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To: monocle
they held a party to which only old Charlestonians were invited

Did you move to the S.O.B. area (South of Broad)? I use to live on the Isle of Palms, but knew a few folk that lived in that area.
148 posted on 07/07/2006 4:09:50 AM PDT by smug (Tanstaafl)
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To: smug

Yes


151 posted on 07/07/2006 4:45:07 AM PDT by monocle
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To: smug
Did you move to the S.O.B. area (South of Broad)? I use to live on the Isle of Palms, but knew a few folk that lived in that area.

A good buddy of mine from the Navy married into an SOB family and I had a chance to attend a few social occasions as his guest. To say that the SOBs were arrogant would be incorrect. Arrogance is a front, put on by people who only think they're superior and they tend to be condescending to those they suspect might threaten them. SOBs know with absolute certainty that they are superior to everyone else, and that allows them to be generous to those lesser persons like myself who were not born in Charleston. They were, to a man, among the kindest people I ever met in a regal sort of way. Just as long as I remembered my place; I may have been an officer and a gentleman but I was a still Yankee officer and a Yankee gentleman.

And when I married, to a Yankee girl from Ohio I met while at Department Head school in Rhode Island, the SOBs wouldn't travel North to the wedding but threw us a very nice reception when I moved my bride down there.

169 posted on 07/07/2006 5:51:37 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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