Joy of Texas

Amy Z aiz24 at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 10 10:00:24 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Amy Z wrote:
> 
> > I know the suspense was killing you all, so I thought I'd post 
that
> > Texas bluebonnets are a species, or rather a few species, of 
lupine.
> > And I can see why the songwriter raved about them, because they 
are an
> > incredible deep blue such as you seldom see in flowers; the 
lupines
> > I've seen are a paler, more common blue.  It wasn't just Regional
> > Pride Gone Overboard, not that Texans are =ever= guilty of such a
> > thing. . .
> 
> Let's see, Texans' options on things to be proud of....
> 
> heat
> scorpions
> stickers/sandspurs/other malignant plant life
> heat
> black widow spiders
> brown recluse spiders
> Tex-Mex food
> rattlesnakes
> bluebonnets
> mesquite bushes (whoops, sorry, we call them "trees")
> one, count 'em, *one* natural lake (Caddo, for the curious)
> heat
> Aggies
> fire ants
> killer bees
> 
> ...what would *you* pick? 

Come on, a state (sorry, a Republic--yeah, yeah, Vermont used to be a 
Republic too, it's not that big a deal) whose biggest source of pride 
is being the place where a battle was spectacularly =lost= can surely 
turn sandspurs and brown recluse spiders into an asset!

I see some real marketing potential here.

Texas: Our Ants Will Set You on Fire
Texas: Producing Killer Bugs since 65 Million B.C.
Texas: We Don't Drown in Lakes
etc.

Maybe these things, collectively, are what "Don't Mess with Texas" 
means?

Amy Z
who's never been there.  Got a spare bedroom, Amanda?  I want to see 
if there really is an Alamo Mortuary (obscure reference to an old 
Albert Brooks routine).





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