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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!'
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
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'Brother, nobody can outlie Texas!' (Original Post)
bobbieinok
Jun 2020
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Which is, of course, a take-off on Mexican President Porfiro Diaz's remark
Fortinbras Armstrong
Jun 2020
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sarge43
(28,941 posts)1. My favorite
Poor New Mexico: So far from heaven, so close to Texas.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)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
(28,941 posts)4. If you must steal, steal from the best. n/t
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)6. book rec: So Far from God: The U.S. War With Mexico, 1846-1848
Paladin
(28,262 posts)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
(171 posts)5. A Texas Aggie moved to Oklahoma...
and raised the IQ in both states.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)7. Went to college in TX in 57, shocked!! how much non-aggie guys hated aggie