[Vhfcn-l] Texas City Trivia

Richard Lewis richardlewis133 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 27 15:57:24 EST 2020 

 Chris, you are correct about the time it would take to learn all of Texas. However I was surprised by how little I ended up knowing.

Richard lewis
Msg, USA {ret}

     On Monday, January 27, 2020, 12:58:27 PM MST, Arnold B Christensen <abc15 at mindspring.com> wrote:  
 
 Well Richard you can be forgiven for not knowing 
much about the facts about Texas.  Twenty years 
here is not very long to learn much about the 
Great Republic...After all it is SO big to know 
all about your neighbors in Texas.  I been here 
for 40+ years  and know very little about it.
Chris The Bigfoot


At 12:47 PM 1/25/2020, you wrote:
>  I lived in Texas 20 years but knew very little 
> of this info. A good read funny but a good 
> learning moment. Thanks. Richard lewis Msg, USA 
> {ret}      On Thursday, January 23, 2020, 
> 7:01:06 PM MST, John Grow via Vhfcn-l 
> <vhfcn-l at lists.vhfcn.org> wrote:  Subject: 
> Texas City Trivia   This is a must read for 
> all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans 
> or wanna-be Texans,   JUST TEXAS   Pep , 
> Texas 79353   Smiley , Texas 78159   Paradise 
> , Texas 76073   Rainbow , Texas 76077   Sweet 
> Home , Texas 77987   Comfort , Texas 78013 
>   Friendship, Texas 76530   Love the Sun? 
>   Sun City , Texas 78628   Sunrise , Texas 
> 76661   Sunset, Texas 76270   Sundown, Texas 
> 79372   Sunray , Texas 79086   Sunny Side , 
> Texas 77423   Want something to eat?   Bacon 
> , Texas 76301   Noodle , Texas 79536 
>   Oatmeal , Texas 78605   Turkey , Texas 
> 79261   Trout , Texas 75789   Sugar Land , 
> Texas 77479   Salty, Texas 76567   Rice , 
> Texas 75155   Pearland , Texas 77581   Orange 
> , Texas 77630   And top it off with: 
>   Sweetwater , Texas 79556   Why travel to 
> other states? Texas has them all!   Detroit , 
> Texas 75436   Cleveland , Texas 75436 
>   Colorado City , Texas 79512   Denver City , 
> Texas 79323   Klondike , Texas 75448   Nevada 
> , Texas 75173   Memphis , Texas 79245   Miami 
> , Texas 79059   Boston , Texas 75570   Santa 
> Fe , Texas 77517   Tennessee Colony , Texas 
> 75861   Reno , Texas 75462   Pasadena , Texas 
> 77506   Columbus , Texas 78934   Feel like 
> traveling outside the country?   Athens , 
> Texas 75751   Canadian, Texas 79014   China , 
> Texas 77613   Egypt , Texas 77436   Ireland , 
> Texas 76538   Italy , Texas 76538   Turkey , 
> Texas 79261   London , Texas 76854   New 
> London , Texas 75682   Paris , Texas 75460 
>   Palestine , Texas 75801   No need to travel 
> to Washington D.C.   Whitehouse , Texas 75791 
>   We even have a city named after our planet! 
>   Earth , Texas 79031   We have a city named 
> after our state Texas City , Texas 77590 
>   Exhausted?   Energy , Texas 76452   Cold? 
>   Blanket , Texas 76432   Winters, Texas 
>   Like to read about History?   Santa Anna , 
> Texas   Goliad , Texas   Alamo , Texas   Gun 
> Barrel City , Texas   Robert Lee , Texas 
>   Need Office Supplies?   Staples, Texas 
> 78670   Want to go into outer space?   Venus 
> , Texas 76084   Mars , Texas 79062   You 
> guessed it.. It's on the state line.   Texline 
> , Texas 79087   For the kids...   Kermit , 
> Texas 79745   Elmo , Texas 75118   Nemo , 
> Texas 76070   Tarzan , Texas 79783   Winnie , 
> Texas 77665   Sylvester , Texas 79560   Other 
> city names in Texas , to make you smile........ 
> .   Frognot , Texas 75424   Bigfoot , Texas 
> 78005   Hogeye , Texas 75423   Cactus , Texas 
> 79013   Notrees , Texas 79759   Best, Texas 
> 76932   Veribest , Texas 76886   Kickapoo , 
> Texas 75763   Dime Box , Texas 77853   Old 
> Dime Box , Texas 77853   Telephone , Texas 
> 75488   Telegraph , Texas 76883   Whiteface , 
> Texas 79379   Twitty, Texas 79079   And our 
> favorites...   Cut n Shoot, Texas   Gun 
> Barrell City , Texas   Hoop And Holler, Texas 
>   Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,   Muleshoe 
> , Texas   Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to 
> say about folks from Texas ...   If someone in 
> a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they 
> don't work there, you may live in Texas ;   If 
> you've worn shorts and a parka at the same 
> time, you may live in Texas ;   If you've had 
> a lengthy telephone conversation with someone 
> who dialed a wrong number, you may live in 
