The Seasons in Texas

[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

[Captain Wheelgun]

I'd have said December, January, February, and Summer.

[SoupOrMan]

Not Hurricane, Construction, Football and Hot?

[Netpackrat]

Here we have almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.

[Aglifter]

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...

[Rustyv]

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.

[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

[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."

[308Mike]

I suppose the challenge isn't all that great when they're wandering through your back yard....

[esa5444]

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.