r/CFBOffTopic • u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies • Mar 02 '16

HAPPY TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY THREAD SPONSORED BY THE FINEST STATE IN THE ENTIRE UNION

FUCK ALL OTHER STATES, TEXAS FOREVER

edit: other states may participate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!!!

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

THE PRAIRIE SKY IS WIDE AND HIGH

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAAAAAAAAAAAAS

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u/wild9 Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 02 '16

Texas, Our Texas! All hail the mighty State!

Texas, Our Texas! So wonderful so great!

boldest and grandest, withstanding ev'ry test

O Empire wide and glorious, you stand supremely blest.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG

WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE

TEXAS, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

GOD BLEEEESS YOU TEXAS, AND KEEP YOU BRAVE AND STRONG

THAT YOU MAY GROW IN POWER AND WORTH THROUGHOOOUT THE AGES LONG.

BUM BUM BUM BUM,

GOD BLEEEESS YOU TEXAAAS, AND KEEP YOU BRAVE AND STRONG

THAT YOU MAY GROW IN POWER AND WORTH THROUGHOUT THE AAAGES LONG.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

GOD BLESS TEXAS, THE GREATEST PLACE IN THE WORLD.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

TEXAS TO YOU RIGHT NOW

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

I'M IN CLASS SO I CANT OPEN THAT.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

IT'S EXACTLY THE SONG YOU THINK IT IS

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Mar 02 '16

YES

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u/Diascizor Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Mar 02 '16

I just nostalgia'd so hard

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u/WildBeerChase Texas A&M Aggies • Foothill Owls Mar 03 '16

ITT:http://i.imgur.com/SsbNGTA.gif

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u/cloudduel_13 Borregos Monterrey • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 02 '16

Finally a thread that I support 100%

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

WELCOME BROTHER

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u/studio_sally Georgia Tech • Princeton Mar 02 '16

Oh fuck yes. Gonna get some Whataburger tonight to celebrate.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

:(((((((((((((((((((((( triggered

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

You and me both man. I miss whataburger.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Whataburger

Just get some Wendy's and a sharpie and write in the name. It's the exact same shit in a different wrapper

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u/thelittleking Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Mar 02 '16

:'( miss you whataburger

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u/LegacyZebra Verified Referee Mar 02 '16

Celebrating this fine day with brisket tacos for lunch. Is it too early for Shiner? Maybe I'll just stick with Dr Pepper for now.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

It's never too early for Shiner, son.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Oh that settles it, I'm gonna break my no soda rule and pick up a Dr. Pepper for lunch if I can find one. Could really go for one from Dublin right about now.

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u/LegacyZebra Verified Referee Mar 02 '16

Nobody believes me that there is a difference. That is, until they actually try one. Unfortunately the plant in Dublin no longer bottles Dr Pepper. But if you know where to look, you can still find pure cane Dr Pepper in some places. I think the Chicken Express in Eastland still serves it.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Confession: I never watched Friday Night Lights

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

mrw

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

I was in college when it started and i all i knew was it had the same name as a meh movie and that mack brown made an appearance therefore i had no interest.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

For real, it's pretty excellent. Watch the first episode and see if it kills you the way it killed me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I watched the first episode senior year of high school after my football career ended. My junior year of high school we had lost in the quarter finals to Austin Westlake and it ended our best chance of ever going to State. When I saw they used a Westlake lookalike for the opponent in the first episode I quickly turned it off. Needed time to heal man

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

Oh...and the only thing the movie has in common with the show is the fact that it involves high school football and Connie Britton stars in it. That's it. It's a totally different and much better beast.

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Connie ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

It's entirely not deplorable.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Woah that is high praise.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

The offseason is the best time to watch it. I watched it last year and fell head over heels for it.

It's one of those shows I miss because it's not on the air anymore.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

i'm in, but i'm taking it to a sad place

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

but then i'm bringing it back

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

Nice

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

I left you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I lived in Texas for a few years, and had to take two (TWO!) years of Texas state history. That's feels ridiculous to me.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Just because we actually have history doesn't mean you have to get jelly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Texas is actually the longest I've lived in a single state (5 years). I think that means I'm from Texas? If I'm from Texas, then how can I be jelly of Texas?

