stuff about Texas.

Born and raised Texan. About the only other place I'd want to live is Montana, even though a guy from there broke a couple of ribs for me.(Great place, folks leave you alone and there is big sky.)

But Texas. It's home. I like the weather, the terrain, the independent thinking, the arrogance, the folks. The Alamo, San Jacinto Monument, the caverns, the swap meets, the deserts and lakes.

Oklahoma - may be our enemy, but she's OUR enemy. Everybody else best leave 'er alone. ;)
 
I've lived in Angleton, Texas (Brazoria County) and Abilene, Texas. What a Great State. Also two of my relatives died in the Alamo....The Mann Brothers. Although I grew up in Tennessee I consider Texas my second home.

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
TEXAS,,,,I cant imagine being anywhere else.

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No man is above the law and no man is below it,nor do we ask any mans permission when we require him to obey it.
 
Texas is too damn hot! You Yankees don't want to come down here, stay up north where it's cool. Trust me, you won't like it here. ;)

Halffast

(Fellow Texans, do you think they bought it?)

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"I say that big talk is worth doodly-squat." Granny Hawkins from the Outlaw Josey Wales
 
Hey DorGunR: From me and my Fellow Texans I just want to say thanks. If it wasnt for a bunch of good folks from Tennessee there wouldnt be a Texas. They are part of what makes Texas what it is today.
 
One thing I do know about Texas, it is one helluva long bus ride from San Antonio to Amarillo. Friend from basic training who lived in San An stepped off the bus, looked around and declared that Texas should give the panhandle back to New Mexico. Halffast, what's this aabout the heat. I've lived in Vermont [no, that's not Beaumont] all my lifeand the coldest I've ever been was an early March morning in Amarillo. Beautiful state, hope to get back someday.
 
So true, what Friend Gopher wrote about Tennessee. His saying it reminds me of a few years ago, driving thru the Tennessee mountains, en route Maryland. I remarked to my girl friend that I feel a particular kinship with Tennesseeans. I was thinking about the early settlers of Texas, and one remote branch of my mother's family. The GF answered, "Why not? They're mostly a big bunch of Texans who just haven't moved yet."

I must respectfully disagree with my neghbor who commented, "You have to be BORN a Texan." Not necesarily. As one of the Native Born, I still conceed that Texan is a State of Mind as well as a State of Being. Some of the better Texans I have known were accidentally born elsewhere--They got here as soon as possible, and their minds are right.

In truth, I would advocate offering honorary Texas citizenship to ANY right-thinking, freedom loving human anywhere.

Best to all,
RR

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---The Second Amendment ensures the rest of the Bill of Rights---
 
Ummmmmmmmm.....and God Bless Texas.
Thank you gentlemen for remembering how Tennessee got its name, The Volunteer State.
As I'm sure a lot of you Texicans know both Davy Crockett and Sam Houston were from Tennessee. And the colors of both the University of Texas and the University of Tennessee are Orange and White.
God bless all Texans, they're a Great bunch. :)

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
Texan gets to Heaven, and he ain't satisfied. Everywhere he goes and everything he sees--well, there's something better in Texas.

Finally St. Pete gets fed up, and takes the Texan over to the edge of Heaven and shows him the fires of Hell. "You got anything like that in Texas?" asks St Pete, trying to drive a point home to the Texan.

"Nope," muses the Texan slowly, "But I tell you what. You call this number in Houston, talk to Red Adair, tell him Joe Bob sent you. He'll come put it out." :D

Lady in Lubbock way back when had her husband run off and leave her with a bunch of young'uns. Things didn't go real well, and they wound up darn near starving. Well, she up and slaughtered a cow that didn't belong to her, fed her kids real well. Sheriff came and got her, and they had a trial. Jury found her Not Guilty, declared that she "Stole the cow in Self Defense." True story.

First question that Judge Roy Bean would always ask at a Murder trial: "Did the deceased deserve to get killed?" :D

Judge Roy had an inquest over a mysterious death. The results of the inquest, written in the Judges own hand read: "The Deceased, unknown, was shot by somebody, also unknown, who was a damned fine shot." :cool:

Of course, Judge Roy also once fined a dead cowboy $40 for carrying a concealed gun. :)

LawDog

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Lawdog, any chance you could get an exhumation order on Judge Roy, so's we could try that cloning stuff? :D

Judge Roy: "Boy, why'd you shoot that there robber?"
Coinneach: "Your Honor, he needed killin'."
Judge Roy: "Dismissed."

Hey, I can dream, right?
 
Beggin' your pardon, ma'am, but Austin ain't so bad. It's jest all them furriners movin' in there from er, uh, less self-reliant parts of the country.
 
TMoney, funny you should say,
"Oklahoma - may be our enemy, but she's OUR enemy. Everybody else best leave 'er alone."

Had real good friend from Texas, who's no longer with us. Always wore a Stetson and a belt buckle that were each bigger than he was. I could always tell when my pokin' at him was startin' to boil. His hat slid back, his ears turned red, and he had this quiet steady gaze at his beer. Then the rodeo began.

One time, as the conversation got loud and heated, a fella outta Washington State chimed in siding with my friend and took a shot at the Okies. My friend never batted an eye as he turned to the stranger told him, "If you don't shut up about Okies,I'm gonna whip your butt first." I'm sure the fella from Washington still thinks we're crazy.

God bless him. I miss that little Texan.
 
All I can say about my own good fortune to be denizen of this great and beautiful state is a couple of things that I saw on bumper stickers years ago:

YANKEE BY BIRTH, TEXAN BY CHOICE

I WASN'T BORN IN TEXAS, BUT I GOT HERE FAST AS I COULD
 
True story-
Two years ago I was in the Ozarks and I ran into a high school buddy I hadn't seen since graduation. He and his wife had retired and lived on a beautiful 60' houseboat on Table Rock Lake. We talked for hours about the "good ole days". I told him about our 40th high school reunion coming up in a few months and they said they would try to make it because they hadn't been back since graduation.

They made the Friday night homecoming game and the Saturday morning breakfast but failed to show for the lunch and high school tour. But that night they were at the dance. I asked him why they missed the noon festivities. His reply was, "We went out to a local cemetary and bought 2 plots. Fourty years was too long to be away from home, we couldn't stand the thought of eternity away from home".

Talk about a lump in the throat - almost as big as the last visit (#4) to the Alamo.

RKBA!
 
It's Billy Bobs in FW. It's a small Mexican "deli" on a back street in Dallas with the best Tex-Mex in the world. (I can drive you there, but damned if I know the address.)
 
Gopher,
I don't have nothin' aginst Austin per se or the Texans who live there. It is all the darned Yankees that have moved in that are ruining it, as you said. We just need to "git a rope..." :D

Here's some places in TX I haven't been yet, and can't wait to see: Big Bend, Palo Duro Canyon (Been thru Amarillo so many times, but never have made it to the canyon!), Caddo Lake, the original DR Pepper plant (man I love that stuff! :D) and others that I can't think of right now.

I wish I could remember the words to that old country song about TX, the one they play as the theme to "8 Country." Was it Willie Nelson who originally sang that? Anyway, that song sums it all up! I love TX!

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Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail... DON'T TREAD ON ME!!-Metallica

"Many's the men who've battled foe
many the number slain,
many the lads have fallen though
Scotland shall rise again."

Behind the walls of thoughts there lyes, Something timeless something wise. Within us all the prize of our past; From father to son, from the first to the last. And so full circle the image reappears; to this second son born, the hazy mist clears. An echo swamped in youthful rage, revealed once more with the coming of age. So forget ye not the departed ones, for the souls they live on, in the blood of the sons..."-Steve McDonald

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