Posted by Lisa Prestegard on 5/27/07 8:54pm
Msg #192293

OT: Facts about Texas, confirmed by our Brenda/TX so

I know they're true :o)

Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air
Roadrunners don't say "Beep Beep"
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. 10,001 live in Texas.
Armadillos love to dig holes under tomato plants.
Racoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are
ripe. They leave the unripe ones with bite holes!
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
Texas has 5 seasons:
Spring, Feb 16 to April 15 (temp 70 to 90 degrees)
Summer, April 16 to July 15 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Super Summer, July 16 to Sept 10 (temp 105 to 120 degrees)
Summer, Sept. 11 to Oct 1 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Fall, Oct 2 to Dec. 1 (temp 70 to 90 degrees)
Winter Dec. 2 to Feb 15 (temp 40 to 50 degrees)
The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct. 2 until July 15, then it stops
totally.
Onced and Twiced are words
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
Graduating 1st in your class means you left in the 8th grade.
Coldbeer is one word.
People actually grow and eat Okra.
Texans really don't have an accent.
When the world ends, only roaches and mesquite trees will survive.
Green grass DOES burn.
A Racoon can get the lid off a locked garbage can faster than you
can.
When you live in the country, you don't have to buy a dog. City
people drop them off at your gate in the middle of the night.
The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first
couple of weeks.
When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go
to the doctor.
Fixinto is one word.
A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation.
Backards and Forards means I know everything about you.
You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it
is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

And the most important thing......There's no place I'd rather be than
Texas!

Reply by Melissa Haley on 5/29/07 4:17pm
Msg #192582

Re: Spongebob is all I could think of...

Wish I was back in Texas.
The ocean's no place for a squirrel.
Wish I was in Texas,
prettiest place in the world, oh no.
I guess deep in my heart,
I'll always be a Texas girl.
I wanna go hoooooome, home.
(yodel)
I wanna wake up in Texas.
I miss those wide open skies.
I miss my 20 acres,
barbeques and pecan pies, oh why?
When I'm so far from you, Texas,
all I can do is cry.
(yodel)
I wanna go ho-o-o-o-ome,
(country man voice) I wanna go home.