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To: Michael81Dus
You know, Michael, one of the funniest stories of foreign visitors to Dallas, Texas was back in the 1970s. A young Kenyan was unfortunate enough to check into his hotel room in the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas on Texas-OU weekend. That means the University of Texas Longhorns football team versus the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team in a rivalry which has lasted every October for almost 100 years.

The police have tightened up things now, but on the Friday ights before the big Texas-OU game anything could happen. People would throw mattresses out of tall hotel buildings, go swim naked in the very shallow Dealy Plaza pond, leave their cars parked in the middle of streets, and everybody would have a great time because we knew what to expect.

The poor Kenyan, though, heard screaming, yelling, and saw what he thought was rioting in the streets. He locked himself in his bedroom because he thought a revolution was going on, and the hotel manager had to beg him to unlock his door the next day and come out. The poor guy was scared stiff, but it was only the annual Texas-OU weekend!:)

We're not anything near as bad as Europeans think, we just have our own customs.:)

47 posted on 09/30/2005 6:10:17 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones

It seems that every time something about Texas is posted here on FR, it's about something GOOD or otherwise appealing happening there. :-)

It really makes me want to visit....and perhaps live there. It seems to be far more of a sane place than the People's Republic of Seattle where I (unfortunately) currently have to be.

Lubbock being recently named one of the top Conservative cities in the USA is another feather in Texas' 10 gallon hat.

My impression is that the Texas ladies typically don't walk around all day with a militant-feminist scowling chip on their shoulders either. "sigh".

Oh well, maybe someday :-)



49 posted on 09/30/2005 7:17:00 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: xJones

Oh well. The poor Kenyan .... but when I think of the L.A.-riots I saw in TV, I understand him. :-)


50 posted on 10/01/2005 6:28:48 AM PDT by Michael81Dus
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