Somewhere out where west Texas ceases its sublimation toward the international frontera and the line between Mexico and Texas becomes apparent (in a hydraulic sense) stands a court house that is used no more.
In its heyday of the late 1850s this once rich Texas county promised to become the Clines Corner, N.M., nay, the Needles, CA, of West Texas. Although commerce was hard to come by in the middle of the 19th. Century some railroad tycoons and land barons established the town of Kypuros, Texas directly this side the of Rio Grande River from a sleepy ciudad Mexicano named Piedras Negras.
The town reaped its revenues from lawlessness and graft. Saloons, gambling, cat houses and shady land deals were the norm in Kypuros. Thing couldn't look better. The County of Fukarya was established with the town of Kypuros as the seat. In 1859 a beautiful courthouse was erected on a small hill that overlooked the Rio Grande. But its glory would be fleeting.
In 1868 a great flood inundated the Rio Grande. With a ravaging torrent the river cut a new channel and by day break the beautiful Fukarya County Courthouse was west of the river in Mexico and no longer in Texas. The town of Kypuros was all but wiped out, including the shady enterprise that had made so many rich.
Eventually the County was reorganized as Maverick County. The county seat was designated to be a small village outside of the old Ft. Duncan called Eagle Pass. Good and honest folks eventually resettled the area and Fukarya County and Kypuros were all but forgotten. Across the river in Mexico and in the middle of a wheat field stands the once grand courthouse. It is used on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for local swap meets. It is also available as nightly rentals on the rest of the week, usually for quincea̱eras.
But there is also one more scintilla of evidence that the sins of Kypuros are still around. The town of Eagle Pass, TX has the distinction of having the one and only casino in Texas, the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino.
A fitting testament to the sins of men. 😉
Imagine untangling the surveying complexities of Fukarya County so that we can know who owns which creosote bush!
It sounds more like the Arvin of Texas.
Should of put my waders for tonight's visit.........
Now, now, fellers. We know Mr. Cash wouldn't mislead us. But he might occasionally be guilty of one of the following things:
1. Bluff: a statement intended to deceive or confuse
2. Canard: an unsubstantiated story or report
3. Deceit: a deceptive statement
4. Deception: A statement or action intended to mislead
5. Distortion: a deviation from the true meaning, or an overstatement of proportion
6. Equivocation: a misleading or confusing statement based on the possibility of differing interpretations
7. Exaggeration: an overstatement or overemphasis
8. Fable: a fictitious statement or story, in the sense of something made up to explain or justify an unmerited action or state of affairs
9. Fabrication: a made-up fact or incident
10. Fairy tale: a misleading story, especially a simplistic one that would not be expected to deceive anyone
11. Fallacy: a deceptive or erroneous statement; also, a false idea or a flawed argument
12. Falsehood: something untrue or inaccurate
13. Falsification: an alteration of facts in order to deceive
14. Falsity (see falsehood)
15. Fib: a simple, perhaps transparent lie
16. Fiction: an invented statement or story
17. Half-truth: a statement with some basis in truth that nevertheless serves to deceive
18. Humbug: a false, deceptive, or nonsensical statement
19. Invention: a statement crafted to deceive
20. Jive: a deceptive, insincere, or nonsensical statement
21. Libel: a written or similarly presented lie that defames a person
23. Mendacity: an act of lying
23. Misconception: a poor understanding, perhaps deliberate, of a fact
24. Misinformation: a purported fact presented with the intent to deceive
25. Misinterpretation: a deviation from the facts or from a reasonable analysis of them
26. Misreport: an inaccurate account
27. Misrepresentation: an erroneous or unfair interpretation of facts
28. Misstatement: an inaccurate or erroneous comment
29. Myth: a perpetuated notion, belief, or tradition that is suspect or unfounded
30. Obliquity: a deviation from the truth to obscure or confuse
31. Perjury: a lie presented under oath
32. Pose: a false or deceptive position or self-representation
33. Pretense: an unsupported claim, an insincere purpose or intention, or a superficial effort
34. Prevarication: a deviation from the truth
35. Slander: an injuriously false statement about a person
36. Story: a lie, or a rumor
37. Tale: a false representation
38. Taradiddle: nonsense (also, see fib)
39. Untruth: a deviation from truth or the facts
40. Whopper: an outsized lie
I'm intrigued by mendacity and taradiddle. Both sound a bit like a first round draft pick in the NFL. Split ends perhaps.
"Stellarfeller goes back looking to pass. Will it be Mendacity or Taradiddle? He looks at Taradiddle, double clutches, turns and goes for Mendacity instead."
