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Posted by Rodent on October 4, 2009, 8:08 pm
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Well, not really. At least I couldn't say for sure. But what most people probably don't know is that despite his fame for his last stand at the Alamo, he was also a member of Congress from 1827 to 1835, and he seemed to have a distaste for the formalities of politicians.
In one of his addresses to Congress, he went a rather verbal tirade, with an ending that all of us should enjoy. 
"I can take the rag off -- frighten the old folks -- astonish the natives -- and beat the Dutch all to smash, make nothing of sleeping under a blanket of snow and don't mind being frozen more than a rotten apple. I can walk like an ox, run like a fox, swim like an eel, yell like an Indian, fight like a devil, spout like an earthquake, make love like a mad bull, and swallow a Mexican whole without choking if you butter his head and pin his ears back."
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