March 19, 2006

  • Well, isn't that the way?  This evening Don and I watched the
    Discovery Channel's "Perfect Disaster" docudrama about a super-tornado
    slamming through Dallas and just wrecking the heck out of it.

    That part, naturally, I
    enjoyed tremendously.  There's nothing like watching downtown
    Dallas be ripped to smithereens to put a beatific smile on my
    face. 

    The part I disliked intensely was how Fort Worth simply didn't exist,
    for the purposes of the show.  Again and again the announcer made
    reference to storms moving in toward Dallas from the west.

    Um, that would be where Fort Worth
    is?  At one point there was a storm spotter reporting from
    "Westover Hills", but seeing as how the only open spaces in Westover
    Hills would be the golf course at Shady Oaks Country Club, the exact
    whereabouts of the vast expanse of prairie from which the spotter was
    calling in was a mystery.   

    There was a scene where the Ballpark at Arlington was being torn apart
    by the tornado, only it was referred to as "Dallas Stadium."

    Watching this disaster show one would receive the impression Dallas
    sits all by its lonesome in the middle of the Texas prairie, instead of
    which it's totally surrounded by cities and towns.  Dallas can't
    expand another inch, in fact, unlike Fort Worth. 

    As Don noted ascerbically, if the Discovery Channel people can't manage
    to get basic stuff straight such as there being a fairly good size city
    sitting directly to the west of Dallas, in the path of those
    approaching storms, why should we believe the science they've
    reported?  Couldn't Fort Worth at least be mentioned (we weren't,
    even when shots of the damaged Cash America and Bank One buildings were
    shown, after the tornado of 2000), and maybe mussied up a trifle?

Comments (17)

  • Fort Worth? People live in Fort Worth? I thought they just had cows and rodeos! ;) ;) ;)

  • Look up in the sky!  It's a bird....no!...it's a plane....no!...it's Bitter Lady!!  Able to bitterly share frustration in a single blog!  Wittier than senior editor of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram!  Offending Dallas citizens over a silly show!  Bitter Lady swoops into the internet highway after viewing on her bitterometer that Ft. Worth has been done disjustice by the evil Discovero Channo!  Universally known for its poor ability to show anything tasteful, Discovero Channo airs a show directly aimed at berating the very existence of the celestial city known as Ft. Worth.  Armed with nothing but true bitterness, Bitter Lady unloads her mighty bitter blaster at the vile Discovero Channo and its vile henchmen, the horrible Dallasonians.  OOF!  WHACK!  CRACKLE JACKLE!!  Ha Ha!  Bitter Lady has done it once again.  Ft. Worth has been restored to its celestial greatness amidst a world filled with those that want nothing more than to see Dallas exalted high above her neighboring city.  Thanks Bitter Lady!

  • Oh yeah.  That was Alex, not your amazing daughter-in-law, Beth Girl.

  • Kurt and Alex, yer riots. Really. No, seriously. I mean it. >;^>

  • Bitter Lady calls 'em as she sees 'em, BTW.

  • Ummm, but isn't she right?? Planes land at DFW and crew welcomes you to Dallas, etc etc but I know well off folks that work in Dallas and drive to FW to live as our quality of life is better here!! Hummph! I say hummmphh. Bitter lady indeed!! Observant, more like.

  • When we were at DFW on Friday night, one could hardly tell Fort Worth existed yet as Don noted, at no point does the airport actually come into contact with Dallas, yet part of it is on Fort Worth land.

    Frustrating, that's what it is.

  • Ha, Ha, Ha...Dallas is slowly taking over the world, starting with lowly Fort Worth. 

    (Ok, ok...I admit...Fort Worth is much nicer, safer, prettier, etc.)

    Love,

    Your Dallasite Daughter-in-law (no offense taken)

  • You're not in Dallas. You're in a suburb of Memphis.

    Come to that, your mother's not in Dallas, nor is your father.

    Sensible people.

    I will grant you, seeing as how Elaine's husband and my husband do work in Dallas (more's the pity!), it might be best were the supertornado to trash the joint on the weekend. ;^p

    See? I'm all heart.

  • Beth, though I've never met you or Alex (or your mother-in-law for that matter, although I've HEARD scads about her from my sisters!) I knew without a shadow of doubt that that was Alex. Only a smart-alecky-son too big for his britches would pile on the sarcasm like THAT! (I say this as the mother of a 30 year old, smart-alecky-too-big-for-his-britches son myself.)

    Bitter Lady indeed!

    It was just a bit of Sour Grapes, Alex.

    me<><

  • [sniffing] Thank you, Cindy dearest.

  • Fort Worth would get more love if it had a better name. I mean, "Fort Worth"? You just can't do anything with that. I knew a girl named Dallas, but never anybody named Fort Worth.

  • I beg to differ. "Fort Worth" is a name that means something. It's laden with history, positively laden. The city got its start as a...what?...a FORT! And that fort was named after who? General Worth!

    Then take "Dallas" (though who'd want to?). As you said, it sounds like a girl's name.

    May as well call it "Sheila."

  • Eeeeh, you know, it just doesn't sound like the name of a city. It's almost like you'd wanna say something like, "Hey, when we take our trip to Dallas, let's check out that historical Fort they have there...Fort Worth or something, I think it's called." ;)

  • I believe the phrase you're thinking of is "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?" from George Strait's album of the same name. ;^)

    "Is Fort Worth Worth It?" Terri Clark asks.

    Well, "She Who Came From Fort Worth" sez you betcha.

    And why? Because "Fort Worth Rules".

  • And then there's Limbaugh's term for Jim Wright -- "Fort Worthless Jim."

  • Not a song title. Doesn't count.

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