Texas ignorance (Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Henrietta: home, neighborhood, living)

[nativeDallasite]

Originally Posted by lisak64

I don't think there's anything wrong with cowboy types. I will say, I went to Dallas 1 year ago for business and we had an event at some famous roadhouse kind of place (it was HUGE) in Fort Worth and I saw LOTS of cowboys hats, boots, two-stepping, etc. I found it very novel. Never seen anything like that in my life.

That's Fort Worth, though. Fort Worth and Dallas are 30-40 miles apart and are not the same city.

[Mom2Feebs]

What I hate is when anyone from a national news agency decides, out of everyone in the state of Texas, to pluck a toothless, shirtless (oh, but you know he's wearing a hat) 70-year old drunk from along the banks of the Trinity River to comment on FEMA issues and the devastating effects of whatever natural disaster blew his trailer off its blocks. Hoo boy. LOL!

[The Man in SATX]

What is wrong with being a cowboy in the state of Texas? There are cowboy types all over the states. There isnt anything wrong ... At least they dress appropriate and its better then wearing pants below your knees that are 40x too big and showing your underwear...

[car957]

Amen SATX. I don't even know why we are dicussing this. I really don't give a tinkers darn about how people perceive me based on the fact I wear a cowboy hat and have Justin Ropers on my feet.

[nativeDallasite]

I get sick of people thinking that people in Dallas are like the characters on the TV show...ranchers, oil tycoons, and rich women with nothing better to do than have big hair and go shopping.

[lilypad]

Is Joe Brown still on the Ag show there in WF, txswizzler? I used to live there, met him once at a U-Pick farm, picking peaches. Funny guy! I love the Texas stereotype of cowboys, ranches, BBQs and rodeos. Is a wonderful laid back lifestyle, friendly people who will do anything for you. Especially for a "little lady" all on her own.

[DustyRoses]

We have plenty of ranchers, both the incredibly wealthy kind and the old weatherbeaten kind, out in West Texas. We also have some of the redneck types out this way, but not many. I saw a lot more of the "redneck" kind in both New Mexico and Arizona when I lived there.

[traveler guy]

Originally Posted by The Man in SATX

What is wrong with being a cowboy in the state of Texas? There are cowboy types all over the states. There isnt anything wrong ... At least they dress appropriate and its better then wearing pants below your knees that are 40x too big and showing your underwear...

exactly my point they don't put that stuff in New York or California even though there are cowboys there to but they say everybody in Texas is a cowboy. You may like that SATX but what if the said everybody from Texas wears pants below the waist 40x your own size. I don't have a problem with cowboys but i'm not a cowboy. I wouldn't care if they said there are cowboys in Texas cause there are but they say it like everybody is a cowboy. I've seen more cowboys in California then in Texas to be honest.

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

LOL!!! Depends on how one feels about the term "redneck.."

As a lifelong West Texan, cowboy is fine....redneck still has a very negative connotation to me, but that's just me, I guess...

No, it's not just you, I feel exactly the same way. My old boss grew up in Bosque county and he was constantly calling himself a redneck. It didn't bother me what he called himself until he'd call me a redneck! I told him I was NOT a redneck. His response? Sure you are, you grew up in the country too, just like me. Trying to explain to him the difference between growing up and living in the country and being a redneck was totally impossible. That's because he really was a 'redneck'.

Calling sombody a cowboy or cowgirl because of their dress is just as deceiving. The honkeyhonks are full of people dressed to the hilt in cowboy garb and the closest some of them have ever come to a cow is when they eating a steak or hamburger or drinking a glass of milk. We go over to the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth and almost everyone is dressed in western gear. Now there's a lot of cowboys and cowgirls over there, that's for sure, but there's also a bunch of drugstore cowboys and cowgirls. I use to dress up in western wear, but now I usually just mosey on over in a teeshirt, jeans and tennis shoes. I have horses and cattle and tend to them on a daily basis. I've broke and trained horses, been throwed more times than I care to recall. I've had cows sling sh*t on me, blood spurted all over me, been stepped on, charged at, been mired down in crap around a hay ring when the temperature was in the twenties, wind howling and feeling like a frozen icicle. Yet, my daughter and I will be back at the stock show this year walking amongst the cowboys and cowgirls. You'll be able to pick us out, we'll be wearing teeshirts and tennis shoes.

[txsizzler]

Originally Posted by lilypad

Is Joe Brown still on the Ag show there in WF, txswizzler? I used to live there, met him once at a U-Pick farm, picking peaches. Funny guy! I love the Texas stereotype of cowboys, ranches, BBQs and rodeos. Is a wonderful laid back lifestyle, friendly people who will do anything for you. Especially for a "little lady" all on her own.

lol... "txswizzler" ??

Anyhow, Yes, Joe Brown still does the morning AG report, and let me tell you... he is getting ancient! He is on KFDX 3. He also has a small column in the Times Record News, with his little witticism on the front page. I personally have met him a couple of times, and he is a neat guy... always full of unique stories!