Posted on 09/01/2004 6:56:49 AM PDT by Alouette
September 1, 2004 -- Forget the subway's stifling heat — this family's biggest problem yesterday was figuring out how to get through the turnstile. Meet the McMinns of Hempstead, Texas — population: 4,981.
The farm-lovin' family took their first trip to the Big Apple this week for the GOP convention, where 55-year-old Tom is a state delegate. Yesterday, there was only one thing to say about their experience so far: Is there a translator in the house?
"I've heard some people that I've thought were from other countries . . . but then you realize they're from New York," said Tommy McMinn, 14, who is more used to riding his tractor to the local gas station than hopping on a subway.
The family — which lives about 60 miles from Houston — arrived at the Hilton in Midtown on Monday, full of ideas about what Gotham would be like.
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"We clobber big city prices" or so Ray Childress tells me when he encourages me to head up to Hempstead to buy a new car.
Good hard working people from flyover country.
And I'm a native New Yorker.
"Yummy!" Dianne said.
"You couldn't get that in Hempstead," Tommy added.
Note to self: move to Hempstead and open a kosher restaurant.
He talked me into it way back in 1994 when he was still an Oiler. :)
I have to crack up at some of these articles in a few NY publications. It just shows how isolated some liberal New Yorkers are. I mean give me a break, if they bothered to head 35 miles out of the city into New Jersey or lower New York State, they would see plenty of farms and hear people who don't speak with a New York City dialect.
Being an engineer from small-town Texas, I love how my accent and the place I grew up make me a "Hayseed" to some. This man has a petroleum engineering degree, but I'm sure the journalism degree this writer may or may not have, since I can't find info on her, was hard too.
15 years ago, very good friends of ours moved to Oklahoma..in the panhandle. I can't remember the town, He 'd been transferred for his job..He was there for 5 years, and is now back in the NY area.. His wife was the penultimate NY'er..born and bred..so it was a bit of a culture shock.. I remeber talking to them on the phone month or so after they'd moved..My wife asked them how they lolike it., what they did for amusement, etc. His wife replied...We go upstairs to our bedroom, open the window, lean out, and look at the lights of Chicago
The few New Yorkers who are snobs about flyover country must be so proud to have the trailer trash queen, former first lady of Arkansas and laughably cuckolded intern-widow as their senator that they could just split themselves sideways.
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That's the most annoying thing about limousine liberal NYers.
Most of them speak the "unaccented" English of TV news talking heads. To them, a Noo Yawk accent is only one step above a Texas twang or a Mississippi drawl.
All accents except Peter Jennings' duckspeak, drawing-room British and Continental European are considered by them to be evidence of limited mental capacity.
I now speak this "unaccented" English because at the age of 13 I began attending an exclusive Jesuit school on the Upper East Side and my Noo Yawk accent was unacceptable in the debating society.
When I go back to Queens I usually "revert" to the accent of my youth, but I find that speaking in TV English is best for business.
Still, I love occasionally debating liberals as a Noo Yawkuh because they make embarrassing assumptions about my education that expose them as the twits they are.
I'm sure if the Chassidim ever wanted to take a trip to Texas for a red heifer or a sacrificial lamb or something the hospitality would be returned!
They talk like Hempstead is in the middle of nowhere. In realitly it's about 50-60 miles from downtown Houston. Which, by Texas standards, is practically next door. It's also about as far as Poughkeepsie is from New York City. 500 acres in that part of the state is a pretty big place I would imagine, although I've not been there to know for certain.
Its not like these people from outside Houston don't have a satellite dish as big as a car and get 1000 channels. This is not 1960 you know. They probably can also read the Slimes online or surely get the Sunday edition near Houston.
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