Why I Support President Bush and the ZOT!

[thousand dollar hamburger]

I think he has a sincere desire to help everyone. he has even gone out of his way to embrace people like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. He does not hold grudges as shown by his willingness to bend over backwards to allow terrorist supporting nations to operate our ports. We need this type of benevolent leader.

Our President is not a cheapskate, as he has opened up our budget to give to anyone who might need anything.

Aliens from all nations are welcomed into our great country without having to deal with mundane bureaucratic State approval. Cutting government red tape -- that's the Bush way!

Yes, our Prseident even realizes that occupying as many countries around the world as possible is the best way to spread American ideals.

We are truly lucky to have this great man. I suggest that at 10:00 AM EST, we all stand up in unison and shout -- HOORAY FOR BUSH!!!

[Monkey Face]

I believe, the last time I was confined visiting there, the pronunciations were:

Baltimore=Ballimer

Maryland=Merlen

[Irish_Thatcherite]

:)

[HKMk23]

Heh,he! Kickin' 'em to da curb, eh?

Strange, but it bugs me that the old family neighborhood there in Lurgan has gotten so seedy. The place was a retreat from the religious oppresion of The Crown, 300 years ago. Glad my family 'came over' when they did.

Wouldn't it be weird to find out that some of those Ulster stone throwers' ancestors sat at Quaker meetings with my "great-great-greats" in the early 1700's, right there in Lurgan? Strange to think about how people who once may have had so much in common could have diverged; one group building a heritage of faith and the other a heritage of bloodshed and militance.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Accent? What accent? I don't have an accent ...

My first day at the office after my Kenya trip my boos looked at me and said, "Why do you sound like Margaret Thatcher?"

I have mostly shaken it again but accents learned young are very easy to slip back into.

[Tulsa Brian]

Good work! You seem to be the only one holding the line, buddy. Keep it up. I wonder how many of them are agent provocateurs, I wonder?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The Loyalist and 'Republican' terrorist groups have effectively turn NI into a ghetto!!

[tuliptree76]

I figured you might enjoy a quick test to see how much Yankee blood you've got in ya (if any).

My results:

"25% Dixie. You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy."

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Good work! You seem to be the only one holding the line, buddy. Keep it up.

Well, most of my ping list turn up to give me a hand!!

I wonder how many of them are agent provocateurs, I wonder?

I think he definitely was one - he went beyond simply blaming the British, and actually mouthed support for Sinn Fein/IRA. I think a lot of the others others are simply misinformed fools!

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

[Monkey Face]

Hey, Teddy!

How are you feeling, now?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I'm apparently a 'West Brit'!! ;)

[tuliptree76]

her father came from "MisSOUrah", which is the the proper pronunciation south o'th Mason-Dixon line

I frequently get teased for my pronounciation of the word "Wisconsin" by those not from northern Illinois (in fact, I was teased about it last night). A few words that I say have a bit of a Chicago accent in it - probably a northern Illinois thing.

Wis-caan-sin.

[tuliptree76]

I'm an Illinoisan. Whaddya expect? ;-)

[HKMk23]

I have a knack for picking up on accents when I converse with people. If I talk with an Aussie for five minutes, I can walk away and fool the next guy into thinking that I'm an Aussie, too. It's just something I can do, and, in fact, it's so automatic that I often don't notice that I'm doing it. My wife will tell me, "Stop that; they're gonna think you're mocking them and be offended." I ask, "Huh? Stop what?"

Well, I went to a resort in Mexico about 20 years ago and talked with people from all over the U.S. and a couple of foreign countries; all with varying accents. After a dozen conversations with a dozen different accents, I realized that I didn't know how to talk like myself, anymore.

...but I'm not the only one...

A centipede was happy quite,
Until a frog in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?"
This raised her mind to such a pitch,
She lay distracted in the ditch,
Considering how to run.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

44% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. hehehe....

[Monkey Face]

LOL!
My son was born at Gt. Lakes, and we also lived in SD and MO, so for a while, I got pretty good at telling what part of the country a person was from. I'm not good at it any more. Though I DO have a tendency to say, Wi-SCAN-son, at times...;o]

[Monkey Face]

I think that would be me...

[HKMk23]

I've hear it pronounced that way; mostly by folks from around the Great Lakes region. MY kin over in N. St. Paul say it that way. They also say "ba-tries" not "batter-ies".

My paternal great-great-grandfather lived in Pana, Illinois in the late 1800's. It's about 40mi SE of Springfield. I need to do some 'roots' research out there sometime.

[tuliptree76]

I know where Pana is. :-)

[stephenjohnbanker]

33% dixie.