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.
"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.
"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?
D-I-X-I-E ping
I love South Carolina. Its too small to be a country and too big to be an insane asylum.
I read somewhere that on the University of Texas campus, nothing can be named "North."
Oh I thought he must have been a Red Sox fan.
If everyone in the South was as "polite" as you, Mr. Ingram, we could justify another war.
A jerk is a jerk whatever culture he comes from.
Maybe so, but the covenants against Sherman may be legitimate. He was, after all, the first American terrorist.
>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. <
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In the second place, LeGare is a venerable old Charleston French name.
And in the third place, a while back, General Sherman's grandson married a Savannah girl, not just in Savannah (across the river from Jasper County, South Carolina) but in St. John's Church (Episcopal), next door to the parish house, where the reception was held and which served as General Sherman's headquarters during the conquest of Savannah in the Civil War. Savannah didn't bat an eye. You can't bury the hatchet any deeper than that.
I might add that, when General Sherman occupied Savannah, he was entertained by friends there. Savannah people--or South Carolina people, or Old Guard people across the South--have never allowed anything as relatively trivial as a war to interfere with hospitality or a good time! I mean...that goes without saying.
That said, however, there is a dual population of people from the Northeast and the Midwest which is particularly noticeable in California, where many of these people have immigrated, but which can be observed anywhere, including their home turf, the South, Europe, or anywhere else. One group is delightful; these blend in with everyone else and tend to go virtually unnoticed. The other is rude and obnoxious, in ways that are not seen in other populations. If I accidentally dial the wrong number, I can count on these people to be rude and impatient and not to be helpful.
An example: In a restaurant, a friend had me regaled with laughter. I didn't realize that I might be disturbing those around me until a woman not far away, with a noticeable Yankee or Midwestern accent shouted rudely: "Stop that!" I instinctively apologized, saying, "Oh I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." She turned away contemptuously.
Another example: A relative of mine was walking her dog in a very expensive neighborhood to which many from the Northeast and Midwest have recently moved. A man in an expensive car, shouted at her: "Make sure you clean up that sh**!" She was stunned. She and her husband put their house up for sale, not merely because of this man, but because he was typical of what had moved in. They moved to another location.
There are nice people and obnoxious people everywhere, but the Yankee version of obnoxiousness is a unique and particularly unpleasant variety.
"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...
Everything I know about the south I learned on that National Geographic show COPS.
>>>>>"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!
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...
"You aint from around here are you? Where y'all from?"
He replied "Chicago"
"Chicago!!" she shrieked, "Oh Mr., don't you think folks from up north are just the rudest most miserable people in the whole country?"
He looked at her and paused for a few moments to let her obnoxious comment sink in and said,
"I used to ma'am, I used to"