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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Texans Put 'Welcome To Texas' Signs Around Oklahoma So Californians Will Move There Instead
2020-05-12
[Babylon Bee] OKLAHOMA—Clever Texans have implemented a new strategy to stop Californians from fleeing their terrible state and ruining Texas with the same policies. Sneaking up to Oklahoma in the middle of the night, brave defenders of the Lone Star State installed "Welcome to Texas" signs atop the "Welcome to Oklahoma" signs surrounding Texas's neighbor.

Californians, whose minds have been slowed from years of marijuana, sushi, and the patchouli of hippies, won't be smart enough to notice the difference and will settle down in Oklahoma, not realizing they moved to the wrong state.

"It's the perfect plan," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott. "While I don't condone vandalism or vigilantism, we must sometimes take desperate measures to ensure dumb Californians don't keep coming here and destroying everything."

Oklahomans, annoyed by their new Californian neighbors constantly saying "dude" and "bro," have hatched a plot to move the Welcome to Texas signs to Nebraska.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Better idea: Get some bouys in the middle of the Pacific and string that sign along them.

Two birds, one stone.
Posted by: charger   2020-05-12 16:08  

#5  Not so friendly back then, for sure.

Goes back to Civil War, though not as famous as the Red River Campaign in Arkansas, Honey Springs was important.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-12 13:02  

#4  Send them to Baltimore or Detroit.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-05-12 12:42  

#3  /\ Local Rivalry... *Snicker* Does the Red River Bridge War(1931) count? IIRC, the legal conclusion of this is that the Texas/Oklahoma border is on the south bank of the Red River, not down the middle as is the usual boundary between states.
Posted by: magpie   2020-05-12 12:39  

#2  Good stuff.
Better if you understand the regional rivalries; very tough but very friendly.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-12 11:06  

#1  *Snork!* Knew it was Bee, but it still is funny.
Posted by: magpie   2020-05-12 10:31  

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