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TOP TEN WAYS to TELL YOU’RE in NEW YORK and NOT in TEXAS

 

  1. That wafting smell on West 41st Street is not from a Longhorn stable.

 

      9.  You mean we have to pay income taxes here?

 

  1. The grinning guy with the hat on the “A” train is not a Texas Ranger.

 

  1. In Texas, “squatters” can be “persuaded” to find alternative lodging, pretty much immediately.

 

  1. The “Best Little Whorehouse” is not in Luckenbach, plus we call ‘em “sex workers” here.

 

  1.  Texas has “The Alamo,” we’ve got “Fort Apache.”

 

  1.   Along the BQE, that is wind-swept trash, not tumbleweeds.

 

  1.  In Greenwich Village, a man wearing chaps is not guaranteed to be a “cattle-drivin’, six-gun totin'” cowboy.

 

  1. Really?  Jacob deGrom left the Mets to pitch in a no-income tax state?

 

…and the NUMBER ONE WAY to TELL YOU’RE in NEW YORK and NOT in TEXAS is…

 

  1. I know a guy here who has to post a quick $500 million bond for a “crime” with no victims.

 

 

 

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