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

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Saturday, October 6, 2001, 18:55
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. ============================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> "If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept, but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further, that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights, then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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