Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 01:54:45PM +0200, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
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> > The thing with homework assignments is that there must always be
> > someone to check your homework. Do you have the answers to those
> > questions already?
>
> Of course.
>
> By the way, who the hell would want to live in Texas, anyway? :-)
Um, anyone who'd gone to the Hill Country and spent some time *there*?
Seriously, when I was at UT (University of Texas at Austin) and going
home to New Hampshire over Christmas and the summer, people would ask me
where I was going to college, and then later, when I was married and
went back to visit my mom, they'd ask me where I lived.
I'd get polite, vaguely blank looks from people who had never been to
Texas.
I'd get the "how can you stand Texas" from people who had lived for a
few months in the Houston area or West Texas.
I'd get the question, "Where in Texas" from some people, and when I
replied, "Austin", they'd light up and say, "Texas Hill Country!" like
it was the greatest place in the world. (And then I might be in for
5-10 minutes of having my ear talked off by someone who had spent some
time in this part of Texas and who wanted to reminsce about it to
someone who had a clue as to what they were talking about.)
Then there's the joke about how God created Texas. I don't think I
could do justice in the telling, and I'm not sure where I have it
archived, but I *might* be able to dig it up somewhere if there were
interest. (Or maybe someone else can post it.)
Julia
who has much more important things to do today than participate in a
mailing list, but this is a lot more *fun* than going through crap in
the garage
