Well Bush may have become governor but he’s no Texan.
I’m glad to see everyone getting along so well.
Bless your hearts!
Sailboat
Sorry, new doper here. I should have said "Texans are bent on the idea that the can… fly their flag as high as the national flag…
:smack:
Come on. Like dudes up in Montana would want to make sure that their state flag is at equal mast to the Stars And Stripes. Uh… do they even have a state flag? :dubious:
The flag thing for Tejas is just another “Our dick is bigger than yours, Yankee bastard,” thing.
more celebratory gun fire
I don’t get “Bless your heart” as an insult. My mom and grandmother used the phrase in a sympathetic way. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it used as mocking condescencion, unless my mom was whoosing me.
They have this guy on television in the Dallas area that says that “when I moved to Texas I didn’t know what my wife meant by bless your heart, but now I know that it means, ‘You dumb mother@&*.’”
That isn’t exactly what he says and I don’t know what he is really selling. He has a commercial on the radio that is similar.
Also, when someone is referred to as special, it generally means he or she is a dumbass. At least in this part of Texas.
Yeah, I’m familiar with “special”. Well aren’t you special? is calling someone a dumbass.
Um, Duke? I’ve got some bad news for you…
Bite me, Homebrew.
You want to take that line, amigo, then you need to realize that you just set yourself up as the living, breathing epitomy of the stereotype liberal asshole - someone who will condemn another at the drop of a hat without a consideration as to whether the other is correct or not. And lie about it while doing it.
Now that was funny!
BTW, my neighbor three doors down is a transplanted Alaskan. I’m not ashamed to admit that I borrowed that line from him.
What, I’m special? Well bless my heart…
Gotta chime in on this one.
I was born and razed (heh, heh) in West by Gawd Virginia, and Maryland crabcakes (hell, any Eastern Seaboard crabs) are waaaay superior to the lame Northwest excuses for crabs. Sheeit, these ‘uns don’ evun make ma bawls ieeutch! Oh. Never mind.
You forgot Massachusetts. Well, Boston, actually, 'cause we’re the only city in Massachusetts, not that you peons would know that!! I bet your great-great-great-great grandparents didn’t even come over on the Mayflower or anything. I bet they had some sort weird last name like “Skimpenheimer” and they landed ass-backwards on a leaky raft that smelled like beer and sausage, ha-ha.
Now if you excuse me, I have to finish my clam chowder and go start a rumble at the Bruins game.
–Linty, coming at ya’ from Boston–“You’re ALL fucking rednecks”-- Massachusetts.
Texas, that’s that place between Worcester and San Fransisco, right?
Hmmm…born and reared in Texas and the only time I’ve seen anyone like the stereotype in the OP is when I was watching fiction on TV or a movie screen. Same with anyone bragging about the size of Texas and any and everything in it. Well, except in jokes. Ancient jokes. That, come to think of it, I mostly hear in movies and TV shows.
Of course, I’ve seen some people who exhibit a few of those traits to some degree or another - in Mississippi…Iowa…Colorado…Mexico…
Except for the one poster upthread, the only time I had ever heard that the Texas flag could supposedly be flown equal (or above) the US flag was on snopes.
Delaware - Delaware! - has more executions per capita than Texas.
Texas is a relatively low 33rd in gun ownership prevalence (to address another stereotype that has been alluded to in this and the other thread).
The whole state (and all its residents) is to be smeared and ridiculed because a few people (who may or may not even be residents) are perceived to take an anti-littering slogan and hijack it for their own agendas? Jeez.
I remember I left this board for a long time because some asshole saw a news report about Dallas’s plan to treat its homeless people and jumped all over it with a hatefullness that I have yet to see surpassed. Despite the fact that I felt vindicated to point out it was Dallas, OREGON - his own precious state - I still felt so sickened I couldn’t even come back, because this attitude towards the south in general and Texas in particular on this board that claims to want to stamp out ignorance is astounding.
If we’re nothing but 20 million ignorant hicks and yahoos, then why do so many of our colleges end up on USNews’s top 100? And why do we have so many Nobel Laureates teaching at those schools? Why do some of the top technology companies make their homes here? Why do we have some of the nation’s best hospitals?
Fuck you all. Hard.
Oh, and Lissa? I believe you’ve got to be the most ignorant of all, for not “getting” Aesiron’s remarkably brilliant post.
I kicked a Texan in the nuts for wearing a cowboy hat in downtown Victoria a few years back.
I felt terrible about it, though.
I thought he was from Calgary.
Be skeptical all you want, it’s true however. And some have little pictures of cowboy wear, guns? So what. I’ve lived in NM and CA and have seen guns associated with their past in advertising. Big deal. This is really reaching.
Well this could sure open a big can of worms. Now we are required to vote to keep other’s vote from counting just to make you happy? There are a lot of people that just made my shit for letting Bush back in.
Oh, and on that subject, being born, raised and currently living here I don’t believe most Texans think Bush is/was a good president.
I think what you mean is that you kicked someone you thought was from Texas…you’re still able to post. 
Bless your heart!
Hmmm, I think I’ve now seen “Bless your heart” on the SDMB more than I’ve actually heard it here.
Texas is home to the largest Gay and Lesbian Church
Keep on driving down Cedar Springs and you’ll see a lot of gay hospitality.