Big Tex, a notorious outfit repeater, will wear the same shirt this year as he did in 2022.
Photo Credit: State Fair of Texas
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By Zachary Taylor Wright
The State Fair of Texas is starting off with a bang of Lone Star State proportions, and with so many eyes on the prize at the annual event, a wee mishap with an event sign welcoming locals and travelers didn’t go unnoticed. When a fair goer posted a misspelling of “you’re” on the welcome sign, Reddit users took nearly zero time calling out the event planners and their home state. However, a little PR magic warmed hearts as it was all pinned on legendary mascot Big
Tex.
Walking up to the State Fair of Texas at Fair Park in Dallas, visitors were greeted with a sign that read, “Howdy y’all!” But this wasn’t what caught the sign some flack. Underneath the initial welcome, the sign read, “We’re glad your here.” A notable but not too uncommon misuse of the homonym for “you’re.”
Reddit users were quick to call out the misspelling, pointing out Texas’s ranking in education across the Untied States at No. 38. Others noted this wasn’t an uncommon mistake in Texas places like schools or events.
“The fact that this signage probably went through so many levels of approval before it got made baffles me,” one Reddit user wrote on a thread dedicated to the misspelled sign.
Others expressed nostalgia and desire for state fairs of yesteryear when the original Big Tex towered over the event before it burned down in 2012.
However, fair planners were quick to turn the dialogue around, pinning the typo on Big Tex’s life-size counterpart.
“This is what happens when we let Little Big Tex proofread, but we’re also glad YOU’RE here,” read a tweet from the State Fair of Texas on Tuesday, October 3.
The tweet included a video of the Big Tex mascot recognizing his mistake, digging through his pile of literary guides, and putting up a brand new iteration of the welcome signage with the correct “you’re” in tow.
Now, anyone interested in hitting up the fair before it ends October 22 can do so certainly knowing, “you’re welcome.”