Great quote!
Credit where credit is due:
James Lois Petigru, 1789-1863
Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
An ironic and funny twist to a local legend.
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The list of rules she got from the builders was missing the first pages, so she went to the Jasper County Courthouse to get the missing ones. There, she found the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
Confederate alert!! Ping the Lincoln haters.
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"Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica soon, cites the boorish manners of Yankees as one of his prime dislikes for them.
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."
I would have to say that anyone North or South, who broadly generalizes a whole group of people like Mr. Ingram does, is indeed dumb.
It must be the snow and ice that makes Yankee noses "little" and "pointy". I guess the heat and sun makes Johnny Reb's nose huge and bulbous...or is that the moonshine?
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said.
Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Is this an anti-semitic slur?
Hey, plenty of people are "polite and nice" besides just Jewish folk. ;-)
D-I-X-I-E ping
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."
I remember moving to Illinois from the high plains of Texas when I was 9 years old. We marveled at the ridicule we received from the local farming community because of our accents, cowboy boots, etc. I was called a dumb hillbilly. I guess they had never seen Levelland, Texas. One of our neighbors was in his seventies and had never been outside of two counties there in Illinois and yet was an authority on how backwards and racist all of us "southerners" were. So I can sort of understand where Mr. Ingrahm is coming from.
This has always been a local legend and I was surprised to see it make front page and actually be REAL.
It's highly ironic and to top it off, he's moving to Costa Rica! Bet it won't be five minutes before HE's telling THEM how to do things...
I don't think so, it does not fit the stereotype. Anyway, I think it is meant to convey that we Yankees are snobbish and nosy, and we are >:P
Well, if Bush were to do what Lincoln did, he would most likely be impeached. Lincoln had a Member of Congress arrested as a Confederate sympathizer becauise the guy disagreed openly wiht his war policy.
I love South Carolina. Its too small to be a country and too big to be an insane asylum.
Great quote!
Credit where credit is due:
James Lois Petigru, 1789-1863
He wasn't Superman's girlfriend...
I read somewhere that on the University of Texas campus, nothing can be named "North."
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