My wife is from Texarkana, TX. We are never relocating there. George Straight mentions "Rosanna's down in Texarkana" in his hit "All my Ex's live in Texas". Here is a list of "famous" people from Texarkana.

Lindsey Rayl Actress and singer/songwriter
Aysel Teymurzadeh Famous singer-performer
Parnelli Jones. Race car driver
Ocielia Gibson, Miss Black USA 2011
Miller Barber, golfer
J. B. Bobo, a magician
Willie Buchanon, American football player
David Crowder, musician
LaMichael James, American NCAA football player for the University of Oregon
Brandon Jones NFL football player for the Baltimore Ravens
Scott Joplin, musician and composer (founder of Ragtime)
Joshua Logan, film and stage director
Ryan Mallett, NFL football player for the New England Patriots
Eddie Mathews, American Baseball player
Dustin Moseley, American Baseball Player
Craig Monroe, baseball player
Mac Morgan, opera singer
Ross Perot, businessman and politician
Charles B. Pierce, movie producer
Molly C. Quinn, actress
James Theodore Richmond, writer and conservationist
Bill Rogers, golfer
Michael Jarboe Sheehan, Archbishop of Santa Fe
Marshall Terrill, best-selling author
Jeremiah Trotter, NFL football player
Nathan Vasher, NFL football player for the San Diego Chargers
Otis Williams, musician, founding member of The Temptations
Drew Stubbs, MLB baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds
Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s
Kevin Luthringer, professional basketball player, national beer pong champion
Lane Elliott, professional fisherman
Jeff Keith, lead singer of rock band, Tesla
Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino, Pulitzer Prize winning publisher and CEO of Pearson PLC

Not much to do there, in case anyone is relocating...

3/26/2012 11:17:54 PM

the one time I was there we went to go see Superbad in a theater

ticket dude refused to let me in because he thought I was using a fake ID

I was 21 at the time and have always looked about 5 years older than I am

luckily his manager was close enough by to hear the commotion

long story short, that place sucks

3/26/2012 11:58:18 PM

Cotton fields - ccr. All about it

3/26/2012 11:59:45 PM

with a single click of a moderator's mouse this went from decent lounge parody thread to terrible chit chat thread.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 12:10 AM. Reason : .]

3/27/2012 12:03:12 AM

You don't post parodies in the lounge :/

3/27/2012 12:24:37 AM

i know, i like how this all went down.

3/27/2012 12:28:33 AM

If I were a trucker at a truck rodeo in georgia, and was to take a bet to pick up an illegal load of 400 cases of coors beer and bring it back to Georgia, i reckon texarkana would be where I stopped for the beer.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 12:34 AM. Reason : i mean shit, 80 thousand dollars. ]

3/27/2012 12:34:21 AM

Texarkana featured prominently in "A Canticle for Liebowitz." So did a dead Jewish Catholic nuclear scientist monk. Coincidence? Yes.

3/27/2012 12:36:59 AM

i drove through there, twice. thats all i have to say about texarkana.

3/27/2012 2:30:20 AM

^^^, I too have heard of beer in Texarkana. Did you bring it back no matter what it took?

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 2:52 AM. Reason : ^ silly rabbit]

3/27/2012 2:52:36 AM

Jerry Reed also mentioned Texarkana in his hit song, "East Bound and Down."

"The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
And there's beer in Texarkana
And we'll bring it back no matter what it takes."

I should really read previous replies... Oh well.

[Edited on March 27, 2012 at 3:03 AM. Reason : LLLLLLLLLLLLLL]

3/27/2012 3:00:28 AM

If I were a trucker at a truck rodeo in georgia, and was to take a bet to pick up an illegal load of 400 cases of coors beer and bring it back to Georgia, i reckon texarkana would be where I stopped for the beer.

3/27/2012 7:12:37 AM