Ha ha ha come on now dont mess with Texas

Ok, this stuff about Texas and New England....If you stretched out the land area on the hills and Mountains out flat, we might fill.....OK....about 1/2 of Texas..... My father in Colorado used to say that New Hampshire was about as big as the county I moved here from.

I got chewed on about not having my location on my profile a while back. I put it on and the Black helicpoters came snooping about.....

Serious though, it is kind of interesting to see how ideas, techniques and terminology differ between regions and countrys. I say this as a teacher, one who has lived all over the US and as one who also works in the shops.

Texas is the second largest state in the union. To be fair, Alaska should be split in half. Then Texas would be... third!

How can you shamelessly admit to being a teacher and spell "countrys" as you have?

It's obvious that the rot and complete disregard for standards has infiltrated all stratas of your society.

With different cultures we can enjoy the diversity of opinion but shoddiness is a poor reflection on yourselves.

um...stratas?

Strata is already plural.
Stratum is singular.

Stratas, would be a herd of Stratocasters?


Nice here, out near Muscle Shoals (AL, not AK), if anyone needs to readjust targeting for the next week or two.

Re the plurality of stratum, I suppose I have to accept your view on that.

It's the same with data. Yanks accept that that is the plural of datum also but I incorrectly think of both examples, data and strata as singular.

Hell when one corrects others one needs to wear asbestos underpants.

I thought he meant the -county- in Colorado. There are some very big counties in some states.

I spent a couple of years in Houston, late sixties.

It was only a decade since Alaska had been admitted to the Union an' them good ol' boys was still-a-smartin'.

I found a sure way to clear barstools, "hey, did ya' know that LBJ, (for our furrin' friends, the US president from Texas), wants to split Texas through the middle, making it the 5th largest state in the Union and call the upper part Baja Oklahoma?" I can still smell the tar and feathers.

Actually, I only tried that one on a few good Texan friends, I don't drink and I'm not nearly that brave.

Had a great time exploring a large region, as far as N'arlin's, (New Orleans to most) on my bike. Caution: them 'Cajuns an' a whole mess a' visitors gets crazy in February.

There's a fun game they use to play in Houston; Bridge Spinnin'. First good frost of winter ices up the hundreds (seems like) of bridges going over the bijous, Inner Loop and Outer Belt. The object of the game is to be the first on the bridge in the morning, so that when all the cars quit spinning, yours is in the middle. Paralyzed the city 'til the sun warmed it up. Has global warming ruined that game?

I'd probably better stay out of Texas for a while.... Bob

Splitting Texas does come up from time to time. That's one of the few remaining special rights that survived the War, granted by the original annexing agreement (Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States, March 1, 1845).

That document spells out the right to split into five states.

Ten senators, heh heh. The world would freak.

As a practical matter, they would be five very different states. I'm not convinced the region of the Davis Mountains is on the same planet as far east Texas. The odds of splitting are probably even less than the odds of a state income tax.

The right to secede altogether was pretty much wasted by the war, but the "biggie" was being able to keep ownership of public lands to the state, not Federal. That was a few hundred million acres, all other states would have lost that to the feds at annexation.


Finally got around to reading Shute's "A Town like Alice". Had some spare time, cool breeze coming in from the Tennessee river, and adequate cold brews...
I retract all mean things I've said about Queensland, if that very familiar kind of place described still remains.

As a completely neutral observation, Queensland's population is about the same as Harris county (holds Houston). Granted, it is one of the most crowded of the 254 counties.

I wouldn't be sure about population densities but Brisbane residents have recently been advised of >10% rate increases (land taxes on privately owned properties payable to the local authority) to the Council budget to help pay for the much overdue road infrastructure development.

There are a couple of those large (gynormous) underground borers drilling under the river and the inner suburbs to help alleviate traffic congestion and the Gateway Bridge (6 lane toll road) is being duplicated. It is basically a bypass of Brisbane on our major highway.

The traffic congestion is challenging the assertion that Brisbane is Australia's most livable city. The influx of southerners has created gridlock like never before. Why are southerners called Mexicans or wetbacks? Rhetorical question! I am often guilty of this uncharitable reference to our recent arrivals.

But if you don't have to travel in peak hours (which seems to have extended to 5 or 6 hours each day then life moves at a much more tolerable pace.

It's getting close to AUD2 per litre for diesel fuel nowadays. The AUD is very near to parity with the USD at the moment.

I rode across TX on a motorcycle 3 years ago, from El Paso to Galveston. That and a long weekend in Dallas are my only visits there so i'm sure not an expert on the state, but I'd have to say that's a mild understatement.

And I thought this was going to be a in-depth discussion about GD&T...

I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as quick as I could.
Les

G'day Damien & others,

Damien, you must be surprised at the economical postage rates from "Texas" to your place, especially if you use the following PostCode

LOCATION: TEXAS, NSW
POSTCODE: 4385

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