I Like Texas........

[SATX*APhi]

Originally Posted by Kevlar281

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Anyone else taking advantage of this? Lowes is offering an additional 10% off on certain energy star appliances. I’m thinking about picking up a new window unit for the garage.

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I heard about this but won't be taking advantage. I'm already good to go.

Originally Posted by aggieAXO

game 2 not looking good at half time. May have to wait for game 3.

Looks like the Spurs need to pull themselves togther for game 3 after that ugly loss. Ay ya yai!

[epchick]

Question for the more well-traveled Texas GCers:

So now that i've graduated college, I've started to contemplate whether or not to try and see if i'd do well in another part of texas. I love El Paso to death, but eh, i'd like a change of scenery.

But I've only been to San Antonio, San Angelo (for a UIL competition), and Dallas (didn't really like it). If I was to really move, what city/cities would you suggest I try and move to?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by epchick

Question for the more well-traveled Texas GCers:

So now that i've graduated college, I've started to contemplate whether or not to try and see if i'd do well in another part of texas. I love El Paso to death, but eh, i'd like a change of scenery.

But I've only been to San Antonio, San Angelo (for a UIL competition), and Dallas (didn't really like it). If I was to really move, what city/cities would you suggest I try and move to?

If you like an El Paso-sized city, Austin may be nice. I lived in the Austin metro for about 5 years and really enjoyed it. It's big enough to give you things to do but still keeps a somewhat "hometown" feeling.

I didn't like San Antonio. At all. But living in DFW has been great. I plan on staying here for a least a few years after I graduate.

[SWTXBelle]

Split the difference between Austin and San Antonio - live in beautiful San Marcos!

[SATX*APhi]

Austin is okay but I would never live there; it's just a little off base. Houston is just too freakin huge for my taste. I lived there for a couple of months and it just wasn't my speed. I've never been to the DFW so I can't weigh in on the metroplex.

I'm a San Antonio gal. To me, SA still has that small-town feel. With it being the beginning of the Hill country, it's location is also perfect. It's 2 hours north of Corpus, an hour south of Austin, and only a 3 hour drive from Houston. The weather is perfect. There's tons to do. You have all the sports, museums, shopping, theme park, golfing, etc. If you're interested in continuing your education, there are 4 private universities and 1 public.

Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas

[ComradesTrue]

I have lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, the Mid-Cities and Tyler (not necessarily in that order). I have routinely visited Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Lubbuck, El Paso, New Braunfels and Longview.

My suggestion would be Fort Worth. Refer to my review of FW several posts above. It can give the big city feel of the metroplex when you want that (4 professional sports teams, concerts, shopping, etc), but has that tight-knit feeling of a small town. You can go out to bars. restaurants, etc, and always run into someone that you know.

[icelandelf]

I'm biased toward living in San Antonio, but I love San Marcos too. Dallas, while fun to visit, is a little too large and impersonal for me

[aggieAXO]

I grew up in San Antonio-couldn't wait to get out. I have visited Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth-no thanks. Austin is perfect-not too big not too small, beautiful hill country, love the lake. I also feel safe here, I did not feel safe in SA or Houston.

Originally Posted by aggieAXO

I grew up in San Antonio-couldn't wait to get out. I have visited Houston and Dallas/Ft Worth-no thanks. Austin is perfect-not too big not too small, beautiful hill country, love the lake. I also feel safe here, I did not feel safe in SA or Houston.

I'm really jealous. If I could get a job coaching in or around Austin I'd take it in a heartbeat. Some jobs in Pflugerville came open this spring, but it wasn't the right time for me. If you hear of anyone needing a HS Biology teacher and football coach, you let me know

BTW send me good thoughts today, I'm dissecting with HS freshman....this should be an experience.

Kitso
KS 361

[TexasWSP]

Call Robert E. Lee in Tyler.......I'm serious.

[SWTXBelle]

[Boodleboy322]

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

If someone in a Home Depot 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 .

Need to be cheered up?
Happy, Texas 79042
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, Te xas 75789
Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice, Texas 75155
Sweetwater, Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!
Detroit, Texas 75436
Colorado City, Texas 79512
Cleveland, Texas 77327
Dayton, Texas 77535
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

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

Athens, Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China, Texas 77613
Dublin, Texas 76446
Egypt, Texas 77436
Ireland, Texas 76538
Turkey, Texas 79261
London, Texas 76854
New London, Texas 75682
Paris, Texas 75460

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

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, Texas 76084

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
Mud Dig, Texas
Golf, Texas
Dike, Texas
Battle Ax, Texas
Bug Tussle, Texas
Arkie Bottom, Texas
Black Cat Thicket, Texas
Hoop and Hollar, Texas
Hog Eye, Texas
Scurry, Texas
Bootleg, Texas

Most Mispronounced Cities
Mexia..............pronounced Ma-hey-ah
Waco........................Way-co not Wack-o
Waxahachie............pronounced Walks-a-hatchie
Hico............High-co not Hick-o
Dumas.............Dume-us

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 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 No. 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 ."
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.
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. Dublin, TX has the oldest and only Dr Pepper bottling company that is still
working and producing the original Dr Pepper.
19. Texas has had six capital cities: Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg,
Galveston, Velasco, West Columbia and Austin .
20. 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).
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

[epchick]

Originally Posted by Boodleboy322

3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

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.

