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PlasmaBomb

Lifer
Nov 19, 2004
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Originally posted by: njmodi
Why IS everything bigger in Texas?

Unfortunately we have a lot of fat people here.[/quote]

Does nobody think there is any correlation?
 

IEC

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Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: txrandom
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Linear Algebra is easy, just blow it off.

It is actually really easy. I've only missed one question on all the exams so far, but it was the easiest one. I don't know what happen.

I plan on studying 15 minutes and playing computer games all night.

That's a good boy. College is for fun.

I've gotten more serious about my studies in the past year, but overall I agree with that assessment. College is about learning, and most of that learning is not in the classes you will thoroughly forget...
 

Phokus

Lifer
Nov 20, 1999
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How do you feel about Bush? Are you guys ashamed of him yet like the rest of the country is?
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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Originally posted by: txrandom
Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
Does Texas think they're better than California?

We along with 47 other states know we are better than California. Mississippi still sucks the most though.

this is patently false. ;)
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
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Originally posted by: manowar821
Do you like having toll roads with the bonus of never having potholes in major highways? Or would you rather be able to drive anyplace you like without ever paying.

interesting, that concept does not work in Illinois. so far, the worst, most run-down highway system I have seen, yet tolls about every 5 miles.

Back home, our state has been rated at the top of the nation's highway systems for several years, and remains in the top 3 or so. guess what?...no tolls.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: jaqie
One of my cousins moved to Texas about ten years ago to work in SeaWorld, and one time she related to me how there was a light powdering of snow and the schools closed, the people panicked and bought out all the grocery stores, and there were accidents all over... Are people down there really that bad about/with so little snow?

we never get snow. we get ice.


why do tons of yankees die every time the thermometer goes above 90?

that happens to the elderly, in old dilapidated buildings with no AC.

<-not a yankee.
 

ObiDon

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does armadillo taste like chicken?
is it better to hunt it yourself or scrape a fresh kill off the road?
 

wyvrn

Lifer
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Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: jaqie
One of my cousins moved to Texas about ten years ago to work in SeaWorld, and one time she related to me how there was a light powdering of snow and the schools closed, the people panicked and bought out all the grocery stores, and there were accidents all over... Are people down there really that bad about/with so little snow?

Hell yes!

<---transplanted northerner living in Houston

Because it only ices 1 or 2 times a year in Dallas, most people don't understand how to drive on it. So they close schools and such to keep people off the road.

People don't buy the grocery stores out for that reason. It's just a good time to go shopping because there isn't any recreation. Same thing happens when it rains. I used to work in a grocery store in my teens, so I know this.
 

GuitarDaddy

Lifer
Nov 9, 2004
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Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: jaqie
One of my cousins moved to Texas about ten years ago to work in SeaWorld, and one time she related to me how there was a light powdering of snow and the schools closed, the people panicked and bought out all the grocery stores, and there were accidents all over... Are people down there really that bad about/with so little snow?

Hell yes!

<---transplanted northerner living in Houston


In south texas its so rare, Hell yes. In north TX (DFW) not so much, we get a little more practice, it actually takes 3-4 inches to shut everything down around here:)

 

polarmystery

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Aug 21, 2005
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Originally posted by: RightIsWrong

Originally posted by: eaj0010
I live in Texas. Try being a liberal in an area surrounded by conservatives and being half black... but everyone thinks I'm from the north?!?!

Come to Austin instead of Dallas. ;)

I've heard this a lot...I think it may be time that I move ya?
 
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Exactly how big does it have to be before I have to go home?

What is it with Texan's over-active gun ownership?

How many guns do you have (that you use/could use)?

Why is 35 at DFW called "35 East North" and "35 West East"? (I might have mixed up the directions but its something whacked like that)
 

olds

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I hear Texas only raises steers and queers. Do you have horns?
 

GuitarDaddy

Lifer
Nov 9, 2004
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Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Exactly how big does it have to be before I have to go home?
Very, Very big

What is it with Texan's over-active gun ownership?
Bow and arrow is not very effective at a distance

How many guns do you have (that you use/could use)?
More than a dozen, less than a gross

Why is 35 at DFW called "35 East North" and "35 West East"? (I might have mixed up the directions but its something whacked like that)
Because I-35 splits at Denton(north), I-35E runs through downtown Dallas and I-35W runs through downtown Ft. Worth, then the two join back together at Hillsboro(south)
http://www.i35tx.com/

 

GuitarDaddy

Lifer
Nov 9, 2004
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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I hear Texas only raises steers and queers.


We usually keep them in seperate pens, since the steers really don't like the queers.
And we have yet a third pen, for our polygamist women and children.

But they all go to slaughter at about the same time
 

CptCrunch

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Do you guys really get a gun after every purchase - even if it's for a pack of gum?
 

onemo

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Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I hear Texas only raises steers and queers.


We usually keep them in seperate pens, since the steers really don't like the queers.
And we have yet a third pen, for our polygamist women and children.

But they all go to slaughter at about the same time

LOL