Check out this little-known history of Elsa, Texas.
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Anglo-Americans didn't settle the area until the 1900s. When they settled, they put the Mexicanos in labor camps and had them pick over 50,000 papayas per day.During the early 1900s, land speculators began to buy the papaya fields...
Elsa Tx. was soon the a setting for revolution. The Anglo's began to desperately search for the mexican messiah that the good hispanics from Elsa believed in. Legend goes that they killed every newborn daughter and son in search of the savior, but one day a baby turned into a giant Yellow Jacket and killed the Anglos.
Elsa Tx. was soon the a setting for revolution. The Anglo's began to desperately search for the mexican messiah that the good hispanics from Elsa believed in. Legend goes that they killed every newborn daughter and son in search of the savior, but one day a baby turned into a giant Yellow Jacket and killed the Anglos.
The wonderful thing about this legend of the Mexican messiah is that it originated on June 25, 2007, and has since been overlooked by about 2 or 3 well-intentioned editors, and God knows how many readers. Indeed, one editor even restored the hoax while trying to repair something even more preposterous in the article!
Not only that, but the legend continued on October 15th:
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Then the Yellow Jacket turned out to be a homosexual. So the mexicans killed it and in return turned to a bunch of mindless idiots who mostly began to work in politics.
But, alas, some goody-two-shoes editor named Knight of the Lepus (I'm not kidding) seems to have picked up on the "crazy talk", as he calls it in his edit summary.
Oh, well. It was funny while it lasted (nearly four months).
Remember, everyone, Jimbo told us -- "Vandalism is a minor issue. Most vandalism is corrected within moments."
Moments. Months. Same diff.
Greg