stay where you are. Stay out of West Texas it's toooooooo dangerous for tenderfeet.

[jdub]

That would be El Paso. . .thank you very much

C'mon, help me out here. EVERYTHING West of Austin is uninhabitable to humans.

[Dog Gone]

I am proud to have shared a beer with Clay Henry I. I haven't been back to Lajitas since he was stuffed, though.

Great place, straight out of a John Wayne movie, although I understand that it has really grown since I was last there in the 1980's.

[Dog Gone]

If you drive to Lajitas, you will have the opportunity to run over numerous tarantulas crossing the road. I probably flattened 20 of them. Don't tell PETA.

[DainBramage]

Clay Henry took the assault hard.

[ladtx]

If you drive to Lajitas, you will have the opportunity to run over numerous tarantulas crossing the road. I probably flattened 20 of them.

I know they like the warmth of the asphalt after a rain, the roads will be covered with them. I also remember my granddad talking about shaking tarantulas off his pants leg as he hoed his cotton rows, but that was in north Texas.

[Gunrunner2]

>>C'mon, help me out here. EVERYTHING West of Austin is uninhabitable to humans.<<

Okay, okay, as long as you agree everything EAST of Austin is uninhabitable to humans (Houston is the pits).
;-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

I used to win bets by betting that a given tarantula seen crossing the road would be a male. As the females don't wander much, it was an easy bet to win.

I was acquainted with Clay Henry I but I never had the pleasure of meeting the others.

[Dog Gone]

How the heck do you prove to someone that a tarantula is a male? Do you pick it up and point to some tarantula balls??

[P7M13]

wow, self marinating cabrito. got to love it.

t

[Doctor Stochastic]

Palps. It's not for the squeamish.

[Xenalyte]

Okay, okay, as long as you agree everything EAST of Austin is uninhabitable to humans (Houston is the pits).

"Smile when you say that," purred the Houston-native warrior princess as she sharpened her sword.

[ladtx]

EVERYTHING West of Austin is uninhabitable to humans.

Guess you've never seen Palo Duro Canyon in the morning or antelope off the caprock. Marble Falls is a pretty neat place too. The sand dunes around Monahans was great place to go sand boarding as a kid I remember. And there is just something about the Big Country around Abilene, it just sort of draws you into it. You can stand on a slight rise and see nothing but miles of Texas, (the real Texas).

[B Knotts]

So, they cut off his LAJITAS?!?

Ouch.

[ladtx]

Palo Duro Canyon.

[mountaineer]

Sure, they can castrate a goat mayor, but a horndog ex-president? Still waiting for that bit of justice.