[Elfsea] FW: True Texan?

Deana Covel dmcovel79 at yahoo.com
Mon May 16 12:12:10 PDT 2005


I'll play "Devil's Advocate" for a minute.
  
  Many of the things listed here can be said of
Oklahoma as well.  :)   Especially #20.
  Maybe we should say a True Ansteorrian?

In Fun,
  Lady Hanna   
   (transplant from Oklahoma)


> For some of these, you have to have lived the rural
> life we have, but
> they're still fun....
> 
> 
> You are a true Texan if:
> 
> 
> 1. You can properly pronounce Corsicana, Palestine,
> Decatur, Wichita Falls,
> San Antonio, Mexia, Waco, and Amarillo.
> 
> 
> 2. You think that people who complain about the wind
> in their states are
> sissies.
> 
> 
> 3. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out
> in the yard and look for
> a funnel.
> 
> 4. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to
> pass a tractor on the
> highway.
> 
> 5. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in
> the same day.
> 
> 6. You know that the true value of a parking space
> is not determined by the
> distance to the door, but by the availability of
> shade.
> 
> 7. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.
> 
> 8. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.
> 
> 9. You think everyone from a bigger city has an
> accent.
> 
> 10. You measure distance in minutes.
> 
> 11. You refer to the capital of Texas as "home of
> the Longhorns."
> 
> 12. It doesn't bother you to use an airport named
> for a man who died in an
> airplane crash.
> 
> 13. Little Smokies are something you serve only for
> special occasions.
> 
> 14. You go to the lake because you think it is like
> going to the ocean.
> 
> 15. You listen to the weather forecast before
> picking out an outfit.
> 
> 16. You know cowpies are not made of beef.
> 
> 17. Someone you know has used a football schedule to
> plan their 
> wedding date.
> 
> 18. You have known someone who has had one belt
> buckle bigger than 
> your fist.
> 
> 19. A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each
> other down at a
> four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite
> and let the other go
> first.
> 
> 20. You know which state Miam-uh is in.......and
> which states Miam-ee is in.
> 
> 21. You aren't surprised to find movie rental,
> ammunition, and bait all in
> the same store.
> 
> 22. Your "place at the lake" has wheels under it.
> 
> 23. A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Ford
> F350 4x4 is.
> 
> 24. You know everything goes better with Ranch.
> 
> 25. You learned how to shoot a gun before you
> learned how to multiply.
> 
> 26. You actually get these jokes and are "fixin' "
> to send them to your
> friends.
> 
>  
>  
> Finally, you are 100% Texan if you have ever heard
> this conversation:
> 
> "You wanna coke?"
> "Yeah."
> "What kind?"
> "Dr. Pepper."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Nothing great was ever achieved without
> enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson
> 
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