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c/til · by ericbomb@lemmy.world · 2y

TIL: "Don't mess with Texas" started as an anti litter slogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2qIF3PL7lQ&ab_channel=JohnSmith

Seems wild that a now beloved phrase, started as a government slogan to get people to stop throwing trash on the road.

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Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Started as and still is.

ericbomb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I legit had no idea! I've heard it a lot in media as just like a joke about how tough texans think they are.

root@precious.net · 5 pts · 2y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas

pete_the_cat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

Same with "everything is bigger in Texas" I think that was a reference to the increased fines.

cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
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averagedrunk@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I remember when it started. I even remember Shamu singing about it.

BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website · 2 pts · 2y

Shamu and the Texas Tuxedos

FarFarAway@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Oh you'll love this then

https://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/ad_archive/

FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Confederate Air Force one is the best.

PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks · 4 pts · 2y

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APassenger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Speaking of ad misfires, South Dakota had their own set of... ideas.

Dkarma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

"Cuz Texas is already trash"

God these assholes never ever finish the fucking sentence.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Lady Bird Johnson (first lady, wife of Lyndon Johnson) was the first to push for anti littering and anti billboards. She was also moved by the amount of trash she saw in Texas.

https://www.pbs.org/ladybird/shattereddreams/shattereddreams_report.html

Looks like the trash was still a problem into the 80s when the Texas DOT started their own anti littering campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Mess_with_Texas

Tiefton@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is badass. Wish my region made something like this!

Dkarma@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y

Then you could make it your entire personality like the "everything's bigger in Texas" idiots