Holy Cow, post: 426754, member: 50 wrote: Now, now, fellers. We know Mr. Cash wouldn't mislead us. But he might occasionally be guilty of one of the following things:
1. Bluff: a statement intended to deceive or confuse
2. Canard: an unsubstantiated story or report
3. Deceit: a deceptive statement
4. Deception: A statement or action intended to mislead
5. Distortion: a deviation from the true meaning, or an overstatement of proportion
6. Equivocation: a misleading or confusing statement based on the possibility of differing interpretations
7. Exaggeration: an overstatement or overemphasis
8. Fable: a fictitious statement or story, in the sense of something made up to explain or justify an unmerited action or state of affairs
9. Fabrication: a made-up fact or incident
10. Fairy tale: a misleading story, especially a simplistic one that would not be expected to deceive anyone
11. Fallacy: a deceptive or erroneous statement; also, a false idea or a flawed argument
12. Falsehood: something untrue or inaccurate
13. Falsification: an alteration of facts in order to deceive
14. Falsity (see falsehood)
15. Fib: a simple, perhaps transparent lie
16. Fiction: an invented statement or story
17. Half-truth: a statement with some basis in truth that nevertheless serves to deceive
18. Humbug: a false, deceptive, or nonsensical statement
19. Invention: a statement crafted to deceive
20. Jive: a deceptive, insincere, or nonsensical statement
21. Libel: a written or similarly presented lie that defames a person
23. Mendacity: an act of lying
23. Misconception: a poor understanding, perhaps deliberate, of a fact
24. Misinformation: a purported fact presented with the intent to deceive
25. Misinterpretation: a deviation from the facts or from a reasonable analysis of them
26. Misreport: an inaccurate account
27. Misrepresentation: an erroneous or unfair interpretation of facts
28. Misstatement: an inaccurate or erroneous comment
29. Myth: a perpetuated notion, belief, or tradition that is suspect or unfounded
30. Obliquity: a deviation from the truth to obscure or confuse
31. Perjury: a lie presented under oath
32. Pose: a false or deceptive position or self-representation
33. Pretense: an unsupported claim, an insincere purpose or intention, or a superficial effort
34. Prevarication: a deviation from the truth
35. Slander: an injuriously false statement about a person
36. Story: a lie, or a rumor
37. Tale: a false representation
38. Taradiddle: nonsense (also, see fib)
39. Untruth: a deviation from truth or the facts
40. Whopper: an outsized lie
Here's the most astounding fact about my hobby of spinning yarn: as a child I rarely told a tale or lied. You would think that a young person with such an imagination would easily slip into the pitfalls of lying. My brother Holden was the liar. He could talk his way out of anything. So in rebellion to my older brother's tales, I decided to always tell the truth.
I became a land surveyor and Holden became an attorney. Go figure. 😉
Holy Cow, post: 426755, member: 50 wrote: I'm intrigued by mendacity and taradiddle. Both sound a bit like a first round draft pick in the NFL. Split ends perhaps.
Isn't there a nursery rhyme that starts with taradiddle-diddle...the cat and the fiddle?
paden cash, post: 426759, member: 20 wrote: Here's the most astounding fact about my hobby of spinning yarn: as a child I rarely told a tale or lied. You would think that a young person with such an imagination would easily slip into the pitfalls of lying. My brother Holden was the liar. He could talk his way out of anything. So in rebellion to my older brother's tales, I decided to always tell the truth.
I became a land surveyor and Holden became an attorney. Go figure. 😉
You know the difference between a lawyer and a liar I suppose?
The spelling.
Holy Cow, post: 426755, member: 50 wrote: But he might occasionally be guilty of one of the following things:
I'm intrigued that a walking meat locker would make such an atrocious accusation for fear of future consequences. 😉
I just Googled Fukarya County. Google doesn't know about it. It suggested three alternatives: Karma County, Ferry County, and Sakar County.
It's first returned item was Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. Seeing that reminded me of the old Beach Boys hit, Wish they all could be Fuquay-Varina girls.
I thnk you've misspelled it. It's the French word Fuquaruie. As in "where the Fuquaruie"?
Ah, I love Piedras Negras! The locals would be quite interested to hear this new bit of history, shoot, they might even take it on as their own. Not sure where they would get the spare courthouse... Town was and still can be a lively place. Pancho Villa was known to ride through there, the drug war is happening there. Walking across the international bridge today one walks straight towards a machine gun nest. They do have a wonderful market, and some of the restraunts make really good food! Really fresh, too! And the Church in the square, it is a piece of artwork. 
