In Absolut Mockery
ChrisB on Apr 04 2008 at 3:59 pm | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor
Many of you may have seen the Absolut Vodka ad that ran in a Mexican magazine recently in links around the blogosphere. Now the mocking has begun as well. I submit this more historically accurate version of their ad.
While California, Arizona, New Mexico and the rest of the green land may have been “stolen”, from Mexico after the US conquered them, Texas fought for and won its own independence.
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You don’t even need a real military now a days to conquer territory and people. You just need the media and some terrorist goons trafficking in humans.
Hah!
My Sooners will still kick your Longhorn ass up and down the hashes.
See you at the Cotton Bowl, muthascratcha. That is of course, if you’re not too busy chewing your cud.
Cheers.
I once worked data processing for a department store chain owned by a Spanish company. Their management plan hasn’t changed in 300 years. Managers came from Spain and were replaced by new managers from Spain. All the bosses were from Spain.
Not surprisingly the other workers in the office quickly realized that they weren’t *ever* going to be promoted into management.
What does this have to do with the map? I donno. It just seems like Mexico isn’t who lost the territory either to the US or to Texas.
Random trivia: Collections were taken in Albuquerque to support the colonies revolutionary war against England.
Pogue is an OU fan?
Heh, well, we LSU fans certainly saw OU chewed up and spit out.
By the way Pogue, I spent the last two years of my college career at OU. My oldest son was born in Norman. Still can’t stand them.
Once while driving my young children home from their elementary school, we were singing “Home On The Range.” I only know the first verse or two, so after I ran out of verses I started winging it and figured I’d try to make it funny: the rattlesnakes/eat birthday cakes (clap clap clap clap) Deep in the heart of Texas!
Well I look in the rearview mirror to see my six year-old daughter glaring up at me from the back seat with tears in her eyes. “Sweetie, what’s the matter?” I asked. She didn’t answer. And then it dawned on me. “Sweetie, you don’t think I was making fun of Texas, do you? I was just being silly.”
“You should be proud that you live in Texas!” she wailed in fury.
That, my friends, is a Texan.
yours/
peter.
The Aztalan expansionist outlook must have overlooked my predominantly Mexican hometown. As much as certain portions of the left cater to this type of nonsense, I have meet few people who actually believe the west belongs to the Mexico. I can’t imagine this means much to anyone, and I assume its just a joke they figured made a nice graphic for an add.
HAH.
Hell, I wouldn’t even let em have OK.
It just seems like Mexico isn’t who lost the territory either to the US or to Texas.
When you have an overdeveloped inferiority complex in a shame culture, the reality that their problems are of their own creation is just too shameful to accept. So they project it on you and blame you for the cause. And what better reason than to say that you “stole” land from them?
Of course, in reality they’re not fighting to get land. They’re fighting to puff out their chests and be recognized as “important” or “powerful’ or… somebody worth a damn.
To me, I’d recognize their importance by using the best available.
That, my friends, is a Texan.
Indeed.
On the eve of the Mexican American War, Northern California was already full (reletively speaking) of us gringos, and they amounted to one of the strongest potential military forces in the state. Add to that, the hispanic Californios were hardly inclined towards Mexican rule . . .
Mexico was gonna loose California no matter what . . .
However, what if all that land remained Mexican . . . who would have dealt with Imperial Japan in the 1940s timeframe?