Author Topic: Things I have Learned about Texas (Read 1730 times)

Mark Luper · « **Reply #30 on:** July 15, 2003, 08:45:49 PM »

Well... I know some of you, specificaly SUAVE, SLCR, Arfann, and Fishu are for the most part just trying to get a "rise" out of the natives down here and I guess y'all succeeded at that. My personal opinion of you is that you are sucking the south end of a north bound mule

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Suave · « **Reply #31 on:** July 15, 2003, 08:52:06 PM »

What ? I like it here . Despite the stupid laws .

Arfann · « **Reply #32 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:01:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Mark Luper
Well... I know some of you, specificaly SUAVE, SLCR, Arfann, and Fishu are for the most part just trying to get a "rise" out of the natives down here and I guess y'all succeeded at that. My personal opinion of you is that you are sucking the south end of a north bound mule .

Just for that we're closing our borders. If God had meant for Texans to ski he would have made bull**** white.

rogwar · « **Reply #33 on:** July 15, 2003, 09:18:13 PM »

I love the Republic of Texas almost as much as I do the country of Brazil

Vulcan · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2003, 10:18:24 PM »

Whats the going rate for tipping cows? We usually tip the sheep about 10%.

Inferno · « **Reply #35 on:** July 15, 2003, 10:52:50 PM »

You know if you're a texan if...

1. When you hear 'Hey y'all, watch this!', you wonder if you can take the pig to the funeral.

2. Your wife is also your brother/sister/cousin/uncle/grandpa/aunt/mother/father/son/daughter/pet.

3. You know Cletus the slack-jawed yokel.

4. You ARE Cletus the slack-jawed yokel.

5. You have a gun rack in the back of your 1947 pickup.

6. Fifth grade was the best 6 years of your life.

7. You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65mph.

8. You've been married 3 times and have the same inlaws.

9. You think the last words of the star-spangled banner are 'Gentlemen, start your engines!'.

10. Your toilet paper has page numbers.

11. You dated your parent's current spouse in high-school.

Texas is really quite a good place to visit...

rpm · « **Reply #36 on:** July 15, 2003, 11:23:08 PM »

Mark, the reason most people spew derrogitory remarks about Texas and Texans is lack of pride in their own home state. Texans have enormous pride in their home and others just don't get it or know how to react to it. Of the 50 states, only Texas was an independant nation with it's own military and diplomats. Until the admission of Alaska, Texas was the largest state, so large in fact, that it was given the option of breaking up into 5 smaller states if it so chose. Now I'm not putting down anyones home state, but there just isn't the pride shown from any other state that can compare.

Mark Luper · « **Reply #37 on:** July 15, 2003, 11:36:06 PM »

That's true RPM, and we are the only state in the Union authorised to fly the state flag at the same height as the Union flag and the only state that can succeed legaly from the Union.

Nilsen · « **Reply #38 on:** July 16, 2003, 05:46:03 AM »

i just learned that its a nasty storm over there, hope nobody gets hurt.

BTW HTC... take a backup of your P47N design so you wont have to start over if the disk gets broken

rpm · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2003, 06:15:12 AM »

Reports this morning of 2 dead so far from Hurricaine Claudette in South Texas.In Jourdanton, about 35 miles south of San Antonio, 13-year-old Clayton Dojahn was killed when a mesquite tree fell on him in his front yard, police said. A 33-year-old woman was killed in Victoria by a limb when she stepped outside to check storm damage:(

Mark, I think you ment Secede, and you are correct.

Arfann · « **Reply #40 on:** July 16, 2003, 07:09:18 AM »

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and the only state that can succeed legaly from the Union.

And they probably would, if they could learn how to spell it.

Mark Luper · « **Reply #41 on:** July 16, 2003, 05:22:48 PM »

Hehe, I always have problems with that word, tried to look it up in webster's online dictionary and could never find it.

Btw Arfrann, I don't ski... never have and probably never will so you can just close your borders to me

. Colorado is beautiful country though, maybe we should annex it...

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Mark Luper · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2003, 11:50:03 PM »

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That's true RPM, and we are the only state in the Union authorised to fly the state flag at the same height as the Union flag and the only state that can succeed legaly from the Union.

This is partialy inccorect. While perusing the AGW boards I came across a thread about the Civil War and the issue about whether or not Texas can leagaly secede from the Union came up. The following link dispels that notion:Texas Secession

My appologies for the misinformation.

Syzygyone · « **Reply #43 on:** July 18, 2003, 08:07:33 AM »

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Of the 50 states, only Texas was an independant nation with it's own military and diplomats.

Texas was never a threat to the United States. Its just redikulus!

midnight Target · « **Reply #44 on:** July 18, 2003, 09:51:12 AM »

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Thus Frémont and his sixty armed scouts and soldiers were at hand in the spring of 1846 when rumors circulated of imminent war between Mexico and the United States. On June 10, Americans near Sonoma took up arms and declared an independent California Republic with a homemade flag bearing a single star and the painted image of a grizzly, thus earning their uprising the name of the Bear Flag Revolt. Frémont joined the rebels in their short-lived republic, which ended on July 9,

So California was also an "independent republic" for almost a whole month!