Hey Mary, Never underestimate the toughness and grit of New York Ballerinas.
> > > [Mary Replies] > I did. The one reviewed wasn't an archetypal "Texas hard-ass woman" > though. > She was a Methodist, which is akin to a flaming bleeding-heart liberal in > this state - and a "New York City ballet dancer" to boot? What's up with > that? She's a real softie. Went off to "find herself" right? No > self-respecting nails for breakfast, tacks for lunch, black-Irish immigrant > Southern Baptist Texas woman would need to "find herself". She'd kick butt > until somebody brought it to her with a bow on top, then she'd put that bow > in her great big hair and sit in the pew in front of you at church so you > couldn't see anything. > Yeah, I've met representations of that particular population. That's the Scotch-Irish migrant on the march west, in various times and circumstance. I think what happened with the ones that went to Texas was, the weaker strains got killed off rapidly and the strong survived and evolved into a capitalistic culture that gave us the Bush family and their ilk to deal with. Whee. > > The anti-litter campaign here is "Don't mess with Texas". I want a bumper > sticker. It would say. "Don't mess with Texas, you might confuse them". > > :-) Ever since those guys bought all our (Californians) electricity and manipulated FERC and the wars and the oil... well, I got a healthy respect now which keeps my six-shooter loose in the holster when I detect that drawl. I should probably move there, just to improve certain lazy aspects of my character but I'm not that motivated I guess. Take Care, John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