> Texas ;   If 'Vacation' means going anywhere 
> south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live 
> in Texas ;   If you measure distance in hours, 
> you may live in Texas ;   If you know several 
> people who have hit a deer more than once, you 
> may live in Texas ;   If you install security 
> lights on your house and garage, but leave both 
> unlocked, you may live in Texas ;   If you 
> carry jumper cables in your car and your wife 
> knows how to use them, you may live in Texas 
>   If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph 
> --you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, 
> you may live in Texas ;   If you find 60 
> degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in 
> Texas ;   If you actually understand these 
> jokes, and share them with all your Texas 
> friends, you definitely live in Texas .. 
>   Here are some little known, very interesting 
> facts about Texas .   1. Beaumont to El Paso : 
> 742 miles   2... Beaumont to Chicago : 770 
> miles   3... El Paso is closer to California 
> than to Dallas   4... World's first rodeo was 
> in Pecos , July 4, 1883.   5. The Flagship 
> Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North 
> America built over water. Destroyed by 
> Hurricane Ike -2008! 6. The Heisman Trophy was 
> named after John William Heisman who was the 
> first full-time coach at Rice University in 
> Houston .   7. Brazoria County has more 
> species of birds than any other area in North 
> America   8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the 
> winter home of North America 's only remaining 
> flock of whooping cranes.   9. Jalapeno jelly 
> originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.   10. The 
> worst natural disaster in U.S.... history was 
> in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 
> 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island . 
>   11. The first word spoken from the moon, 
> July 20,1969, was " Houston ," but the space 
> center was actually in Clear Lake City at the 
> time.   12. King Ranch in South Texas is 
> larger than Rhode Island ..   13. Tropical 
> Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record 
> of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July 
> of 1979...   14. Texas is the only state to 
> enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the 
> Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas 
> to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. 
> This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same 
> height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 
> states.   15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is 
> estimated to be 1500 years old.   16. Caddo 
> Lake is the only natural lake in the state. 
>   17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. 
> There is no period in Dr Pepper..   18. Texas 
> has had six capital cities:   Washington -on- 
> the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston ,Velasco, 
> West Columbia and Austin ...   19. The Capitol 
> Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. 
> which is taller than the Capitol Building in 
> Washington DC (by 7 feet).   20. The San 
> Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing 
> monument in the world and it is taller than the 
> Washington monument.   21. The name ' Texas ' 
> comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' 
> meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas 
> ..   22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an 
> interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo 
> is they always have four babies. They have one 
> egg, which splits into four, and they either 
> have four males or four females.).   23. The 
> first domed stadium in the U.S. was the 
> Astrodome in Houston .   Cowboy's Ten 
> Commandments   (Posted on the wall at Cross 
> Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas)   1) Just 
> one God.   (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.   (3) No 
> telling tales or gossipin'.   (4) Git yourself 
> to Sunday meeting.   (5) Put nothin' before 
> God.   (6) No foolin' around with another 
> fellow's gal.   (7) No killin'.   (8) Watch 
> yer mouth.   (9) Don't take what ain't yers. 
>   (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's 
> stuff.   Y'all git all that? 
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