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mloamiller wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:55 am Not necessarily a joke, but something any Texan can say to anyone from any other state:
"Before your state was a state, it was just land. Before my state was a state, it was a country!"

Being raised in God's country (the Applalachian mountains of East Tennessee), my few years that I lived in Austin gave me lots of fodder. Those of y'all who've met me know I'm rarely without a University of Tennessee hat.

Wearing that hat around the Austin area always led to some interesting debates that started with, "No, this is the REAL UT", and oftentimes drifted toward, "Yeah, we were a school before you were a state." The conversation usually went into a flat spin right around there, and I'd be free to go on my merry way.

Yeah, I love Texas, but I still bleed Tennessee orange.

Whether poking a little fun at ourselves or (even better) makin' fun of folks who live the the other 49 'foreign' states, Texan jokes are always better.

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years. Days later, the New York Times reported the following
"Our New York ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago."

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, in California an archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read
"California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."
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One week later, The Houston Chronicle reported the following
"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas, Bubba Mitchell, a self-taught archaeologist and graduate of Texas A&M, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Texas had already gone wireless. "