# How, exactly, does one "Mess with Texas"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069 "2015-05-28T20:43:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![itsfunhavingfun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@itsfunhavingfun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/itsfunhavingfun)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/41 "2015-05-30T20:32:14Z")
“I’m never going to Texas anymore” Robert Plant, Hot Dog ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/42 "2015-05-30T20:47:17Z")
\*\*How do you mess with Texas? \*\* Force health insurance on them! ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/43 "2015-05-30T21:29:29Z")
> [@GusNSpot](#): > > I like the U turn lanes for when you sleep past where you wanted to get off. Yes! This is one of the few things I actually miss about Texas. When I left the state to go to graduate school, I was stunned that practically everywhere else you have make _two left turns through two stoplights_ in order to double back on a freeway. AAUGH. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/44 "2015-05-30T21:34:52Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Yeah. To those driving a big rig, those “Frontage Road” style exits (and entrances) struck me as pretty casual. I’m apparently not the only one who thought “Frontage Road” was a street name. Jonathan Lethem, a fairly well-known author, has a character driving down “Frontage” [capitalized] in one of his novels. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/45 "2015-05-30T23:40:52Z")
It’s an anti-littering slogan directed at Texans. Blame the History channel for the worst misuse of the saying. They’ve plastered it all over ads for their current miniseries–_Texas Rising_. Which is based on the Texas Revolution. Supposedly. I’ve been trying to get inspired to post about it here. The history is mostly wrong. Costumes are all wrong–Texans did not wear 1880’s cowboy outfits in 1836. Sam Houston did not wear any sort of uniform–definitely not one designed for the Civil War. And the coach carrying the Alamo survivors was not attacked by Karankawas in horseback–while traversing the mountainous terrain between San Antonio & Gonzales. Because they shot in Durango, Mexico–which resembles no part of Texas in which the Revolution happened… Four hours of this fiasco have been broadcast so far & I mean to critique it. But it’s so bad as entertainment that I keep finding other things to do. Like watching the current live coverage of folks who either missed the weather forecast or _really enjoy_ driving through flooding streets… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/46 "2015-05-31T00:45:47Z")
Refuse to mosey. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/47 "2015-06-03T00:07:41Z")
> [@erysichthon](#): > > I grew up in Texas, and for years I thought “Frontage Road” was a real street name. So your saying it’s not? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/48 "2015-06-03T02:54:28Z")
Having been born and raised in the great state of Texas I can tell you about the old days, back in the old days all you had to do was go into any bar in Texas and yell out … **"The only thing in Texas is steers and queers and I don’t see any horns on ya’ll"** Which after you have had your say they would then beat the crap out of you, but today they just go “mooo” or some just say “Go sit down you silly guy” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/49 "2015-06-03T03:57:35Z")
Do [this](https://youtu.be/QltlctqfY4E?t=16) every chance you get and everybody has to stop and sing. And waste time. IT’S A STATE LAW! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/50 "2015-06-03T04:57:17Z")
Don’t litter. That’s all it means. That’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/51 "2015-06-03T13:51:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Refuse to mosey. That’d do it alright. Almost as bad as sayin’ a discouragin’ word. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/52 "2015-06-03T13:55:43Z")
I would go for the throat and say “you know, since I visited Alaska this doesn’t seem all that big anymore”. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/53 "2015-06-03T15:38:01Z")
Offer to share your horseburger with them. Tell them that all those nice Californians who are moving here are really classing the place up. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/54 "2015-06-03T15:46:03Z")
Give them hot sauce from NYC. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069/55 "2015-06-03T17:01:58Z")
Say you never knew much about Texas History but that _Texas Rising_ show is teaching them a lot! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-one-mess-with-texas/721069.md?page=2)