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More Texas Trivia If you are a terrorist planning on trying to bomb us Texans again (an attempt was made in Dallas but the good guys got the bad guys first), you might want to learn something about us Texans. There is no intention of stereotyping any faith, only those who are stupid enough and don't understand "Don't Mess with Texas!"
Everything is bigger and better in TEXAS. :)
Need to be cheered up?
Happy, Texas 79042 Pep, Texas 79353 Smiley, Texas 78159 Paradise, Texas 76073 Rainbow, Texas 76077 Sweet Home, Texas 77987 Comfort, Texas 78013 Friendship, Texas 76530 Blessing, Texas 77419
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 And top it off with: Sweetwater, Texas 79556 Need some socks?
Argyle, Texas 76226
Why travel to other States? Texas has them all! Atlanta, Texas 75515 Detroit, 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 Pittsburg, Texas 75686 Little New York, Texas 75770
San Diego, Texas 78384
Los Angeles, Texas 78014
Feel like traveling outside the country? Don't bother buying a plane ticket! Athens, Texas 75751 Canadian, Texas 79014 China, Texas 77613 Egypt, Texas 77436 Ireland, Texas 76538
Turkey, Texas 79261 London, Texas 76854 New London, Texas 75682 Paris, Texas 75460 Moscow, Texas 75960
No need to travel to Washington D.C. Whitehouse, Texas 75791 We even have a city named after our planet! Earth, Texas 79031 And a few cities named after our State! Texas City, Texas 77590 Lone Star, Texas 75668 Exhausted? Energy, Texas 76452 Cold? Blanket, Texas 76432
Need Office Supplies? Staples, Texas 78670 Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, Texas 76084
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 (from a retired DPS Trooper) 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 Nickel, Texas 78629
Dime Box, Texas 77853
Old Dime Box, Texas 77853
Telephone, Texas 75488
Telegraph, Texas 76883 Whiteface, Texas 79379 Twitty, Texas 79079 And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City Kilgore, Texas 75662 And our favorites... Cut 'n Shoot, Texas 77303 Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147 Hoop And Holler, Texas 77369 Muleshoe , Texas 79347 From Mark in San Angelo, Texas.... Cash
Chocolate Bayou
Dripping Springs
Energy
Humble
Lawn Lovelady
RingGold
Study Butte Sugar Land
Trophy Club
Twitty Uncertain
Waxahatchie
Thanks to Ray:
Wink 79789 - home of Roy Orbison
Some of the strangest names of Texas cities and towns:
Looneyville
Lollipop
Mutt and Jeff (not even on the Texas map) Ben Hur
Weeping Mary
ShorTall
Ding Dong - supposedly named because of two early settlers in the town, Zulis Bell and Bert Bell, who opened a store and hired an artist, Cohn Hoover, to make a sign for it. The Bells instructed the sign painter to make a sign with two bells on it; inside the bells would be their names and the words “Ding Dong” would be coming out of the bell. Over time a community grew around the store, and it took on the name of the words coming out of the bell: Ding Dong.
If you have some history on how these wonderful Texas towns got their names, let us know...we love to share this kind of history with our Texas friends all over the world. If we missed anyone, let us know....
And if you want to know what we love about Texas, check out this YouTube site...that's Gary P. Nunn singing "You Ask Me What I Love About Texas..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGukLuXzH1E Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas... If you measure distance in hours, 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 you find 60 degrees "a little chilly," you may live in Texas;  The following is compliments of our friend, Jutta Matalka, with the Amarillo CVB. You'll never find a prouder Texan (or a better friend) anywhere in our state!
Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .
1. Orange to El Paso: 863 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. 6. The Heisman Trophy ws 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." 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 name "Texas" comes from the Hasini Indian word "tejas" meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas. 21. 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. Well, Jutta thought it was interesting anyway...lol). 22. 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 Now that's kinda plain an' simple don't ya think? Linda and Jutta in Nashville
p.s. - if you have some "Texas Trivia" (not that there's anything trivial about the Great State of Texas), let us know...we'd be delighted to include it. We have customers from around the world who are Texans - or Texans at heart - and they love reading this section of our website.
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