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LostSoul3412
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Only two things come from Texas... |
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Lumina
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, I'll bite: In your opinion, what two things come from Texas? |
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Enoch
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Lumina wrote: Okay, I'll bite: In your opinion, what two things come from Texas? It's an old joke. "Only two things come from Texas; steers and queers. You don't look like a steer to me." |
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LostSoul3412
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Lumina wrote: Okay, I'll bite: In your opinion, what two things come from Texas?
Watch Full Metal Jacket, great movie.
"Only two things come from Texas, steers and queers, and you don't have horns!" |
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cap'n queasy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Lumina wrote: CCD wrote: Yeah, the ignorance in this thread is embarrassing. You are clearly using stereotypes and don't know the first thing about Texas.
CCD, let's just saddle up our ponies and ride off to check on our oil wells.
Watch out for them thar tumble weeds. :lol: |
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ToonArmyIsComing
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| I read somewhere that bestiality is allowed under Texas law while sodomy was banned [at least prior to the Supreme Court's involvement]. It seems like Texas is not big on animal rights, but is quite concerned about homosexual behaviour. |
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Lumina
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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ToonArmyIsComing wrote: I read somewhere that bestiality is allowed under Texas law while sodomy was banned [at least prior to the Supreme Court's involvement]. It seems like Texas is not big on animal rights, but is quite concerned about homosexual behaviour.
If you mean the PETA interpretation of animal rights, you're correct. |
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No2wookie
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| On paper, Texas is ultra-conservative. In reality, that's not how things work. |
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StrangerWitCandy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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No2wookie wrote: On paper, Texas is ultra-conservative. In reality, that's not how things work.
unfortunately laws are written on paper |
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Lumina
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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StrangerWitCandy wrote: No2wookie wrote: On paper, Texas is ultra-conservative. In reality, that's not how things work.
unfortunately laws are written on paper
Luckily, there's quite a bit of difference between theory and practice. :wink: |
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Snake
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| ToonArmyIsComing wrote: I read somewhere that bestiality is allowed under Texas law while sodomy was banned [at least prior to the Supreme Court's involvement]. It seems like Texas is not big on animal rights, but is quite concerned about homosexual behaviour. Your ignorance is blatant. |
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ToonArmyIsComing
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Kamel wrote: ToonArmyIsComing wrote: I read somewhere that bestiality is allowed under Texas law while sodomy was banned [at least prior to the Supreme Court's involvement]. It seems like Texas is not big on animal rights, but is quite concerned about homosexual behaviour.
Your ignorance is blatant.
So, please enlighten me. |
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cap'n queasy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Quote: CHAPTER 43. PUBLIC INDECENCY
SUBCHAPTER B. OBSCENITY
� 43.21. Definitions
(a) In this subchapter:
(1) "Obscene" means material or a performance that:
(A) the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest in sex;
(B) depicts or describes:
(i) patently offensive representations or descriptions of ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse, sodomy, and sexual bestiality; or
(ii) patently offensive representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, sadism, masochism, lewd exhibition of the genitals, the male or female genitals in a
Blah blah blah
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/texas/?fulltext=938 |
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Snake
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| ToonArmyIsComing wrote: So, please enlighten me. You make Texas out to be the home of anti-homosexual rights, when in fact, there are many homosexuals who are openly accepted. If you want gay rights in America, the best thing ignorant children like you can do is either get over your persecution complex, or just shut up so there can be an actual rational debate that doesn't involve one stereotype after another. |
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Lumina
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ToonArmyIsComing wrote: So, please enlighten me.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20030708.html
Resisting the temptation to stereotype is important, I think. Texas is a very large state with a breadth of diverse ideas. |
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ToonArmyIsComing
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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Lumina wrote: ToonArmyIsComing wrote: So, please enlighten me.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20030708.html
Resisting the temptation to stereotype is important, I think. Texas is a very large state with a breadth of diverse ideas.
I agree and I apologize if you found any of my statements about Texas offensive. |
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Lumina
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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ToonArmyIsComing wrote: Lumina wrote: ToonArmyIsComing wrote: So, please enlighten me.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20030708.html
Resisting the temptation to stereotype is important, I think. Texas is a very large state with a breadth of diverse ideas.
I agree and I apologize if you found any of my statements about Texas offensive.
Very gracious of you, Toon. |
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