Fun fact: HBK is from my hometown ;) (which is different from where I currently reside)

Is it true that down there, people often refer to guys by their middle names rather than their first? Because HBK's real name is Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, but his friends and family all say that they always referred to him as Shawn because in some parts of Texas guys customarily go by their middle name. Just curious.

What have you been drinking?????

Well, it's not true MOST of the time, but I know quite a few guys that went to my high school that went that way.

Same here, I know a few people that do it but it is not a normal thing to do.

I've met people from all over the country that do that, it's not just a TX thing. I have a friend who just didnt like his first name as much as his middle, so he's just always gone by that.

See, I have known one or two people that did it too... which is why I always wondered why HBK and the rest would say it was "a San Antonio Thing". ((shrugs)) Guess it was just Michaels talking out his ass again.

Gee, THAT never happens. :roll:

Reason to be proud of being from San Antonio, TX: HBK ;)

Reason to be ashamed of being from San Antonio, TX: The Union Underground :(

Reason to be confused as whether to be proud or ashamed of being from San Antonio, TX: Tommy Lee Jones :|

I bet no one can guess which region of Texas I am originally from... :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

its either the North, South, East, or West region, I'm guessing.... :D

Has anyone else noticed that like a third of us are from TX? (me included)

hmmmm.....not even close Southeast

WAIT! I got it! I bet you're from the SOUTHEAST!

what small town in the SE of Texas?? This is not as easy

*grabs a map real fast*
brownsville? Thats way down there..... If not, I give up.

two words for you: ice cream

BLUEBELL= MY FAVORITE ICE CREAM!

^Brenham, TX

yep

Am I the only person from North Texas? All hail DFW.

*shakes head and points to his location*

I wasn't born there, but heck, it's where I live now...

I hate mods who split topics that go smoothly...

I meant born here. You don't count.

Hey Rez, what's with your hatred of Union Underground?
I personally don't care if someone dosn't like them, I'm only wondering 'cause you've mentioned them a few times recently, and I've never seen you talk about them in the past.

On the people going by thier middle names topic I deffinetly agree that it's not just a Texas thing. I know LOADS of people here in Georgia that do that. In fact, three of those people are my half-sisters and my father. Though with them it's usualy that they are known by thier first names out in public, but the family and very close friends refer to them by thier middle names instead.

Hey, YOU try keeping your sanity when the local rock station plays UU once every 20 minutes soon after their debut album is released :x

Not to mention the rather trite name they gave to themselves; sounds exactly like something that WOULD come out of San Antonio. I've heard Kindergarteners in Special Ed come up with better names than that!

Oy, you have no idea how nitwitted my hometown is in general...

Come on, San Antonio can't be any worse than Dallas.

Maybe not in crowdedness, but trust me, SA is cesspool of morons and lower-class (literally) ghetto dwellers.

Not to sound racist, but this is how it is: Hispanics are the MAJORITY in SA, and a majority OF them are blue-collar, minimal English speaking welfare recipients whose kids don't know how to walk into their kindergarten class without carrying a gun and saying the "f" word every 3 words.

Ouch.

See, that I can understand. They don't get very much airplay here in california, I think "across the nation" Probably got the most air play out of them all.

You ever hear of Flying Blind? Yeah neither has anyone else outside of California -_-
They were huge here (Although they're not very good) And when they signed a Major Label deal, you couldn't go anywhere with out hearing their music. (Especially here in Modesto, as they are from here.)

Eventually they were dropped from their label, I asume due to excessive sucking.

And Yeah, Union Underground ISNT the best name on earth.

I currently reside in Plano, but I wasn't born in TX.

Well, in terms of where I was born, I was born in neither Richardson nor San Antonio, but still in Texas (Del Rio, a border town)...I like to joke that I'm almost Mexican.

I am born and raised in Texas but I do not have a texas accent. There is nothing to do in my hometown so I moved to Colorado. I only go home once a year

And what town was that?

ice cream town....Brenham

do you have any idea what the population is in brenham?

For those of you who don't know, in TX we have this ice cream called Bluebell and it's way popular, and famous. The family who created it, lived out in Brenham, so that's their claim ta fame.

I'm not even sure where that is. Must be down south somewhere.

the population of Brenham is 13,000. Brenham is halfway between Austin and Houston