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    Occupied North Texas

    Posted by Shannon Love on September 1st, 2010 (All posts by )

     

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 7:35 am and is filed under Humor, That's NOT Funny. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    7 Responses to “Occupied North Texas”

    1. Jonathan Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 7:59 am

      I always liked Texas.

    2. Mike Cunningham Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 11:17 am

      Arise, Mexicans, demand our land back from the Yanquis who stole it on an off day for President Santa Anna.

    3. Ric Locke Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 11:28 am

      Pity you didn’t (couldn’t?) copy the mouseover/alt= text as well. It is often, as here, the most amusing part of an xkcd strip.

      Regards,
      Ric
      (from near the Alta Mexico/Baja Oklahoma border)

    4. Shannon Love Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 12:30 pm

      Mike Cunningham,

      If certain interpretations of quantum physics are correct somewhere there is a universe in which Mexico never lost Texas. In that alternate universe, poor Mexicans wade across the Red River to reach the economic promised land of Oklahoma.

    5. TMLutas Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 2:40 pm

      The mouseover text referred to above is reproduced below:

      “Normally, the Shuttle can't quite safely reach the orbital inclination required to pass over both those points from a Canaveral launch, but this is an alternate history in which either it launches from Vandenberg or everyone hates the Outer Banks.”

    6. Jerod in North Texas Says:
      September 1st, 2010 at 6:58 pm

      “poor Mexicans wade across the Red River to reach the economic promised land of Oklahoma”

      Wade is correct, the river is usually pretty low in my stretch (from Wichita Falls, 30 minutes from the border). In fact, they might be wading through some dangerous mud in this alternate universe as the riverbank is notorious for quicksand.

    7. Anonymous Says:
      September 7th, 2010 at 6:37 am

      Normally, the Shuttle can’t quite safely reach the orbital inclination required to pass over both those points from a Canaveral launch, but this is an alternate history in which either it launches from Vandenberg or everyone hates the Outer Banks

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