Texas - have you seen this one?

email | 10/14 | anonymous

[RightOnline]

I was born in San Antonio (Dad was an AF NCO stationed at Randolph). Years later, I went to pilot training in Lubbock (and met and married my wife of 27+ years there). Then, a few years later, was stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene. I left the AF at that time, stayed in Abilene for a while, then moved to Austin and lived there for a couple of absolutely incredible years.

San Antonio.......Lubbock.........Abilene.........Austin.........


I may now live in the truly great state of North Carolina, and I may have lived here for ten + years......but I still feel more like a Texan than a North Carolinian.

[phatoldphart]

>If you follow the PBR keep your eyes on a youngster named Best Western. He will buck in the Classic in Las Vegas in a couple f weeks.

Checkout posts 78,91,99

[McLynnan]

God Blessed Texas
Little Texas

I've seen a lot of places,
I've been around the world.
I've seen some pretty faces,
Been with some beautiful girls.
After all I've witnessed,
One thing still amazes me,
Just like a miracle,
You have to see to believe.

'Cause God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.

First He made the sunshine,
Then He made the water deep.
Then He gave us moonlight
For all the world to see.
Well, everybody knows
That the Lord works in mysterious ways.
He took a rest,
Then on the very next day

God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.

God blessed Texas
With His own hand.
Brought down angels
From the promised land.
He gave them a place
Where they could dance.
If you wanna see heaven, brother,
Here's your chance.
'Cause I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.
Mmm-mmm.
I've been sent
To spread the message:
God blessed Texas.

[hispanarepublicana]

"ChilE" is the yellow/green/red/orange thing that grows on plants. "ChilI" is the beef, chili powder, cumin, garlic, etc., ambrosia that is a creation of the Texans.

[phatoldphart]

Not as good but ok

[hispanarepublicana]

The Hub City (Lubbock) has changed A LOT. The TTU Ghetto just east of Jones Stadium on 4th and University was BULLDOZED in the biggest entirely privately-funded redevelopment effort in the nation.
The Tahoka Traffic Circle is gone. The city limits now extend to FM 1585, which is a few miles South of "the Strip".
Lubbock is one of four finalists for the G.W. Bush library.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My grandparents owned a couple of hundred acres south of Giddings that we kept horses on for many years and visited almost every weekend. More scorpions than I have ever seen anywhere on earth.

[Eaker]

There ya go!

Texas is, Texas.

Ain't nothing like it.

[phatoldphart]

Pancho's is a newcomer. Sometime in the sixties. If I remember the sixties...

[Ditter]

My family was in Texas when it was born too. They settled in what later became Shelby Co, in the 1820's. They are listed in the first census in 1835. Where did your family settle?

[11Bush]

LOL. No, the real Richmond, as in Virginia. But I do love Texas for being so big and friendly.

[nae]

My many times great-grandfather moved from Georgia to Texas right after the civel war. My great-great grandfather did, too. He wasn't from a wealthy family; they were 'Backwoods Georgians,' but we know they did have at least one slave because after the war, he drove my g-gf, who was a boy at the time, and his mother to Texas. They were the only ones from a large family who survived the war. The father & older boys all went off to fight and never returned. We don't know what happened to the girls.

[hispanarepublicana]

My ancestors had a sheep ranch that was the result of a Spanish Land Grant. I'll just say it was South of San Antonio.

[Fiddlstix]

.......(How many Yankees just thought you asked me about a cross between a ground-burrowing rodent and a chicken, I wonder--it's pronounced molay, northern FRiends).

LOL
Again

I was born and raised on a ranch about 4 miles from the Rio Grande river.........
I grew up on food like chicken mole.
I guess it must be an acquired taste........
I've never met a yankee who liked it.....
As for myself, I love it

[groanup]

Two more:

My ex-father-in-law witnessed one of his buddies putting on a pair of those high, lace up boots. The poor sob had laced them up for five minutes when the scorpion began to sting. It took him a couple of minutes to get the damn things off.

Another one that proves everything in Texas bites, stings, itches, hurts and smells bad is the canoe story. I decided to buy a canoe trailer and two canoes from my father-in-law. When I went out to load the canoes on the trailor I turned them over and they were both full of black widow spiders.

You know how the song goes: "If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band". Well, if you're gonna walk around in Texas, you gotta have a repellant. LOL>

[stopsign]

I've often heard this story as well for years but no one has ever provided said where one could find this "statute."

This is what I found with a quick google, http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/GV/content/htm/gv.011.00.003100.00.htm#3100.051.00 , I have seen beter sites, this does say it tho... : ) <<< me

[phatoldphart]

That's more than I know. mine had 500 acres 4 or 5 slaves. Since he shot a carpetbagger, I assume he lost it all....

Leesville in Stark(?) county.

[sinkspur]

If you follow the PBR keep your eyes on a youngster named Best Western.

Who owns him? Since you guys have bulls, do you know Jerry Nelson? That guy has one of the best eyes for young buckin' bulls in the country. He only bucks with the PBR, and he's got some hellacious stock.

[Arkinsaw]

OK this isn't true, but we're still the best state in the best country in the world.

I lived in Dallas for six years and it was pure hell, everyone out to screw ya. I had the wheels stolen off my vehicle twice (once on blocks and once not), my battery stolen several times, and my apartment broken into. Dallas looks nice, but is all about screw your neighbor. I got fired because I told my boss off on the day of the Challenger tragedy....everyone was listening to the radio and he said...."Turn that off and get back to work, them people are dead and they'll still be dead at 5:01 this afternoon". Its all about the dollar in Dallas.

I lived down around Ennis and Waxahachie for a while and the poor unemployed rural folks were good and decent and I have no complaints with them. But then again the poor rural folks are that way everywhere.

I haven't bought that "rah rah we are the best" stuff since. From what I have seen, Tennessee and North Carolina are better bets.

[hispanarepublicana]

I was born and raised on a ranch about 4 miles from the Rio Grande river.........

So you must like Nopalitos too. It's no coincidence that Hispanics have the highest diabetes rates in the country, and that most of them are 2 generations removed from eating Nopalitos, which are a best-kept secret as a diabetes miracle drug from Mother Nature.