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05-16-2003, 05:44 PM
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Another reason I like Texas
Texas is unique.
I was watching television and saw 2 commercials for new trucks:
The Texas Edition Ford F150, and the Texas Edition Chevy Silverado.
Now what other state in the union has their own state edition of a vehicle?   
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05-16-2003, 05:49 PM
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Don't forget the King Ranch edition!! Ahhh, those puppies are niiiiice!!
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05-16-2003, 05:59 PM
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We also have our own food.
Jack in the Box - Big Texas Cheeseburger
Wendy's - 1/4 lb. Texas Double Cheeseburger
Dairy Queen - Texas Toast Sandwiches
And I am sure there are probably a few more out there... 
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05-16-2003, 07:16 PM
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This thread is great! I wish I would have found it while I was living in Germany and completely homesick!
SATX*APhi...I had to laugh when you talked (WAY back) about Joe Cotton's. My husband is from Robstown, and his family thinks that food is SO good! It makes me sick, and I swear it had something to do with my gall bladder being removed! I don't remember it EVER being very good, but it's been there for so long, I guess it's kind of a tradition. We went and ate at the 'King's Inn' awhile back...and that was decent.
Anyway, still funny to hear anyone even know where Robstown is! I'll be down there in about a month, for a month visitin my in-laws!
The rest of you...keep the great TX stuff coming!
aj
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05-16-2003, 10:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kristin AGD
We also have our own food.
Jack in the Box - Big Texas Cheeseburger
Wendy's - 1/4 lb. Texas Double Cheeseburger
Dairy Queen - Texas Toast Sandwiches
And I am sure there are probably a few more out there...
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McDonald's... Texas Homestyle Burger
I get incredibly homesick as wewll... and i go to school a few hours away... Louisiana is just a TOTALLY different place, not as friendly that's for sure!
Oh, Pat Green is good and all... I've met the man a few times, cool as all get out... but Django Walker (jerry jeff's son) is IT! He is just the greatest thing ever! He wrote Pat's song " I like Texas"... he's "college life" is funny... oh man, just an awesome little guy
Last edited by Megerts; 05-16-2003 at 10:47 PM.
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05-17-2003, 04:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by ajuhdg
This thread is great! I wish I would have found it while I was living in Germany and completely homesick!
SATX*APhi...I had to laugh when you talked (WAY back) about Joe Cotton's. My husband is from Robstown, and his family thinks that food is SO good! It makes me sick, and I swear it had something to do with my gall bladder being removed! I don't remember it EVER being very good, but it's been there for so long, I guess it's kind of a tradition. We went and ate at the 'King's Inn' awhile back...and that was decent.
Anyway, still funny to hear anyone even know where Robstown is! I'll be down there in about a month, for a month visitin my in-laws!
The rest of you...keep the great TX stuff coming!
aj
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Oh my gosh!! I went to Cotton's for lunch today!! LOL One of my chapter sisters is from Robstown and is there for the summer, so I met her for lunch out there. Hahaha!! It was delish! You are going to be in Robstown for a month? Oh my gosh, may you find something to keep you busy. Come down to Corpus. There isn't all that much to do in Corpus, but there is nothing to do in Robstown.
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05-17-2003, 07:47 AM
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sad thing
is that most of the rest of texas doesn't really claim el paso. we just sort of are...in the grander scope of things.
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05-17-2003, 09:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kristin AGD
We also have our own food.
Jack in the Box - Big Texas Cheeseburger
Wendy's - 1/4 lb. Texas Double Cheeseburger
Dairy Queen - Texas Toast Sandwiches
And I am sure there are probably a few more out there...
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And don't forget Booger King's Texas Whopper and Texas Double Whopper!
Waitaminnit! Isn't the national dish o' Texas CHILI?!?!? Chased down with plenty of Shiner Bock or (ecch!) Lone Star!
