and wear those chaps and snakeskin boots, you will definitely NOT enjoy your visit as the cowboys will think you are gay and run you out of town faster than you can whistle Dixie...

As far as Abu is concerned..he got there as fast as he could...We have a bumper sticker in Texas I've seen a LOT...its by people who are originally from elsewhere..it reads...

Not Native Texan, but got here as fast as I could!!

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the main difference between a dog and man.
-Mark Twain-