This is Texas

email | 4-9-02 | unknown

[oyez]

Depends on your definition of "Larger-than-Life." .

[ValerieUSA]

[MissAmericanPie]

I love San Antonio, it was on my husband's "Team Penning" circuit. We still try to pay it a visit every couple of years.

I am a Texan first and foremost, then an American. I think that is the proper order of things.

[babaloo999]

I live in Texas and have only two disagreements with the list. One, Juneteenth is an absolute embarassment. I was shocked that it was considered a holiday when I moved here and I had never heard of it 'til I got here. Second, Texas does NOT have the best BBQ. That belongs to Memphis.

Well, Juneteenth is a Texas thing, so I'm not suprprised you never heard of it before. As for the bbq, Memphis is highly overrated.

[babaloo999]

excuse the spelling. I'm as surprised as anyone.

[mil-vet]

I was stationed in Washington, D.C., during the Carter debacle, and with all the conflict in central America there was concern about the Cubans and Nicaraguans invading the US by coming up from central America through Mexico. There was even a Patrick Swazey movie (Red Dawn) made about this scenario.

Some wise-assed member of either the house or senate (can't remember which) made the comment, intended as derisive, that there wasn't anything to worry about "...because all those Texas red-necks with guns in their pickup trucks will never allow anyone invading from the south to get as far north as Austin!"

This politician was trying to insult Texas, but you know what, he was right, and I'm damned proud of the fact! Texas is a state of mind!!

[babaloo999]

and, and....When I was in England a few years ago, I was talking to a cop, er, bob@##$, er, policeman at a motorcycle

festival. He found out that I was from Texas. He immediately started telling me about all the guns he used to own before

they had to be turned it to the benevolent masters that be.

[Centurion2000]

Texican style bump

[JavaTheHutt]

Depends on your definition of "Larger-than-Life."

No it doesn't. It depends on the reader having enough common sense to understand and comprehend what they're being told.

LBJ a man of honor? This may be the first time LBJ and honor were ever used in the same sentence. Nobody ever accused him of being a man of honor, or whatever it may have been you were trying to infer from the posted comment. Larger than life? Absolutely. There is no "depends on your definition" b.s. about it.

He earned his place in Texas folklore and history just like Racehorse Haynes, Cullen Davis, Clayton Williams, the Bass Bros, Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Judge Roy Bean, and John Wesley Hardin. Notorious? With a doubt. Scoundrel? It goes without saying. The stuff that legends are made of? You bet.

He brought Nasa to a struggling Houston economy, did more for civil rights than Lincoln, picked his dogs up by their ears, cussed like a sailor, drank like a fish, and received more votes from dead people than from living people. He made it onto the ticket with Kennedy because Kennedy couldn't have won Texas or the election without him, and because he knew more about dirty politics and vote rigging than any man alive at the time. If all of that wasn't enough, he would still be remembered in Texas history books as being the husband of one of the most respected women in the history of Texas.

Depends on your definition of "Larger-than-Life."?

Only to foreigners from Tennessee or some place, where they don't have the common sense of road kill.

[weegee]

I don't know. I went to college in Boston but came back to Texas when I finished. A friend I met there was from Brooklyn. The first time he flew into Houston he was surprised that it wasn't all desert. He was really surprised by how many trees there were!

[JavaTheHutt]

That's funny, when I was overseas, I was asked several times how many guns I owned. I always told 'em that I couldn't exactly remember, it had been a long time since I was able to fit 'em all in one room to try to count.

[Senator Pardek]

Hmmm - this must explain why so many Texan Freepers have a reference to Texas in their handles, unlike any other state. I always assumed it was low self-esteem or something.

[weegee]

Jimmy Dale Gillmore recently soured his own milk with some impromteau political comments at a Houston gig...

[oyez]

Looks like we need to induct JDG into the Barbra Strisand Club.

I'm not a Texan. I'm not an American. [Pause for effect] I'm a citizen of the world. [Pause for effect] And I just can't believe what the citizens of the world are doing to each other. It's just an opinion."

Americans and Texans treat each other different than the citizens of the world do. The citizens of the world strap explosives to them selves, hijack airplanes to crash or plot terrorism on others.

Sing Jimmy, Sing. Leave you weak political opinons at home as not to loose your fanship.

[luckystarmom]

Proud Texan here. I live in California now, and my hubby is a native Californian. My kids say they are 1/2 Texan.

[luckystarmom]

How can you forget Tom Landry and the other famous Dallas Cowboys!

[serinde]

... take time to watch "Texas Forever! The Battle of San Jacinto".

Another good show is "Texas!" in Canyon each summer. A great summary of the history of Texas.

[FreedomFriend]

There are plenty of people from the NYC area living here in the Atlanta area. Many of them are rude, and a large amount have sorry attitudes.

I can't believe that the people of North Carolina cannot fathom farms and rural land in New York.

[anymouse]

I'm not a native Texan, but I wised up and got here as soon as I could. :)

Don't know of another state where people are as universally proud of where they are from as Texans are. in many states people would be hard pressed to describe their state flag - not in Texas though. When the American flag is flown in Texas, almost always the Texas flag is right next to it. Until post Sept. 11th, it was easier to find a Texas flag in the store than an American flag - not for lack of American flags, but for the popularity of Texans flying the Texas flag everywhere.

[Rightly Biased]

Did you ever hear anyone say, "Wow ... so you're from Kansas. Cool. Tell me about it."?
My wifes from that dreary state and nope no one ever asks her about it but if she tell's em she lives in Texas.Here come all the questions.