@ericbomb to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 year agoTIL: "Don't mess with Texas" started as an anti litter sloganwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square14arrow-up1333arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1328arrow-down1external-linkTIL: "Don't mess with Texas" started as an anti litter sloganwww.youtube.com@ericbomb to Today I LearnedEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square14file-text
Seems wild that a now beloved phrase, started as a government slogan to get people to stop throwing trash on the road.
minus-square@SocialMediaRefugeelinkEnglish2•1 year agoLady Bird Johnson (first lady, wife of Lyndon Johnson) was the first to push for anti littering and anti billboards. She was also moved by the amount of trash she saw in Texas. https://www.pbs.org/ladybird/shattereddreams/shattereddreams_report.html Looks like the trash was still a problem into the 80s when the Texas DOT started their own anti littering campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas
Lady Bird Johnson (first lady, wife of Lyndon Johnson) was the first to push for anti littering and anti billboards. She was also moved by the amount of trash she saw in Texas.
https://www.pbs.org/ladybird/shattereddreams/shattereddreams_report.html
Looks like the trash was still a problem into the 80s when the Texas DOT started their own anti littering campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas