[cavtrooper21]

FYI ping

[You Dirty Rats]

Another interesting Texas Fact:

Phil Sheridan claimed that if he owned Hell and Texas, he'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

[Hodar]

I just knew you wanted to weigh in on this one.

[MD_Willington_1976]

They also have there own seperate electrical grid...there's the western grid, the eastern grid...then there's the texas grid...

[bigcheese]

"A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old"

Ah yes... I spent many a night out "looking at that tree". That tree is beautiful even through fogged up car windows :-)

[The South Texan]

We keep liberals confined to the city of Austin.

[narby]

I'll never forget my move from Houston to Los Angeles.

Packed up the U-Haul, and launched off early one morning. Drove hard all day, and spent the night somewhere in west Tx.

Got up early the next day, and drove hard almost all day, and finally got to El Paso.

Figured out it was farther from Houston to El Paso than from El Paso, through New Mexico, Arizona, and the California desert to Los Angeles.

D@mn, what a big place.

Only more impressive drive was 5 days on paved roads in Alaska. Then looking at a map of the whole state and discovering I had seen only a teeny corner of it.

[pwatson]

The only correction is after Texas lost the Civil War and re-joined the Union under the Reconstruction Acts, it no longer had the ability to succeed or break up into small states as it did the fist time it joined the Union.
Regards,
Paul 5th Generation Texan

[fritzz]

I was at that wonderful hotel in Galveston last month. Built after the 1900 storm to promote new tourism. If we are speaking about same hotel.

[38special]

There Ain't No Surf In Texas!

[pax_et_bonum]

Texas ping!

[Johnny_Cipher]

My grandfather once had to drive from Arkansas to New Mexico in the 30s. He told me of an old saying about driving across the state:

"The sun has riz, the sun has sit. But I am still in Texas yet."

[shaggy eel]

The State animal is the Armadillo.

,,, are these best roasted, stewed or turned on a BBQ?

[tet68]

I had a cool book about texas once, it was called "Texas Brags".

Had a great story about a farmer in the panhandle who was driving two mules with a load of corn to town and it was so hot the corn began to pop, the mules thought it was snow and froze to death.

Sometimes when a blue northerner comes through, the camp fires freeze, then the texans grind them up to make chili powder!

[sandydipper]

Also Jim Pope - the Sec/Tres of the 504th MP BN Assoc. lives in Balinger. A really fine feller.

[bobbyd]

Ping

[MPJackal]

Another interesting fact that more people fought at the Alamo from the states of OH, KY, TN, AL, and many other states, than people from the TX Teritory (If I remember right, that number was 3). So TX you are welcome. Your ability to join the US was paid for with the blood of NON Texans. Everything is big in TX including their egos. Oh, my wife is from TX so you can understand my point of view.

[Flyer]

Texas stuff *PING!*

As always, a FReep mail will get you on or off this Houston topics ping list.

[Deguello]

The San Jacinto Monument is taller than the Washington Monument and this fact really irritates the staff at the Washington Post.

[D Rider]

Awesome, "I would like 8 new senators and a coke to go please."