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Texans never call themselves that. Do you call yourself a limy?
Even a Resistol straw hat cost you 80+ dollars. That's what them drugstore cowboys like to wear!
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I've got a Resistol with a George Strait signature band! It was given to me by a good friend two months before he passed away(coincidence). I also have a straw cowboy hat with as rebel flag on it and a regular straw cowboy hat too. Unfortunately I look like a goober when I wear them so I just leave them on the rack at home 
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Most people where I grew up had straw cowboy hats, but not Resistol ones. That George Strait hat is a nice one. I quit wearing cowboy hats when I started driving a ford ranger. The back window will not it off your head, and there's no where to put it if you got someone riding with you, especially if it's two kids. Use to be big business steaming those felt hats, everyone had to have it bent and twisted just right.
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That's one reason I don't wear it. I tried to biol water and steam it but it always just went right back to BLAH . . . (It's beaver)
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I got my resistol straw hat at a salvation army thrift store for ten dollars. it was in good shape except that the wire in the brim that lets you form it had gotten broken at the front which made the sides droop in a very uncowboy fashion. I bought it and stitched a four inch hunk of wire under the brim. still works fine. also got a straw vaquero-sombrero, a cooper class e hard hat, one of those aussie things that some cousin gave me which works just fine but needs venting, and...
p.s. wichita falls? well, there's your problem right there. hell, that's more okie than texas.
p.p.s. your right, sam houston used 'texians' and he was an illegal alien.
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"wichita falls? well, there's your problem right there. hell, that's more okie than texas."
Go say that in a bar in Wichita Falls and see what happens, those cowboys and rednecks don't have much of a sense of humor about that sort o' thang. We use to have a law that said we could shoot an Okie if we saw one crossing the Red River after sundown...in fact we use to have the right to shoot a lot of people, but they took all those law out at the same time they voted away our right to succeed. It's been downhill ever since.
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I hate to break the news to you but Baytown is still a part of Mexico, we just never had the heart to tell you guys because we know how much you wanted to be part of Texas, but as you don't like Texas I guess it's OK to tell you. It's probably why you keep calling yourself a "Texian". I guess you knew you were a Mexican all along! Everything from I-10 on south on that little puny-inch-chala actually belongs to Mexico, but I guess they're too afraid to come and claim it. Of course they may not want it because it smells so bad. You know I have a Park there off of Ward and Taylor called "Dale Street Park". Yeah I built a little baseball field there a long time ago and donated the land to the city cause I felt sorry for 'em being Mexican and all. I thought I'd help out by giving 'em a little culture. Doesn't seemed to have done much good.
I also loaned that Nate Lynch some money to start up his ferry business, that SOB never has paid me back. I used to have a part interest in the Humble Oil company, and we had a number of wells there in the town of Goose Creek. That's how I came to own that land I donated. I was there inspecting the wells and got in a poker game with Ashbel Smith. He'd run out of money and put up that little piece of property. The damn fool had me beat, but I bluffed him out of it because he was afraid to put up anything else in order to call me. He was a terrible poker player; his right eye always twitched when he was bluffing, plus he was a bit henpecked and was always worried his wife was gonna come bustin' in. Easy pickins that!
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"your right, sam houston used 'texians' and he was an illegal alien."
Sam Houston was not a Texan, if he were a Texan he wouldn't have been late to the Alamo! He was a Sam come lately and a fucking politician! Besides the word "Texian" applies specifically to those non-Texans who fought in the Texas Revolution and kicked the ass of ole one legged Sanny Anny. Texian today refers to those poor souls who think they live in Texas, but actually live in Mexico. As Mexico is so slipshod about taking care of its property, we go ahead and do it for them but keep quiet about it so as not to embarrass those poor Mexican people.  That's one of the things that makes Texas great, is that we have a long history of being philanthropic, like helping out you poor Mexicans that even your own country doesn't want. Well maybe one day they'll come claim you and you can go back to living in the red, white and green, then you won't seem so out of place hating Texans and all.
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Wichita Falls was overrun by Okies years ago.
Pretending to be a Texian by espousing violent
solutions and the hatred of Mexicans is a shallow ruse.
Baytown is neither a part of Texas nor Mexico;
Baytown is a multinational property of Exxon-Mobile.
Sam Houston planned to defeat Santa Anna by attrition;
by luring him as far into Texas as possible. Houston
ordered the Alamo contingent to destroy it and return.
They didn't. Not that smart; but luckily for the forces
of pro-slavery (see below), the Mexicans weren't either.
The reason Texas exists today is that cotton interests
in the Southern U.S. wanted to grow cotton in Texas
and they needed to use slaves to do this. But Mexico
had made slavery illegal so it was necessary for them
to support a revolution in Texas to create a territory
where white people were "free" to own slaves. One of
the many reasons I love Texas.
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(01-18-2012, 02:59 PM)Mark Wrote: Get a room, you two :p
I won't deny there's a certain sexual tension between us.
It's his hot throbbing phrases...
I...
I...
I just can't resist.
Half-crazed Ray
P.S. But isn't this thread our room?
And hey, Mark, you're peeking aren't you?
P.P.S. And just in case anyone is weird enough to want to read
Texian history (like me); there's this incredibly great book about
its wonderful, warty, interesting, sordid, evil, heroic past:
"Lone Star Nation" by H. W. Brands
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Baytown is a multinational property of Exxon-Mobile.
Well that explains a lot.
Overrun by Okies? You must be kidding,they don't even know which side of the road to drive on (For proof of the Okie intellect watch the musical Oklahoma. They had to keep spelling the name O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a out so the Okies would know it was about them). Infested maybe, but never overrun. That's why we developed those pointy toed cowboy boots, so we could get to the Okies when they hid in the corner. Do you for one min. believe that the state that produced Oral Sex...Anal Roberts...Oral Roberts and his 600foot tall Jesus could overrun anything. That's the funniest thing I've heard since...well..since they said the Texas Gulf was a good place to go on vacation!
H. W. Brands? Oh I know H.W. I give H. W. the money to finance the research for that book, which H. W. promptly went and drank up, then just made stuff up. H.W. is a nickname you know, it stand s for Huh? What?
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I also read his Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. I really do like
the guy's writing; no matter if he be historian, novelist, or both.
Baytown being owned by Exxon-Mobile is no joke. When growing up
here, most people, my dad included, worked for Exxon (called Humble
then, as you said), and even now it's a company town. As a civic
duty, Exxon still provides paid time off for any of its managers to
pitch in and help run the town. Back then most of the mayors, city
councilmen, school board members, water control board, etc. came
from the ranks of the Humble execs. Baytown has a ring of incorporated
land around the refinery, but the refinery land remains unincorporated
and pays no city taxes. Etc. But we have a damn fine library, and the
science labs in the high school were/are excellent.
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(01-18-2012, 03:49 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: I won't deny there's a certain sexual tension between us.
It's his hot throbbing phrases...
I...
I...
I just can't Resistol.
/fixt
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Put a hat on it Mark! Yeesh!
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"I just can't Resistol."
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As long as you don't Stetson in it, you are probably OK!
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