On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:07:35 -0500, "modom (palindrome guy)"
> wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:46:38 -0400, blake murphy
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:09:37 -0700, "Dimitri" >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"sf" wrote in message ...
>>>>>I wasn't gonna say it, but you're right.
>>>>
>>>> So, being a Southerner is like being in a club where your membership
>>>> can be revoked on a whim? Didn't know that either. I'm liking being
>>>> a born & bred Yankee more and more.
>>>
>>>
>>>Nor really.
>>>
>>>Being a Southerner is for all intents and purposed a state of mind or
>>>attitude which is nurtured from birth. Florida is the Indian revenge on the
>>>white man for stealing Manhattan Island. They are selling uninhabitable
>>>insect infested swamp to unsuspecting northerners. There are too many
>>>transplants from the north for a proper Southern attitude to prevail.
>>
>>take a look at florence king's 'Confessions of a Failed Southern
>>Lady,' 'Southern Ladies & Gentlemen,' or a compendium, 'The Florence
>>King Reader.' very biting and funny.
>>
>>miss king was born to a mother who liked baseball and other things
>>inexplicable to her own very proper southern lady mother, and grandma
>>thought she had the chance to correct her mistakes with florence.
>>sample quote: 'no matter which sex i went to bed with, i never smoked
>>on the street.'
>>
>>great stuff.
>>
>>your pal,
>>blake
>>
>Yeah, it's been a long time since I read "Southern Ladies and
>Gentlemen," but I recall it was dedicated to the proposition that if
>you put a fence around the American South, you'd have a great big
>loony bin.

it really is a stitch.

your pal,
blake
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