Funny! Um, in a tragic way.
Zombie thread – where does this stuff go now??
When the Subpoenas start to fly, the spineless (hide behind their wives, do NOT call the cops, and then) get going!
I guess he stopped short of Cancun, so … that’s something.
I’d like to see Texas secede. Then the Mexican army can march in and take the place back before Texas has a chance to react. And they think they have an immigration problem now. . .
I’m not convinced Mexico would want Texas if it seceded. Any potential immigrants probably would learn to keep going north to the US where the better opportunities were.
Randy Milholland rarely puts anything political in S*P, so this was a welcome surprise…
And it is so perfectly in character.
Dude was indicted on felony charges seven years ago and has managed to avoid trial so far. Seven years. Avoiding a subpoena is practically reflective.
They’d happily take back Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona and their other former territories.
Maybe Putin will emulate Arthur Zimmermann and send the Mexican government a secret communication offering an alliance.
Like that went over well the first time.
Well, deja by all over again. Again I’ve been sitting here without power all day as the temperature in my house approaches freezing. At least it’s not a statewide grid failure this time.
I wonder if I can hitch a ride on one of Abbott’s immigrant buses, at least they’re heated.
If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous.
If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.
If it bites you and it dies, you’re Chuck Norris.
First make sure the heat has been turned on.
Sorry about that. That’s not fun with the cold.
Sounds like there’s plenty of generation but ice is wreaking havoc with power lines either directly or from nearby trees.
Not that ERCOT or Greg Abbott deserve anything but contempt for the state of our electrical infrastructure, including, in this case, crews unable to do much because they can’t handle icy roads and from some of their repair equipment being frozen.
I bet you could if you refused to show them some identification.
That’s inaccurate. Venom is a kind of poison. Biologists differentiate them, but linguists don’t, because the terms have been interchangeable in English for centuries.
Cite: every dictionary.
They only mean the same thing if it doesn’t matter. If you’re out in the wild and encounter a situation where the difference matters, they are not synonyms.
To bring this linguistics hijack back to the thread topic: why do Texans talk so weird?
Eons ago my (now ex) wife’s cousin moved to Florida. He was 18. When he came back home to visit a year later, he sounded “like a Texan”.
I had a friend in Canada who told me I sounded like a Texan. I’ve lived the vast majority of my life in the Seattle area and I have the “Pacific Northwest accent”. (Which apparently is a thing, though it’s subtle, and I didn’t know it existed until recently.)
She knew someone in Texas and thought we sounded alike. I think that to her, anyone who didn’t sound Canadian was Texan.
There are some vowels that PNWspeak shares with SWspeak, though I don’t think of them as Texan. Maybe in west Texas?