MY SOUTH

Ever Vigilant ^ | Robert St. John

[wimpycat]

the rest is Deliverance...Bush Country!

Did someone say "Deliverance"? You're gonna pray for me, boy, you're gonna pray for me real good!

[sweetliberty]

"Your south where family trees don't branch!"

You mean states where there are 5 million people and 15 last names? Yep, that's my south too. Well, we are BIG on family.

[f.Christian]

Watch it...I'm 51% damn Yankee and the rest Hawaiian!

[Congressman Billybob]

I thoroughly agree with the writer's conclusion concerning the woman from Las Vegas. They's jes some folks what we don wanna have movin ta this neck ov the woods. No way. (She sounds lack a no-count, ennyway.)

Bump fer the South.

Congressman Billybob

Phil & Billybob in the mornings, daily.

Billybob on the Net, weekly.

[sweetliberty]

Well, except for the panhandle you can't really consider Florida the south. The South is a way of life, not simply a geographical location.

[wimpycat]

Since I am from the south I wanted to add a few things left out. My South also has: *Rice pudding and tapioca *Swamp cabbage *Mosquitos, chiggers, and fireflies *The biggest roaches you have seen *Alligators & snakes *Good fishing *Tornadoes and hurricanes *Nice beaches

You forgot fire ants, kudzu, no-see-ums, those neat lizards whose tails come off when you try to catch them, tire swings, fans with funeral home advertisements, shelling butter beans on the porch, children washing their dirty feet before getting into bed, collards, men standing around smoking outside between Sunday School and church, and "Texas Pete" hot sauce.

[TomServo]

DIXIE BUMP!!

[txhurl]

A Gentleman Southerner is never rude unintentionally.

We Texans are pretty sure we're Southerners... we love and identify with all the other eastern =======>> Southerners, but we are perplexed at why they've outlawed beef for Bar-B-Qs.

One of those things you would love to understand but are too polite to bring up.

[wimpycat]

You're the one who brought up "Deliverance", so you gotta squeal like a pig!!! LOL!

[Constitution Day]

Hello MCM!

Unfortunately work is intruding on my FReeping activities right now so I will have to read this more thoroughly later.
I will, however add that:

My South has the best basketball in the country, and I'm talkin' ACC, baby!

Right now, in the top 25, there is Duke, Maryland, Wake Forest & N.C. State!
Note there is *no* University of North Carolina. Every time they lose another game, it warms my heart, I tell ya!

Seriously, hope you are doing well and thanks for the ping.

FRegards,
CD

[wimpycat]

NC State is having a pretty good season this year. Now that Dean Smith's gone, we know what the secret to UNC-CH's success was. Poor things! I wonder if their fans will be as loyal as ECU fans?

[sweetliberty]

"I grew up up around Smithfield"

I grew up in Chesterfield County in southern Virginia and there is no ham in the world that equals Smithfield ham in my opinion. I haven't had any for years and I sure do miss it! It isn't even readily available in other parts of the south that I have seen. I was completely spoiled by the food I grew up with, almost all of it home grown and home made. When I have lived away from the south (far too much of my life) everything tasted like cardboard in comparison. I'm glad to be back in the south cause there's no other place like it on earth.

[LADYAK]

Yup! Those additions sound good to me!!!! I also forgot dootle bugs not sure how to spell. Remember catching lots of lizards...oh forgot mangos, guavas, persimmons, and sea grapes. Also, remember washing my feet before going to bed.....used to love to turn on the lights on grandpa's back porch before going to bed and watch the roaches scatter....but things have gone to pot since moving north....turned over things to shuffleboard folks who have burned their brain cells in the sun and can't tell how to vote.

[TontoKowalski]

Biscuits and tomato gravy. Home canned/frozen vegetables, right outta the family garden. Homecoming - at churches and football stadiums. Homemade sausage with lots of sage. Vacation Bible School. Dogwoods that bloom at Easter. Miss Eudora Welty. William Faulkner. Affordable golf.

[sheltonmac]

:-D

I'm with you on "that NASCAR thing."

[LibertyGirl77]

I'm coming over!!!!! :) Yummmmmmmmmy.

[TexRef]

My South is home to the most beautiful women on the planet.

You can say that again... Southern women are beautiful.. Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, hmmm...

[AUgrad]

The US space program grew up right here in good ole Alabama. There are more high technology jobs per capita in North Alabama (particularly Madison County) than in any large northern city.

[AUgrad]

Holly Pond."

Not a Cullman County hillbilly.(just joshing). A big Alabama bump!

[dpa5923]

In my South, strangers in oncoming cars wave "Hey" to each other.

Ain't that the truth! I remember, once, when I was stationed in South Carolina, I was having a terrible day and nothing would make it better. I was driving my car with the A/C out in the mild of August and mad as hell at the entire world. A young lady in her late teens was walking on the side of the road. As I passed her, she smiled and waved at me. I had to turn the car around and thank her. She made my day bearable and she didn't care that my and her skin color didn't match.

I like the South.