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PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF DALLAS CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU (FAIR PARK)<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
Everything’s<br />
Bigger in Texas<br />
40<br />
BY THE<br />
NUMBERS<br />
The number of bronze longhorn cattle in<br />
the Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive, the WORLD’S<br />
LARGEST BRONZE MONUMENT.<br />
30,000,000<br />
light bulbs in the<br />
WORLD’S LARGEST<br />
HDTV VIDEO BOARD at<br />
the new Dallas Cowboys<br />
Stadium (http://stadium.<br />
dallascowboys.com)<br />
3<br />
acres inside Billy<br />
Bob’s Texas (www.billy<br />
bobstexas.com), the<br />
WORLD’S LARGEST<br />
HONKY TONK<br />
ON THE TOWN: DALLAS/FT. WORTH<br />
GREEN MEANS GO!<br />
This fall, the Dallas Area<br />
Rapid Transit’s Green line<br />
connects Dallas’s northwest<br />
with the artsy Fair Park and<br />
Deep Ellum neighborhoods,<br />
making a day at a museum<br />
followed by a night in some<br />
of the city’s best bars easier<br />
than ever.<br />
What did you say to me? Should you be lucky enough to run into a real<br />
Texan, you’ll want to know what the heck he or she is saying underneath all that drawl.<br />
<br />
APPROVAL DISAPPROVAL<br />
PHRASE: You’re as handy as hip pockets on a hog<br />
WHAT IT MEANS: You’re very useful<br />
PHRASE: You’ll do to run the river with<br />
WHAT IT MEANS: You’re a quality person<br />
<br />
PHRASE: You’re all hat and no cattle<br />
WHAT IT MEANS: You’re all talk<br />
PHRASE: You’ve got tongue enough for<br />
10 rows of teeth<br />
WHAT IT MEANS: Shut up<br />
The Fair Park Esplanade<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
The Sanger building in<br />
Ft. Worth’s Sundance<br />
Square (www.sundance<br />
square.com)—now home<br />
to Leddy’s Ranch—was<br />
the first building west of<br />
the Mississippi to feature<br />
“manufactured air,”<br />
otherwise known as air<br />
conditioning.<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2009</strong> GO MAGAZINE<br />
031
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