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Don't mess with Texas
- Thread starter IamGroot
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Its not a dotcom...it's the Terrell County Historical Society (previously committee). But yeah...why are they spending tax payers money to identify two thugs?
Definitely. I don't think they should've put there names on it though being a historical monument.
Pee Wee's big adventure taught me everything I know about Texas.
It is the tombstone of the trainrobbers in Sanderson, Tx. Here is the rest of the story.
Baxter's Curve Train Robbery - Wikipedia.
Sanderson is the only town in Terrell County, one of Texas's largest counties, with only around 750 people. I am guessing 50 people living in Dryden. Its a very remote area that was for filming "No Country for Old Men". It is a hard barren area with a lot of stories. Almost all of the county except Sanderson and Highway 90 is privately owned by descendants of the original ranchers.
Fun fact for those who don't know. "Don't mess with Texas" started as an anti-littering campaign slogan around 1985. Radio, road signs, print, TV exposure and it worked very well.
Of course it's since been appropriated as a prideful identity statement for Texans.
And now you know LOL.
Him, "You don't mess with Texas, boy!"
Me, "Well, I don't litter anywhere actually, but thanks for the Public Service Reminder."
Of course it's since been appropriated as a prideful identity statement for Texans.
And now you know LOL.
Him, "You don't mess with Texas, boy!"
Me, "Well, I don't litter anywhere actually, but thanks for the Public Service Reminder."
I've only been to Texas a couple of times. What I do know is that most of the stereotypes about the place are about as true as stereotypes about Germans being screaming Nazis or running around in lederhosen blowing Alpenhorns. It has a lot of large, urban, diverse, sophisticated communities, and it's mostly not desert.
Though of course, being a Yankee, I have to tell the Yankee joke.
Texan: "I don't know about your farm in Maine, mister, but I have a ranch in Texas, that is so large it takes me five days to drive around my entire spread."
Yankee: "I have a car just like that myself."
Texan: "I don't know about your farm in Maine, mister, but I have a ranch in Texas, that is so large it takes me five days to drive around my entire spread."
Yankee: "I have a car just like that myself."
Austin does not represent Texas accurately.
Looks more like bragging about laying them out to cool for being silly enough to try messin with Tejas.
Take I-20 west from Dallas to El Paso, or I-10 from Houston to El Paso.
Because, as Pogo would say, it's "historiwockle."
Texas is full of historical markers, it has been "a thing" to mark buildings and places for decades now. And since Texas history is documented back to the 1700s, that makes a fair amount of stuff that be "plaqued and put away."
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Haven't driven the routes myself, but unless satellite imagery is deceiving me, the desert kicks in only around Abilene. And by a thumbnail estimate, I'd say the green part of the state is around 60% of the land area. According to some website checking, only 12% of the state is desert proper, though I'm sure the arid plains and brushland are more extensive than that.
