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Title: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Undies on October 19, 2012, 10:41:59 AM
Big Tex burned up this morning.  No more "How-dee folks" this year.

Big Tex was 60.

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63112_543567109002598_33948839_n.jpg)(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/175447_10151093092951545_1361011950_o.jpg)

Big Tex in 1956:


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Big-tex-1956.jpg)

They fixed those scary eyes in later years.  :-)
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60.
Post by: Chris_ on October 19, 2012, 10:46:43 AM
Wow.

http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/state-fair-of-texas/headlines/20121019-state-fair-of-texas-icon-big-tex-goes-up-in-flames.ece
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: CactusCarlos on October 19, 2012, 11:02:28 AM
Oh no! Big Tex burned! I guess they will try to deep-fry anything at the fair this year!

(stolen from one of my Facebook friends)
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Chris_ on October 19, 2012, 11:04:49 AM
Oh no! Big Tex burned! I guess they will try to deep-fry anything at the fair this year!

(stolen from one of my Facebook friends)
Bad, bad man.:evil:
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: IassaFTots on October 19, 2012, 12:38:54 PM
Aw, that is sad.  I knew one of the sound guys for Big Tex.  He said that was the best job he ever had. 
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Undies on October 19, 2012, 12:51:30 PM
The sad part is that Tex's head melted.  The original is gone forever.  The same head I stared up at as a small child.

Now that classic 1952 slow-moving non-high tech Big Tex is going to be replaced with some 2013 version. 

The history is now a memory instead of reality.  It will never be the same.
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Wineslob on October 19, 2012, 12:58:42 PM
I thought Burning Man was held out in the desert?  :???:
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: BigTex on October 19, 2012, 01:03:20 PM
One thing we can be sure of, its Obama's fault
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: WinOne4TheGipper on October 19, 2012, 01:59:49 PM
They'll rebuild him bigger and stronger- then put him on the Texas defensive line next year.:-)
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Wineslob on October 19, 2012, 02:27:16 PM
What a wonderful contribution to Glowballs Warming.


 :fuelfire:
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Undies on October 19, 2012, 02:30:36 PM
They'll rebuild him bigger and stronger- then put him on the Texas defensive line next year.:-)

They'll probably rebuild him with a same-sex partner-of-color.  Big Brucio or something.
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Chris_ on October 19, 2012, 06:47:01 PM
Big Tex Grief Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/bigtexgriefsupport) :rofl:
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Duke Nukum on October 19, 2012, 07:06:12 PM
I think he's still alive, he'll be given a bionic limb or two and be rebuilt, better, stronger, faster.

He'll work for the OSI and hang out with Big Foot and hot red headed aliens and fight bad guys and dress well.

In a few years there will be Big Tex sightings in WalMart parking lots all over the country.
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Undies on October 19, 2012, 10:29:51 PM
Big Tex Grief Support Group (https://www.facebook.com/bigtexgriefsupport) :rofl:

 :bawl:
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: Undies on October 19, 2012, 10:32:17 PM
I think he's still alive, he'll be given a bionic limb or two and be rebuilt, better, stronger, faster.

He'll work for the OSI and hang out with Big Foot and hot red headed aliens and fight bad guys and dress well.

In a few years there will be Big Tex sightings in WalMart parking lots all over the country.

I just got home from the fairgrounds.  Big Tex is gone.  Big Tex Plaza is full of flowers and wreaths and stuffed animals and the like.  Princess Di would be proud.
Title: Re: RIP, Big Tex. State Fair of Texas Icon Dead at 60. (w/photo)
Post by: IassaFTots on October 20, 2012, 07:39:48 AM
I just got home from the fairgrounds.  Big Tex is gone.  Big Tex Plaza is full of flowers and wreaths and stuffed animals and the like.  Princess Di would be proud.

 :bawl: