When I’m working (which is most of the time I’m not sleeping) I sometimes put recorded tv shows/movies that I’ve already seen on in the background, particularly in the evening. I work from a home office, as do the other dozen-or-so employees in Iron Realms, and I think just hearing some voices while I’m working makes me feel as if I’m not actually slaving away 12+ hours a day.

Anyway, I was watching King of the Hill just now, my favorite animated show (I maintain it also has some of the most textured characters on tv, believe it or not, though you have to watch quite a few episodes before you start to appreciate it), and Hank Hill, the father in the protagonist family on the show and a very proud Texan, discovered he’d actually been born in NYC, though he was only there for a couple days as an infant.

I didn’t watch it very closely (when I’m working I often have to watch a show 3-4 times before I really follow all of what went on as I’m obviously not paying much attention to it) but at the end of the show, Hank said something that immediately made me think of Second Life and chuckle. He was upset that now to claim he was Texan he’d be weakening the definition of a Texan and in response to something his wife Peggy said to calm him he said, sarcastically,
“Yeah yeah, and everyone who’s ever changed planes in Dallas is a Texan.”

Heh heh.