Re: CHAT: Texas weirdness [was Re: CHAT: Californian secessionists] [was Re: Liking G

Quoting D Tse <exponent@...>:

> << I thought the words 'Texan' and 'weird' were pretty much
> interchangeable?
>
> From our stereotypical, "forn" point of view, aren't "big"
> and "Texas" interchangeable? :P
There is some truth to this.  When I meet new people and we
start talking about where we come from, it's fun to mention
facts like "Big Bend state park is bigger than Belgium". Also,
land values really are cheap: a couple years ago, a German
aristocrat sold all his land in Germany and bought a massive
amount of land in Texas.  Don't remember how big, exactly,
but it was hundreds of square miles.

The bigness can be exaggerated, though.  It's nothing like
the vast stretches of land in, say, Australia.

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but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
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to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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