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jamison Junior Member (Idle past 5717 days) Posts: 11 Joined: |
Is there something special about Texas? Seems like most Texans have intense pride.
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anglagard Member (Idle past 837 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
jamison writes:
Is there something special about Texas? If the current state school board has its way, the rest of the world will consider a Texas high school graduate the result of 'special education.' Edited by anglagard, : clarity Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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Is there something special about Texas? Seems like most Texans have intense pride. It's big.
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
I always liked Chuck Norris portrayal of "Walker,Texas Ranger". Besides...its not human nature to be humble.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3292 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
It's the only state in the union without a deficit. In fact, it's the only state in the union right now with a booming economy and rising employment... for obvious reasons... OIL.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 735 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
And you know what they say about a blue-eyed Texan - he's a quart low on bullshit.
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Peal Member (Idle past 4699 days) Posts: 64 Joined: |
Is there something special about Texas? Seems like most Texans have intense pride. Is there something special about Texas? Seems like most Texans have intense pride. I don't know if there is anything special, but I do know that the best place to live in Texas is in the middle of the state. That way when you are going somewhere you are always leaving.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Texas is special. It has the biggest and bestest of everything.
Land Texas has more land than any other state including Alaska if you count Oklahoma and Louisiana as suburbs. Terrain Texas has every conceivable type of terrain from high snow-capped mountains, piney-woods forests, Great Plains prairies, tropical jungles to a whole big bunch of desert. And in the legislature we have our own arctic tundra complete with permafrost. Speaking of legislature . Government Texas has the bestest form of government known to mankind. The legislature is limited to meeting for only 6 months every 2 years. Keeps them varmints out of your pocketbooks for 18 months straight. Natural Resources Oil and natural gas, of course, but lots of forest and lots (and lots) of sand. Unlike Arizona, Texas actually has got a piece of ocean to go with some of that sand. Football Don’t git no better than Odessa v Midland on a crisp Friday night. And we got Cowgirls. Eat yer heart out Redskins! Culture The Cotton-Eyed Joe, Texas Two-Step, The Los Colinas Mustangs (that’s a statue, folks), Fort Worth Stockyards, The Southfork Ranch and Texas Barbeque. Add to this the Terlingua Chili Cook-off (just the most famous International Chili hoedown this side of Heaven) and, that pinnacle of art dedicated to the relief of all that ails ya, The Chicken Ranch in La Grange (The best little whorehouse in Texas, literally, they even made a movie ”bout it) and . well . what more could an independent nation ask for? Ego I could go on, but, y’all get the picture.
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lyx2no Member (Idle past 4717 days) Posts: 1277 From: A vast, undifferentiated plane. Joined: |
Texas is a mighty fine state; that's for sure. But I'll take Arizona and the Sonora ☼ any day of the week. I've no desire for a truncated beach.
Kindly Everyone deserves a neatly dug grave. It is the timing that's in dispute. One hot lesbian.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
Taz writes:
quote: Not quite. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' June 30, 2008 report, there are only 29 states having budget shortfalls. And while Texas currently has a surplus, projections are that it will be in deficit by 2010.
quote: You're ignoring Alaska, which also has oil, and mining states such as New Mexico and Montana are also experiencing rising revenues. Rrhain Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
In the 80s, a Texan decided that he was going to start a fund to finance the building of a wall around Texas...the better to keep non-Texans out.
The largest and most numerous contributions to this fund came from... ...New Mexico. Rrhain Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3292 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Rrhain writes:
Any reason why the grim projection?
And while Texas currently has a surplus, projections are that it will be in deficit by 2010.
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Rrhain Member Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
Taz responds to me:
quote: The CoBaPP report doesn't specifically say but instead provides the reference to the "Center for Public Policy Priorities" with regard to the Texas data. The CoBaPP's report is here: 29 States Faced Total Budget Shortfall of at Least $48 Billion in 2009
The fiscal situation appears to be as follows.
Rrhain Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
One day, the Arkansas mountain lion and the Texas mountain lion meet at the border. The Arkansas mountain lion is sleek, muscular, and has a glint in his eye, but the Texas mountain lion is skinny, mangy, and slope-backed. The Arkansas mountain lion looks his friend over, and says, "Hey, you look pretty awful, you look like you haven't eaten in about six months." So the Texas mountain lion wheezes a little, then he says, "No, I been eating all right. I been eating six square meals a day." "Well, you sure don't look it." "No, I don't feel it neither. Seems like the more I eat, the hungrier I get. Nothing satisfies me any more. And I'm getting weaker every day. You've gotta help me out."
So the Arkansas mountain lion thinks a bit , then he says, "Tell you what. See that Texas cowboy coming over the ridge? You hide behind that boulder here, and when he comes by, you jump him. I'll watch you and see how you do." So the Texas mountain lion hides behind the boulder, and when the cowboy comes by, he jumps out in front of him with a horrible roar. The cowboy falls off his horse in terror, picks himself up and starts to run away. The Texas mountain lion takes a huge leap and lands square on the cowboy and him flat into the dust. Then swallows him in two gulps. The Arkansas mountain lion strolls over to the Texas mountain lion. "Well, how do you feel?" "You know, I'm still hungry. I just don't feel like I ate anything, and I'm weaker than ever." So the Arkansas mountain lion says to him, "I'll tell you something. You made two mistakes when you went after that cowboy. First, when you jumped out and roared, you scared him shitless. Then when you knocked him down, you knocked the wind out of him. And everyone knows, there ain't nothing to a Texan but the shit and the wind.
Source Not as good of a version as the one I heard many years ago, but I couldn't find that one on-line. Moose
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Excellent, Moose.
More evidence that unlike any other nationality in the whole wide world only the Texan is so beloved as to garner this level of affectionate folklore. Note even your source was penned by one of the greatest bullshit artists known to literature . a Texan. You can take the boy out of Texas but we always remain full of it. Or something like that.
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