Originally posted by parabellum: Well, I'm a Texan, of sorts. My very first memories on this planet are of Texas. Twice in my life, I have lived in Texas. I'm a Texan and I'll fight any man who tells me that I'm not.
Me, too, para. I've now lived in Texas almost 38 years and came here back in 1980 because my best friend said I should. It's been great, and the Texans have accepted this old Detroiter just fine.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
October 23, 2018, 04:08 PM
tigereye313
Weren't born here, but got here as fast as I could.
October 23, 2018, 07:08 PM
dewhorse
quote:
Originally posted by tigereye313: Weren't born here, but got here as fast as I could.
Yup, same here.......I love where I am from (NW PA) but it ain't Texas.
October 23, 2018, 07:11 PM
Sig2340
Well, as my Godfather used to say, being Texan is all well and good, but I am proud to be a Wyomingite.
Texans are just like us, except there's fewer of us, and we like that just fine.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
October 23, 2018, 07:15 PM
recoatlift
"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to TexAs!" Davy Crokett
October 23, 2018, 07:25 PM
Doc H.
Two years in SA, so not a born-in-Texas Texan, but Tennesseans have been there before. One of my favorites:
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
October 24, 2018, 09:17 AM
oddball
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Originally posted by recoatlift: "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to TexAs!" Davy Crokett
I was at a wedding for my niece in Georgetown earlier this year and I was exclaiming to some family and new friends how great it was to be a Texan; some of them laughed and jokingly tell me I just got here, how can I be a Texan. Until I reminded them of this quote, that Crockett was a Texan for just a few weeks before killed.
Of course they slap me on the back and welcome me, because they never thought that someone from CA would have the views and values I have.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
October 24, 2018, 09:41 AM
CoinRoller
I have traveled to 48 states in the union, but I feel truly blessed to have been born and lived all of my life in Texas.
I Drink & I Know Things
October 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
jhe888
In the words of favorite son, Lyle Lovett, "you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway."
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything.
October 24, 2018, 12:11 PM
dave7378
I grew up in Laredo and Tx is on my short list of retirement(hopefully early retirement) destinations, regardless of what my wife thinks Man, I will miss her
Was born in Alabama but raised in east Texas. Henderson then Mt. Pleasent and Pittsburgh. So many memories as a kid/teen in Texas. Will always consider myself a Texan.
Always wanted to buy a house around Lake O the pines or Bob Sandlin.
October 24, 2018, 08:21 PM
Woodman
October 24, 2018, 08:28 PM
elde
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Originally posted by parabellum: And everyone is talking about what they'd do with millions from the lottery. One thing I'd do is buy a huge spread in the Piney Woods of East Texas, a place from my youth.
Para, still plenty of land available around Nacogdoches, Center, Lufkin, Jacksonville, even Tyler. It'd be an honor to have you back!
---------------------------------------- “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
October 24, 2018, 08:38 PM
2012BOSS302
I AM proud to be an American and proud of our country. Nice they can play that without some whiny little leftist musician getting his butt hurt because President Trump is playing a song.
To stay with the Texas theme. Skynyrd playing T for Texas
Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless.
October 24, 2018, 10:07 PM
Tommydogg
I don't mind saying that I'm a Nationalist! And who knows, Texas may be more habitable than Florida after this November!
___________________________ "I Get It Now"
Beth Greene
October 24, 2018, 11:19 PM
blueye
Been here almost 30 yrs. Great place.
October 25, 2018, 06:07 AM
sigmoid
So, is it east Texas, or West Texas or where, that someone would consider moving too? Here in Idaho, the mf libs from Calipornia are really fucking this place up.
________,_____________________________ Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people.
Man, I will miss her 
