Things to know about Texas:

Hope this hasnt been posted yet. But here goes anyhow


Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with all four feet in
the air.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a
few no one has ever seen before.

Raccoons will test your melon crop and let you know when they are
ripe.

If it grows, it will stick you. If it crawls, it will bite you!

Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.

There are valid reasons some people put razor wire around their
house.

A tractor is NOT an all terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.

The wind blows at 90 mph from Oct 2 till June 25, then it stops
totally until October 2.

Onced and twiced are words.

Coldbeer is one word.

People actually grow and eat okra.

Green grass DOES burn.

When you live in the country you don't have to buy a dog.
City people drop them off at your front gate in the middle of the night.

The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first
few weeks.

When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to
see a doctor.

"Fix-in-to" is one word.

A TANK is a dirt hole that holds water for irrigation, watering the
cows,or swimming.

There ain't no such thing as"lunch". There is only breakfast, dinner
and supper.

"Sweet ice tea" is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking
it when you are two.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

"Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning, "did you eat?"

You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time
it is.You work until you're done or it's too dark to see, or you don't
work.


You Know you are from Texas if:

1. You measure distance in minutes.

2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.

4. You see a car with the engine running in the Wal-mart parking lot
with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I am fixin' to go to the
store."(note: in the portion above "fix-in-to" is one word....)

6 All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit or a
vegetable.

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables for your own car.

9. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.

l0. You only have four spices in your kitchen: Salt, Pepper, Catsup,
and Tabasco.

11. You think everyone from north of Dallas has an accent.

12. You think sexy underwear is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.

13. The local paper covers national and international news on one
page but requires six pages to cover Friday night high school football.

14. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.


15. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

16. You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm.

17. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer
and Christmas.

18. You know whether another Texan is from East, West, North, or
South Texas as soon as he opens his mouth.

19 Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin
Wal-Martin" or "off to Wally-world".

20. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
chili weather.

21. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop.....It's a
Coke regardless of brand or flavor.

22. You understand these jokes. If you do, forward them to your
friends from Texas.

 

It's weird but over here in England that is the classic stereotype we have about Texans. Is there really an element of truth in there.

 

XFLAT!! I can stay in NY right? RIGHT! ?

 

im from texas................mmm. aloha

 

please list natural enemies of all 10,000 spiders so that I may breed swarms of them..

 

I like this spider wasp.. how dangerous are they?

 

We've got those here to. Haven't been bit yet, but brain goes into alert mode over spiders until it's identified as a non-combatant.

Baby girl was bitten here in Memphis a couple years ago while sleeping in her crib. Died from it. Brown recluse is a nocturnal "hunter", doesn't just sit on a web & wait for food to come to it.

Sleep tight boys & girls.

 

LMAO omg you guys are cracking me up....dont tell me the big mighty Kodo is afraid of a lil bitty spider

*looks nervously around room for spiders*

LOL

 

when the damn thing can rot your skin right off your bone and even your bones too, you're damn straight I'm afraid ... spiders and me don't mix well.. except when they are dead..

 

lol...

I know what cow-tipping is... does that make me Texan???

 

All spiders feed on insects or other arthropods
and are beneficial in the garden says some University in CA. I guess they are just lethal to humans..........One bit me once under the eye and it swoll shut, bad experience.....

 

Guess I'd better hide my transula then , who lives reclusively back in the back bedroom and never gets out of it's home least it would become dog or cat food around here.
Recluse's aren't aggressive to people, they will choose flight but in a tight will bite. Warm weather they run fast, cold weather their sluggish. I've pickled several in a jar for a college speech class topic so I got to learn a lot about them.
Every now & then I find them in the sink, boxes with papers and one on the top of the couch, but none survived the sighting. Steroids and antibiotics are the only thing that will stop the rotting skin, muslce and bone and if it gets in your blood stream the chances are slim. The main problem is realizing the pin prick you felt wasn't a flea, mesquito etc. if your awake.
They love to live in jeans, material or papers. Most cases I have heard where bit when sleeping, or from getting into clothing. I've never heard of one jumping on someone and biting though so far. They prefer to be darkness, but I've seen many in the day time and are reclusive.
Another great import we've have with fire ants, killer bees, and now deadly mosquitoes. hehe. I feel for you Kodo, since I have pictures showing the effects of one. I seen more black widows around here (outside) than I have recluses though. Grass spiders I catch and take back outside (one was eating one of the billion grasshoppers around here) but anything that can harm me or my animals meets their maker.

