The bashing Texas thread

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Coll2-8 said:
I don't know why, but the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear Texas is its flag. And then immediately the second is the Southfork Ranch. :cool: In my teenager years when I was watching a rerun of the show, I wanted to live there. :LOL: But when I found out that it looks completely different inside in real life, I was disappointed... :D
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They only used the house and swimming pool for external shots (including shots that were on the inside but where you could see the outside through doors or windows) - all of the other inside shots (most of them) were done on a hollywood sound stage.
 
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I knew a brother who lived in la Mesa Texas , and his name was.....Earl ! 😁 If u r reading this Earl , missing u ❤️ .
 
hornetguy said:
Yes...that shouldn't be a problem... I'm out of town this weekend, but I will soon..
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Wow, that would be great! Maybe even a short video clip with a 180° pan showing the surroundings... ;)

GaryA said:
They only used the house and swimming pool for external shots (including shots that were on the inside but where you could see the outside through doors or windows) - all of the other inside shots (most of them) were done on a hollywood sound stage.
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I know, and the crazy thing is that everything inside is much bigger than outside, and there probably wouldn't be enough space for all the rooms. :LOL:
 
Suze said:
I knew a brother who lived in la Mesa Texas , and his name was.....Earl ! 😁 If u r reading this Earl , missing u ❤️ .
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I grew up about 35-40 miles north of there...in Lubbock.
Fun fact...even though the name Lamesa is a Hispanic term, la mesa, meaning something like "the flat place" (very appropriate) everyone pronounces it "lah mee' sa"...all one word...
Texas is funny like that... the town Palestine is "pal es teen"
The town Mexia is "ma hay' ah" which is probably closer to the proper Hispanic pronounciation..
Just try to pronounce Gruene.... (it's 'green', like the crayola:LOL:)
 
hornetguy said:
I grew up about 35-40 miles north of there...in Lubbock.
Fun fact...even though the name Lamesa is a Hispanic term, la mesa, meaning something like "the flat place" (very appropriate) everyone pronounces it "lah mee' sa"...all one word...
Texas is funny like that... the town Palestine is "pal es teen"
The town Mexia is "ma hay' ah" which is probably closer to the proper Hispanic pronounciation..
Just try to pronounce Gruene.... (it's 'green', like the crayola:LOL:)
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We don’t have high mountains in Galveston either lol.
 
Once told an online pen pal (from the UK) "No, Texas is not all desert. We don't all wear cowboy boots and hats. We don't have oil wells in our back yards or ride horses everywhere we go."

He seemed fairly surprised at this. :D
 
Went to the range today.... I took a video, but it was too big a file to load. Here's a few pics of the Southfork Ranch, though. Ignore the ugly guy in the one pic....

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hornetguy said:
Went to the range today.... I took a video, but it was too big a file to load. Here's a few pics of the Southfork Ranch, though. Ignore the ugly guy in the one pic....

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Hey man, you're a hero! Thank you so much! Sure, there are tons of pictures of this ranch online, but a current photo taken especially for the forum here is something else entirely! Thank you so much for your efforts! :)

(Regarding the video, maybe you could make it accessible in a different way. Perhaps via this service, which doesn't even require registration.)

Thanks again and have a nice weekend! :cool:

PS: Looks like a nice car in the driveway.
 
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Coll2-8 said:
PS: Looks like a nice car in the driveway.
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That's the front of my Silverado... I needed a pickup, and couldn't afford both the Harley and the truck, so I traded in the bike about a year and a half ago... I still miss having it as my daily ride, but there are benefits to the truck. For one, the AC works a WHOLE lot better in it than the Harley...
 
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I thought a harley had built-in AC that could never go bad as long as the bike itself was functional...

But then I'm not a biker. Maybe it gets hot enough that even that much wind won't cut it.
 
Lynx said:
I thought a harley had built-in AC that could never go bad as long as the bike itself was functional...

But then I'm not a biker. Maybe it gets hot enough that even that much wind won't cut it.
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You think that because you’re not from 120 degrees Texas😂😂😂
 
Lynx said:
Maybe it gets hot enough that even that much wind won't cut it.
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Yep.... I rode back from Lubbock one day (340 miles).... it was 104 when I left... I thought it would cool down a bit when I got off the caprock, closer to DFW.... it dropped all the way to 103.... I felt like I had been in convection oven for 5 1/2 hours....

I also rode it to work one morning, thinking it was a little colder than normal.... found out it was 23 degrees..... the AC worked WAY too well that morning....
 
hornetguy said:
Yep.... I rode back from Lubbock one day (340 miles).... it was 104 when I left... I thought it would cool down a bit when I got off the caprock, closer to DFW.... it dropped all the way to 103.... I felt like I had been in convection oven for 5 1/2 hours....

I also rode it to work one morning, thinking it was a little colder than normal.... found out it was 23 degrees..... the AC worked WAY too well that morning....
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It’s not only in Texas. I was riding a bike through northern Finland once and it was so hot that I wished I was driving a car, the temperature according to the bike was 38 celsius (104F), and in that pine filled forest it was like a frying pan with a busload of steam to go..
 
Texasgal said:
It’s not only in Texas. I was riding a bike through northern Finland once and it was so hot that I wished I was driving a car, the temperature according to the bike was 38 celsius (104F), and in that pine filled forest it was like a frying pan with a busload of steam to go..
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I didn't know Finland got that hot.... I always pictured it as a cold, snowy kind of place...
 
hornetguy said:
I didn't know Finland got that hot.... I always pictured it as a cold, snowy kind of place...
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Apparently not in mid July lol.

And if I made a stop it wasn’t the skeeters that were the problem, no Sir, that was some nasty bugs that only got airborne above 90F. Made the skeeters come across as Good Samaritans.
 
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