In my mailbox, this morning, I found another Christmas card from my favorite Auntie A, who lives in Eastern Washington, near Othello, overlooking the Columbia River.
A blogging a couple days ago, titled My Aunt Told Me She Will Believe Corporations Are People When Texas Executes One I blogged about that day's Christmas card from my favorite Auntie A and how my Auntie mails me stuff she reads relating to Texas, often focusing on the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, a governor who regularly causes jaws to drop in other parts of the country.
Today's Christmas card from Auntie A included a strip from a Doonesbury comic. It has been years since I've regularly enjoyed Doonesbury. Is Gary Trudeau banned in Texas? I have no idea.
I think the characters in this particular Doonesbury comic strip are known as Duke and the son of Duke.
In the comic strip Dukes asks his son, "SO HOW DO WE MAKE THE CASE FOR TEXAS SECEDING?" To which Duke's son replies, "POP, CHECK OUT THE PETITION TEXT. IT'S FILLED WITH ERRORS IN SYNTAX, USAGE AND PUNCTUATION. YET OVER 120,000 TEXANS SIGNED IT.
To which Duke says, "WOW, THAT'S AMAZING." And then starts a sentence with, "SO LOSING TEXAS..." to have his son finish Duke's sentence with, "DRAMATICALLY IMPROVES THE GENE POOL! THAT'S OUR ANGLE!"
Well, the above, from Doonesbury just seems really rude to me. Losing Texas improves the American gene pool? Am I understanding correctly?
Regarding this Doonesbury comic strip my Aunt had this to say....
Thought you might enjoy this comic strip. If Texas does secede, will Perry be president?! 'Tis one of his ambitions. Will you need a passport to visit us? Will Texas oil need to be taxed by states?! Will you move back to God's country if Texas secedes?!
Well, I have to say, watching Top Chef Seattle has had me wanting to move back to God's country, regardless of the secession status of Texas.
This week's Top Chef Elimination Challenge, featuring Pacific Northwest berries, had me homesick. Every episode of Top Chef Seattle seems to feel the need to have Dungeness Crab, which also contributes to the homesick feeling. And then there is that God's country scenery. Has Top Chef ever filmed in such a scenic location before?
Durango Jones' maxim of Fort Worth Bad - Seattle Good has evolved into Texas Bad - Washington Good.
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Anonymous, if that really is your name, well, that was quick, I barely hit the publish button and you made a comment that really made no sense, at least how it relates to the post to which you were commenting. I wrote nothing about Fort Worth Bad, Seattle Good, or Texas Bad, Washington Good. All I did was mention missing a plethora of fresh berries and dungeness crab. Methinks this particular "yawn" goes both ways....
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