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05-17-2003, 04:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Megerts
Oh, Pat Green is good and all... I've met the man a few times, cool as all get out... but Django Walker (jerry jeff's son) is IT! He is just the greatest thing ever! He wrote Pat's song " I like Texas"... he's "college life" is funny... oh man, just an awesome little guy
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"Taco Bell for Breakfast and for Lunch a Keystone light...
Heres what I lerned in my college life...."
DW rocks.
If my college carrear had a theme song...
Kings In ROcks. Havent been there in years. My sister go tot ea tthere a few months ago. Bitch.
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05-17-2003, 11:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally posted by SATX*APhi
There isn't all that much to do in Corpus, but there is nothing to do in Robstown.
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DON'T I KNOW IT! I HAVE to go and spend some time with them, or they'll have a fit! I'm pregnant with our first child, and they really want to see me! I'm not much for traveling right now!
There really is not much to do, but the pace of life is so much slower than what I'm used to in Dallas and Houston. It's a nice break from all the running around and such. CC is nice, but I just couldn't live there...especially being so close to my in-laws! I really like the mall there! It's not nearly as crowded as the ones here!
aj
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05-18-2003, 06:43 PM
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While I haven't been back in a long time, I'm still a Texas native!!!
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05-18-2003, 06:49 PM
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OMG, I just went to the store and found seeds for RED bluebonnets! Not Indian paintbrush, but bluebonnets--Alamo something or other!
We bought a packet and will try our horticultural best to get them to grow, although all we've been able to produce here was one scrawny little plant with a 3" flower head. Arghhh--and me with that doctorate in horticulture....it's got to be the bacteria in the Hill Country soil that makes 'em grow.
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05-18-2003, 11:37 PM
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Hey y'all... I was walking through Foley's at the Mall of Louisiana (Baton Rouge) and well...out of the corner of my eye I saw these Texas flags... I was like what the hey?! They had a bunch of purses with Texas flags, It was definetly a big hit back at the dorm. My friends were like you would have that purse... It's pretty cool though. That's why I love selling back books, i get to buy things I really don't need : )
Best place in Houston to get a burger: Good Company Mexican Resturant.. (yeah, sounds weird but it's sooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooood...) First place I went when I got back...
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05-19-2003, 12:41 AM
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TEXAS: We're bigger than France.
Texas Bound Train
by Cory Morrow
Well I waited all night by the railroad tracks
Hoping that train would come soon
I got two more smokes half a bottle of scotch
Lord I ain’t got too much to lose
I toss slop at a local truck stop
In a town just out of Pittsburgh, PA
I make two twenty five but I still ain’t alive
Lord I need a Texas bound train
Take me I want to go
I want to see where that red river flows
Steel wheels burnin’ into the night
Take this cowboy home on a midnight ride
It’s a long trip down them railroad tracks
To Texas I’ve never seen
I’ve heard stories of toil about old men and their oil
And how they lost their riches and dreams
The angels came down in my dreams last night
While outside it was stormin’ rain
There was a rhythm of drops beatin’ on the rooftops
And the angels sang of a train
They sang you gotta find a Texas bound train
Take me I want to go
I want to see where that red river flows
Steel wheels burnin’ into the night
Take this cowboy home on a midnight ride
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05-19-2003, 12:46 AM
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Y'all can go to hell; I'm a goin' to Texas. --Davy Crockett
(who is my great-great-great-granduncle, by the way!)
Red and Rio Grande
by Doug Supernaw
One lone star waving in the wind
A longhorn standing proud behind a rusty barbed wire fence
Cowboy hats and hearts that never bend
I was born and raised a Texan and will be 'til the end
As I travel down that blue bonnet highway
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man
And I know that I will live and die my own way
Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande
Two old boots, dusty, worn, and stained
By the oilfields and the ranches and the blood that fell like rain
Heroes hearts that fought to change our name
From Tejas to Texas where the Lone Star proudly waves
As I travel down that blue bonnet highway
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man
And I know that I will live and die my own way
Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande
That song literally makes me cry every time I hear it...
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