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Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
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To: phatoldphart
"Texas is skies blackened with doves" Exceptin' this year when it's been more like lonesome dove for me.
In these dark days when San Jacinto day is no longer a state holiday I pray that her special place in the hearts of all Texans and all who want some Texan in them stays strong.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:43:19 PM PDT
by
Proud_texan
("Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater)
To: Concho
The Eyes of Texas is not the state Anthem!!!!!!!!!
Texas Aggies hate that song.
It is the song for University of Texas.
According to us Aggies the song "sounds like he**"!
To: phatoldphart
You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in LongviewI was born in Longview, near Kilgore, and remember going to El Chico every other Saturday. Texas has the best Mexican (Panchos, anyone?) food in the country.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:44:18 PM PDT
by
Windsong
(FighterPilot)
To: agrace
Juneteenth is Martin Luther King Day. Frankly, nothin' much happens that day but it's a paid government holiday and an excuse to eat fried chicken and watermelon.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:44:23 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: calex59
Spent a few years in LA, more in SF. Had to get away from the liberals' wet dream......
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:44:39 PM PDT
by
phatoldphart
(It's a whole nother country)
To: Black Tooth
While taking a walk, passed by a gentleman and commented on the high humidity (live in Virginia) -- he said he was from Texas and that the weather here in Virginia was heaven. He said Texas has two seasons: Summer and Hell.
To: phatoldphart
I'm in Wylie. Whoa... I lived in Wylie from '63 to '67, just a little east of town. I looked it up on Google maps a few weeks ago and it sure has changed.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(By their works you shall know them.)
To: agrace
Juneteenth is a holiday in Texas that celebrates the day Texas slaves found out they had been emancipated. Its celebrated on June 19th. Its beginning to spread to other states, IIRC
To: basil
I had exactly the same experience you did growing up and had forgotten all about it except we did it in class, which, of course, had both the US and Texas flag.
Thanks for the great memory.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:46:17 PM PDT
by
Proud_texan
("Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater)
To: basil
Texas anthem is not the Eyes of Texas. That is the University of Texas fight song.Boo, hiss, spit. Gig 'em Aggies!
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:46:22 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: phatoldphart
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Luby's
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:47:21 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: mtbopfuyn
Juneteenth, is June 19th. Martin Luther King, Jr day is in January. Juneteenth has been celebrated for almost 150 years.
To: phatoldphart
I am not an expert on US flag etiquette, but I always understood that no flag was to fly at the same height as the US flag. The are special rules for a foreign nation's flag.
To: Revolting cat!
Your screen name is extremely fitting.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:49:42 PM PDT
by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: Doctor Stochastic
That quote gets attributed to several folks, but I think it was Gen. Phil Sheridan (one hell of a calvary officer, even if he was a yankee)who said it during Reconstruction.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:50:15 PM PDT
by
olrtex
To: phatoldphart
Must be you've never been here!!!!! I had the honor of being born there, but that was a while ago.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:50:31 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: basil
Anybody remember the Mobil history comics?
77
posted on
10/14/2005 4:52:05 PM PDT
by
phatoldphart
(It's a whole nother country)
To: phatoldphart
Texas, the state that bred the world's rankest buckin' bull, the Yellow Whale, BODACIOUS!
78
posted on
10/14/2005 4:52:44 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(If you're not willing to give Harriett Miers a hearing, I don't give a damn what you think.)
To: luckystarmom
Yikes, you're right. Trying to type and get out the door for the football game. Where, btw, we will salute the flag, the band (go band!) plays Amazing Grace during the "federal ban on school prayer" (cough) moment of silence, and the teams meet at mid-field for the "impromptu" (wink, wink) prayer.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:53:05 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: mtbopfuyn
Are you from Mars? Juneteenth is most assuredly not Martin Luther King Day.
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posted on
10/14/2005 4:53:36 PM PDT
by
olrtex
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