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A modest proposal

June, 9, 2007 · 4 Comments

I can’t take credit for this, but someone at the Railroad Blues (World Famous Tourist Trap and local ice house) Friday seminar of the Society for the Betterment of Alpine Texas in Particular and Humanity in General, came up with a much better placement for THE GREAT WALL…It won’t interfere with the water flow from the Rio Grande, it gives plenty of work to Halliburton and Boeing, and it’ll keep the “browns” out of Farmers’ Branch and Crawford… better yet, it’ll keep the yahoos out of Corpus Christi and Alpine and Brownsville and San Antonio and other civilized places

Categories: Border Issues · Humor · Texas

4 responses so far ↓

tizoc // June, 9, 2007 at 8:38 am

but the Houston is already infected unless the browns can be deported south of the wall
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez // June, 9, 2007 at 2:39 pm

jeje. i’m not sure the idea will fly. for some reason.
richmx2 // June, 10, 2007 at 7:05 am

Much as I like Houston (I’d lived in the Heights for a few years), down here we think of the place full of Yanquis. The attitude here is “Come, visit, spend your money… but don’t tell us how to live our lives.”
el_longhorn // June, 11, 2007 at 10:03 pm

Can we annex Austin, too?

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