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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
South fork. 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'll get it maybe after a second, 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 little rock the Good Lord put us on, there is a person
who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or
ride 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 Big Bend. Texas is
shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas. Texas is world record bass
from places like Lake Fork. Texas
is Mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico. Texas is the Fort Worth
Stockyards, Bass Hall, and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, and George W. Bush. Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. 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 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, or California,or Maine, and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17. 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 we place being a Texan 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 if we want to! We included these things in as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part right there. If
you are a REAL TEXAN, ...pass this on.
YEE HAW!! I'M FROM TEXAS AND PROUD OF
IT!!!!!
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8-19-2004 A man from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next
to a guy
in a Rolls Royce at a stop sign. Their windows are open and he yells at
the guy in the Rolls, "Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?" The guy
in the Rolls says, "Yes, of course I do." "I got one too... see?" the
Texan
says.
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By James Cloutier 8-15-2004 Found a copy of Mr Cloutier ,The Great Texas Joke book published in 1981. Borrowed a few of the funny stories but they are much cuter with Mr. Cloutier drawings. Did you hear about the Texas that was so rich he had an unlisted telephone company. It is a fact that it gets so dry in West Texas that sometimes the cat fish have ticks. An oil rich Texan from Galveston went to the Dentist for a
check up.
While looking at Niagara Falls for the first time, a Texas was
asked
by a local
A Texas twister is nothing but a lot of hot air moving around
in circles.
Two Texas oilmen were in Detroit for a convention and stopped
by the
Cadillac showroom
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