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classic or dud

― anthonyeaston, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The song?

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No the city .

― anthonyeaston, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is there a song called "Texarkana"?

I imagine it's like any other small Texas/Arkansas city, like Lubbock or Waco? So if you like that kinda thing ... though I've never been there.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are a number of songs called Texarkana, possibly the dullest of which is by R.E.M.

― Pete, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oi Pete i like that song! since i'm already FITEing SCLub7 i might as well FITE you too....

― katie, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well Katie, me and the SClub versus you. I think we know who will win there. I don't mind losing Bradley & Tina as colateral damage but the Seven & The Ragged Barnet Ape will triumph.

FITE!

― Pete, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't think you'll take me as easily as that, Barnet Ape or not. i will rip Jo's inanely grinning head off and beat you with it.

― katie, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike Mills: big glasses warrior of rack ladn

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Texarkana is nice b/c when driving from the East it means you're almost back in Texas!

― Samantha, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes! I stop at the Texarkana "El Chico's" on the way into Texas. But for some reason never when I'm driving t'other direction. I bet Texarkana would be pretty dud if u lived there but I likes it.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Katie is OTM. Texarkana by REM = good.

― Ally C, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Them old, old cotton fields back home are just about a mile from there.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another famous song that mentions Texarcana is Cottonfields.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

So if a plane crashes on the stateline in Texarkana, where do they bury the survivors?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

in Washington state.. duh

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

oh sorry, these are plain crash victims, not serial killer victims

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, well what about Arklatex? I'm almost sure it really exists.

But nothing beats out Tigertown and Bugtussle, both real, honest to god towns in NE Texas. Tigertown even has an airport, but only cropdusters fly out of it.

― soylent greenberg (soylent greenberg), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

There's Texahoma. And Texaco.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

sgs to thread!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

As requested, Mark. My mom grew up on a farm just outside Texarkana (on the Arkansas side) and her family has been there for generations--last time I went back the city seemed to be growing at a disquieting rate. I have a soft spot in my heart for it, though every time I go there I am glad I don't live there and only spent sporadic time living there as a kid. I love the near-deserted old downtown (a casualty of Kmart/Walmart) and the dirt backroads with tangled barbed-wire fences. Also, Scott Joplin was from Texarkana.

― sgs, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I rocked the shit out of the Arklatex.

By that, I mean that I lived there for quite some time. So yes, it must exist.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Texarkana is "The City That's Twice As Nice." I attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Ark., 50 miles from Texarkana. I had a Texarkana girlfriend for a while. Spent much time there. Ahhh. Taco Tico bean burritos are far superior to other fast food bean burritos. I think it's the sugar in the hot sauce or something. Also, the Texas side is dry while the Arkansas side is wet. Thus, you can be on one side of State Line Ave. and not be able to buy a 6 pack of Milwaukee's Best, but you can cross the street and drink up. Odd.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Arklatex is the unofficial name of the area around the state corners. A country way of saying metroplex, I guess.

Also, the residents of Texarkana, Arkansas, do not have to pay state income taxes even though the other 74 counties of Arkansas do. This lets the east Texarkanans remain in job competition with the west Texarkanans.

Andrew, is SAUM the home of the Fightin' Boll Weevils, or is that UAM? I get the towns of Lower Arkansas confused sometimes.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yo, T.B. I are a Mulerider. Which I found embarrassing for a while. Now I embrace it. To an extent.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Last year, I got to sit in on a jam session with the former mayor of Texarkana (the Texas side) at his grandson's graduation party. He played a few songs he had written himself; one was about eating meats you find in the forest, another song was about the pros and cons of Texarkana women. After that, the graduate handed me his guitar, and we played a few Neil Young songs, since the graduate's dad (the ex-mayor's son, who also happened to be a professor at the graduate's school in Arkansas) was a big Neil Young fan and had written a number of highly-technical Weird Al-style Neil Young cover songs about mechanical engineering principles. One of them was called "Keep on Rockin' in the Thermo World," can't remember the names of the rest. Anyway, we all drank a lot of Wild Turkey and it ruled.

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

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