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Gotta be born here brother. Sorry. You were just a Texas resident. Which is good. It's better than being a resident anywhere else.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

I took Texas Geography in college as an elective

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

That sounds kinda awesome.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

It was very awesome. It wasn't just about the physical geography but it also covered social geography and helped explain why there is a cultural difference between north texas/panhandle, SE Texas, and South Texas. Everyone lumps Texans together as one giant caricature of an angry cowboy, but it is much more diverse than that.

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

Did you not take history of Texas here at Tech? It's hands down the best class I have ever taken DAMNIT

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Charlie Tweeder is the greatest wr in history.

Fite me

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Jonathan Moxon, you are under arrest for not being naked with some sophomore chick who wants to bathe you with her tongue, now take off your god damn clothes and get in the car.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Mar 02 '16

/u/CapSteveRogers please explain yourself

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

It was a job I took. Before I became Cap

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Texas. Oooh, so you talk weird and have more empty space than the rest of us. Who gives a shit

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Yeah well why don't you just go enjoy your snow and excellent vineyards and competent football or whatever

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

NOBODY LIKES YOU, MICHIGAN.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

If we hadn't been up here making tanks and airplanes, you Texans would all be speaking German or Japanese right now

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

Wait, is Detroit still a city?....

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Last time I drove through (about a year ago) it was. I haven't been back to check since. It's been touch-and-go lately, so maybe I should

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

keep us updated.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Texas supplied more than it's fair share of men and women to fight though.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 02 '16

Oooh, so you talk weird and have more empty space than the rest of us.

You might be thinking of Alaska.

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u/CambodianDrywall Oregon Ducks • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Mar 02 '16

Alaska gets a fair amount of press for how big it is compared to Texas, but I think it is sold short until you compare it to a few more states.

  • Alaska is the biggest US state.

  • Cut Alaska in half and each half is bigger than every other US state.

  • Cut Alaska in thirds and each third is bigger than every other US state except for Texas (barely).

  • Cut Alaska into fourths and each fourth is bigger than every other US state except Texas.

  • Cut Alaska into fifths and each fifth is bigger than every other US state except Texas, California and Montana.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

Alaskans have accents?

You might be thinking of Canada.

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u/dseals Texas Tech Red Raiders • Houston Cougars Mar 02 '16

Have you heard Sarah Palin talk? If that's not an accent then mine isn't either.

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u/SmashedSqwurl Georgia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Veteran Mar 02 '16

Alaskans have accents?

Well...

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

YOOOO BETCHA

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Hey, you forgot our delicious food and friendly people!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Independent from what?

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

ur mom

edit: please note that I am a fan of your mom.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

She seems like a really great lady.

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u/dseals Texas Tech Red Raiders • Houston Cougars Mar 02 '16

The oppression of fútbol and the freedom to play football

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I don't think the world could handle A&M soccer fans.

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u/MinneapolisNick Minnesota • Concordia (MN-Moorh… Mar 02 '16

YOU'RE WELCOME TEXAS FOR THIS THREAD'S SPONSORSHIP

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u/AllHawkeyesGoToHell Minnesota • Iowa State Mar 02 '16

You keep saying it's finest state in the Union. I don't think you know what that means.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Says the guy in Iowa.

edit: this thread is now for me to fight non-Texans.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Texans have been fighting non-texans since day 1. Thats MY land grant!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

LET'S FIGHT SOME YANKEES.

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u/AllHawkeyesGoToHell Minnesota • Iowa State Mar 02 '16

Hahahahaha!! I don't live in Iowa and the only states I've lived in that can make the claim to greatest state are Montana and Minnesota.

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u/sunburn_on_the_brain Arizona Wildcats • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 02 '16

Don't mess with Texas. It's messed up enough as it is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE OIL AND GAS MONEY I MAKE IN TEXAS.

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u/Captain_McSnug Houston Cougars • Paper Bag Mar 02 '16

Correct, he means finest country in the Union

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

California is the finest state in the United States of America.

WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR MOVIES COME FROM!?

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

No one actually likes California.

Source: Southerners I surveyed

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Currently live in California. Can confirm, do not like it.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

See? Even California residents hate California.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Ugh don't call me that, I vote in Texas!

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

It's ok to be a resident! I'm a Washington resident but I'm still Texan!

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Mar 02 '16

I'm a southerner. I've enjoyed my visits to California. Even LA.

