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Related: About this forumHowdy folks! I'm Big Tex 2.0!
Hold on to your hats because Big Tex 2.0 has risen and taken his rightful place back in the newly renovated Big Tex Circle.
Fans cant contain their anticipation for seeing the legend, but Big Tex is still covered while he awaits his debut. The Sate Fair of Texas gates open Friday at 10 a.m. and Big Tex will be unveiled at 2 p.m.
Many fairgoers grieved when flames engulfed Big Tex last October and got carted away under a massive tarp that many said looked like a large body bag....
http://statefairblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/big-tex-has-taken-his-place-again-at-the-state-fair-of-texas.html/
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Howdy folks! I'm Big Tex 2.0! (Original Post)
El Supremo
Sep 2013
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Skittles
(153,149 posts)1. "New York has the Statue of Liberty........
and Texas has..........whatever the f*** THAT thing is." (Lewis Black)
MADem
(135,425 posts)2. I hope the new one looks a bit less creepy....
Did they give him a different costume every year?
I'll be honest...I never knew a thing about this state icon until Hank Hill educated me!
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)3. He had a premature birth!
High winds forced them to take down the curtain.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)4. He speaks!
TexasTowelie
(112,121 posts)5. Sounds like a white dude to me.
Is Big-Tex Mexican?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107812327
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)7. They should sometimes put a sombrero on him and have him say:
¡Hola gente! Yo soy Gran Tex.
johncoby2
(3,363 posts)6. Looks more like Big Mex.