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Show HTML View more styles. Although this mark of Texas swagger is used to elicit Texas pride in a myriad of situations, it was, and continues to be, a relatively trashy call to arms.

The slogan was developed by the Texas Department of Transportation for an anti-littering campaign. We want to keep it a beautiful state.

Texas is our home. In the late s, the Texas Department of Transportation had a mess on its hands.

Trash littered the highways and it only seemed to be getting worse - everything is bigger in Texas, after all. So the department put out a request for a marketing campaign to address the rubbish.

Research compiled by Daniel B. Syrek, a Californian who specialized in measuring trash, indicated that young men between the ages of 16 and 24 were the major perpetrators.

The campaign officially launched on New Years Day, , during the television broadcast of the 50th annual Cotton Bowl. Viewers saw a commercial starring Texas blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan strumming a guitar in front of a large Texas flag at the Austin City Limits studio.

By the end of that year, the agency released four more commercials starring singers and athletes, plus a radio advertisement.

And it worked. When Syrek counted Texas trash one year later, he found a 29 percent reduction in litter on the road. The next year it was down 54 percent and by , it was down 72 percent from The campaign continues today, featuring many famous Texas faces from Willie Nelson to Erykah Badu to Matthew McConaughey.

And Texans really have adopted the phrase as a battle cry. Redirected from Don't Mess with Texas! This article is about the slogan used by the Texas Department of Transportation.

For the film that used the slogan as a working title, see Hot Pursuit film. Texas portal. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December Los Angeles Times.

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The Tuscaloosa News. The ladies continue bonding, with Cooper admitting that her rigid and by-the-books nature has made it difficult to find a man.

They are surprised to find a man named Randy sleeping in the back of the truck. Randy is a felon with an ankle bracelet due to viciously assaulting his sisters' abusive boyfriends.

Cooper agrees to take off the bracelet in return for Randy's help. Daniella is pleased to see Randy flirting with Cooper. When Dixon and Hauser appear and shoot at the ladies, Randy attacks Hauser, allowing the ladies to run.

She gets back into the party, running into Emmett and learning that he is working for Cortez. He pulls a gun on her, but Cooper pours alcohol on him and tases him so he catches fire.

Daniella corners Cortez and reveals her intentions to kill him. Cooper arrives and stops Daniella, but when Cortez draws a gun Cooper shoots him dead.

Three months later, Daniella is released from jail, and Cooper picks her up and transports her out.

She surprises Daniella with her old pairs of very valuable shoes. She also reveals that Randy is in the car with her, and Daniella likes Cooper's new "wild side", as they drive off together.

The film was originally titled Don't Mess with Texas. Principal photography began on May 12, in New Orleans , Louisiana , and was set to last for two months.

The film's first trailer was released on February 12, Hot Pursuit released in theaters on May 8, It was then released on Digital Download on July 28, , and the DVD and Blu-ray were released on August 11, The website's critical consensus reads, "Shrill and unfunny, Hot Pursuit bungles what should have been an easy opportunity to showcase Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara's likable odd-couple chemistry.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it 1 out of 4 stars and wrote: "It's all stupefyingly unfunny. Hot Pursuit is one hot mess.

Stephanie Zacharek of Village Voice gave the film a positive review, with particular praise for the editing: "Hot Pursuit is a quiet triumph of tone and timing.

Nearly every scene is cut at just the right point, often topped off with a fantastic kicker of dialogue.