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Yankee clauses dashed [Local landowner REALLY didn't like yankees...]
The Island Packet ^
| 07/06/2006
| JIM FABER
Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:52 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
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To: rightwinggoth
Is this an anti-semitic slur? Please tell me you're not serious.
61
posted on
07/06/2006 10:12:46 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: stainlessbanner
From your link:
Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit."
is definitely not an expression I would use if visiting San Fransicko.
62
posted on
07/06/2006 10:19:12 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: jammer
"Maybe so, but the covenants against Sherman may be legitimate. He was, after all, the first American terrorist."
Don't you mean Quantrill and his murderous band of Confederate guerillas ?
63
posted on
07/06/2006 10:26:25 AM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(The Democrat Party - Keeping Black folks on the "Plantation" since 1790)
To: taxed2death
First of all, I agree with this article. As a Red Sox fan I truly hate the Yankees!!!!
Seriously though, what would you consider a personal question? "How are you?", "Sure is a hot one, today?" "How's your Mamma?"
These are most of the question folks will ask a stranger or minor acquaintance here in Alabama. The most personal question one would ask a stranger is "Alabama or Auburn?", 'cause the answer could cause a fisticuffs. Generally speaking though, that question rarely gets asked as most folks wear their pride; ROLL TIDE or WAR EAGLE, somewhere on their person or vehicle.
I once had a man ask me some personal questions about my daughter when I had to go to the school board to pick up her records. The fellow wanted to know if she was having problems at school. I did just stare at him, not knowing what to say (I was going to tell him to "mind his own bidness" but the clerk took me aside and told me he was retarded. Don't think he represnted the true Southerner.).
Now I am US Military retired having spent a great deal of my adult life outside of my native New England so I guess I must be a Yankee, even though my kin didn't really arrive in the States until after 1865. I always say we would've come down father South but the captain of the ship must have been a Yankee!
There is one question that bothers me, though. Folks down this way will often ask, only after they've got to know you, what church you go to. I am a Catholic, and I hate to be asked this, 'cause there are some folks who consider my religion to be akin to the Great Beelzebub himself. Then again, I think the Pope John Paul II, Bless Him, changed a lot of fundamentalists opinions about my Church. Anyway, when folks asks about church mostly they're asking because they consider you a good fellow and are only showing concern. I don't think they'd ever ask someone they didn't like what church they go to.
To: Alas Babylon!
You're observations about the "church question" are spot on. I see that as taboo and way too personal a question to pop in the first few minutes of meeting someone.
....just my opinion though.
65
posted on
07/06/2006 11:02:40 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: SquirrelKing
"Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica"
I wonder if there is a Southern American expat movement
towards Costa Rica ? Very interesting...
66
posted on
07/06/2006 11:20:06 AM PDT
by
LeoWindhorse
(strive on with heedfulness)
To: JamesP81
When army officer Scott Fitzgerald was stationed in Alabama, merely decades after the Civil War, the Yankee officers were very popular with the local girls and their mothers. One local complained that the Yankees should not be invited to social affairs. The Alabama ladies considered the complaint absurd. One outraged dowager famously huffed: "The Yankees are such good dancers!"
Even more famously, Scott married one of the Alabama girls--Zelda!--and together they ushered in The Jazz Age--but that's a looooooooooong story!
67
posted on
07/06/2006 11:24:20 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President George Bush and his supurb leadership.)
To: LeoWindhorse
Curious. Like Brazil or Mexico post-war.
I was in Costa Rica last year, but the only Americans I met were hippie types that needed "SpeedStick", starry-eyed college kids and the odd naturalist or adventurer.
I have since met a number of Baby Boomers who are quitting the "North 48" and heading that way. Is Costa Rica the next Vero or St. Pete?
To: SquirrelKing
Everything I know about the south I learned on that National Geographic show COPS.
69
posted on
07/06/2006 11:46:18 AM PDT
by
wtc911
(You can't get there from here)
To: Fairview
That for the most part doesn't apply to Yankees on this forum because conservative Yankees are generally in favor of most of the attributes of Southern life, like decentralization of government, lack of gun control, close family life, respect for the military and for religion, and perhaps a more leisured way of living. EXACTLY the reason I returned to Tennessee, even though I am a 'Yankee' by birth. I have NOTHING in common with the people of New England, so I returned to the South for the reasons cited above. I wouldn't DREAM of telling Southerners how to improve things...if I didn't like it; I would be obligated to move on. I like Tennessee just the way it is...life is good.
70
posted on
07/06/2006 11:46:20 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
To: SquirrelKing
>>>>>"Yankees destroy everything they have up North, then they come down here," Ingram said. "When they destroy everything (in the South), where are they going to move next? Another country?" <<<<<<
And
City People .........Move to the country.
Liberals............ Move to Anywhere.
Or even worst!
Liberal City People.
True words.
If you don't like the smell of cow pooo stay in the city!
To: Theoden
It's the 2nd New York not the 10th you bloody noob!
To: stand watie
This guy a relative of yours?
To: SquirrelKing; Cagey; nutmeg
1. They could not be Yankees. At first, I thought he could be MY KIND OF GUY! Then I see that he doesn't mean those fags in pinstripes, but folks from the "nawth."
Personally, I wouldn't mind swindling some Bronx Bombers out of their money...
75
posted on
07/06/2006 1:59:01 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(The CFR ate my bilderburgers! Time to call for a trilateral commission to investigate!)
To: JamesP81
The biggest "rednecks" I have met are Mexicans.
You're wrong about Koreans being "southerners." More like they're the new Jews (meant as the highest compliment). ;-)
76
posted on
07/06/2006 2:00:18 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(The CFR ate my bilderburgers! Time to call for a trilateral commission to investigate!)
To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican
Southerners (bless your hearts), please stop asking 'where you from?' when you meet people. It's rude and shouldn't really matter. (I doubt we met on the civil war battlefields...let it go!, let it go!)So I guess asking what church you attend would be an out and out insult. :-)
77
posted on
07/06/2006 2:02:55 PM PDT
by
Between the Lines
(Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
To: Verginius Rufus
People don't read about the savagery with which Sherman tore through South Carolina. Back in the '30s, Nazi propoganda commented on it as an example of what Germans would NOT do in wartime. The Federals blamed South Carolina for the war.
78
posted on
07/06/2006 2:08:24 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Savage Beast
This was after the great "reconciliation" that began with the Spanish-American War, when northern troops were commanded by former Confederate officers.
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posted on
07/06/2006 2:11:28 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: rightwinggoth
Is this an anti-semitic slur? No. That's a southerner thinking he's being nice and polite.
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