 

Couldn't find natural enemies of all 10,000, but still should do away with at least a few hundred.................

Scorpions eat spiders - if you are anti scorpion not a good idea

Spiders mostly eat off other spiders - find friendlies

A study of spiders shows female wolf spiders will eat strange-looking males that try to mate with them - dangerous dating, sex spider to find female

Frogs eat spiders - ribbit

Birds eat spiders - construct aviary

 

I'm a strange looking male. Maybe it's a good think I'm not out chasing females.

 

I know where the wind goes from June 25 to Oct 2. It comes here. Every afternoon. Not like those wimpy Santa Ana's either. Want to do something outside, do it before noon or after dark! One year I would like to see a 4th of July show where the fireworks don't end up in the neighbouring county.
Take 'em back. Please

 

Texas? Ah yes, that little state that fits into Western Australia about twenty times over.

Wanna have a real taste of bad ass insects, spiders, snakes; bad weather; long distances; country hicks, etc., etc.? Come on down!

...Best empty wilderness I've ever lived in!

 

If you are not a spider, and don't have a wife or other significant at home you are off the hitlist ..........good hunting

 

I'm not and I don't so I guess I am. Whew!

 

True that! God was in a BAD mood when he built Australia.

 

Hmm.. think I can make some money with a spider wasp farm?

 

That's ok. Here in Oregon, we don't tan we rust.
Last year 600 Oregonians fell off their bicycles in the rain…..and drowned

 

I think I'm becoming obsessed with Texas. Have been obessed before but that was with Graphics. Perhaps I'm in some kind of timewarp.. Found this and wondered if it is for real.......and why doesn't the butterfly have a date??



TEXAS is the only state that was a Republic before joining the Union. It is the second largest state in land mass and the third largest in population. It occupies approximately seven percent of the total land and water areas of the United States.. Now, that is a mighty big HUNK!!


STATE OF TEXAS SYMBOLS
State Tree - Pecan, adopted in 1919
State Flower - Bluebonnet, adopted in 1901
State Bird - Mockingbird, adopted in 1927
State Motto - Friendship, adopted in 1930
State Insect - Monarch Butterfly
State Stone - Petrified palmwood, adopted in 1969
State Gem - Texas blue topaz, adopted in 1969
State Grass - Sideoats grama, adopted in 1971
State Dish - Chili, adopted in 1977
State Fish - Guadalupe bass, adopted in 1989
State Folk Dance - Square dance, adopted in 1991
State Fruit - Texas red grapefruit, adopted in 1993
State Seashell - Lightning whelk, adopted in 1987
State Song - Texas, Our Texas, adopted in 1929
Unofficial State Song - They Eyes of Texas are Upon You".

 

coz it didnt get aked on one. ....monarch butterflys are also this island and/or states butterfly, but they call them kamahamaha butterflies. (after the first monarch)

 

spelt it wrong....kamehameha

 

im from Texas and you're definitely forgetting one!

...if you're from Texas you're either an Aggie or a longhorn, or the small percentage that is a red raider, Baylor bear, mustang, or horned frog.

me...im an aggie!!!whoop! whoop!
('the eyes of texas are upon you'
that is the song they sing so well
...sounds like hell!) its part of the Aggie war song

And it kind of goes along with the above, but college football is a much bigger deal than pro...but thats not to say that the Boys aren't the best.period. and thats the thing most all texans have in common, no matter if we are aggies or longhorns we can get over our differences and watch a Cowboy game together and go crazy, haha!

that goes to say....'in Texas, football is a religion'...a saying that i would say is true

 

Ah Texas, how I love it. Born Texas, raised Michigan.

 

God this is a old thread.

 

All my exes live in Texas.....

 

The yellow rose of Texas

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