Is everything big in Texas?

Question

What are some examples of the big things in Texas.

Answer 1

The only place in the world where they make Dr. Pepper according to the original formula is in Dublin, Texas. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper
Rodeo is the official state sport of Texas, though High School Football is more popular.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
The World’s largest parking lot is located at DFW Airport.
The world's largest oatmeal cake was baked and built in Bertram, Texas during Labor Day weekend 1991. The 33-layer cake stood more than 3 feet tall, weighed 333 pounds, and served 3,333 people.
Lubbock, Texas is the largest city in the United States that it dry.
The Amarillo airport has the 3rd largest runway in the world and is designated as an alternate landing site for the space shuttle.
The 1850 census recorded 213,000 people in Texas. In 1900, there were three million people, and by 1990, the population was more than 16 million. Today, approximately 18 million people live in Texas, only slightly outnumbering its 15 million cattle.
Texas has approximately 11,500 historical markers. Marker subjects include historic courthouses, frontier forts, Spanish missions and presidios, cemeteries, churches, individuals, historic homes and buildings and Texas independence battle sites. More than 700 local history museums, 40,000 recorded archeological sites and more than 2,000 sites in Texas are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
In Houston, Texas, beer many not be purchased after midnight on Sunday, but can be purchased anytime on Monday...which happens to begin right after midnight on Sunday! So it's illegal to buy it when its legal to buy it?
Texas has 254 counties. Rockwall County (147 square miles) is the smallest, and Brewster County (6,204 square miles) is the largest. Only one, Angelina County, is named for a woman.
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a motorcade through downtown Dallas. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was sworn in as president aboard the presidential airplane at Dallas' Love Field airport that same day.
Texas is the only state to have the flags of six different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States and the United States.
The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
Of the nation's ten largest cities, three are in Texas (Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio).
The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was "Houston".
Billy Bob’s Texas, in Ft Worth, is the world’s largest country-western honky-tonk and includes a 4800-square foot rodeo arena.
The Dallas/Fort Worth airport is larger than New York City’s Manhattan Island.
Texas has a total of 6,300 square miles of inland lakes and streams, second only to Alaska.
Texas has four national forests – Angelina, Davy Crockett, Sabine and Sam Houston; and two national parks – Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains.
Texas is as large as all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois combined.

Answer 2

If one could "flip" Texas, North to South, Amarillo would be in Mexico City.

If "flipped" South to North, Brownsville would be in Canada.

If "flipped" East to west, Port Arthur would be in the Pacific Ocean.

If flipped West to East, El Paso would be in the Atlantic Ocean.

East to West is 1,000 miles across.
A fair days drive.

Cowboys circulate myths about some "things", like the guys here
Belt buckles are biggggg here.

I'm a Texan.

Answer 3

Big Tex....he's always at the State Fair of Texas.
Big Hair
Big cities
Big Ranches
Big Cars
Big Bank accounts
Big appetites
Big Houses

Answer 4

I have live here for six months and haven't found anything.. Burgers are the same size than over the nation.. Same size cups at Wendys.. Big Traffic Jams.. Ohh I Know People with oversized egoes?

Answer 5

I have heard everything is big in Texas 2. Hopefully though that excudes the women.

Answer 6

Hahahahaha! Oh my! That is honestly hilarious! I like this one! Star for you!!!!! Two blondes are waiting at a bus stop. When a bus pulls up and opens the door, one of the blondes leans inside and asks the bus driver:''Will this bus take me to 5th Avenue?'' The bus driver shakes his head and says,''No, I'm sorry.'' At this the other blonde leans inside, smiles, and twitters: ''Will it take ME?'' What do you call it when a cat wins a dog show? A CAT-HAS-TROPHY!!!!! minister wound up the services one morning by saying, ''Next Sunday I am going to preach on the subject of liars. And in this connection, as a preparation for my discourse, I would like you all to read the seventeenth chapter of Mark''. On the following Sunday, the preacher rose to begin and said, ''Now, then, all of you who have done as I requested and read the seventeenth chapter of Mark, please raise your hands.'' Nearly every hand in the congregation went up. Then said the preacher, ''You are the people I want to talk to. There is no seventeenth chapter of Mark.'' Funny... So yeah, star for you!!!!!!

Answer 7

The whole dang thing is big! Ya should check out some of the big haired ladies, awesome!

Answer 8

do they have big things in texas?? ive never heard of the place!!

Answer 9

Chain Saw

Answer 10

yep.

it's just a gosh darn big state!

other stuff that's big....

the San Jacinto monument is taller than the Washington monument (and has a star on top) - just because Texans are obnoxious (hee hee) and wanted it to be slightly bigger!
for real.