Posted on 09/02/2007 6:32:33 PM PDT by chasio649
About two weeks ago I helped carry my son’s stuff up to the third floor of Venable Hall so he could start his sophmore year. Man was it HOT in that stairwell.
Is there really a H-S ping list?
True, but also a little worse.
Yes, it does, but that is the modern interpetation.
“Simple-minded” has always been an insult in my world.
The definition I gave above came from the dictionary. And I didn’t leave anything out.
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there could be some condescension in reeds choice of words but there was too much love for his subject for it to matter. how do you describe, after all, someone who is dumb as a post — who joins the army. these days the army runs IQ tests on people who want to join. I don’t think the army takes anyone with an IQ below 90. That rules out a lot of people. The army didn’t used to be that way.
As a regular Fred on Everything reader, I believe your interpretation of his use of "simpleminded" is correct. Like his father, Fred is a former Marine and a combat veteran. And I would think he looks favorably upon men who answer the call to arms without too much thought; that is what Southern men do.
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NEVER FORGET
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The same WALTER CRONKITE who was on the side of Communism taking over a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War...
...went on to publically state at a year 2000 London World Conference that it was time for America’s 11 Southern States to secede from our Union.
The very same WALTER CRONKITE that is pushing now for HILLARY to regain control of our precious Oval Office...
...in a new time of war in a new century with our own Freedom directly at stake right here at home.
NUTS.
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NEVER FORGET
A Southern man don’t need Walter around anyhow.
Ironically, Tupelo has one of the best school systems in Mississippi.
Just out of interest...what do you attribute that to?
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With a HILLARY seated back in contro our Oval Office...
...Southern boys and girls are gonna get more WALTER CRONKITE than they will know what to do with.
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American by birth. Southron by the Grace of God.
TG A20
The consequences of war and reconstruction. The economy of the South didn't recover for 50 years.
My Daddy grew up in North Mississippi with a widowed mom, and several siblings, working as a sharecropper. He laughs about the times they'd be sitting down to eat their bag lunches and an old black lady who lived on the edge of the field would call them in for lunch. He said those were the best biscuits he ever ate.
I never knew his family well; they weren't much for gatherings. I knew about 6 cousins of the 15 or so on his side. They were mostly Scots-Irish, with some Cherokee thrown in.
On my Mama's side, her parents were both originally from New Orleans. It was a big Italian-Irish family, I had 39 first cousins, and we got together almost every Sunday afternoon, after dinner, at Granny's house. We're all still pretty close.
ROTFL!! "Ode to Billy Joe" is one of my favorite songs, and it evokes strong memories. Every time I hear it, I can smell creosote, and I'm walking down a back road in Gautier MS with my sister and our friends, by the old creosote plant. I don't even know if it's still there, but it will always be there in my memory.
Blown away.....Major Talent here...
I grew up near Athens, Alabama...in the 1970s. Its almost like the concept of “BC” and “AD”...because Athens and the south today....isn’t anything like the Athens of the 1970s. There is no comparison...things have improved and changed to a huge positive throughout the entire region.
Years ago...if you were smart enough to attend a local college...the only good local jobs were school teacher jobs or Browns Ferry. Today...Huntsville is a mecca for technology and military-related jobs.
Medical? In the old days....if you had anything drastic...you drove to Birmingham or Nashville. Today...you can have almost any procedure in the world done there locally. Almost every community has doctor-support...something that didn’t exist in 1970.
Want to travel? In 1970...you had to be ultra-rich to afford airline tickets in the local area. I knew of no one who travled by air. Most still drove or rode Greyhound. Today....more than half the local population takes a trip per year via the local airport...to Aruba or Dallas or Paris.
Its still true that some hardcore southern attitudes remain...but they have been watered down to some degree. You can still depend on your neighbor when you need their help. You can still count on southern hospitality when its necessary. You can still find friendly faces in every crowd. A front porch is still the best place to make new friends.
“A front porch is still the best place to make new friends.:
AWWWWWWWW.......so true
During the days I would walk mile after mile, struggling to keep up with "Old Mr. Shelly", who at almost 70 years of age put everyone else to shame. Mr. Shelly always had a ton of stories to tell, and we talked a lot of politics too. (At the time I didn't realize how ridiculously futile it was to try to convert a farm hand in the cotton fields to the Republican cause - I was fighting not only against the "victim mentality", but also against Richard Nixon).
A couple of years later I hung up my hoe to become Joe College, and the "wick bar" and the chemical "Roundup" teamed up to relegate cotton chopping to the pages of history.
These days I guess chopping cotton is what they would call "A job American's won't do" - but somehow my memories of it remain quite fond.
I'll tell you what, I grew up in the Midwest during the fifties and sixties, and in my old hometown of La Crosse, Wisconsin I remember seeing a lot of decrepit homes including tar-paper shacks. Probably not as many as some other parts of the U.S, but life has improved in all parts of the country and not just the South. If nany people could go back in time and look at their old hometowns, I'm sure they'd be stunned at the difference between what is now and what was.
Toyota will build there.
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