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smackd

(216 posts)
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 11:05 PM Feb 2013

“The University of Texas will change its colors to maroon and white before Texas goes purple, much l

“The University of Texas will change its colors to maroon and white before Texas goes purple, much less blue,” Perry told the Wall Street Journal.



i cannot tell you how much i hate this

please, fellow Texans...please
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“The University of Texas will change its colors to maroon and white before Texas goes purple, much l (Original Post) smackd Feb 2013 OP
Win-win. bluedigger Feb 2013 #1
Except Pumpkins and Oranges! MADem Feb 2013 #2
We loves us some burnt orange, but Perry is wrong. Comrade Grumpy Feb 2013 #3
he was in the corps smackd Feb 2013 #4
UT is blue Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #5
I always hated the burnt orange BainsBane Feb 2013 #6
I once lived in a house that had wall-to-wall burnt orange carpeting. winter is coming Feb 2013 #7
1970s BainsBane Feb 2013 #8
Yup. Have I mentioned the gilt and velvet wallpaper? winter is coming Feb 2013 #9
in combination with orange carpeting? BainsBane Feb 2013 #10
Yup. In some areas the velvet flocking was burnt orange, winter is coming Feb 2013 #11
I can imagine the Halloween parties. BainsBane Feb 2013 #13
Texas will go blue, eventually Terra Alta Feb 2013 #12
By that time, Gov. Goodhair = Gov. Nohair! alp227 Feb 2013 #14
Believe Rick Perry. W_HAMILTON Feb 2013 #15

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Except Pumpkins and Oranges!
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 11:16 PM
Feb 2013

I guess that's why prisons like to use it as their "jumpsuit de jour!"

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
3. We loves us some burnt orange, but Perry is wrong.
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 11:17 PM
Feb 2013

Good ol' boys, meet demographic change.

Spoken as the holder of an advanced degree from UT Austin. We don't like those Aggie colors, or those Aggies. We used to joke that we should deport the Aggies to Oklahoma, thereby raising the average IQ in both states. Wasn't Perry an Aggie?

BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
6. I always hated the burnt orange
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:10 AM
Feb 2013

When we lived in married student housing, we actually had vinyl furniture in that burnt orange color.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
7. I once lived in a house that had wall-to-wall burnt orange carpeting.
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:25 AM
Feb 2013

My family still talks about how godawful that house was, and none of us have seen it for decades.

BainsBane

(53,035 posts)
10. in combination with orange carpeting?
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:33 AM
Feb 2013

Your place is making burnt orange vinyl furniture seem luxurious.

winter is coming

(11,785 posts)
11. Yup. In some areas the velvet flocking was burnt orange,
Thu Feb 28, 2013, 01:39 AM
Feb 2013

and it some places it was black. I try not to think about what other atrocities the person who decorated that house might have committed.

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