Monte, post: 426786, member: 11913 wrote: Ah, I love Piedras Negras! The locals would be quite interested to hear this new bit of history, shoot, they might even take it on as their own. Not sure where they would get the spare courthouse... Town was and still can be a lively place. Pancho Villa was known to ride through there, the drug war is happening there. Walking across the international bridge today one walks straight towards a machine gun nest. They do have a wonderful market, and some of the restraunts make really good food! Really fresh, too! And the Church in the square, it is a piece of artwork.
Met a fellow bike enthusiast that had "backed into" his knowledge of our neighbors to the south. He took a job in Weatherford, OK selling advertising air-time for a local Latino AM radio station...and he knew exactly zero Espa̱ol. He actually did pretty good and picked up the lingo quickly.
One of the bigger advertisers on that station was a local roofing company and he became friends with the owner, who it just so happened also liked to ride and had family from the Piedras Negras area. He still makes a ride down there almost every year with his buddies to visit the friends he's made there. I've never made the crossing at Piedras Negras, but he swears he won't ever cross the Rio Grande anywhere else but there. I imagine it's a pretty nice place.
One of my favorite parts of this piece is the hyperlink to quinceanera. Brilliant touch!
roger_LS, post: 426796, member: 11550 wrote: One of my favorite parts of this piece is the hyperlink to quinceanera. Brilliant touch!
For those that are inquisitive, quinceanera literally means " a 15 year old young lady". The celebration is similar to our Anglo "Sweet Sixteen Party".
Holy Cow, post: 426754, member: 50 wrote: Now, now, fellers. We know Mr. Cash wouldn't mislead us. But he might occasionally be guilty of one of the following things:
1. Bluff: a statement intended to deceive or confuse
2. Canard: an unsubstantiated story or report
3. Deceit: a deceptive statement
4. Deception: A statement or action intended to mislead
5. Distortion: a deviation from the true meaning, or an overstatement of proportion
6. Equivocation: a misleading or confusing statement based on the possibility of differing interpretations
7. Exaggeration: an overstatement or overemphasis
8. Fable: a fictitious statement or story, in the sense of something made up to explain or justify an unmerited action or state of affairs
9. Fabrication: a made-up fact or incident
10. Fairy tale: a misleading story, especially a simplistic one that would not be expected to deceive anyone
11. Fallacy: a deceptive or erroneous statement; also, a false idea or a flawed argument
12. Falsehood: something untrue or inaccurate
13. Falsification: an alteration of facts in order to deceive
14. Falsity (see falsehood)
15. Fib: a simple, perhaps transparent lie
16. Fiction: an invented statement or story
17. Half-truth: a statement with some basis in truth that nevertheless serves to deceive
18. Humbug: a false, deceptive, or nonsensical statement
19. Invention: a statement crafted to deceive
20. Jive: a deceptive, insincere, or nonsensical statement
21. Libel: a written or similarly presented lie that defames a person
23. Mendacity: an act of lying
23. Misconception: a poor understanding, perhaps deliberate, of a fact
24. Misinformation: a purported fact presented with the intent to deceive
25. Misinterpretation: a deviation from the facts or from a reasonable analysis of them
26. Misreport: an inaccurate account
27. Misrepresentation: an erroneous or unfair interpretation of facts
28. Misstatement: an inaccurate or erroneous comment
29. Myth: a perpetuated notion, belief, or tradition that is suspect or unfounded
30. Obliquity: a deviation from the truth to obscure or confuse
31. Perjury: a lie presented under oath
32. Pose: a false or deceptive position or self-representation
33. Pretense: an unsupported claim, an insincere purpose or intention, or a superficial effort
34. Prevarication: a deviation from the truth
35. Slander: an injuriously false statement about a person
36. Story: a lie, or a rumor
37. Tale: a false representation
38. Taradiddle: nonsense (also, see fib)
39. Untruth: a deviation from truth or the facts
40. Whopper: an outsized lie
I believe the current term is "Alternate Truth"
Dave Karoly, post: 426751, member: 94 wrote: Imagine untangling the surveying complexities of Fukarya County so that we can know who owns which creosote bush!
It sounds more like the Arvin of Texas.
Yes research in this County is particularly challenging, only a handful or less of the finest Texas surveyors can handle the task. It requires historical telepathy and witching rods. The survey process involves multiple phone calls to the client notifying them that your estimate is no longer good and you'll need more money. Also required are clients that are genuine dumbasses which evidently is no problem to find in the state.
jim.cox, post: 426813, member: 93 wrote: I believe the current term is "Alternate Truth"
Alternate Facts Y'mean.
Heard a lot of them from congressional eunuchs who cower from the insurance industry giants this week about healthcare.
