'Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!'

[bobbieinok]

In a conference near the border between OK and TX, as part of his talk a speaker referred to Oklahoma as 'an outlying part of Texas. Someone near the back of the auditorium yelled out ' Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!'

I found this story in a Readers Digest when I was in junior high in OK in the 50s. The magazine had a feature every month called 'things people say', I think

[sarge43]

1. My favorite

Poor New Mexico: So far from heaven, so close to Texas.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. Which is, of course, a take-off on Mexican President Porfiro Diaz's remark

«Pobre de México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos» -- "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States".

[sarge43]

4. If you must steal, steal from the best. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

6. book rec: So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848

[Paladin]

2. "Baja Oklahoma"

I'm a loyal Texan, and I have no great love for Oklahoma, but that clever description has always tickled me.

[BaileyBill]

5. A Texas Aggie moved to Oklahoma...

and raised the IQ in both states.

[bobbieinok]

7. Went to college in TX in 57, shocked!! how much non-aggie guys hated aggie