#3 is sooo true! Also, El Paso is closer to a lot more non-Texas cities than it is to cities in Texas.

Is #14 actually true? I've heard that it is incorrect and that the Texas flag cannot fly at the same height as the U.S. flag.

[Boodleboy322]

The short answer is, one is true and the other is not.

A copy of the entire 1845 Constitution of the State of Texas is available online from the Tarlton Law Library. The Tarlton website includes the text of the 1845 Constitution and scanned images of the original documents on the website, so examination is very easy.

First, the provision to divide the state into additional states is valid according to the section of the constitution titled, An Ordinance. This part of the document was the "counter offer" from the Congress of the United States back to the Republic of Texas as a condition for entry. There were three conditions listed with number three being …

Third. New States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution; and such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited:"

The first condition concerned legal boundaries of the Republic and the second outlined the properties the Republic would relinquish to the United States upon entry. That confirmed one of the Texas facts.

There's really no reference to the Texas flag or U.S. flag.

U.S. Flag Code
Frequently, the Texas flag/U.S. flag fact says Texas is the only state that can fly their flag equal in height to the American flag, which is not accurate according to the U.S. Flag Code.

The U.S. Flag Code allows all states to fly their flags at the same height as the U.S. flag according to Section 7 (f).

(f) When flags of States, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the flag of the United States, the latter should always be at the peak. When the flags are flown from adjacent staffs, the flag of the United States should be hoisted first and lowered last. No such flag or pennant may be placed above the flag of the United States or to the United States flag’s right.

You’ll notice the bold text, no flag can fly above the U.S. flag, but all state flags can fly the same height if they are on adjacent poles of equal height. There are other sections of the Flag Code that address other situations with flags, but none contradict this section.

Even though the U.S. Flag Code wasn’t passed by Congress until 1942, it was codified in 1923 by the National Flag Conference, which met in Washington D.C. for that purpose. The final Flag Code was a composite of the various State Desecration flag laws in existence as early as 1897, meaning, flying a state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag was not a new concept in 1845.

Originally Posted by epchick

#3 is sooo true! Also, El Paso is closer to a lot more non-Texas cities than it is to cities in Texas.

Is #14 actually true? I've heard that it is incorrect and that the Texas flag cannot fly at the same height as the U.S. flag.

[epchick]

Just wanted to add this again, because I know how much SWTXBelle wants to be an El Pasoan



You know you're from El Paso....

You know that the only two seasons are summer and Christmas.

You know it's the first day of Spring because the wind gusts hit 50 mph.

You know that it only snows if it was at least 75 the day before.

You cringe whenever you see a CHIH MEX license plate.

You can get sunburned and wind burned in the same hour.

You don't go near the Rio Grande. Ever.

You think that anyone who lives on the West side drives a BMW and all the people on the East side are gangsters.

The only national monuments you have been to are White Sands and the Chamizal.

You have a least four T-shirts that have "In loving memory" on the back.

You've gotten sunburned on a cloudy day.

You know where the "real" first Thanksgiving took place.

You thinkg Western Playland is the place to be in the summer.

You have tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk in July.

You invest a great deal of money in hair spray in the spring.

The only thing you stocked up on for Y2K were tortillas.

You know what all those letters on the mountain stand for.

You can see three different states and two countries from your backyard.

The first place you go when you come back in town is Chico's Tacos.

When you are lost in Juarez at night, you can always find your way back by looking for the star on the mountain.

Seeing the Asarco tower gives you that warm and fuzzy home feeling.

You have talked about leaving for about ten years, but you are still here.

If there is no sun for several days in a row you think that it is the sign of the apocalypse.

You are mesmerized by the arches that turn colors on Interstate 10.

You think that a Texan accent is a Spanish accent.

You no longer associate bridges with water.

You can say 110 degrees without fainting.

You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.

You discover that in July it takes only two fingers to drive your car.

You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window.

You know the best parking place is determined by shade
instead of distance.

You actually burn your hand opening the car door.

You get claustrophobic from simply looking at more than four trees.

Your front lawn doesn't' have grass but rocks.

You drag all of your friends and family from out of town to go see Viva El Paso.

You understand and relate to George Lopez.

You know that if the official rain gauge was located anywhere other than the El Paso International Airport, El Paso would receive more than eight inches of rain annually

Instead of boiling Easter eggs, you drain the yoke out, paint them, stuff them with confetti and then crack them on people's heads

You know you're from El Paso when your Homecoming Corsage completely covers the dress you bought at Dillards.