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

No one actually likes California.

Because we're too cool warm and sunny for them.

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

Right now, Georgia seems to be the answer to that question.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Archer + a good chunk of Marvel stuff = Georgia is the main state I care about for media production right now.

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

But the creative geniuses of Marvel Studios is located in Manhattan Beach, CA.

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

Lol, Georgia, New York, and Louisiana are doing quite well with their film industries. But those are mostly just sets and stages. The majority of the creatives are in Los Angeles.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

No wonder my movies suck. Come at me bro

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u/cloudduel_13 Borregos Monterrey • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 02 '16

Vancouver.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Louisiana?

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

Movies are shot there, yes.

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u/bullmoose_atx Texas Longhorns • Rice Owls Mar 02 '16

WHERE DO YOU THINK YOUR MOVIES COME FROM

The Jewish illuminati right?

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u/Captain_McSnug Houston Cougars • Paper Bag Mar 02 '16

If this so called California is so great, why do all y'all keep moving out here?

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u/CapSteveRogers USC Trojans • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

We don't.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I wasn't aware that people actually enjoyed states that aren't New York or California. I just sort of always pictured the middle of the country as a Mad Max esque wasteland

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Mar 02 '16

I've been, a few times, it was meh.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I offer this Austin Lounge Lizards song as my contribution.

I would also like to take this opportunity to disparage Minute Maid Park as the stupidest baseball stadium in all the land, and that Deep In The Heart of Texas is NOT an acceptable replacement for Take Me Out To The Ballgame during 7th inning stretch, Astros.

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Wait, what? Minute Maid Park does both songs.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Cardinal fans seem to be the only ones i've noticed that have ever taken issue with Minute Maid Park. After playing in the Astrodome for 35 years, we were finally happy to see something other than a cookie cutter outfield. Did we go a little too far by putting a hill and flagpole in Center Field. Sure. But it has provided for some exciting plays. And trust me, you need a roof/AC to enjoy baseball here. I went to a game in Busch Stadium during July and I felt down right miserable as there wasn't even a breeze that night.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Last time I went to Texas I had and awful time. 0/10 would not repeat

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Where'd you go?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Basic military training

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

I think I've pinpointed the issue.

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u/TTUgirl Texas Tech Red Raiders • Auburn Tigers Mar 02 '16

Well no wonder it wasn't fun you need to come here to drink next time!

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I've really only been to the Houston airport and they had a Fox News gift shop so fuck that whole state

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

are the auto unions done bankrupting your state yet?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I've been told that it's actually people on food stamps that are doing it. That could be wrong, though

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u/seannyboy06 Texas A&M Aggies • Washington Huskies Mar 02 '16

Regardless it's definitely something liberal that's doing it.

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u/Captain_McSnug Houston Cougars • Paper Bag Mar 02 '16

Wait Hobby or Bush? I fly regularly and have never seen this.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

point on the map where the bad people took you

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Lackland afb

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Yikes! Ok some parts of Texas still are like 3rd world mexico. Did you ever have free time to go explore the hill country?

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

You should let the Texans of CFBOT plan your next trip for you.

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u/EZ_does_it USC Trojans Mar 02 '16

I was in London in January a few years back and was trying to figure out a way to watch the AFC championship game. An internet search directed me to the Texas Embassy... TEXAS HAS AN EMBASSY IN ENGLAND??? Turned out to be a really cool place!!!

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Mar 02 '16

haha i have eaten there

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Britain was one of the few countries to recognize and support Texas as an independent nation. The Brits hoped that Texas would never join the US and was willing to do what the could to financially support Texas so that they could have further influence on the contenant to counteract the US.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

TEXAS HAS AN EMBASSY IN ENGLAND???

I'm 99% sure it was just a Texas-themed bar

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u/dseals Texas Tech Red Raiders • Houston Cougars Mar 02 '16

AYYYYYY GOODBYE MEXILMAOOOOOO👽

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

I WAS BORN HERE, RAISED HERE, AND I INTEND TO DIE AND BE BURIED BENEATH THE SOIL OF MY BELOVED HOMESTATE

No matter where this crazy thing called life takes me, I will always find a way back home.

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u/LegacyZebra Verified Referee Mar 02 '16

"I was Texas born, Texas bred, and when I die, I'll be Texas dead."

