Only In Texas

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by hawks-cry

My Gawd!!! I wuz bornd an' raized in Texas!!! An' I am mighty proud to tell ya,..I just had me a hissy-fit of laffin"...!!!!

Down south of Houston where I was born & raised we say it like this...

I was Texas born & Texas bred & when I die I'll be Texas dead.

[berkeley]

I tell my 16 yr old cousin, only two things come from Texas... He replies, which are you? "the steer, of course."

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Berkley

I tell my 16 yr old cousin, only two things come from Texas... He replies, which are you? "the steer, of course."

Yes... that little ditty has always been impressive. The fact that the people who hold this view of Texas can actually rhyme words together has been a point of awe for decades now.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Yes... that little ditty has always been impressive. The fact that the people who hold this view of Texas can actually rhyme words together has been a point of awe for decades now.

I hear the roots of it are somewhere in Alabama... they had a werd rhyming con test... called it a poem.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Berkley

I hear the roots of it are somewhere in Alabama... they had a werd rhyming con test... called it a poem.

Yeah... these rumors pass around from time to time about people from Alabama making rhymes.