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As Redneck as they come

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"Sorry!  Didn't mean to insult or demean; just wanted to have some fun.

You sure didn't insult or demean me. We rednecks are tough. We are not a "protected group" under the federal guidelines. And we have a sense of humor. I viewed what you posted as great! Many thanks for the entertainment.

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Thanks for understanding; I love the south, and have lived here most of my life.  Frankly, one thing that has always appealed to me about the south is the southern accent.  I really find it hard to listen to a Pittsburgh accent (especially my own on tape). I would rather listen to southern speech anyday!

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PS: I'm also a unitarian (more or less); here is a good site for jokes about unitarians:


http://stoney.sb.org/uujokes.html


I've found that it's the unitarians who like these jokes best.



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Southern Baptist

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Originally posted by: Just an opinion

"PS: I'm also a unitarian (more or less); here is a good site for jokes about unitarians . . . . . I've found that it's the unitarians who like these jokes best."

We Baptists make the best butt for jokes. And it doesn't bother us in the least. Here is one of my favorites:

Why do you have to take two Baptists with you when you go fishing?

Because if you just take one, he'll drink all your beer.



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Just an opinion, do you know the "done gone to meddlin' " joke?

That was a tongue in cheek complaint, but really the mountain accent is quite distinctive. There's no such thing as one truly Southern accent -- it's a great range. the one I don't hear anymore was very distinctive to people from the Delta. I heard it as a child and young person in Memphis, but it seems to have died out. They had an odd twist to words like "earth" or "birth" -- any other real old people know what I'm talking about?


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LVN,


I don't know that joke, but, since I love almost all jokes (the cornier, the better), I'd enjoy hearing it.


My big surprise, when I moved to the deep south, was to discover that people further north (say, in Tennessee) seemed to have stronger "southern" accents than the ones I encountered down where I live.  Our country (the U.S.) certainly is a fascinating hodge-podge of accents, but in Britain (apparently) there used to be distinctive ways of speaking even from one village to another.  I will never forget being in England in the 80s and hearing a TV weatherman speaking a version of English I could just barely comprehend.  I will also never forget one of my students asking me, shortly after I moved to the deep south, whether I was English, even though I can barely stand the sound of my own Pittsburgh-inflected speech.  I would love to have a stately (no pun intended) southern drawl!



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"There's no such thing as one truly Southern accent -- it's a great range."

LVN, I agree. It's not difficult to identify which part of the South a person is from simply by listening to their dialect/accent. A female who has lived in Atlanta all of her life has a very distinct accent, as does one who was raised on the eastern shore of Virginia. Florida is an exception, of course, because of the influx of New Yorkers and snow birds; as is South Louisiana for obvious reasons. The Mississippi Delta is another story. I have observed that the dialect difference is more apparent in Southern females than in Southern males.

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I have a difficult time distinguishing the accent of a person who was raised in West Texas from a person who was raised in West Virginia. They sound very similar.

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Sorry to bore people with old stories, but here's an apropo one. My late sister took me to England several years ago for a Significant Birthday. I had never been abroad and was thrilled beyond words. Landed at Gatwick; train, taxi (charming London taxi!) and walked into the lobby of the Rembrandt. There stood a lovely family group, grandparents, young adults, children. I was so excited to encounter this obviously upper class British family in the flesh. Then they spoke, and I heard that distinctive accent that goes from Jackson to Birmingham. Flew 4,000 miles to run into people who probably live 100 miles away from me!

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As an insulted Swede, I have but three words to say to you:

BORK BORK BORK!



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" ....do you know the "done gone to meddlin' " joke? ...."

Please tell it, LVN, if it's "suitable for public consumption." It sounds familiar so I know I've heard it, but one of the benefits of getting old is that every joke is new to me. (I also meet new friends everyday and can hide my own Easter eggs!) 

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"Thames Rallies Eagle Supporters
Thomas Scott, Enterprise-Journal Reporter
USM President Shelby F. Thames wasn't facing a hostile crowd Saturday night at the McComb Holiday Inn.  The Roberts Conference Room was filled to capacity with Golden Eagle supporters, and the Southern Miss President spent close to 30 minutes touting recent accomplishments at the university.
In what some are calling the "Work in Progress Tour of 2005," Thames told Eagle supporters that one only has to visit campus for a short time to see and feel the excitement there.  The list of accomplishments is long, and the Southern Miss President is eager to share them with all who will listen.  "Though I continue to refer to Southern as a 'work in progress,' what we have done since May of 2002 is nothing short of astounding," Thames told supporters.  "We just completed our capital campaign and reached our goal of $100 million," Thames said.  "This is the largest capital campaign ever undertaken and completed by a university in the U.S. [with a President named after a river in London]," Thames exclaimed.
Many Eagle supporters, including Krandall Howell, were overjoyed by the news Thames reported.  "Just the other day Joe Paul called me and said 'acceptances' were up.  We're moving on down the road at Southern Miss," Howell said.  And, Thames was filling the room with even bigger news.  "In athletics, things are moving fast as well.  With Coach Palmer's success on the baseball diamond, we are improving the facilities at Pete Taylor Park.  We will add skyboxes and a new scoreboard over the summer," Thames indicated.  "When these projects are complete, we will inquire [with the NCAA] about hosting the College World Series in the Spring of 2007," Thames said.  "In football, with Michael Boley's Conerly Trophy acceptance, USM has had more Conerly Trophy winners than all the universities in the states of California, Florida and Texas --- the college football hotbeds --- combined," Thames relayed to the joyous crowd.
Thames told gatherers that his aggressive management style has not come without some cost to the university.  Since he took the reigns as President, 12 faculty members have retired and 3 have left for other universities.  "But, we have hired about 200-225 faculty members since I arrived, so now our total faculty count is just over 800.  We are in good shape," he told supporters.  Work on the Powerhouse Restaurant is well underway, as is Phase I of a $40 million addition to the Student Union.  "All of these facilities should help us get into the top 5% in the Carnegie Rankings.  We are top 10% now, but you can always improve," Thames said.  "The Carnegie Rankings are very important to me.  U.S. News and World Report's 'tiered' ranking system is based solely on how good an institution's faculty are," he said.  "Although we've fallen in that system of late, I don't think it's best to place all of your hopes in one basket.  In other rankings [Carnegie], those that measure how good a school's management team is doing, we're moving up," Thames closed.
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Did this story ever make it to Crofts and to the board?

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If it did, I hope they laughed as hard as we did. It's a joke, son.

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