# Yup, that pretty much sums up Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226 "2003-02-02T02:56:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Servant\_To\_The\_Precious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Servant\_To\_The\_Precious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Servant_To_The_Precious)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/81 "2003-02-03T21:41:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ringo \* > \*\*OP, you’ve missed a lot of Texas. But I don’t get the impression that anything outside of the narrow and petty is of interest to you > > Our astronauts died today, pushing the envelope. Perhaps it’s funny to you that it happened over Texas. > > It’s really not funny. \*\* Okay, Ringo, exactly where in my OP did I even mention finding ANYTHING about the Columbia accident funny/amusing/kneeslapping/guffaw worthy? C’mon, show me. You can’t because there wasn’t any such thing. So, you make something up. Real nice.:wally :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally :wally If you could be bothered to read the actual post you would have found that I found the Texan’s description of his town amusing. But I guess you aren’t quite smart enough to figure that out. By the way, how are George and John doing?😛 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/82 "2003-02-03T23:02:59Z")
And I think t-keela’s response to me actually DOES sum up Texas. I can take jokes about Chicago (my personal choice for best city in the world) all day…but you make one joke about Texas and you hear about it for weeks. 😃 (An inch of ice? Give me a break. And if you don’t think it gets hot in Chicago, talk to the seven hundred people who died in 1995 when it was 108 for about ten straight days) No one will admit that “Wal Mart Keeps Me Going” is a silly if not hilarious statement? Come on! J ---
**Author:** ![tmwster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@tmwster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tmwster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/83 "2003-02-04T02:56:36Z")
**Opal** and **Jarbabyj** , I think anyone who prefers cold weather to hot must be insane. I’ll take a month of summer hell over a winter’s worth of blue fanny any time. But, there you have it: One woman’s hell is another woman’s heaven. I think the rancher actually said that Wal-Mart keeps the town going. No, I don’t think it’s silly or hilarious. Re-read **t-keela’s** remarks above regarding small, dying towns. Many folks who have lived in rural areas for generations live in relative poverty, and would be forced into abject poverty or relocating if not for Wal-Mart, etc. Not everyone wants to live a city lifestyle, and the employment dollars of a prison or a Wal-Mart might just be what allows them to stay home. What’s silly or hilarious about that? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/84 "2003-02-04T03:06:39Z")
I can put on clothes and blankets and warm up. I can strip naked and still be hot. Plus I love snow. ---
**Author:** ![tmwster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@tmwster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tmwster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/85 "2003-02-04T03:36:04Z")
But I can put layers upon layers of clothes and blankets on until I look like Ralphie’s little brother, and I’m still cold. And I’m very happy being naked in hot weather. Like I said… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/86 "2003-02-04T03:38:34Z")
…but being naked and still roasting sucks. I hate heat. I hate the feeling of sun on my skin. I hate wearing shorts. On the other hand, I looove bundling up. ---
**Author:** ![tmwster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/57b2e6/32.png) [@tmwster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tmwster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/87 "2003-02-04T03:41:54Z")
But bundling up is only nice when you can get warm. Naked is better. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/88 "2003-02-04T04:02:11Z")
Please post pics and let us Dopers decide if naked or bundling is better. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/89 "2003-02-04T05:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > The GF’s mom asked me to go out in the field and take a look at the truck to see if I could get it started. There was this spider in a web on the fender. Not an American normal spider, mind you. A Texas spider. About the size of a half-dollar. Black with red and it turned to me and said “Don’t F\*ck with me, whitebread.” I left it alone. And you shoulda left it alone, yes, it’s just a baby. If you had harassed it, and its MAMA came along… ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/90 "2003-02-05T02:51:14Z")
jarbabyj…I got the joke, I just thought I would explain a little about WHY Texans and winter don’t quite jive, there are several casualties every winter due to icy roads. Kinda like Chicago and HOT weather, although I won’t make a joke about people dying from the heat! As far as the invite, you’re still welcome to come down…see, that was my little joke. or didn’t you notice that I offered the smokes and the drinks…Hell, I’ll even BBQ somethin’ for ya’. How’ bout it…Cabrito fajitas, fresh guacamole, and plenty of ice cold Margarita’s…maybe some Stevie Ray playin in the background…😃 Semper Fi ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/91 "2003-02-06T03:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Texican \* > \*\*Are you from there too? \*\* Yep. How 'bout this weather tonight, aye? ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/92 "2003-02-06T05:06:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Unintentionally Blank \* > \*\* > Oh yeah, and Uston (there’s no ‘H’ in Uston) may be modern, but travel out side the city about 15 miles and you go back in time about 45 years to a place that still ain’t quite segregated. \*\* Houston is pronounced with an H by every Houstonian I know including myself. Also 15 miles outside of Houston are the suburbs, like the one I grew up in (thankfully not in hell, I mean Kingwood, but in Spring). They are pretty much identical to any suburb in the United States. Almost everyone that grew up there after 1970 didn’t even have southern accents. Even small towns like Tomball or Hepstead, which are a bit further ouside of Houston, aren’t really timewarps to the past. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/93 "2003-02-06T07:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Unintentionally Blank \* > \*\*Being [temporarily] engaged to a texan, I got the impression that Texas was only begrudgingly a part of the united states. > \*\* I’ve always got that impression as well, and I’ve only had a passing acquaintance with anyone from the state. Say what you will about Texas, at least I don’t hear about towns threatening to secede from the _state_. [http://www.hippopress.com/beat13/beat13\_080901.html](http://www.hippopress.com/beat13/beat13_080901.html) No, you’ve got to leave that sort of special stupidity to people in my state… ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/94 "2003-02-06T08:14:09Z")
