So what is it about Texas?
12-01-2003, 09:29 PM
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So what is it about Texas?
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington, and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Rather, Roger Staubach, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, George Strait, Tommy Lee Jones, David Robinson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Lance Armstrong, Larry Hagman, Denton Cooley, Michael DeBakey, Lance Armstrong, Bonnie and Clyde, Gene Roddenberry, Audie Murphy, Sissy Spacek, Carol Burnett, Red Adair, Howard Hughes, Walter Cronkite, Phil Gramm, Richard Petty, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
And last, all three domestic truck manufacturers have built trucks exclusively for the state of Texas.
Dodge - Lone Star edition
Ford - King Ranch
Chevy - Texas Edition.
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington, and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Rather, Roger Staubach, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, George Strait, Tommy Lee Jones, David Robinson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Lance Armstrong, Larry Hagman, Denton Cooley, Michael DeBakey, Lance Armstrong, Bonnie and Clyde, Gene Roddenberry, Audie Murphy, Sissy Spacek, Carol Burnett, Red Adair, Howard Hughes, Walter Cronkite, Phil Gramm, Richard Petty, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio.
Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you don't need it.
No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
And last, all three domestic truck manufacturers have built trucks exclusively for the state of Texas.
Dodge - Lone Star edition
Ford - King Ranch
Chevy - Texas Edition.
12-01-2003, 10:16 PM
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when we went to dodge city Kansas for the supermodified racing that we do. they asked us how many horses we had?. well being we where at a race we told them about 700 horses(thinking of the supermodified racecar) we where like cool; they're really impressed, and then they asked us if we had abunch of land cause we would need it to have that many horses....
for some reason everybody that we have met racing all over the north and on the west coast, think that everybody that lives in texas rides a horse to work everyday.
hell ive lived in Texas all my life and have only been on a horse about 5 times.
just thought i'd share that tid bit.
for some reason everybody that we have met racing all over the north and on the west coast, think that everybody that lives in texas rides a horse to work everyday.
hell ive lived in Texas all my life and have only been on a horse about 5 times.
just thought i'd share that tid bit.
12-01-2003, 10:46 PM
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I'm bout' ready to bust a gut here! Hoss, you forgot a few folks, Sandra Bullock, and Barry Corbin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Fabulous Thunderbirds. I took some bullshit when I was in Chicago. They talk too fast. The women are pretty in Texas. We do have a noticeable drawl in our accents. I am always amazed at how many people still think it's the Wild West. This is good thread. I wish I had kept my grandfathers low mileage pickup. It was a 1970 Ford Ranger. I would have put a 427 side oiler with dual quads in it, and left the steel wheels and dog dish hubcaps on.
12-01-2003, 11:30 PM
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Thanks for that post. I emailed that to a friend of mine who is a okie... going to OU none the less.
I love Texas, I like it. I was born and raised here. I, God willing, will die here. (at an old age
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I went to London a few spring breaks ago. People kept asking me questions about what it was like etc.
When I was in Washington D.C. I ate at a place and told the lady I wanted mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and okra, she looked at me like I was crazy, then asked me where I was from.... She understood then.
Oh yeah, how many states have a song that says "God blessed Texas, with his own hands......"
try saying iowa or something.... ha....
I love Texas, I like it. I was born and raised here. I, God willing, will die here. (at an old age
)I went to London a few spring breaks ago. People kept asking me questions about what it was like etc.
When I was in Washington D.C. I ate at a place and told the lady I wanted mashed potatoes and gravy, corn and okra, she looked at me like I was crazy, then asked me where I was from.... She understood then.
Oh yeah, how many states have a song that says "God blessed Texas, with his own hands......"
try saying iowa or something.... ha....
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12-01-2003, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by BlownChevy
Now Now, some of us have no choice but to live here!
, at least where i was at they didnt.hope its diffrent where your at blownchevy
(most people can tell real quick where i'm from..... i dont know what gives it away yall)
