OT: texas

[txpete]

If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas ;

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ;

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ;

If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;

If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas ;

If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas ;

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas ;

If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas ;

If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas .

Need to be cheered up?

Happy, Texas 79042
Pep , Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise , Texas 76073
Rainbow , Texas 76077
Sweet Home , Texas 77987
Comfort , Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530

Love the Sun?

Sun City , Texas 78628
Sunrise , Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray , Texas 79086
Sunny Side , Texas 77423

Want something to eat?

Bacon , Texas 76301
Noodle , Texas 79536
Oatmeal, Texas 878605
Turkey , Texas 79261
Trout , Texas 75789
Sugar Land , Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice , Texas 75155
And top it off with:
Sweetwater , Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!

Detroit , Texas 75436
Colorado City , Texas 79512
Denver City , Texas 79323
Klondike , Texas 75448
Nevada , Texas 75173
Memphis , Texas 79245
Miami , Texas 79059
Boston , Texas 75570
Santa Fe , Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
Reno , Texas 75462

Feel like traveling outside the country? Don't bother buying a plane ticket!

Athens , Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613
Egypt , Texas 77436
Ireland , Texas 76538
Turkey , Texas 79261
London , Texas 76854
New London , Texas 75682
Paris , Texas 75460

No need to travel to Washington D.C.

Whitehouse , Texas 75791

We even have a city named after our planet!

Earth , Texas 79031

And a city named after our State!

Texas City , Texas 77590

Exhausted?

Energy , Texas 76452

Cold?

Blanket , Texas 76432

Winters, Texas

Like to read about History?

Santa Anna , Texas

Goliad , Texas

Alamo , Texas

Gun Barrel City , Texas

Robert Lee, Texas

Need Office Supplies?
Staples, Texas 78670

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus , Texas 76084

You guessed it..it's on the state line..

Texline , Texas 79087

For the kids...

Kermit , Texas 79745
Elmo , Texas 75118
Nemo , Texas 76070
Tarzan , Texas 79783
Winnie, Texas 77665
Sylvester , Texas 79560

Other city names in Texas , to make you smile.....

Frognot , Texas 75424
Bigfoot , Texas 78005
Hogeye , Texas 75423
Cactus , Texas 79013
Notrees , Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest , Texas 76886
Kickapoo , Texas 75763
Dime Box , Texas 77853
Old Dime Box , Texas 77853
Telephone , Texas 75488
Telegraph , Texas 76883
Whiteface , Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079

And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City

Kilgore , Texas 75662

And our favorites...

Cut-n-Shoot, Texas
Gun Barrel City , Texas
Hoop And Holler, Texas
Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,
Muleshoe , Texas

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .

1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles

2. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles

3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.

5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.

6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston

7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America .

8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.

9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.

10. The worst natural disaster in U.S history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .

11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was ' Houston '

12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island .

13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.

14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak (known as Big Tree) near Fulton is estimated to be over 1000 years old.

16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.

18. Texas has had six capital cities: Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston , Velasco, West Columbia and Austin .

19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC (by 7 feet).

20. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas .

21. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).

22. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .

Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :

(1) Just one God.

(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.

(3) No telling tales or gossipin'.

(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.

(5) Put nothin' before God.

(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.

(7) No killin'.

(8) Watch yer mouth.

(9) Don't take what ain't yers.

(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff

[JerryB]

txpete,thanks alot that is a good bunch of reading. By the way when my son brought his kids up for the weekend I had him read your post on retirement.He is a full time Gaurd Blachawk mechanic being retired because of medical problems, had surgery a couple of times on both shoulders.He didn't say a word, just smiled a little. He just found out that they are dumping him.Thanks for that post too.

[txpete]

I wish him all the best.I know for a fact dyncorp is looking for good people to do aircraft maintenance.I worked for them for close to 9 years after I retired while fighting the VA.good pay and ben's.
http://www.hoodolr.com/

[Dastook]

Got to love Texas. I do a lot of work there. Love it every time I go.

[dsmith512]

Thanks Pete, but you missed a few of my favorites.

Orange, TX
Andice, TX (named for a sign Beer and Ice, Prohibition started and sign became and ice).

Italy, TX
Tunis, TX

Bagdad, TX (it's a ghost town nothing left but the cemetery and it has been swallowed up by Cedar Park and Leander)

Best, TX (talk about the middle of nowhere)
Blue, TX (Had a grocery store called The Blue Store, it was painted green)

Wink, TX (Home of Roy Orbison, back in the early days granddad said he would never amount to nothing).

Some of my favorites:

Buckholtz, TX
Snook, TX
Bedias, TX
North Zulch, TX (Family pronounces it Nar'zules, I've not figured that one out yet)

[txpete]

I drive by andice all the time I hunt north west of liberty hill.
pete

[Charles]

Texas is the only place a woman can bath in Sweetwater, dry off in Seymour and dress in Plainview. At least that is what my Grandfather always said.

My favorite town name in "Trickham"... Pronounced "Trick - em". It statred as a stop on the Great Western Cattle trail. There was good water and grass on Mukewater Creek so the cattle were rested there. The town consisted of a couple of stores and a couple of saloons with "soiled doves". The town was called Trickem and Cheatem, becaused they tricked the cowboys in the saloons and cheated the cowboys in the stores.

When the cattle drivers were over and it became a real town, they applied for a Post Office and submitted the name "Trickem". But Postmaster General didn't like that name so they changed the spelling to Trickham but retained the original pronounciation.

Tricham is now a ghost town in Coleman County. My GGGrandfather was the first Postmaster, and Baptist Preacher. He freighted in chambray cloth from Ft. Worth and his daughters sewed shirts all year long to sell to the drovers as they need a new shirt by the time they got there. His sons, inclulding my GGranfather drove cattle up the Great Western TRail until those days passed.

[dsmith512]

Trickham sounds interesting. My grandfather was born in Glen Cove just west of Coleman in 1904. At the time Trickham was still a town.

Here's an interesting site with pictures of Trickham.

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/tx/trickham.html

[66GTO]

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .

1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles

2. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles

3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas

That ain't nuttin'. The distance from my hometown of Pensacola, Florida to Key West, Florida is further than it is from Pensacola to Columbus, Ohio. Pensacola to Key West is 837 miles. Pensacola to Columbus is 820 miles.

[Charles]

dssmith... Interesting site about Trickham. The Community Center in the photos is the old school house built in 1914. My Grandmother taught there when the school opened and my Grandfather was on the School Board.

The Church in the photos is a "Union" church of Methodist, Baptist, Presbaterians, and Disciples of Christ. I attended church there every Sunday of every summer from 1946 to 1956. I have preached in the Church and several of my families funeral services were held their.

Most of my family is buried in the Trickham Cemetary and so will I be, when my times comes.