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mommy

I must admit I am not a true redneck:( I am an import from dare I say? NY truely yankee but shunned it at 18 when I moved here:)
we have a saying here Northerners are like hemmoroids~when they come down and go back up they are ok. But when they come down and stay down they are a pain in @#$:)
mommy

ZazuWitts

Mommy, Mommy

You are sooooo cute. In Ohio everyone south of Dayton are 'briars' - exception: Cincinnati where the population is half briar and half yankee. Only a few briars make it the 50 miles north to Dayton - when heading north on I-75 they see the sign saying
"Dayton Left - so they turn around and go home to the hills.

P.S. I'm selling my jewels to buy those two beautiful rugrats! Thanks for the pic. Your "Grandmommy" Zaz

mommy

Grandmommy,
Thanx you know I do have to pay for christmas:)
mommy
p.s.~I am glad Grandpappy is sharing the keyboard now, continue the wisdom:)

larc

This has turned into a North-South newletter. I was hoping to get news from other places. I know that the people on the East and West Coast think that people from the midwest and south are just a bunch of hay seeds, but I'll tell you what if you coastal folks get on our case, we'll be on you like a duck on a June Bug....ooops, I think I just used a hay seed phrase.

Waiting,

Well Ryan Brewer did it. He ran and caught passes for 214 yards, scored three touchdowns and was voted the games most valuable player.

I have a quote from yesterday's paper: "Brewer has been inundated with phone calls and e-mails wishing him luck. He said, 'I have a couple friends that are Ohio State fans, and they all called and said, heck with Ohio State, we're going with the Gamecocks for this one."
I just wanted to let you know that I was not the only Yankee that deserted the Northern cause that is Ohio State.

waiting

Hey larc,

Iced tea: Are they too damned lazy to sweeten their own tea when they are up north?

Spoken like a true yankee. Yankees! ya'll don know squat 'bout tea.

It takes **time** for the sugar to dissolve and not just sit at the bottom of the glass. Any suth'nr will tell ya that.

Btw., we have a unique pest here that I think the story goes came from South American. The Cursed Fire Ant. Not to be confused with a regular "small" ant, the regular "regular" ant, or the "red" ant. We got 'em all. No - The Cursed Fire Ant builds mounds which also go ye gods deep, and if by misfortune an innocent person steps in them, within seconds they're crawling up your leg. If not caught, they head up the body - stinging all the damned way. Leave blisters on the skin. If scratched, they pop open, blister bigger, and it goes on for days. Scars will normally result. Can always tell a gardner by the stupid pock-like marks on ankles and wrists. Well, at least the dumb gardners like me. People spend fortunes on Fire Ant Killer and stories abound on legends on how to kill them. But you can't kill them completely - they just move to another location week later.

Buckeye State? I'm originally from the Hoosier State. I don't know what SC State is called, probably the Myrtle Beach State.

Savannaugh is a neat old city, love walking on the old waterfront. Been to Charleston? Just as neat - or neater. Uppidity down there, though.

waiting

ps: Part of the fight slogan for University of South Carolina Gamecocks is "Go Cocks." The school finally forbade hats and shirts that just said "Cocks" on them (usually by male students).

A girlfriend of mine in Indiana just laughed when I told her that. She said, "Only in the South."

waiting

Edited by - waiting on 1 January 2001 17:57:0

larc

RHW - Where are you? Got a story that might get you to land here.

Last summer I tryed to get up on this horse, and although offical government policy is to say no to drugs, I was thrown and drug. My wife came over to try to help. She hadn't ridden in 5 years. She was drug free. You know, I think I would have been killed if the manager of K Mart hadn't come over and unplugged that thing.

mommy

Waiting,
My precious angel daughter was 9 months old,crawling in the grass, unknowingly right into a fire ant hill. I was in kitchen washing dishes watching her in yard little did I know what was about to happen. As I am watching I see my husband RUNNING up to her grabbed her and put her under the water hose. I went out there not knowing what was going on but all I could hear was her screaming and watched her being drenched with water.
When all was said and done she had over 70 bites on her body. Bless her heart and STILL has scars today:(
For those of you who have never been bitten by a fire ant ....Let me tell you they don't get that name for nothing!!! It hurts WORSE than the dickens.
Needless to stay if ya'll venture south....
STAY AWAY FROM RED DIRT MOUNDS!!!!
mommy

OrangeVale Bob

larc,
Stop that! Have you ever tried typing while laughing? It's not easy.

I was going to offer a real news story. Well, I don't know how new it is, but it's new to me.
It seems the US has a problem. We're running out of storage space for radioactive waste and contaminated metals. The solution? Sell the radioactive metals to recyclers. There are guidelines concerning how radioactive the metals can be, but the companies involved are lobbying diligently to get those guidelines changed and unsupervised. In the meanwhile, the metals that aren't safe for us American's are being sold to companies in third world nations where the standards are much lower. The metal is used for eyeglasses, tooth filings, fountain pens etc.
Come to think of it, it might solve another problem. Once people start glowing we won't need to turn on as many lights at night. Just think of the energy we'll save.

waiting,
I worked for a while with some Southern boy's. This CA native thought he was on another planet. Are all of y'all down there that witty? What does it, the water? If so, I want some.

mommy,
I agree with ZazuWitts. I think you are soooooo cute too! I'm too old for you but I think you're cute anyways.

OVB(blushing after typing the comment to mommy)

mommy

Blush away Grandpappy,
A weekend with the rugrats will get your face VERY RED!!!!!!!!!
mommy

ZazuWitts

Mommy,
Now listen child, you can't take to calling
OVB grandpappy - he's single and not that old - larc is your grandpappy cause he's married to your grandmommy (at least for the time being).
Awful to hear about the fire ant story-
we lived in Miami, Florida - fire ants, fleas, lice, cockroaches, tree frogs dropping in your hair, and snakes getting under the jalousie windows -
and I'm a red head, never could tan so the sun was not my thing - did become a good swimmer though - went to the Univ. of Miami pool almost every morning very early - practically had the place to myself..... Take care.

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