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Attention Texans...
« on: November 11, 2009, 08:35:31 AM »
Someone needs to adopt me...  I don't want to go home!

One more day in Dallas, then Austin and back to Houston.... Please take me in! Adopt me!

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2009, 08:44:55 AM »
No! Go home, Yankee!  :-)
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 08:47:56 AM »
Someone needs to adopt me...  I don't want to go home!

One more day in Dallas, then Austin and back to Houston.... Please take me in! Adopt me!


Test: 1.  What do you call a carbonated soft drink?
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 08:49:18 AM »
No! Go home, Yankee!  :-)

Hey! whoa! Hey! It's "Mr. Redneck Yankee, Sir" to you! :-)

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2009, 08:52:10 AM »
'Tis great here, isn't it? But seriously, you need to get outa the big cities to really experience Tejas.
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2009, 08:54:00 AM »

Test: 1.  What do you call a carbonated soft drink?

Coke! :-)



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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2009, 08:58:03 AM »
Coke! :-)



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Test 2.  How do you tell someone you are preparing to do something?
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2009, 09:02:33 AM »
Test 2.  How do you tell someone you are preparing to do something?

I'm fixin' to find a way to join y'all in tx....

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2009, 09:05:07 AM »
This test is too easy.
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2009, 09:08:57 AM »
This test is too easy.

it's early. i've had no caffeine (though I did last night), and i'm surfing from my Win Mobile phone from the back seat of a Suburban driving 65 down HWY 170. :-)

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2009, 09:10:46 AM »
Test #3: Name the 5 major battles of the Texas Revolution.

Test #4: What does a "Texas Stop Sign" look like?
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2009, 09:18:11 AM »
In one word, what is the biggest difference between Houston and Dallas?

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2009, 09:21:44 AM »
Which Texas lake is NOT man-made?
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2009, 09:26:21 AM »
Test #3: Name the 5 major battles of the Texas Revolution.

Test #4: What does a "Texas Stop Sign" look like?

uh. I own guns...

not even the native Tx'ns i'm with know. :(

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2009, 09:30:48 AM »
What holiday is celebrated on April 21?
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2009, 09:32:54 AM »
In one word, what is the biggest difference between Houston and Dallas?

Silicone.:-)

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2009, 09:36:39 AM »
What holiday is celebrated on April 21?

Good one!  Good one!   :clap:


I was gonna ask about the Six Flags that flew over Texas, but that is kind of a gimme.

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2009, 09:44:35 AM »
uh. I own guns...

not even the native Tx'ns i'm with know. :(

Alright, hell...I'll give you the 2 most difficult: The Battle of Coleto and the Siege of Bexar.

Go.

The Texas Stop Sign one is easy.
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2009, 09:48:59 AM »
"I'll tell you what." 

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #19 on: November 11, 2009, 09:51:27 AM »
Silicone.:-)

BZZZZZT!  Wrong!  It's "Humidity". 

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #20 on: November 11, 2009, 11:10:06 AM »
BZZZZZT!  Wrong!  It's "Humidity". 

I was gonna say "the ocean".
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #21 on: November 11, 2009, 11:12:15 AM »
I was gonna say "the ocean".

I was gonna say "the smell."
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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #22 on: November 11, 2009, 11:25:59 AM »

Test: 1.  What do you call a carbonated soft drink?

Tonic not soda or pop, can get confusing when going south.

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #23 on: November 11, 2009, 11:27:04 AM »
Test 2.  How do you tell someone you are preparing to do something?

Dont bother me I am fixin to cook dinner.

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Re: Attention Texans...
« Reply #24 on: November 11, 2009, 11:28:02 AM »
:retard:


Texans have their own colloquialisms. Texas ain't Kansas, Vesta.......
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