clavus

I've visited the Lone Star state probably 10-15 times.

I've eaten Texas BBQ, been to the Alamo, amused pissed-off travelers at the George Bush Airport with What-do-you-expect-from-an-airport-named-after -George-Bush jokes, walked the River Walk, strolled the downtown Dallas thingee, and had my penis bitten by a stripper in Kilgore.

I've visited Texas.

DOG DOG DOG DOG! Nyeeh Nyeeh!

*Clavus sticks his tongue out and makes crotch grabbing motions*

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Seaver

haha... I've done all those but the penis bite... no wonder you hate the state lol

Jam

you also get like half of your power from canada

Aletheia

Uh where did you get this statistic at? We don't get alot of power from Canada when we need it, we get it from neighboring states.

Jam

you guys get power from bc... im not good at finding stuff but ill look.. maybe someone else from bc here can find it if i dont but in the mean while i will drink ... look.. and then sleep

Aletheia

There is no way we (California) get half our power from BC.

Aletheia

http://www.energy.ca.gov/html/energysources.html

There you go. The only thing we get from Canada on a large scale is natural gas and that is 27.6%.

Jam

http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/../pubs/exp/exp0105.pdf

this is one but that appears to be 2001..

powerex.. is a california energy trader or something which is a subsidary of BC Hydro which is BC


im too tired to hunt around anymore im sure someone else on this board from bc has more knowledge on this

Jam

oh yea im sure nothing else comes from canada... maybe you mean no other energy..

Aletheia

Well since we were talking about energy I thought you could find that out with out me having to spell it out for you.

Your infomation states that in 2000, 46% of BC exports on power were to California. However, it does not state how much of BC power makes up the total power used by California. Just because BC shipped 46% of its exported power to CA, doesn't mean that the power accounted for 46% of Californias total power needs.

rodb

Just a few random notes about Texas waterways. Texas has "Woman Hollering Creek" a poor translation from the Spanish name (but it's not like Texans should know basic Spanish). The Rio Grande is not as grande because of excess damming by Mexico. The Frio River is frio.

bparker805

Don't you guys have the largest border with Mexico? Have fun with the immigration w/o Federal Funding... You'll be begging to come back in a couple of years.

Blackthorn

Where do you get your machine tools to maintain those oil rigs? Where do you get your cars and big ass trucks that you like so much? :-) Your Texan economy is so deeply intertwined with the rest of the states that you will enjoy living on a very expensive island. But what the hell....I'm just another opportunitic yankee who would love to charge you $69 dollars for a hammer.

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Holo

I heard a comedian say this about Texas:

Dont' ask them to measure something because they do eveything in shitloads. "Careful with that toolbox it weighs a shitload!"*


*More funny in a Texan Accent.

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yournamehere

And a boatload is even bigger.

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matteo101

Cool stats all around. Texas should leave the states in my opinion. It would be exciting. You could try and be like Quebec, except actually do it.

hunnychile

....and as they say in Texas,
"I wuz fixing ta say thattsa Buttload of dukey, pard."
(The biggest of all 3 Texas measurements & size of Texas egos.)

Don't forget Dallas; Home of Dr. Pepper, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the "Original" Ninfarita. Dangerous territory there!


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LStanley

we'll just make it legal to shoot non-english speaking tresspassers on site regardless

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Jam

hahaha

-Ever-

Exactly my thoughts. Plus we have Arnie

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Seaver

Well, I've never paid $69 for a hammer. But I do know we never paid $2/gallon for gas like Chicago.

moonstrucksoul

TEXAS has these beauties. women of the big T

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dy156

You use more players from Texas than from any other state (including OK).

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Tough talk coming from someone in a state that used to be part of Texas until we sold the more worthless parts of it to the U.S.

I know a certain square-shaped state whose governor is from, guess where... Oh yeah, Texas.

Lebell

True, but leave it to Texans to sell off the good parts and keep the bad ones.

That is, the Texans that stay.

The smart ones leave for the good parts they sold off

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I am from Texas.

nosuchuserexist

'nuff said.

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jujueye

And not a god damned one would stand a chance if it weren't for Microsoft in Washington state.

Seaver

What do manufacturers of hardware have to do with a manufacturer of software? The only thing Microsoft helps them in is aiding in the majority of common hardware to produce, but if they werent there it'd just be some other company that molopolizes.

smooth

Doesn't that count for "alternative" fuel ?

Mephisto2

No it's not.

My "state" is the Republic of Ireland, and that beats the hell out of Texas!

Oh, and whilst living in Australia, my current state is New South Wales, which I also believe is better than Texas. I'm moving soon to Perth in Western Australia tough, so that's quite like Texas insofar as it's mostly desert.




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jujueye

Dell Computer wouldn't sell many computers without an OS pre-installed. 95% of all PCs are sold with Windows installed. Intel, Motorola, and AMD would not be as big as they are without PC buyers chasing the latest and greatest for their home machines. Did anybody even hear of AMD prior to a windowed operating system?

SmileyG3

Defense Industry (we have over 65% of it). The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.


These people are forced to live here.

viejo gringo

----and another little known fact about TEXAS---

we use less ground to bury our people....

we just give them an enema and bury them in a shoe box...

rockogre

Don't forget, Texas keeps the Southern Coast of Oklahoma from eroding into the Gulf.

Or as we like to call it, Baja Oklahoma.

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thejoker130

You can have texas i'll keep PA, you know the state where all the history is

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You can have your flat little state.
Me, I like the rocky mountains. Plus, have fun without NORAD.

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assilem

I would like for GW to be the president of California also. We need it bad in this state. Could we be the Republic of Texicali?

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goddfather40

WOW. I could not have lived my life without that vital fact.

By the way, California (35.5 million) was the nation’s most populous state in 2003, followed by Texas (22.1 million). If we had a big brawl say, in New Mexico, in which every resident of California and Texas were involved we have 13.4 million more people than you. By the way, no guns in the brawl, because Texas probably has more guns than us

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dy156

The good parts? Have you driven through eastern New Mexico or eastern Colorado lately? I guess the pronghorns are kinda cool, but...