Posted on 10/27/2020 8:42:02 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Virginia certainly is part of the South; and I’m hereditarily - and Maryland is geographically - ‘contiguous’ with the South...
Dear.
I remember Howard’s deodorant ad, “ When you are 6-8 and 300 lbs you sweat alot” LOL
Contigous, eh?
Nice save.
Your ancestors decided the question some years ago.
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Maryland, a slave state, was one of the border states, straddling the South and North. Despite some popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland would not secede during the Civil War.
Yeah, Go.... Away.
Didn’t watch a single minute of professional sports the whole year. Didn’t miss it.
The Dodgers are the most pro LGBTQ team in sports.
Woke. Hope they go broke.
Most of my baseball cards are now worthless and with new MLB rules coming in about the length of games, etc., they will make good compost for my garden.
Glad I have a few of the older players. They were worth watching.
Given the huge amount of money heavily flowing into the coffers of the violent BLM riot organization, I expect violent BLM riots to be with us for many years to come. Marxist BLM has easy access to a practically unlimited supply of funds. And when the pro sports leagues, the fake-news MSM, major U.S. corporations, and academia don't provide adequate support, George Soros is always at the ready to step in with many more billions.
Fletch with Chevy Chase. It’s a classic guy film.
And the opioid of the people goes merrily along.
JoMa
LA should name the Rays manager as MVP. He gave them the game by taking Snell out.
So the Dodgers won the World Series! I have tried my best, but I can’t think of a single person to call that would give a rat’s azz.
No.
Good, now I can watch Seinfeld reruns again.
No, not ‘contigous’ - ‘contigUous’.
I didn’t have any ancestors in Maryland, at the time. They were all in Ole Virginny - or Europe.
(And I’m glad they dumped ‘Ole Virginny’ and made the state song ‘Shenandoah’, instead. It’s pretty much the most beautiful American folk song that we have):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GtwNJf3EK4
‘Shenandoah’ has nothing to do with Virginia !
It’s not the Virginia State song
Current Virginia state song
https://www.50states.com/songs/virginia.htm
Yes its lame !
Can’t have “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny” since it’s a minstrel tune. They’re all woke now in Virginia.
Shenandoah depicts a voyageur and his Native American wife and children. - “Oh Shenandoah” (also called simply “Shenandoah” or “Across the Wide Missouri”) heading west past the Mississippi.
Shenandoah lyrics
https://genius.com/Peter-hollens-shenandoah-lyrics
Spit.
Oh, Gosh - I see now that they changed it again a few years ago.
But even though the lyrics are far less beautiful (poetically, relatively insipid) at least they saved the music.
I wonder why they didn’t want a beautiful song referencing Native Americans? They’re willing to turn everything upside down to fit their various narratives, it wouldn’t seem too great a stretch to retain reference to a name that does have VA importance.
(In Old Virginia, the First Families actually took some pride in any rumour that they may have possessed some Indian blood in their backgrounds - as long as it was ‘royal’ or ‘chieftain-ly’ enough.)
On further investigation, the history of the name of the valley and river in Virginia seems itself mixed-up - and one version is probably the reason it first became the State song:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_River#Etymology
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