Author Topic: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there  (Read 3415 times)

Majer

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JUST TEXAS

 

Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Rainbow, Texas 76077
Sweet Home, Texas 77987
Comfort, Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530



Love the Sun?


Sun City , Texas 78628
Sunrise , Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray , Texas 79086
Sunny Side , Texas 77423



Want something to eat?


Bacon , Texas 76301
Noodle , Texas 79536
Oatmeal , Texas 78605
Turkey , Texas 79261
Trout , Texas 75789
Sugar Land , Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice , Texas 75155
Pearland , Texas 77581
Orange , Texas 77630


And top it off with:
Sweetwater , Texas 79556


Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!


Detroit , Texas 75436
Cleveland , Texas 75436
Colorado City , Texas 79512
Denver City , Texas 79323
Klondike , Texas 75448
Nevada , Texas 75173
Memphis , Texas 79245
Miami , Texas 79059
Boston , Texas 75570
Santa Fe , Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
Reno , Texas 75462
Pasadena , Texas 77506
Columbus , Texas 78934


Feel like traveling outside the country? Don't bother buying a plane ticket!


Athens , Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613
Egypt , Texas 77436
Ireland , Texas 76538
Italy , Texas 76538
Turkey , Texas 79261
London , Texas 76854
New London , Texas 75682
Paris , Texas 75460
Palestine , Texas 75801



No need to travel to Washington D.C.
Whitehouse , Texas 75791



We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth , Texas 79031



And a city named after our State!
Texas City , Texas 77590



Exhausted?
Energy , Texas 76452



Cold?
Blanket , Texas 76432
Winters, Texas



Like to read about History?
Santa Anna , Texas
Goliad , Texas
Alamo , Texas
Gun Barrel City , Texas
Robert Lee, Texas



Need Office Supplies?
Staples, Texas 78670


Want to go into outer space?
Venus , Texas 76084
Mars , Texas 79062


You guessed it. It's on the state line.
Texline , Texas 79087



For the kids...
Kermit , Texas 79745
Elmo , Texas 75118
Nemo , Texas 76070
Tarzan , Texas 79783
Winnie , Texas 77665
Sylvester , Texas 79560



Other city names in Texas , to make you smile......
Frognot , Texas 75424
Bigfoot , Texas 78005
Hogeye , Texas 75423
Cactus , Texas 79013
Notrees , Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest , Texas 76886
Kickapoo , Texas 75763
Dime Box , Texas 77853
Old Dime Box , Texas 77853
Telephone , Texas 75488
Telegraph , Texas 76883
Whiteface , Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079



And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City ...
Kilgore , Texas 75662



And our favorites...
Cut n Shoot, Texas
Gun Barrell City , Texas
Hoop And Holler, Texas
Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,
Muleshoe , Texas





Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas ...



If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas ;



If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ;



If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ;



If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;



If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;



If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;



If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas ;



If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas ;



If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas ;



If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas ;



If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas ..




Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .

1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles


2.. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles


3... El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas


4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.


5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.


6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .


7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America


8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.


9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.


10. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .


11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969, was " Houston ," but the space center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.


12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island ..


13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979...


14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.

Also, can secede from the union at our descrection...which we may do in short order if things in Washington don't change soon!



15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.


16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.


17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper..


18. Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston ,Velasco, West Columbia and Austin ..


19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC (by 7 feet).

20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington monument.


21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas ..


22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).


23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .


Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :
(1) Just one God.
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
(3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
(5) Put nothin' before God.
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.
(7) No killin'.
(8) Watch yer mouth.
(9) Don't take what ain't yers.
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.


Y'all git all that?
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The problem with society today is that not enough of us drink wine from our enemies skulls”.

It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 3 for proper trigger squeeze.

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars!!!
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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2009, 06:31:05 PM »
There's a Pittsburg TX too but you guys don't know how to spell it.  ;)
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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2009, 07:04:59 PM »
I almost wish I was there, but as the song goes, "All my exes live in Texas..."

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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2009, 07:14:37 PM »
God Bless Texas
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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2009, 11:14:59 PM »
Wow.  Texas is so much better than all you boy's states.  Thanks for the post, and all Foxworthy's comments about Texas are known facts.  Your wrong number is answered with, 'Well, sorry about that.  You watching the Boys?  I know were the greatest ever.  You have a nice day now.  Bye bye.'  I prefer the 'bye bye' rather than 'bye', cause you can't be too friendly to fellow Texans.  We aught to have a Texas etiquette class be mandatory to state foreigners. ;)

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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2009, 11:30:05 PM »
Thanks Majer, it's all true.

I've seen this many times and I can't help but reread it every time. ;D

It these troubled times it is nice to know that we could secede at our discretion, won't happen, but nice to know.
“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2009, 12:16:49 AM »
ok, I  can say yes to all but one of jeff foxworths questions..


it was this one


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If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;



I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2009, 12:42:35 AM »
Majer, that was beautiful *wipes the tear away*. I've seen it before but like Kid said you can't help but read it again.

I wasn't alive when Texas was it's own free country, (well DUH! ;D ) but I sure wouldn't mind seeing it become that way again. More so then ever with the current jackass-in-dipshit ruining the country.
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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2009, 08:01:56 AM »
 Robert Lee Texas may NOT be named for the Civil War General.  in the area around Caddo lake after the Civil war there was a feud between the Lee and Pheasant families. One of the leaders of the Lee faction was named Bob Lee.

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Re: For our Friends in Texas...and those who wish they were there
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2009, 10:56:24 AM »
Nice post... I married into a south TX family...I have a lot of state pride in my Bluegrass State, but the wife and i have been lookin for a reason to move to TX for a couple of years now...

just a few things in that post should be checked out... beaumont to chicago is closer to 1000 miles, not 770

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Beaumont to Chicago by air is 777 nautical miles
Beaumont to El Paso by air is 634 nautical miles

I stand corrected.

 

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