Comments on: It Figures…

By: Ron Burkey

Ron Burkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:12:05 +0000

In Dallas, it seems as though about half the population is out-of-state or international, and when I first came here I certainly encountered plenty of folks who seemed to hate it. Californians who wanted nothing other than to return to California; Ohioans who thought (and said) that it was Hellish; for a couple of years I worked for a Nobel Prize winner who shall remain nameless — you wouldn’t have heard of him anyway — who came here from New York and bitched that Dallas was soulless. But it’s been quite a while since I met anybody like that. They also say that Dallas isn’t the “real Texas”, so it’s hard for me to judge.

I *will* say that visiting Southfork Ranch is no great thrill.

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:23:45 +0000

I used to *hate* Texas… absolutely hate it, but then it started to swallow up my friends and I had to be okay with it after awhile because I figured my peeps were quickly becoming the population and perhaps one day I’d visit there… That and the pics and experiences seemed pretty cool.

By: Ron Burkey

Ron Burkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:12:50 +0000

Yes … and then laughed. (Damn this literal brain of mine!)

Joking aside, Dallas is actually a very polite place, and rude people tend to be non-natives such as myself.

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:58:19 +0000

Umm… did I not write, “You don’t mess with Texas”?

By: Ron Burkey

Ron Burkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:51:50 +0000

You may laugh … but when you tend to yap in a clearly audible voice the way I do every time some random thought enters my pretty little head, the question of who could be listening is something you start to worry about after a while. They don’t have gun racks in those pickup trucks for nothing, you know!

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:44:33 +0000

Yeah- you don’t mess with Texas… lol

By: Ron Burkey

Ron Burkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:38:59 +0000

Anyone who didn’t think that joke was funny doesn’t deserve to have their feelings spared! On the other hand, if I was born in the south rather than having come to Texas as an adult I might feel a little different about it. I’d ask my friends about it, but I’m afraid to.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:58:09 +0000

Texas is and always will be badass. Not the same as, say Alabammy…

By: Dawn Masuoka

Dawn Masuoka — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:35:11 +0000

Too funny!*

*please note, when poking fun of Southerners, we are not referring to our friends in Texas lol I think I actually know more people in Texas and both the Carolinas now, but I can still make fun of the Carolina people because all my friends over there are transplants.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:17:00 +0000

“Aunt Pam” beat me to it (milk).

Southerner joke:

Q: Why are there so many unsolved murders in the South?

A: Because there *are* no dental records and all the DNA is the same!