We're coming home!!!!!

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 10:00pm (EST+5) [email protected]
(Mortimer=A0Schnerd,=A0RN) says:
After only 25 years, you're lucky they don't call you a Damned Yankee.

Nah, I fit in right well. I'm the Yankee version of a good ol'
boy.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:02pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Morris=A0Dovey) says:
<snip> BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
cure. (-8 <snip>

With me, it's when people hear me, that don't know me. Then it's
usually, "You're not from around here, are ya?". I tell 'em yep, from
just up the road. That often throws them for a bit, then they usually
say that wasn't what they meant, and ask where I originally came from.
I tell 'em I was born and raised in MI, then spent 20 years in the Army,
and been down here since '79. The usual response to that is, "I 'knew'
you weren't from around here by the way you talked". Then we get along
fine. The really funny part is when I went back to MI for my dad's
funeral - everyone was telling me how I sounded so southern. LMAO

Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
here. Damn Yankees.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:33:19 -0500, "J. Clarke"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>So all those folks in blue that mah granddaddy shot in the late
>unpleasantness were what? He sure thought they were "Yankees". No, I take
>that back--those guys were "damnyankees", which I was taught to believe was
>synonymous with "Yankees" but maybe I was mistaken.

So what were they, Dodger fans ?

Well, I just wanted to say that we chose the Hickory area because we wanted
to be close to a large city, but still have the peace and quiet of a rural
area. Also, my son is now in Charleston learning to operate nuclear
reactors for the Navy and he will in all probablilty be sent to the George W
Bush when it is ready. That will be based in Norfolk. I have family in
Pennsylvania (but I don't want that cold a winter) so we thought NC would be
nice.

Plus, my great-great-grandfather and uncles fought for the South...:)

John
"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>J T wrote:
>
>> Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from
>> moving in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them
>> where they're from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like
>> they were visiting down here.
>
> Interesting point. Perhaps the real (underlying) question is actually:
> "Are you a committed community member/steward, or are you just here
> because you're not somewhere else?"
>
> When you answer that it's been your home for 20+ years, there's a
> reasonable chance that you /might/ be a committed community member
> (/might/ because you did, after all, leave the place you were before) - an
> answer of NY or NJ would seem to deny that this is where home and heart
> are and imply: "I'm here because I'm not somewhere up north."
>
> I've found that small town and rural areas of Minnesota and Iowa are much
> the same; and there's growing concern because here we have some of the
> most productive farm land in the *world* and it's being subdivided and
> paved over at an ever accelerating pace.
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto Solar
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
> http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

J T wrote:

> Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from
> moving in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them
> where they're from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like
> they were visiting down here.

Interesting point. Perhaps the real (underlying) question is
actually: "Are you a committed community member/steward, or are
you just here because you're not somewhere else?"

When you answer that it's been your home for 20+ years, there's a
reasonable chance that you /might/ be a committed community
member (/might/ because you did, after all, leave the place you
were before) - an answer of NY or NJ would seem to deny that this
is where home and heart are and imply: "I'm here because I'm not
somewhere up north."

I've found that small town and rural areas of Minnesota and Iowa
are much the same; and there's growing concern because here we
have some of the most productive farm land in the *world* and
it's being subdivided and paved over at an ever accelerating pace.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

Richard Schmidt wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (J T) wrote:
>
>> Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:02pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Morris Dovey) says:
>> <snip> BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
>> cure. (-8 <snip>
>> Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
>> in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
>> from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
>> here. Damn Yankees.
>>
>>
>> JOAT
>
> First, if someone is from NY, or ANYWHERE west/south of the
> Hudson River, they CAN NOT be any kind of yankee!!!!!
>
> Yankees come from New England state ONLY!!!!!!!!!
>
> If they are from Rhode Island, Mass, Vermont, NH, or Maine,
> they may be referred to as yankees [never Yankees]. Only
> folks from Connecticut can be referred to as Yankees[PERIOD]!!!

So all those folks in blue that mah granddaddy shot in the late
unpleasantness were what? He sure thought they were "Yankees". No, I take
that back--those guys were "damnyankees", which I was taught to believe was
synonymous with "Yankees" but maybe I was mistaken.

> Richard Schmidt

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (J T) wrote:

> Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:02pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Morris Dovey) says:
> <snip> BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
> cure. (-8 <snip>
> Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
> in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
> from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
> here. Damn Yankees.
>
>
> JOAT

First, if someone is from NY, or ANYWHERE west/south of the
Hudson River, they CAN NOT be any kind of yankee!!!!!

Yankees come from New England state ONLY!!!!!!!!!

If they are from Rhode Island, Mass, Vermont, NH, or Maine,
they may be referred to as yankees [never Yankees]. Only
folks from Connecticut can be referred to as Yankees[PERIOD]!!!

Richard Schmidt