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The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:08 pm
by 308Mike
Miss Sally Edwards is a highly esteemed third grade teacher at Jacksboro Elementary. In an effort to prepare her students for the all-important TAKS test, she compiled an exam consisting of 20 questions, which she administered to her class last Tuesday. The exam purposely covered a broad array of topics.
I call your attention to question # 11, which simply read:
LIST, IN ANY ORDER, THE FOUR SEASONS: 1. ________ 2. ________ 3.________ 4.________
Now, could you possibly imagine that 67% of the students gave the following answer?
1. DOVE SEASON 2. DEER SEASON 3. DUCK SEASON 4. TURKEY SEASON
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:43 am
by Captain Wheelgun
I'd have said December, January, February, and Summer.
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:13 pm
by SoupOrMan
Not Hurricane, Construction, Football and Hot?
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:24 pm
by Netpackrat
Here we have almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:46 pm
by Aglifter
SoupOrMan wrote:Not Hurricane, Construction, Football and Hot?
It can hit 90 in January... and be 18 that night... We always have hot, just not nec. at the moment...
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:25 am
by Rustyv
Captain Wheelgun wrote:I'd have said December, January, February, and Summer.
I've always heard it as "Hot, Damn Hot, F***ing Hot, and Deer Season."
Of course, since we have so many disparate climates in Texas, there are modifications:
Coastal:
Hot and Humid, Hot and Wet, Hot and Miserable, Hurricane Season
Desert:
Hot, Hotter, Dear-God-Why?!, Monsoon season (24-48 hours)
Dallas/Ft Worth:
See Coastal, sub "snow flurries" for Hurricane Season.
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:01 am
by HTRN
308 Mike, Pennsylvania makes Texas look like pikers - In the late 90s, sales of Deer tags there topped 1.3 million(still a record!) despite having half the population of Texas..
In Texas, Deer hunting may be a religion, but in Pennsylvania, it's a CULT!
HTRN
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:31 am
by toad
HTRN
Did you factor in the number of deer in Texas and how far you have to drive to get to them?
My brother after his first deer hunt in Texas. "Shame we didn't see any deer let alone shoot one." "But we did see some about two miles back from the top of that ridge!"
"Oh. I thought that was a pack of small dogs."
Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:09 pm
by 308Mike
I suppose the challenge isn't all that great when they're wandering through your back yard....

Re: The Seasons in Texas
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:56 am
by esa5444
Aglifter wrote:SoupOrMan wrote:Not Hurricane, Construction, Football and Hot?
It can hit 90 in January... and be 18 that night... We always have hot, just not nec. at the moment...
A few weeks ago, on Tuesday it was 85F and humid (and I don't mean a bit muggy either). The next day it snowed. I heard one person who had lived in Houston for about 6 months comment about the fashion sense of some of the college girls. Specifically she couldn't understand why they wore galoshes and mini-skirts at the same time. After a few months, she says, she figured it out.