Apologies in advance. I know Texas combines good people with assholes. Cue Stephen Colbert.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

If the "real" world = "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," then Crawford Texas = "The Hellmouth."

I know there are good Texans. I just want to say "fuck you" to the rest. Seriously, every man and woman and child who sells "Dubya" souvenirs to get by, go fuck yourselves.

:patriot:

Texas Town Responds After Colbert Calls It An "Incorporated Outhouse"



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/15/texas-town-responds-after_n_119281.html

CANTON, Texas — Stephen Colbert's one-man campaign against towns named Canton has its latest target firing back. A city councilman in Canton, Texas, joked that he would "mash his nose" after the comedian referred to the town as an "incorporated outhouse."

"What does that sucker know about it? He's never been here anyway," Councilman John Fuller said in a story Friday in the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

In an ongoing gag on his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," Colbert has been taking pot shots at various towns named Canton. It began when he referred to a Georgia town as "the crappy Canton."

Colbert then referred to Canton, Kan., with an unprintable epithet, and referred to Canton, S.D., as "North Dakota's dirty ashtray."

Cantons in Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Ohio have so far escaped Colbert's ire.

Leaders of the Texas town of Canton, which has a population of about 5,100, invited Colbert to the town's monthly flea market _ which, according to a city Web site, harkens back to Texas' frontier traditions, "when it was common to trade a rifle for a good hunting dog."

"Canton is known worldwide," City Manager Andy McCuistion said of the town, located about 55 miles southeast of Dallas. "You can go anywhere in the world, and people will say, `Canton? Yeah, I know where that is. It's where that big flea market is.'"

[east texas lib]

1. The monthly flea market is called "First Monday Weekend".

It's a crafter's gallery Mecca, among other things. About thirty miles east of my home.

[Fenris]

2. Being from a small Texas town, I have to LOL at "Incorporated Outhouse"

:rofl:

[zanne]

3. Texans are touchy, aren't they? nt

[kimmerspixelated]

4. No need to stereotype.

Tejas is a big place. Full of all kinds of characters and backgrounds. I'm sure your homestate is, too.

[zanne]

5. But they do seem to bristle at any mention of Texas not being perfect.

We've seen it time and time again. The old "Don't mess with Texas" saying doesn't seem like much of a joke.

[TlalocW]

6. The whole Canton thing Colbert has been doing is great

After he apologized for the Canton, Georgia, remarks and insulted Canton, Kansas, I looked up the number of towns in America named Canton. There was about 20 of them (maybe more). The apologies just allow him to insult the towns more by listing things like air and paved roads as part of the attractions that the current Canton being apologized to has to offer. All except Canton, South Dakota - no one got mad when he dissed them it seems.

TlalocW