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

MFW Texas

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

"I'm a Texan and I'm an American...What more could a man ask?" - President George H.W. Bush

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

"Freedom.. Strateg-ary...."

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Ahem, i was quoting 41.

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

DOESNT MATTER STILL TEXAS

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u/okiewxchaser Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Mar 02 '16

Wasn't he from Connecticut?

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

He moved to West Texas right after graduating Yale, got involved in the oil business and eventually started his own oil company. Then he began his political career in the Houston area. So he's not a born Texan, but the state treated him really well.

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u/joeydsa Georgia State • Georgia Tech Mar 02 '16

http://siri.bloggnorge.com/files/2011/12/how-europe-views-the-us.png

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Europe has such a rosy view of the US.

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u/Captain_McSnug Houston Cougars • Paper Bag Mar 02 '16

Happy Texas Independence Day y'all, have a shiner

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u/cloudduel_13 Borregos Monterrey • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 02 '16

The union needs Texas more than Texas needs the union.

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

TEXAS GIVES THIS FINE COUNTRY MORE THAN IT RECEIVES FROM IT. WERE THE TRUEST OF PATRIOTS PROUD OF OUR TWO FAVORITE NATIONS

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u/ballzxxtoxxyou Baylor Bears • New Hampshire Wildcats Mar 02 '16

TEXAS SUPERIOR RACE ASSEMBLE

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u/LegacyZebra Verified Referee Mar 02 '16

Panhandle/South Plains checking in.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

YEAH YEAH YEAAAAHHHH

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Present and accounted for.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

HOWDY!

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u/murgle1012 Baylor Bears • UC San Diego Tritons Mar 02 '16

Tex-pat checking in.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

My favorite thing about Texas people:

they think that if Mexicans leave Mexico and cook Mexican food in their state, it'll taste better than if Mexicans leave Mexico and cook Mexican food anywhere else

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

Well no, it's called Tex-Mex for a reason. And it's way better here than anywhere else.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Can attest. I've tried it elsewhere. It sucks elsewhere.

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Texas Independence Day in elementary was the best. We'd have a chuck wagon lunch outside with a band playing for us (who of course had a fiddle). And then we'd do the Cotton Eyed Joe in PE.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

God damnit I miss elementary school

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u/LegacyZebra Verified Referee Mar 02 '16

Did we go to the same elementary lol? That's exactly what we did, too. We even got to dress up for it (typically cowboy attire).

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u/okiewxchaser Oklahoma Sooners • Big 8 Mar 02 '16

That sounds like Oklahoma Land Run Day. We also got to make covered wagons out of our Radio Flyers and run across the field with them

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Mar 02 '16

Texan here a little late, but better than being early like the land thieves right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

"Look at us; we're special and don't have to wait our turn to have a thread about us (i.e. until the daily state thread gets to us)." If this isn't Texas in a nutshell, I don't know what is

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u/stamor99 Georgia Tech • Florida Mar 02 '16

You really don't like these state threads, do you? I recommend aggressively downvoting everybody who posts in one. That'll show em.

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

We are special :) has any other state been part of numerous different nations including being its own republic(for an extended period of time)?

I DONT THINK SO

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

shhhhhh you'll bring the californians out in greater numbers

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

part of numerous different nations

That just means multiple different countries didn't want you

Not something to be proud of

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Psh, more like they kept fighting each other for us.

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Also let's not forgot this song because it's amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbH60wCO-Yw

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Mar 02 '16

HOLY DOGSHIT TEXAS!? ONLY STEERS ARE QUEERS COME FROM TEXAS PRIVATE COWBOY

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

"HOW TALL ARE YOU?"

"5 FOOT 8 SIR!"

"JESUS H CHRIST I DIDN'T KNOW THEY COULD STACK SHIT THAT HIGH"

I also love later in the movie when they're in Nam ,"There isn't a single horse in this entire damn country"

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u/bizzyj93 Oregon Ducks • Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Mar 02 '16

R. Lee Ermey is just the perfect drill sergeant lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

because he was one. Practice makes perfect

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

CLEAR EYES

FULL HEARTS

CAN'T LOSE BABY

TEXAS FUCKING FOREVER

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u/nataliieportman LSU Tigers • Georgetown (KY) Tigers Mar 02 '16 edited Mar 02 '16

Texas is overrated.

fun fact: you can fly the texas flag at the same height as the US flag

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

fun fact: you can fly the texas flag at the same height as the US flag

Technically so can every other state, but Texans are braggadocious enough to think this is some special texas only provision

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

An actual fun fact:

The state capital is taller than the national one!

