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Gobbla2001
04-23-2005, 09:29 AM
Found this on another website... pretty neat...

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 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 little 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 Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico. Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.







Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, 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 towns and cities shut down to watch the local high school football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys and the Texans on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio 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 probably 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 or anyplace else 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. 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. The world's tallest war memorial stands at San Jacinto 15 feet taller than the Washington monument honoring all those who fought for Texas's independence. Texas even has its own power grid.






And every Texan knows the true saying: You can take a Texan out of Texas . . . but you can't take Texas out of the Texan!





That's one of the reasons so many stay right here!

:crying:

PhiI C
04-23-2005, 09:50 AM
Hey Gobbla General Sherridan a general from the North during the Civil War was once quoted as saying: "If I owned Texas and Hell I would rent out Texas and Live in Hell."

Actually Texans thought it wasn't that bad an idea because Texas has 2,268,701 square miles and if you just rented each square mile for $10 a month (and that is very cheap rent!) then your annual rent would be $2,722,312,120 or almost $3 Billion a year! Maybe the General was smart after all! :)

Gobbla2001
04-23-2005, 09:52 AM
Originally posted by PhiI C
"If I owned Texas and Hell I would rent out Texas and Live in Hell."

I once said that about Iowa :D

Bullaholic
04-23-2005, 09:53 AM
And we're humble too, Gobbla. That ol' myth about Texans bragging a lot about their state is a bunch of baloney. ;) Good post, Gobbla--- Texas is the best, but it's the great folks that live here that make it that way.

Gobbla2001
04-23-2005, 09:58 AM
I remember when my ex and I went to visit her parents on spring break a couple of years back...

Her mom was teaching at a school in Philadelphia, must have been 1st grade or something, they were really small... all they did was ask us about Texas...

I dunno where the picture is at, but her mom's aide took a picture of all of us with the class shooting the "Hook 'Em" sign...

rhs78
04-23-2005, 10:01 AM
Gobbla, that post makes me proud to be a TEXAN,I wouldnt have it any other way. thanks for the post

Gobbla2001
04-23-2005, 10:07 AM
Also, we were waiting to get inside of David Letterman and there were two people from Houston in front of us and some other Texans not too far behind us... The dude checking tickets said in his NYC accent "I've always wanted to go to Texas!"

Also, in that FAO Shwartz or whatever that big ole toy store is... We walked in (I had a longhorn cap on) and some girl (pretty hot) shot me the horns and said 'Go UT' or something... I said "Yes, more Texans" and she said "No, we're from North Carolina, we like Tar Heel basketball and Longhorn football..." I was so happy, I said "I like Tar-Heel basketball and Longhorn football too..."

Minus the Texas uprising experienced in the Northeast that week, I was more than happy to get the hell out of there...

One word: RUDE

CHS_CG
04-23-2005, 11:37 AM
aww thats cool... Hey Lepfan.. does that make you miss Texas even more?

lepfan
04-23-2005, 12:12 PM
Hey, it does not take much to make me miss it...

Texas - Oklahoma at this point it does not matter...Just go south is what I say!