We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning or afternoon from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
Whenever a list is made about anything related to the state of Texas, there are going to be dissenters. We took on the task of providing a short list of things you would know if you were from the Lone Star State. A few took offense. One decided to make a personal list.
Gaspar Ramsey wrote:
I know I’m a real Texan because:
1) I was born here.
2) I despise lists of things designed to tell me if I’m a Texan.
3) When I lived overseas, even Germans recognized my accent.
4) I only went to high school football games to make money off the pictures I took.
5) I know how to use a cast net for bait.
6) I can go to the grocery store to get Blue Bell ice cream without have to go to a hick town like Brenham.
7) I don’t wear cowboy boots because they hurt my feet and I don’t want to look like some hick from Brenham.
8) I can shoot the eyeball out of a carnival shooting gallery duck with a BB gun.
9) Many of my neighbors are Hispanic and I like them.
10) On “Go Texan” day I wear a nice pair of slacks, a collared t-shirt, and comfortable shoes just like every other day.
We bow to your superior list, good sir. Well done.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.
