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thin skin can't win |
Usually we don't tell you, but you just find a plate full of food.....  {transplant, not a native....} You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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Go Vols! |
You get two weeks of real winter! | |||
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Having lived over most of the U.S. in most of my almost 70 years, and visited most of the remaining, I find that everything said so far is true! Jerks and good people are everywhere, and those not so are everywhere! The only generalization is that the larger the population and the more concentration of people is not for me! Everyplace is what you make it !!!  Jim | |||
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Comic Relief |
I spent a week in Muleshoe one day.  Aside: "Don't mess with Texas" was originally (and still is) an anti-littering campaign slogan, that later was adopted as the unofficial state slogan. The battle cry "Give a hoot; don't pollute." just isn't very bad ass.  | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
We do welcome Carpetbaggers, although there is a quota. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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The UP. The nations best kept secret. My buddy lives in your town and loves it. | |||
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And if it were N.C. you would know that real BBQ is made from pork NOT beef or any other type meat. In N.C. everyone knows Lexington BBQ is what all the others set their standard by. Anyway welcome to the south. Make yourself at home LOL. SigP229R Harry Callahan "A man has got to know his limitations". Teddy Roosevelt "Talk soft carry a big stick" I Cor10: 13 "1611KJV" | |||
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Southerner by birth and heritage, but grew up in various parts of the north(New England and the upper midwest) and south. Vtail, talking about learning a new language, when I moved to Boston as a kid, it was definitely a different language, both the extreme accent of some and the words used. Below the Mason-Dixon, I have lived in the Deep South, Mid-south, Florida, Texas and ATL. There's good and bad everywhere, and I learned something new in each in place I lived. Wherever you are, life is mostly what you choose to make of it. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
In the words of a favorite son of Texas, Lyle Lovett; "That's right you're not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway." Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMhaehb5AnE The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Caribou gorn |
Texas, especially Austin, is its own thing. Still pretty different from the Deep South. As you come in, tag one of the yankees already here and send him home. I'm gonna vote for the funniest frog with the loudest croak on the highest log. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
2 of my 5 sisters and my brother live in NC and they all say they miss a good slice of real pizza and a Philly hoagie. Apparently no one down South knows how to make a decent pizza or hoagie and I suspect that it may be the water not being the same, that does affect how pizza dough and hoagie rolls come out. | |||
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| No double standards |
My dad spent 2 years in TX/LA after WWII, I was there for 6 mos Army training during the Vietnam era, spent quite a bit of time in Houston/Dallas back in my energy research days. Here is what was explained to me (not sure I have the spelling correct): When speaking to a small group, you address them as y'all. A larger group is all y'all. Etlenna is he capitol of the state of Jawjaw. The large body of water to the south is the Guff of Mexico. The fun spot of Loosiana is Nawlans. It has been my observation that, while there are some notorious pockets, overall the South has a much lower rate of liberal insanity disease than does California. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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| Too soon old, too late smart |
Welcome to the neighborhood Mr. Wino and "bless your heart" I knew you were "fixin'" to say something like that. Be sure to try the chitlin's. I don't care for 'em myself. I'm more of a Hoppin' John man. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
The major thing I discovered (via 20 years USAF) for "getting along" in various places is to not ever tell the natives how you did things elsewhere. Learn to do it their way (even if it's not as efficient or well done). Texans don't really care much about how you talk--for one thing, Texas is so big that there are at least a half-dozen different "accents" just within the state. (Myself, I love to hear a nice mid-Texas native speaking--there's just enough harsh edges rolled off to be very pleasant.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Idiot by birth, Asshole by choice |
What a Liberal Shit Hole, Austin is....  I moved further... England, and now a full Georgia boy Have you picked up the ever present "Ya'll" yet ? | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
You forgot crowded and overpriced. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
When I moved to Texas from Iowa many years ago I was shocked that all the girls didn't have that cute southern drawl accent. My mom grew up in Kentucky and everytime we visited as a kid they ALL sounded that way ~ cool! I know KY is not TX but hey it's farther south so what happened to the accent?  | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Californians. There are actually quite a few with traditional Texas accents. Both of my SILs and even my girls who are married to them lean that way. Or as they would say "that-a way". Stop in just about any of the smaller Texas towns and you'll hear it. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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At Jacob's Well |
Been here 15 years now and I still refuse to call a shopping cart a "buggy" or a garden hose a "hose pipe". Other than that, I reckon' I'm fully indoctrinated. J Rak Chazak Amats | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here is fast as I could (at age 2). | |||
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