Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth

by Kinky Friedman

Book Overview

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit Delivering belly laughs, hee-haws, and downright slackjaw amazement, this hilarious guide to the homeland of George W. and Willie Nelson is the essential how-to for surviving in the Lone Star State. From strange Texas laws and the history of Dr. Pepper to Texas Talk (in which a turd floater is a heavy downpour) and final-meal requests by death row inmates, Kinky Friedman, the oldest living Jew in Texas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060935359
• ISBN13: 9780060935351
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

pass the biscuits

Fun to a Texas Expat stuck in California to read and compare the arugala culture v the pass the biscuits culture. To find "big hair" in Ca. you have to live in Bakersfield. I enjoy Kinky in spite if his democrat politics.

Hilarious, especially for Texans

I disagree with the reviewer who stated that Texans would not find this book amusing. I am a Texan and I find This book to be absolutely fantastic, hilarious, and honest. Kinky is not disrespecting people from the lonestar state, just having a laugh. He is proud of Texas and this book shows that in addition to making fun of things we make fun of all the time! Texans, you need this book- you'll understand it perfectly. Non-Texans, you need it as well, I promise that you will laugh.

James Joyce was never as much fun...

James Joyce writes about Dublin like Friedman writes about Texas.I suspect the Dubliners could no more understand Kinky than could Texans understand James nor do I expect either would want to.This book is a collection of stuff that, though not too deep, is very enjoyable. How's this for some simple philosophy that can be applied to anywhere.. "It's no disgrace to come from Texas;it's just a disgrace to have to go back there." Or think about this... "Somewhere in the universe there is a planet inhabited principally by sentient armadillos who occasionally carve up dead humans and sell them as baskets by the roadside." Enjoy!

Hah!

This book is great! Also check out Everything Texans Need To Know About The Other 49 States (Brook & Julie Syers)...

So Funny My Sides Ached

This book kept me laughing until my sides ached. Friedman is one of this countries great humorists. This book is a perfect toilet read.