Texas doesn't make guns, it just shoots people with them ... but it does make its own potato guns and that makes this the natural choice for the Official State Weapon in Texas. (The Guardian: Texas plans to designate official state gun along with other weapons)
Birds roost on the rifle portion of a statue of Benjamin Milam, a leading figure in the Texas revolution. The cannon, which could become the official state gun, is meant to symbolize the state’s revolution. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP
I shouldn't think the photographer was slyly telling us guns are for the birds because that would be too much like he was editorializing and perish that thought.
The Texas state dish is chili, its tree is the pecan and its fish is the Guadalupe bass. And soon, Texas may have an explosive addition to its set of official symbols: plans are afoot for a state gun.
Though Texas lawmakers through the years have seen fit to designate dozens of symbols, including an official pollinator (the western honey bee), cooking implement (the cast-iron Dutch oven) and shell (the lightning whelk), they have not yet given the seal of approval to a weapon, despite the state’s famous fondness for arms.
But a resolution to make the cannon the official state gun passed through a senate committee hearing on Thursday, the first step to the plan becoming law.
- Guardian
See, in Texas 'cannon' is code for potato guns since they're illegal just about everywhere, even Texas.
There's a little agreement about Texas' right to claim the potato gun since we recall a potato gun contest in Tennessee in which the representation from Texas was taken to potato gun school. If any state can claim the potato gun, it seems it should be Tennessee.
Here's a kid who takes his potato gun seriously and see his attention to detail in the longer barrel for better accuracy and a large blast chamber delivering greater power to propel the spud. Here we see true potato gun professionalism and we conclude, therefore, he must be a Tennesseean.
Heya, Texas. Tennessee has the biggest one. Neener, neener.
Birds roost on the rifle portion of a statue of Benjamin Milam, a leading figure in the Texas revolution. The cannon, which could become the official state gun, is meant to symbolize the state’s revolution. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP
I shouldn't think the photographer was slyly telling us guns are for the birds because that would be too much like he was editorializing and perish that thought.
The Texas state dish is chili, its tree is the pecan and its fish is the Guadalupe bass. And soon, Texas may have an explosive addition to its set of official symbols: plans are afoot for a state gun.
Though Texas lawmakers through the years have seen fit to designate dozens of symbols, including an official pollinator (the western honey bee), cooking implement (the cast-iron Dutch oven) and shell (the lightning whelk), they have not yet given the seal of approval to a weapon, despite the state’s famous fondness for arms.
But a resolution to make the cannon the official state gun passed through a senate committee hearing on Thursday, the first step to the plan becoming law.
- Guardian
See, in Texas 'cannon' is code for potato guns since they're illegal just about everywhere, even Texas.
There's a little agreement about Texas' right to claim the potato gun since we recall a potato gun contest in Tennessee in which the representation from Texas was taken to potato gun school. If any state can claim the potato gun, it seems it should be Tennessee.
Here's a kid who takes his potato gun seriously and see his attention to detail in the longer barrel for better accuracy and a large blast chamber delivering greater power to propel the spud. Here we see true potato gun professionalism and we conclude, therefore, he must be a Tennesseean.
Heya, Texas. Tennessee has the biggest one. Neener, neener.
2 comments:
We still have the gun we made that day along with several others. We weren't satisfied until we made it to the horse pasture behind us. Since we easily sent potatoes that far will a the rubber slingshot.
And with an apple on a fishing pole cast that far also. But we pretended we were feeding the horses with those
That must have been one fine visit. The Texas Tallboy has been committed to She's Just My Girlfriend for, oh, at least three years now so he's going down any time. Get busy, young men. Start making babies to show your mothers.
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