Texas Apostates...Roll Call & New Map! (page 4)

xenawarrior

How bout us Yankees??? I can see it now, he'll have me in an innertube going down the Quadalupe River with a cooler full of beer following

XW

LyinEyes

I got it figured out........................Everyone move to Texas........ it is big enough to hold us all.

Just a side note , if we all did live in Texas,,,,,,,,,,, is anyone a bails bondsman??? That might come in handy. I hear some of the Northern girls get a little rowdy in grocery stores and such.

Oh Yeah we also need a good lawyer, too.

Not to worry about us Northern girls getting in trouble in the grocery stores in Texas.- Just ask Heaven- you can't FIND a grocery store in Dallas! Maybe they hide them, fearing that us Yankees are gonna eat all their cheese or something!!!

XW of the "where the hell are the eggs" class

LyinEyes

..........they're ove..errrrrrrr by the beer!!! Duh...........

Next time just ask for beer. Darn what in the world do you need eggs for in Dallas???
Were you out egging houses???

See told ya if we were all in Texas we would need a lawyer.......hehe.

Navigator

Valis

You can put me in N. Richland Hills along with Roo. Jade is in south Fort Worth.

pr_capone

If you wanna scroll that map up just a little you can squeeze me in at Wichita, Kansas.

COMF

got it figured out........................Everyone move to Texas

Already been done, LE. Back in the late 70's/early 80's, a tidal wave of New Englander-types descended upon Texas, lured in part by its grandeur and in part by the desire to chug suds with Bud and let Sissy ride their bulls, but mostly by the fact that Texans by and large were still employed. I was in construction at the time, and worked on an explosion of apartment housing all around Houston as the northerners packed 'em out faster than we could build 'em.

A few years later the exodus began, with the yanks announcing that Texas was over-hyped and had nothing to offer. Our sin: not being able to provide work for the population of the rest of the United States.

And so we're back to being mostly Texans again. Ford's in his flivver; all's right with the world. :)

xenawarrior

COMF:

Can you explain to this Yankee what a "flivver" is??? Garage?

I'd have a hard enough time in Texas with my nasally northern accent, now there are words I don't get too!!

Lyin- Why, 2 am omelettes of course!!!

XW

Valis

Updated...

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

COMF

flivver (fliv'er)
n. Slang.
An automobile, especially one that is small, inexpensive, and old.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

I guess you'd need to know the multiple references to get it, XW. First there's "Pippa's Song", by Robert Browning:

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world.

And then there's Aldous Huxley's take on it as rendered in Brave New World, in which the biblical god is nonexistent and the true God is Ford (great inventor, turned from man to god after his death... same place we got a lot of our gods, no doubt). For example:

"But how can they live like this?" she broke out in a voice of indignant incredulity. (It wasn't possible.)
Bernard shrugged his shoulders philosophically. "Anyhow," he said, "they've been doing it for the last five or six thousand years. So I suppose they must be used to it by now."
"But cleanliness is next to fordliness," she insisted.
"Yes, and civilization is sterilization," Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopdic lesson in elementary hygiene. "But these people have never heard of Our Ford, and they aren't civilized. So there's no point in "

And so, rather than "God's in his heaven" the Brave New Worlders have:

"Ford's in his flivver," murmured the D.H.C. "All's well with the world."

Edited by - COMF on 4 January 2003 13:2:13

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