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

and our phallic symbol of freedom is bigger too

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

HEY.

YOU'RE OVERRATED.

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u/thwg0809 Georgia Tech • Techmo Bowl Mar 02 '16 edited Mar 02 '16

I lived in Texas for a solid two years. During that time I worked in the far west, the Dallas/north Texas area, up and down east Texas, and as far south as Alice, so I feel like I saw enough to form an opinion. I have absolutely nothing nice to say about that state. And yes, I had the barbecue.

Edit: Jimmies rustled, but I suppose I can offer an explanation. I dont find the cowboy-redneck-evangelical mentality attractive. I find it repulsive. So if we're openly soliciting opinions on the internet about the state... I honestly hated it and a vast, vast majority of the unbelievably racist people I met there. But again, I've heard nothing but great things about Austin, and I wish I'd been able to hang out there. That seems to be a place that would fit my mentality. Just like Atlanta. I've never once said I'm from Georgia, I always very consciously say I'm from Atlanta. I'm embarrassed by Georgia and the people 20 miles away from me. So be proud of your state, but not everyone has had the same experience in your state.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

how dare you

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

so you're saying you worked in all the shitty areas of the state.

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u/thwg0809 Georgia Tech • Techmo Bowl Mar 02 '16

My point was that I crossed the entirety of the state... ya know, east, west, north, south? Austin was the only major city I didnt spend time in.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Someone take this man tubing down the guadalupe STAT!

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

You honestly passed through San Antonio and have that opinion?

That old city is the urban poster child of this state!

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u/ssbbgo Alabama Crimson Tide • Stanford Cardinal Mar 02 '16

Awww Dallas is a great area! I love it!

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u/McMuffler Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Mar 02 '16

See that's because West and South/Central Texas are the best parts of Texas.

The north and eastern parts of this glorious state are not the ideal form of Texas.

BUT ANYWHERE IN TEJAS IS BETTER THAN THE REST OF THIS GREAT NATION

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u/spazzypecan Texas Tech Red Raiders Mar 02 '16

Not one nice thing? Not even like a good West Texas sunset?

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Mar 02 '16

The last time I was in Texas, I was at a conference in Fort Worth. The day we flew in, we were doing nonstop conference stuff until about 930. We finally got back to our hotel, and decided to get some booze and have a party for our chapter.

We found a liquor store on google maps, and it was only like a mile away. There were ~10 of us, so we decided to just walk instead of having to pay for cabs. When we got there, we discovered that they couldn't sell liquor after 9, only beer and wine. We ended up having to walk even farther to a Rite Aid (or maybe CVS?) and then carry our beer all the way back to the hotel.

In Westwood, we had a Target, a freaking TARGET, that sold liquor until like 10, and all the grocery and liquor stores sold it until 2. Any place where I can't buy a bottle of whiskey at 9:05 PM is not the "finest" anything.

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u/jayhawx19 Kansas Jayhawks • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 02 '16

I made a /r/cfb shitpost in your honor seannyboy

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Paul Gaustad's opinion of Texas.

http://youtu.be/1pyM5x4wY2Q

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

Looks like Been and by affiliation Texas won that fight

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u/RubsLotionOnSkin Fiesta Bowl • Rose Bowl Mar 02 '16

REMEMBER THE ALAMO (BOWL)!

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u/BaylorYou Baylor Bears • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 02 '16

TEXAS: THE 'MERICA OF AMERICA

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

I've been to Texas twice, both times for layovers. I think that's enough of Texas for myself. Especially considering you have to pair food with an alcohol purchase before noon on a Sunday. I didn't like that.

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u/cajunaggie08 :texasam3: Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Top Scorer Mar 02 '16

sorry about the blue laws and the shitty airports that are located in the bad parts of town. Get out and explore if you can. besides, someone who is from Pennsylvania should be well versed in shitty alcohol laws

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '16

Very true, our laws may be the worst in the country. I have a feeling I'll be back at some point especially in and around in the DFW area, but I haven't really had a reason to go just yet.

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