Hey, I live here, it can’t be _that_ bad… yeehaw. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b2d939/32.png) [@\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/95 "2003-02-06T11:24:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TitoBenito \* > \*\*Houston is pronounced with an H by every Houstonian I know including myself. Also 15 miles outside of Houston are the suburbs, like the one I grew up in (thankfully not in hell, I mean Kingwood, but in Spring). They are pretty much identical to any suburb in the United States. Almost everyone that grew up there after 1970 didn’t even have southern accents. Even small towns like Tomball or Hepstead, which are a bit further outside of Houston, aren’t really timewarps to the past. \*\* I second that. I have never heard it called anything but Houston or H-Town. Now the town"Humble" on the other hand I have heard “umble”. I live in Tomball. No time warp here, unless you are in the mood to shop for it ! We do have about 35 old Antique / Re-sale shops here in town. Most of the small shops are converted old houses from the 30’s. They are kinda cool. People come from surrounding towns to shop here (including Houston). It is funny to see some of the things people look high and low for from their childhood on-line, when I have browsed in the stores and seen things in the little shops for cheap! They also have the same amount of new stores so you get a great mixture. I have lived here 5 years, but before that was born and raised in Houston. In my 5 years in Tomball, only two people have actually been “rude” to me. A doctor (of all things) and yesterday, the telephone repair man. Thats purty good odds I reckon! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/96 "2003-02-06T13:00:48Z")
The ugliest part of my job is dealing with people who come from cooler, dryer climates…when it’s about 85 degrees and, in a Texan’s mind, a “cooler summer day,” all these horrendously stinky sweaty tourists come to the bar for a margarita. Yes, I know they’re my livelihood, and yes, I can’t really blame them for not being acclimated to our kind of hot, sticky heat…but as my Grandpa would say, DADGUMMIT, why can’t they bathe in a pool of deodorant before jaunting all over the Riverwalk and then stinking up my bar? I have had stinky sweaty Europeans when it’s a balmy seventy-five degrees outside…a beautiful spring day…and they’re still coated in stench, whining about the oppressive heat, wondering how we can stand it. Ugh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/97 "2003-02-06T16:49:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Audrey Levins \* > \*\*The ugliest part of my job is dealing with people who come from cooler, dryer climates…when it’s about 85 degrees and, in a Texan’s mind, a “cooler summer day,” all these horrendously stinky sweaty tourists come to the bar for a margarita. > > Yes, I know they’re my livelihood, and yes, I can’t really blame them for not being acclimated to our kind of hot, sticky heat…but as my Grandpa would say, DADGUMMIT, why can’t they bathe in a pool of deodorant before jaunting all over the Riverwalk and then stinking up my bar? > > I have had stinky sweaty Europeans when it’s a balmy seventy-five degrees outside…a beautiful spring day…and they’re still coated in stench, whining about the oppressive heat, wondering how we can stand it. > > Ugh. 😃 \*\* I always find it funny when people are surprised to see me shoveling snow in a t-shirt in -10 weather. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/98 "2003-02-06T20:43:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Audrey Levins \* > \*\*The ugliest part of my job is dealing with people who come from cooler, dryer climates…when it’s about 85 degrees and, in a Texan’s mind, a “cooler summer day,” all these horrendously stinky sweaty tourists come to the bar for a margarita. > \*\* Are they space aliens, then? Oh, sorry, I just can’t wrap my brain around the idea that there are places on earth where high temps **don’t** go hand in hand with high humidity. I’m pretty sure “dry heat,” when not talking about heating your house in the winter, is a myth. 😃 \ ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/99 "2003-02-06T21:21:54Z")
The only example I can say I experienced concerning “dry heat” was in Denver in Summer of '90 or '91, can’t remember which. It 100 a couple of days in a row. Hot,yeah, but it didn’t even come close to feeling like a Houston Summer day. (I have no recollection of the reported relative humidity.) But, since I couldn’t switch from one city to the other to see if was _really_ different, I’ll just have to say this observation of mine is highly subjective. ---
**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226/100 "2003-02-06T21:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elfkin477 \* > \*\*I’m pretty sure “dry heat,” when not talking about heating your house in the winter, is a myth. 😃 \ \*\* May I introduce you to: [Presidio, Texas!](http://www.srh.noaa.gov/maf/Coop_Climate/annpresidio.html) ([Map](http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=&city=presidio&state=tx&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map)). If you’re looking for a dry heat, look no further. I’ve spent the better part of several summers hangin’ out around Presidio. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yup-that-pretty-much-sums-up-texas/152226.md?page=6)