[EDNY]

A must read for all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans or wanna-be Texans:
 
I’ll bet there are some facts/info in this email that even Texans don’t know!
 
Just Texas
Pep , Texas 79353
Smiley , Texas 78159
Paradise , Texas 76073
Rainbow , Texas 76077
Sweet Home , Texas 77987
Comfort , Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530
 
Love the sun?
Sun City, Texas 78628
Sunrise, Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray, Texas 79086
Sunny Side,  Texas 77423
 
Want something to eat?
Bacon , Texas 76301
Noodle , Texas 79536
Oatmeal , Texas 78605
Turkey , Texas 79261
Trout , Texas 75789
Sugar Land , Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice , Texas 75155
Pearland , Texas 77581
Orange , Texas 77630
And top it off with:
Sweetwater , Texas 79556
 
Why travel to other cities?  Texas has them all!
Detroit , Texas 75436
Cleveland , Texas 75436
Colorado City , Texas 79512
Denver City , Texas 79323
Klondike , Texas 75448
Pittsburg, Texas 75686
Newark, Texas 76071
Nevada , Texas 75173
Memphis , Texas 79245
Miami , Texas 79059
Boston , Texas 75570
Santa Fe , Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861
Reno , Texas 75462
Pasadena , Texas 77506
Columbus , Texas 78934
 
Feel like traveling outside the country?
Athens , Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613
Dublin, Texas 76446
Egypt , Texas 77436
Ireland, Texas 76538
Italy, Texas 76538
Turkey, Texas 79261
London , Texas 76854
New London, Texas 75682
Paris, Texas 75460
Palestine, Texas 75801
 
No need to travel to Washington D.C.
Whitehouse ,  Texas   75791
 
We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth ,  Texas   79031
 
We have a city named after our state:
Texas City, Texas   77590
 
Exhausted?
Energy,  Texas   76452
Cold?
Blanket, Texas   76432
Winters,  Texas 79567
 
Like to read about History?
Santa Anna ,  Texas 76878
Goliad ,  Texas 77963
Alamo ,  Texas 78516
Gun Barrel City ,  Texas 75156
Robert  Lee ,  Texas 76945
 
Need Office Supplies?
Staples,  Texas 78670
Feeling a little shy?
Humble, Texas 77338
 
Want to go into outer space?
Venus ,  Texas   76084
Mars ,  Texas   79062
 
You guessed it. It's on the state line.
Texline ,  Texas   79087
 
For the kids...
Kermit , Texas 79745
Elmo , Texas 75118
Nemo , Texas 76070
Tarzan , Texas 79783
Winnie , Texas 77665
Sylvester , Texas 79560
 
Other city names in Texas , to make you smile......
Frognot , Texas 75424
Bigfoot , Texas 78005
Hogeye , Texas 75423
Cactus , Texas 79013
Notrees , Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest , Texas 76886
Kickapoo , Texas 75763
Dime Box , Texas 77853
Old Dime Box , Texas 77853
Telephone , Texas 75488
Telegraph , Texas 76883
Whiteface , Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079
 
And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City
Kilgore , Texas 75662
 
And our favorites...
Cut and Shoot, Texas 77303
Gun Barrell City , Texas 75147
Ding Dong, Texas
West, Texas (it’s in Central Texas )
and, of course,
Muleshoe , Texas 79347
 
Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas
 
If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work
there, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ;
 
If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both
unlocked, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas
 
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --you're going 80 and
everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas ;
 
If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas ;
 
If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas
friends, you definitely live in Texas .
 
