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Odessa, Texas

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Location

The Resume

    (1881- )
    Seat of Ector County
    Population: 99,940 (2010)
    Incorporated as a city (1927)
    City symbol is the jack rabbit
    Attractions include The Presidential Museum and Leadership Library, The White-Pool House, Texon Santa Fe Depot, The Parker House Museum, the Jack Ben Rabbit Statue and the Stonehenge Odessa

Why Odessa, Texas might be annoying:

    It was originally founded as cattle shipping post.
    The weather gets extremely hot and dry in the summer.
    It hosted a strange rodeo which involved roping rabbits until 1977.
    Reality TV shows 'Making News: Texas Style' and 'Black Gold' took place here.
    The Presidential Museum and Leadership Library was closed for six months due to finanicial problems (August 2009-February 2010).

Why Odessa, Texas might not be annoying:

    Its population skyrocketed as oil was founded at Penn Field and Cowden Field in the late 1920s.
    According to the TV series 'Heroes,' it is the season one fictional hometown of Claire Bennett.
    The 'Friday Night Lights' novel which spawned a movie and a TV series of the same name was based on the Permian High School football team's 1988 season.
    It is only a 10 mile drive from the Odessa Meteor Crater.
    It was the filming location of Tommy Lee Jones' movie 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.'
    It hosts an oil trade show for workers and executives.
    The University of Texas of the Permian Basin campus included a Stonehenge replica as it is equal to the Stonehenge in England.

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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying