Comments on: NPF: TEXAS EDITION

By: tailender

tailender — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:32:57 +0000

I remember a sign on a bar in Austin TX. "No weapons are allowed in the bar". Below it was a sign saying "The management does not enforce this law". I guess when a patron offers to buy you a shot, you are supposed to start running.

By: Wisakedjak

Wisakedjak — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:19:56 +0000

Whoops, forgot to include this teaser:

"They actually removed Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment from the history standards. Seriously."

By: Wisakedjak

Wisakedjak — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:19:08 +0000

I found this article through mysterious ways and thought it was hilariously applicable to the subject at hand:

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/03/texas_boe_removes_jefferson_fr.php

By: cerb

cerb — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:45:41 +0000

I'm late to the party but here's my take:

I lived in Houston for several years on and off. I hope Houston is firebombed and the remaining soil thoroughly salted but I have my reasons. I'll skip the obvious "no one in Texas knows how to drive" or "everyone drives a huge truck" or "no one knows how to properly tie down shit in their trucks." I think I have an interesting perspective because I had the privilege of working in oil and chemical refineries. My first job in the oil refinery was when I was a sophomore in high school. I vividly remember my two virulently racist coworkers listening to David Allan Coe. I was lucky enough to have to listen to 'Nigger Fucker' by him.

My job in the chemical refinery started with a coworker coming up to me and saying, I swear to God, "I thought you were a faggot, but you just Yankee."

Fuck Texas, give it back to Mexico.

By: Hazy Davy

Hazy Davy — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:11:36 +0000

I really miss Lauren O.
(Her reading comprehension, combined with a Bay Area college degree, suggests that *either* my assumptions about Cal and Stanford were wrong…or that she went to a school that would be considered great, in Texas.)

By: Lauren O

Lauren O — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:00:53 +0000

They have two world-class universities close to Austin, and if we stayed in the Bay Area, our kids would have to move out of the area.

I lived my whole life in the Bay Area. I graduated from college last year. Super-high unemployment rate, super-high tax rate, super-high cost of living, economy on the verge of collapse. I couldn't find a job, and I couldn't afford to live in the Bay Area without a job for any amount of time. Guess where I moved.

By: Susan of Texas

Susan of Texas — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:54:10 +0000

That's just silly, Tom.

By: rdale

rdale — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:28:27 +0000

Virtually all of my family was born in Texas; I'm the only one that wasn't (New Mexico, of which I am inordinately proud). They're all nice people save my redneck brother, but I blame his right-winginess on a career in the military, and he now lives in California. I've been to Texas off and on and lived there when I was a kid and still have more cousins than I can count there. But it's not someplace I go willingly; only for family weddings or when someone paid me to fly to Austin and give a talk. A year or two ago when gas was really expensive, we drove from Utah to Dallas for a family wedding, at 60 mph all the way across the state. We had a great time and the people were unfailingly friendly. But I'm surprised that no one on this thread has compared it to Utah, where I live, which is just as bad if not worse for self-righteous rednecks. Utah has better scenery and better skiing, which is why most non-Mormon people live here.

One story I just thought of: in 2000 we happened to be in San Antonio, on a family visit. Outside the Alamo–where my 13 year old daughter asked the tour guide "where is the monument for the Mexican soldiers who were killed at the battle," to which he replied "that's a very good question!"–was a big crowd chanting that Bush should be made president; this was before the Supreme Court decision. Then suddenly, like Moses parting the waters, this big black woman came striding through the crowd shouting that Al Gore had won the election and "y'all should just shut up!!" And that's what they did. After that we left and went to the Salt Lick for BBQ and it was great.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:53:40 +0000

I'll live.