I Like Texas........ - Page 7

SATX*APhi · #1 03-13-2003, 08:22 PM

dzandiloo, about an hour ago someone called my house from "unavailable" and I usually don't answer it because it's usually someone trying to sell something, but tonight I thought, "What the heck?" So I answered the phone and said, "Howdy!" and they were like, "Ummmm, sorry." and hung up. LOL Crazy people.

dzandiloo · #2 03-13-2003, 09:07 PM

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Originally posted by SATX*APhi
dzandiloo, about an hour ago someone called my house from "unavailable" and I usually don't answer it because it's usually someone trying to sell something, but tonight I thought, "What the heck?" So I answered the phone and said, "Howdy!" and they were like, "Ummmm, sorry." and hung up. LOL Crazy people.

HOWDY!
LOL
Did they say it "How-dee" or "Hahdee"???
THis state's so big we have our own dialects...

BTW-get yourself on the Texas No Call list, and you won't have to worry about telephone solicitations anymore!

#3 03-14-2003, 04:35 AM

I always answer my phone with a "howdy, this is Kitso", or, if i'm just meeting someone in person for the first time i throw out a big "HOWDY!"

The Ags on here will get that.

MereMere, are you an Ag?

Kitso
KS 361

MereMere21 · #4 03-14-2003, 05:24 AM

define Ag...hehe

no actually I grew up in College Station - lived there for 15 years.....so yeah deep down I bleed maroon

I was planning on going to A&M - started out at Blindergarden for a semester but then transferred elsewhere to continue my Nursing education since A&M doesn't have a nursing program

I'm still true though - went to every home football game, knew the yells, and before the horrible day in Nov '99 - I went to every Bonfire, even the ones with all the mud!

There is something about College Station only people there understand....ok I'm starting to get whiny about it....but really its an awesome place and there isn't day that goes by that I don't think about going home

sweet home College Station
where the skies are Maroon
sweet home College Station
Lord I'm coming home to you!!

YAY FOR CHILIFEST!!!

SATX*APhi · #5 03-14-2003, 07:24 PM

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Originally posted by dzandiloo
HOWDY!
LOL
Did they say it "How-dee" or "Hahdee"???
THis state's so big we have our own dialects...

BTW-get yourself on the Texas No Call list, and you won't have to worry about telephone solicitations anymore!

I said "How-dee." I guess they thought I was busy milkin' my cows, so they hung up.

And what's this about the Texas no call deal?

SATX*APhi · #6 03-14-2003, 07:26 PM

Oh damn! I forgot to update!!!!!

CORY WAS BAD @$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, I am sure you all knew that. I was right in front, drinkin my brew, dancing, and singing along. I even got a few winks from Cory.

I cannot wait for Chilifest. Woo hoo!!

Note to Kitso: I drank nothing but Shiner last night. Of the twelve I drank, one was for you.

dzandiloo · #7 03-14-2003, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by SATX*APhi
And what's this about the Texas no call deal?

From www.texasnocall.com:

Beginning on January 1, 2002, you can add your name, address and telephone number to state-sponsored “No Call Lists,” which will help limit telemarketing calls to your home or business. You can choose to register a residential telephone number for one or both of two “No Call Lists” sponsored by the Public Utility Commission (PUC.)

It costs $2.40 for a 5 year period. My dh and I signed up immediately. It took a couple of months, but now, our phone is blissfully silent. There are exceptions--companies which you have a pre-existing relationship with and charities are exempt. But I don't hear from them much. The very worst I have experienced since the no call list was instituted was last fall during the elections. Perry's campaign RELENTLESSLY called my house with those irritating automated/recorded messages. GRRRRR.

If you sign up by March 27, calls will stop by June 1. Check out the web-site for all the details. I must say, it isn't perfect, but I am a big fan. And now, if someone calls me who shouldn't, all I have to do is inform them that they are in violation of the Texas Telemarketing Disclosure and Privacy Act (which doesn't carry heavy penalties, but sounds tough!) and they get off my phone quickly.

Anyway. Check it out.

AlphaSigOU · #8 03-14-2003, 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
I always answer my phone with a "howdy, this is Kitso", or, if i'm just meeting someone in person for the first time i throw out a big "HOWDY!"

The Ags on here will get that.

Now that's an Aggie tradition I like -- 'whipping out'!

That's why College Station is known as the friendliest college campus in America!

Howdy, Miss Reveille, ma'am!

#9 03-15-2003, 05:54 AM

AlphaSig!!

Whoop!! to you pulling out the tradition of "whipping out"!!

and another big whoop to, "Howdy Miss Reveille, Ma'am!"

If i didn't know better, i'd swear you'd spent sometime in the Fightin' Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets!!

Howdy, fish Kitsopoulos is my name sir!
glad to meet you Mr. AlphaSig sir! i'm from Boerne, TX taking RPTS sir!!

Dude! Where you gettin your info from??

Kitso
KS 361

AlphaSigOU · #10 03-15-2003, 09:12 AM

Worked with enough Aggies over the years and read up on their traditions, something which is sadly lacking in many colleges and universities nowadays (other than rooting for the football team). Given another chance to get up off my a** and finish my degree, I'd certainly consider being an Aggie.

Besides, Aggies and Sooners have a shared enemy... t.u.!

josie · #11 03-15-2003, 11:38 AM

i love visiting our chapters in arlington and houston. gotta love the fact that the chapter president's name is Toto and addresses everyone with a big loud HOWDY!

and i have the state of texas tattooed on my left arm. got that when i was sober (surprisingly) on 6th street in austin.

anddd i have a giant longhorns sticker on the back of my jeep. cars nicely move out of my way when i drive and kids at BU know not to cross in front because, well, i don't stop for pedestrians.

SATX*APhi · #12 03-15-2003, 10:56 PM

Hey dzandiloo, thanks for the info!

texas*princess · #13 03-17-2003, 10:26 PM

In light of all the crazy stuff going on in the world today, I thought I would post an email joke a friend sent to me.. I think it might put a tiny smile on some of your faces

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I get a big laugh at the dialogue of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, politicians, and the news media. They say terrorists will hit us again in the oncoming weeks and months. What a joke! You have a better chance of getting killed on Interstate 35E than by a terrorist.
Osama has probably seen 100 degree plus summers in Afghanistan, but he doesn't have fire ants to go with it. If he did he wouldn't be sleeping on the ground in his cave.

He talks of pain and suffering he is going to inflict on us. He doesn't know what pain is until he gets kicked by a green broke, two year old colt in a freezing rain.

Germ warfare? Texas ticks will give you Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme disease, blister beetles kill your horse, green bugs destroy a wheat crop, and termites eat your house. Anthrax has killed Texas cattle for over 125 years. What's new? Our prairie dogs carry that.

We have rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water moccasins. Ho-hum.

They talk of gas and biological warefare. They have never pulled in behind a cattle truck while it's raining, or ridden in the front seat of a pick-up between two cowboys after they just eaten a big bowl of Texas Red.

Texas ain't for sissies!

We have posted signs all over the state that say "Don't mess with Texas!"

Osama, consider yourself warned!

Optimist Prime · #14 03-17-2003, 10:56 PM

alll my exes live in texas
texas is the place i'd like to be
allllll my exes live in texas
that's why I hang my hat in Tenneseee

White_Chocolate · #15 03-18-2003, 01:57 PM

I have the 'Don't Mess With Texas' bumper sticker on my car, on my keychain, and a t-shirt. . .