Here are some little known, very interesting facts about  Texas .
1... Beaumont to  El Paso : 742 miles
2...  Beaumont to  Chicago : 770 miles
3...  El Paso is closer to  California than to  Dallas
4… World's first rodeo was in  Pecos , July 4, 1883.
5… The Flagship Hotel in  Galveston is the only hotel in  North America
built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike -2008!
6… The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at  Rice University in  Houston .
7...  Brazoria   County has more species of birds than any other area in  North America
8... Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of  North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9… Jalapeno jelly originated in  Lake Jackson in 1978.
10… The worst natural disaster in  U.S. history was in 1900, caused by  a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on  Galveston   Island .
11… The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969, was "  Houston ," but the space center was actually in  Clear Lake City at the time.
12... King Ranch in South Texas is larger than  Rhode Island ..
13... Tropical Storm Claudette brought a  U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24
hours in and around  Alvin in July of 1979...
14...  Texas is the only state to enter the  U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the  Republic of  Texas to enter the  Union )
instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same
height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.
15... A Live Oak tree near  Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16…  Caddo  Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17... Dr Pepper was invented in  Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr
Pepper..
18…  Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington -on- the Brazos,  Harrisburg ,  Galveston ,Velasco, West Columbia, and Austin .
19... The Capitol Dome in  Austin is the only dome in the  U.S. which is
taller than the Capitol   Building in  Washington   DC (by 7 feet).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the  Washington monument.
21. The name '  Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for  Texas .
22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about
the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which
splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).
23. The first domed stadium in the  U.S. was the Astrodome in  Houston .
24. Texas actually has a State Dog written into it's constitution; it is the Blue Lacy breed.
 
Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at  CrossTrails Church in Fairlie ,  Texas :
 
(1) Just one God.
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
(3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
(5) Put nothin' before God.
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.
(7) No killin'.
(8] Watch yer mouth.
(9) Don't take what ain't yers.
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.
 
Y'all git all that?
 
Lord, keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.
 
 

[sixball]

My dad graduated from Happy High School in Happy, Texas. Dalhart  is closer to the capitols of 6 other states than it is to Austin. A 7th state capitol is only about 20 miles farther. A few years ago while studying some family history I found a town on a map I'd never heard of "Quitaque".What the heck? Why had I never heard of it? Then it dawned on me, it's Texas stupid. it's Kitty Quay!

[EDNY]

sixball..that reminds me that years when I first moved to this area which has a heavy French influence and culture.  I needed a set of commercial truck mud flaps and the locals directed me to "Charlie Boys". I spent some time in the phone book looking for the Charlie Boys phone number with no luck so I just drove down to the store location. The business name is actually Charlebois (shar-bwaw).

Working both borders in the Border Patrol I learned that generations of Mexicans that immigrate to the US maintain their Spanish language. In this area the French language from Quebec immigrants is not maintained on this side so much...but both sides still love their Montreal Canadiens (Canada) Montreal Canadians (US)

[sammons]

Ah Texas. I don,t now if it's taller than wide...but it's a long ways down. We use to take family vacations to Brownsville when I was in my early teens. Dad only gave me a weeks vacation from the shop, so in '83 it was a toss up to go see little brother in Morro Bay Ca or mom in Harlingen Tx. I thought Harlingen was half the distance. So me and my buddy hopped in my recently bought '69 Vette. 14.5 hrs later we were almost deaf from that screaming motor, pretty much tached 3500rpm(sounded like 6000 ) all the way there as it was a 3.73 rear gear and factory side pipes. I guess I made the right choise, spent a lot of time down at the politicly incorrect "Confederate Air Force" base looking at WW2 planes   Needless to say, I have never seen such pure white pipes on a car as when I got home. Took the side pipes off and got a regular exhaust but a week later!

[madmike3435]

you will find 2 things.............

#1.......you can drop texas into the province of Ontario and lose it. Google land mass for both or square mileage

#2.......if you come 175 miles west of where you are to Toronto Ont , you will not find any love for Les Canadiens.

I might use the word hate would be more appropriate.  Just Howard Coselling it......telling it like it is .

mike.............

[chopper526]

My wife and I were just talking about where we would like to live if we were to re-locate, both of us said, almost simultaneous....Texas!

[sixball]

Alaska is about 2 1/2 times as big as Texas too,but like Ontario they never claimed to have more ice and snow than anyone.
Steinbeck said Texas is a state of mind.