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Dear Customers: It has come to our attention that a few copies of the WINDOWS 98 TEXAS EDITION may have accidentally been shipped outside of TEXAS. If you have one of these, you may need some help understanding the commands. The TEXAS edition may be recognized by the unique opening screen. It reads:WINDERS 98, with a background picture of Sam Houston superimposed on a Texas flag. It is shipped with a Remember the Alamo screen saver. Please also note: The Recycle Bin is labeled "Outhouse" My Computer is called "This Dern Contraption" Dial up Networking is called "Good Ol' Boys" Control Panel is known as "The Dashboard" Hard Drive is referred to as "4 Wheel Drive" Floppies are "them little ol plastic disc thangs" Instead of an error message a "garbage bag and roll of duct tape" pops up. CHANGES IN TERMINOLOGY IN TEXAS EDITION: OK . . . . . . . .ats aw-right Cancel . . . . . .stopdat Reset . . . . . . try er agin Yes . . . . . . . yep No . . . . . . . .noop Find . . . . . . .hunt fer it Go to. . . . . . .over yonder Back . . . . . . .back yonder Help . . . . . . .hep me out here Stop . . . . . . .kwitit Start . . . . . . crank er up Settings . . . . .settins Programs . . . . .stuff at duz stuff Documents . . . . stuff ah done did TEXAS EDITION does not recognize capital letters or punctuation marks. Some programs that are exclusive to Winders 98: Tiperiter . . . . . . .A word processing program colerin book . . . . . a graphics program cyferin marsheen . . . calculator outhouse paper . . . . notepad iner-net . . . . . . . Microsoft Explorer 5.0 pichers . . . . . . . .A graphics viewer We regret any inconvenience it may have caused if you received a copy of the TEXAS EDITION. You may return it to Microsoft for a replacement version if ya want. I hope this helps all y'all! signed: Billy Bob Gates |
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how did i miss this when you first posted it? that's real funny. so get this. i actually find myself saying "fixing to", like right now i'm fixing to go to hawaii for a coupla weeks. people back home are going to wonder about all this lingo i've picked up. |
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i mean. |
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beg yer pardon. it's "all yall's". poser. |
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Hula chula! |
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you may have done more time in texas, little wrangler, but i bet i could ride a bull longer than you. uh, so to speak. AND i bet you don't have an authentic leopard print cowboy hat neither. so there. |
When I was a programmer for an insurance company (long ago in a galaxy far far away) Texas was always the last state implemented. Their laws were so different from any other state. However, the language of Texas has spread to other states. New Mexico also can be found to use most if not all of the same phrases. Of course we here in the Baltimore area don't have to much to talk about. Some of the words and phrases we use would be indepsypherable (I know that's misspelled I forgot my glasses and everything is blurry) to most of the country. |
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