Grammar Call Out: Messin With Texas Edition

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com


Texas Governor Rick Perry said the following today, while riling up some retard Texans.

"There's a lot of different scenarios," Perry said. "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."

1) I would love "to boot" you and nearly all of your people, Governor.

2) Who do you think pays the FEDERAL troops to secure the boarder you suck at securing? Why people from Iowa or Minnesota don't send you jars of their own pee for wasting their federal dollars on you is a mystery to me. You bitch about higher taxes, but your porous border is partly responsible.

3) Let's have a look at what "unique" means.

Main Entry:

unique

Pronunciation:

\yu̇-ˈnēk\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

French, from Latin unicus, from unus one — more at one

Date:

1602

1: being the only one : sole unique concern was his own comfort> unique copy. Suppose I lost it? — Kingsley Amis> unique factorization of a number into prime factors>
2 a: being without a like or equal : unequaled unique — Robert Coover> b: distinctively characteristic : peculiar 1 unique to California — Ronald Reagan>

Looks like it means its the only one of its kind. So how then, could something have varied degrees of one-of-a-kindness? Something cannot be more one of a kind than something else. Looks like the


4) If you seceded and we imposed trade sanctions, you'd beg Mexico to adopt you. Only it wouldn't much matter because your borders still wouldn't be remotely secure and the border would be blurred beyond recognition anyway.

5) "Government thumbing their nose"? Where do you think our last president was from? And you guys STILL suck. Obama's being in office for three months ruined your state?

6) What part of "largest tax-cuts in 40 years" mean to you? Well, other than "the president is black"

7) Keep talking ignorantly tough. All this secession talk is really scaring us into sympathy. No seriously.