tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post5607655653387150566..comments2024-02-17T12:34:01.400-08:00Comments on Illusion of Prosperity: "Everything Is Bigger in Texas"Stagflationary Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-1376396252425199412014-12-03T20:04:46.488-08:002014-12-03T20:04:46.488-08:00Luke The Debtor,
literally, they have drive-thru ...Luke The Debtor,<br /><br /><i>literally, they have drive-thru liquor stores</i><br /><br />Yikes!Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-19743149178780025082014-12-03T17:56:29.256-08:002014-12-03T17:56:29.256-08:00West Texas is dry (literally, they have dry counti...West Texas is dry (literally, they have dry counties). East Texas is wet (literally, they have drive-thru liquor stores). Dallas and Houston metropolitan areas both exceed 6 million people. When I moved to Houston in the early 1990s it was barely 2 million.Luke The Debtorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07527422933669490001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-53592046339319291492014-12-03T11:57:46.852-08:002014-12-03T11:57:46.852-08:00dearieme,
Hahaha! :)dearieme,<br /><br />Hahaha! :)Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-58149919846363497652014-12-03T05:41:03.475-08:002014-12-03T05:41:03.475-08:00A friend of mine from Queensland went to give a se...A friend of mine from Queensland went to give a seminar in a Texan university. He'd been told that it was the convention to begin by explaining something about where you are from. So he put up a transparency (remember them?) of a postcard. He said that if you imagine Queensland as the size of the card, Texas is the size of the stamp. deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-27929202623158797592014-12-02T11:41:55.278-08:002014-12-02T11:41:55.278-08:00Aztlan
Aztlán has been used as the name of specul...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztl%C3%A1n" rel="nofollow">Aztlan</a><br /><br /><i>Aztlán has been used as the name of <b>speculative fictional future</b> states that emerge in the southwest U.S. or Mexico after the central U.S. government suffers collapse or major setback...</i><br /><br />Speculative fictional future?<br /><br />Sounds a bit like option trading, lol. Sigh.Stagflationary Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568993350246477976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515247115132134144.post-32976893996117177692014-12-02T11:34:22.110-08:002014-12-02T11:34:22.110-08:00The US version of Canada v Quebec.
Seven words t...The US version of Canada v Quebec. <br /><br />Seven words there but I hope you can see the five thousand word expansion that doesn't need to be repeated from as long ago as the 19th Century. <br /><br />Feel free to extrapolate to Aztlan, the former US southwest states. Rob Dawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10042154106850545479noreply@blogger.com