Fun Texas Stuff

JUST TEXAS Pep , Texas 79353  Smiley , Texas 78159  Paradise , Texas 76073  Rainbow , Texas 76077  Sweet Home , Texas 77987  Comfort , Texas 78013  Friendship, Texas 76530  Love the Sun?  Sun City , Texas 78628  Sunrise , Texas 76661  Sunset, Texas 76270  Sundown, Texas 79372  Sunray , Texas 79086  Sunny Side , Texas 77423  Want something to eat?  Bacon , Texas 76301  Noodle , Texas 79536  Oatmeal , Texas 78605  Turkey , Texas 79261  Trout , Texas 75789  Sugar Land , Texas 77479  Salty, Texas 76567  Rice , Texas 75155  Pearland , Texas 77581  Orange , Texas 77630  And top it off with:  Sweetwater , Texas 79556  Why travel to other cities?  Texas has them all!  Detroit , Texas 75436  Cleveland , Texas 75436  Colorado City , Texas 79512  Denver City , Texas 79323  Klondike , Texas 75448  Nevada , Texas 75173  Memphis , Texas 79245  Miami , Texas 79059  Boston , Texas 75570  Santa Fe , Texas 77517  Tennessee Colony , Texas 75861  Reno , Texas 75462  Pasadena , Texas 77506  Columbus , Texas 78934   Feel like traveling outside the country?  Athens , Texas 75751  Canadian, Texas 79014  China , Texas 77613  Egypt , Texas 77436  Ireland , Texas 76538  Italy , Texas 76538  Turkey , Texas 79261  London , Texas 76854  New London , Texas 75682  Paris , Texas 75460  Palestine , Texas 75801  No need to travel to Washington D.C.  Whitehouse , Texas 75791  We even have a city named after our planet!  Earth , Texas 79031   We have a city named after our state Texas City , Texas 77590  Exhausted?  Energy , Texas 76452  Cold?  Blanket , Texas 76432  Winters, Texas  Like to read about History?  Santa Anna , Texas  Goliad , Texas  Alamo , Texas  Gun Barrel City , Texas  Robert Lee , Texas  Need Office Supplies?  Staples, Texas 78670  Want to go into outer space?  Venus , Texas 76084  Mars , Texas 79062  You guessed it. It's on the state line.  Texline , Texas 79087  For the kids...  Kermit , Texas 79745  Elmo , Texas 75118  Nemo , Texas 76070  Tarzan , Texas 79783  Winnie , Texas 77665  Sylvester , Texas 79560   Twitty, Texas 79079   Other city names in Texas , to make you smile......  Frognot , Texas 75424  Bigfoot , Texas 78005  Hogeye , Texas 75423  Cactus , Texas 79013  Notrees , Texas 79759  Best, Texas 76932  Veribest , Texas 76886  Kickapoo , Texas 75763  Dime Box , Texas 77853  Old Dime Box , Texas 77853  Telephone , Texas 75488  Telegraph , Texas 76883  Whiteface , Texas 79379  And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City  Kilgore , Texas 75662  And our favorites...  Cut n Shoot, Texas  Gun Barrell City , Texas  Hoop And Holler, Texas  Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,  Muleshoe , Texas  Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas ...  If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas ;  If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas ;  If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas ;  If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas ;  If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas ;  If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas ;     If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas ;  If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas  If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas ;  If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas ;  If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas ..  Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas .  1. Beaumont to El Paso : 742 miles  2.. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles  3... El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas  4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , July 4, 1883.  5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike -2008! 6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .  7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America 8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.  9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.  10. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane, in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .  11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20,1969, was " Houston ," but the space center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.  12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island ..  13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43' in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979...  14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union ) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.  15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.  16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.  17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper..  18. Texas has had six capital cities:  Washington -on- the Brazos, Harrisburg , Galveston ,Velasco, West Columbia and Austin ..  19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the U.S. which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington DC (by 7 feet).  20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington monument.  21. The name ' Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas ..  22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo (an interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.).  23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .    Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :  (1) Just one God.  (2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.  (3) No telling tales or gossipin'.  (4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.  (5) Put nothin' before God.  (6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.  (7) No killin'.  (8) Watch yer mouth.  (9) Don't take what ain't yers.  (10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.  Y'all git all that?