Dumb Bones Question

DBCrazy wrote:Wow. I was born in the Texas panhandle and have heard it all my life. I never knew that it was unknown in other parts of the country.

bugaboo628 wrote:I got curious and had to look it up; there is a Texas panhandle as well. Who knew?

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DBCrazy wrote:Wow. I was born in the Texas panhandle and have heard it all my life. I never knew that it was unknown in other parts of the country.

heirofloki wrote:I'm not from Texas. Never been there, in fact. Panhandle made sense to me... Maybe I was a Texan in another life?

I did not know that it also referred to Florida, though.

jjrobinson73 wrote:I live in San Antonio. Guess since I have lived in Texas all my life..I knew it was the TX panhandle. Of course the DPS gave it away. LOL!! However...just to point out...they never came to TX to film. There is no hills in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In San Antonio, yeah....DFW...no! LOL!! I had to shake my head. Maybe they ouht to scout out the terrain they are trying to say they are filming in.

Howdy to all the other Texan's out there....and the expat's!!!

Jenn

THX1138 wrote:

bugaboo628 wrote:I got curious and had to look it up; there is a Texas panhandle as well. Who knew?

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Um, all us Texans and Texan expatriates, plus the Texican wannabes in New Mexico, Loseranna, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Other than them folks, no one.

RM

And a few well-read souls in the North...though I may have passed through the Texas panhandle when I was but a wee lass of 4 or so.

I have to admit the Florida one is the 1st one I think of, but I did know there were 2--actually, what do they call that part of Oklahoma, you know, the long skinny piece?

dawnsfire wrote:

THX1138 wrote:

bugaboo628 wrote:I got curious and had to look it up; there is a Texas panhandle as well. Who knew?

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Um, all us Texans and Texan expatriates, plus the Texican wannabes in New Mexico, Loseranna, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Other than them folks, no one.

RM

And a few well-read souls in the North...though I may have passed through the Texas panhandle when I was but a wee lass of 4 or so.

I have to admit the Florida one is the 1st one I think of, but I did know there were 2--actually, what do they call that part of Oklahoma, you know, the long skinny piece?

DBCrazy wrote:Feels like ol' home week in this thread tonight! Cowboys, fellow Texans and Charley Pride.

Listening to that song reminded me of a bitter cold evening when I was a kid out at the stables, standing around a 50-gal fire barrel with half a dozen others trying to stay warm. One of the ladies showed up in a shimmery long gown and heels, all gussied up in make-up, pearls and a mink coat. After everybody put their eyeballs back in their sockets we asked where she was headed. She proudly announced that she was headed out to see Charley Pride. It was all hoops and hollers all 'round!

And Dawn, I've heard folks refer to that stickie outie Okie thingie as the panhandle too. I am partial to the Texas one though since it's the state that most closely resembles a frying pan IMO.

Rob, Houston ain't so bad, but everytime I hear The Yellow Rose of Texas I do feel special.

Hey Jenn, when was the last time you watched the bats head out??

THX1138 wrote:I'm gonna assume it's the panhandle too - but then you never quite know with Okies. They probably call it the sticking outtie thing.

And yes, of course my Queen the more erudite northerners such as yourself are assumed to know such things. We would have it no other way.

RM

I can't quite let you malign Oklahoma, my King--after all, one of my favorite authors lives outside Tulsa, and my 2x gr-grandfather founded a college that still exists in Muskogee! 'Course I can't speak for the rest of the state...

DBCrazy wrote:And Dawn, I've heard folks refer to that stickie outie Okie thingie as the panhandle too. I am partial to the Texas one though since it's the state that most closely resembles a frying pan IMO.

So there are three, then. It does occur to me the panhandle reference could be for OK, since the sheriffs were arguing over which state the body was in. But I think your personal bias is running away with you, since I would have to disagree about the shape of TX--I think OK looks more like a frying pan than TX! Fine, not a very big one, but still.

dawnsfire wrote:

THX1138 wrote:I'm gonna assume it's the panhandle too - but then you never quite know with Okies. They probably call it the sticking outtie thing.

And yes, of course my Queen the more erudite northerners such as yourself are assumed to know such things. We would have it no other way.

RM

I can't quite let you malign Oklahoma, my King--after all, one of my favorite authors lives outside Tulsa, and my 2x gr-grandfather founded a college that still exists in Muskogee! 'Course I can't speak for the rest of the state...

DBCrazy wrote:Ok, I'm used to staring at a frying pan from the top and not the side, I guess. I'll let you have that one if you like.

I forgot to mention above, Rob, your story sounds like some terribly hard work. It sounds like your mom did her part to keep you warmed up as best she could though. I, on the other hand, went riding all the time but it was mostly just for pleasure. I did have a cutting horse though and when it was time to change pastures she was always the star of the day. The fire barrel was everybody's favorite spot in the winter -- good times there!

(I just heard Eliot Spencer from Leverage (Christian Kane) tell a woman in the sting about his ranch in Texas!)

DripPan wrote:Vincent Nigel-Murray here with a little known fact:

There are four (4) states with panhandles: Florida, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. The two most noticeable are Florida and Oklahoma with the long slender look we expect from a pan handle.

Drippy