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I have heard that phrase and seen the signs my entire life and never knew it originated with the litter campaign. I feel like it's lost a certain, "je ne sais q
by astrea 7y ago
I have heard that phrase and seen the signs my entire life and never knew it originated with the litter campaign. I feel like it's lost a certain, "je ne sais quoi", learning that.
- hanniabu 7y agoSame, when I heard that before I always assumed it had something to do with their gun advocacy.
- matsemann 7y agoIn a similar vein: In Norwegian since the fifties, we have used the word Texas to mean something crazy. Normally it's used as "helt texas" (completely texas), and describes a situation out of control. Edit: a source/explanation https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478
- vanniv 7y agoWhen I was in Oslo, I was so confused by the takeaway restaurants that were selling various "Texas" combos that had nothing at all to do with Texas. The only specific one I remember was a Texas Gyro combo with Texas fries and a coke. The picture was of a gyro pita with like four kinds of sauce, and a giant bucket of fries.
- yellowapple 7y agoI mean, that does sound like something that'd sell like gangbusters in Texas. Or anywhere, for that matter. A gyro and fries sounds pretty damn amazing right about now.
- HeyLaughingBoy 7y agoI know a lunch counter (closed down last year, sadly) that offered a "gyro fries" meal, which was a big plate of fries topped with gyro meat, sauteed onions, feta and tons of tzatziki. It was good!
- twic 7y agoSee also the Texas hedge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_hedge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_hedge
- reaperducer 7y agoSame, when I heard that before I always assumed it had something to do with their gun advocacy. I thought that too, when I moved from the east coast to Texas for a few years. Once I understood the real meaning, I felt my presumption was a reflection of my own biases, and quickly learned to judge Texas and Texans more fairly.
- zxcvbn4038 7y agoYes, you think guns when you think Texas but I think the crown actually goes to Kennesaw county Georgia where every head of household in the city limits is required to have and maintain a firearm. When it comes to stupid lawsuits I give the crown to New York City where they have tried to claim copyright on the shape of the skyline, the Times Square businesses have sued movie studios for digitally changing pictures of Times Square in movies, and the New York City Subway thinks those little circles with the train letters are their intellectual property and they send out nastygrams to other people using circles with numbers and letters in them. I’m surprised the latter hasn’t started a two ocean war over the windows dingbats font ;)
- compiler-guy 7y agoThat's exactly why it works--it appeals to relatively young men who take great pride in being from Texas and the badassery around that. Those were the guys who littered, and were the problem. So they found a way to appeal to them.
- ianleeclark 7y agoThe really weird thing is that the sign that I remember the most in my hometown said, word for word, "Don't mess (litter) with Texas," but when I just went to look for an example of the sign, I can't find any other examples of this.
- chiph 7y agoYou want weird? Austin's slogan "Keep Austin Weird" is not about the culture, but about supporting local business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird
- giggles_giggles 7y agoLocal businesses are a huge part of Austin's culture
- dylan604 7y agoYou're not crazy. I "had a friend" with one of the signs with '(litter)' in "their" collection of highway signs.
- bdcravens 7y agoI remember when this ad campaign started, so I was a bit puzzled to see it here. Guess I'm just old :-)
- joejerryronnie 7y agoThe Pledge of Allegiance lost a bit of it’s patriotic luster once I found out it was part of a marketing gimmick to sell magazine subscriptions.
- pjc50 7y agoWait, what? (The pledge is one of those weird things that looks like it comes from a far more authoritarian-collectivist society than the US)
- lonelappde 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance It was promoted in a popular magazine (not to sell the magazine), and it in fact did come from a famous pair of socialists , Betch and Bellamy.
- pjc50 7y ago> As a socialist, he had initially also considered using the words equality and fraternity[18] but decided against it, knowing that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans Ouch.
- RandomBacon 7y agoInteresting. It doesn't ruin the pledge for me though. Things change. Bad things can become good, good things can become bad. Symbols of luck and divinity turn into symbols of hate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
- joejerryronnie 7y agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-gimmick-patriotic-vow-180956332/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-... This article has a bit of a different viewpoint than the wiki page
- nodesocket 7y agoMost people think it is actually the state motto, when it fact it's "Friendship".
- dalacv 6y agothe word texas means friend: “The name Texas derives from táyshaʔ, a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai, which means "friends" or "allies".”