Texas.. why all the disrespect.?

[Oliver Clozoff]

it's ridiculous to assume that a state that has three mountain ranges, the longest river in North America... Most of the continental united states was purchased from France.

Since when did they move the Mississippi River to Alaska?

Nile Egypt 4,145 miles
Amazon Brazil 4,000
Chang jiang (Yellow) 3,964
Mississippi 3,740
Yenisei-Angara (Russia) 3,442

We Louisianians are taught ad nauseum about the Louisiana purchase. The amount of land bought by Jefferson in the purchase (828,000 sq. miles) doubled the size of the country at the time, but today it makes up less than a third of the continental US (~3 million square miles).

Seems Texans aren't the only "big-staters" given to hyperbole.







[Edited by Oliver Clozoff on 12-16-2000 at 10:36 AM]

 

[KillerMuffin]

Not quite given to hyperbole, my sweet little twit. Rather misinformation. The Yukon River, I'm aware that you are unfamiliar with it as it is part of the United States that the average highschooler believes floats somewhere off the coast of Mexico, is considered by some to be the largest because they go as far back as the headwaters of the Nisutlin River, instead of stopping at the Nisutlin River, as obviously the rest of the world does. If you take the headwaters of the Yukon back to the Lake Teslin you are adding another couple hundred miles, which makes it longer than the Mississippi. The primary argument is whether or not the Yukon is a tributary of the Nisutlin or if the Nisutlin is a tributary of the Yukon. Semantics. But whatever, the Mississippi is longer and the Yukon isn't.

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

Not quite given to hyperbole, my sweet little twit. Rather misinformation. The Yukon River, I'm aware that you are unfamiliar with it as it is part of the United States that the average highschooler believes floats somewhere off the coast of Mexico, is considered by some to be the largest because they go as far back as the headwaters of the Nisutlin River, instead of stopping at the Nisutlin River, as obviously the rest of the world does. If you take the headwaters of the Yukon back to the Lake Teslin you are adding another couple hundred miles, which makes it longer than the Mississippi. The primary argument is whether or not the Yukon is a tributary of the Nisutlin or if the Nisutlin is a tributary of the Yukon. Semantics. But whatever, the Mississippi is longer and the Yukon isn't.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Oh my gawd, that was superciliously condescending as all fuck wasn't it? I'm sorry, I'll stop it. Yeeeesh, that scared even me.

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

I'm glad you said it, not me. Had I not untentionally hit "submit" causing me to requote your entire post unchanged, I was about to prescribe some "anti-condescension pills".

 

[KillerMuffin]

Only if you take them with me, then splain to my neuro why I'm taking something other than whatever she's seen fit to prescribe.

 

[fgarvb1]

peace pipe offered to amused killermuffin

to the killermuffin who's work i like and respect. please accept the pipe of peace. i hope i really did amuse you..you sounded sort of pissed.!
please know i am not the horse's ass some people here may think i am. please forgive me for yanking your chain. it'a bad habit that is hard to break. if you ever met me i might
even turn out to be a nice guy. of coarse it might be after they unwrapped your fingers from around my throat.!!

i like alaska and have freinds that live there..on an army base no less. i hope to go to alaska someday it's a beautiful state. when i see shows about hunting and fishing
in alaska, i drool.

as for being an odd duck...always was. but i am working on
it.
let's just say i know very well what: ACOA,AA,EA,CODA and a few other letters stand for and leave it at that.

and i did say up front if i could get enough bs started i would keep it up.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Peace pipe accepted

 

[fgarvb1]

hey, i am not sure about this..maybe someone else knows
but somewhere..sometime..someone told me that texas is the only state that can legally leave the union. i must say that i have no ideal why we would ever want to. i mean let's face it when we all stand together as a nation we scare the hell out of a lot of bad people..we are not to bad in the ass kicking department either.


ah yes, i think someone said we ripped texas off from mexico.?? strange; seams like i remember some dude by the name of santa anna coming this was with a army to run off or kill all non-mexican's that were living here and any mexican's that had any thing to do with us or disagreed with
the goverment.never mind that that the settlers under mexican rules and regulations...if this was not santa anna's plan whatever it was he sure need better public relations.!! anyway a lot of people was in that fight that did not have a home in texas at the time.

 

[teresafannin]

Some place in our 8,000 page State Constitution is a provision allowing Texas to secede from the Union, but it will never happen. There are a lot of well educated people here who know that Texas can't totally stand alone, even if we think we can sometimes. If you look at a lot of our state history, Stephen F Austin pulled some great cons to get people to settle in Texas. One of the conditions of settling was that you had to be Catholic, to please the government of Mexico who signed the land grants. I seriously doubt that every settler was truly Catholic, but it got land. The founding fathers of our country, as well as Texas were smart & able to get what they want, not always strictly by the books, but that is what makes it so interesting. Wouldn't most of us rather have a pirate in our family ancestry than a farmer? Santa Ana did come to try to take Texas back, because many of the land grants were fraudulently obtained. Many of the people who died defending Texas were not natives, Davy Crockett being from Tennessee. Ultimately, the strongest side wins. Mexico was still in name at least a part of Spain, but Spain never spent the time or energy to efficiently run the country. Maximillian & Carlotta come to mind, they were both nuts, not unlike a lot of world leaders. Sam Houston is a in Texas & rightly so, but there is a reason that the Indians called him the Big Drunk. Sorry to ramble, love history!!

 

[Curious Guy]

hey, i am not sure about this..maybe someone else knows
but somewhere..sometime..someone told me that texas is the only state that can legally leave the union. i must say that i have no ideal why we would ever want to. i mean let's face it when we all stand together as a nation we scare the hell out of a lot of bad people..we are not to bad in the ass kicking department either.

I am a Texan, just don't live there. Texas is where I mean when I say back home.
As for Texas being able to leave the Union, that was already tried during the War Between the States. It didn't work. There are still some open wounds from that attempt.

Can't recall anyone bad mouthing Texas on the BB, but, I don't read to many obvious political threads. You may have stepped in a pile of something that is hard to get off. Not talking about moose turds either.

BTW, I also lived in Alaska for 5 years and it is one big, beautiful place.

Just my 2 cents

 

[jcgirl]

or...

a song reminds me of all the women in Texas...."God Bless Texas"

of course theres the good ole "all my ex's live in Texas, thats why I hang my hat in Tennessee"