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they are!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

Nice diversion, Rico Suave.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ive been listening to a mix of Justin Timberlake's "Justified" album and Ice Cube's "Predator". They compliment eachother well. Somehow.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

Ding dong el timbre suena
Tu madre abre, que vieja mas buena
Le digo ¡Hola! Pero no para bola
Que se ha creido vieja chola

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Ruffles' Cajun Spice potato chips, back inna day.
Zapp's.
Harry Connick Jr.
Gambit, yo.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

My fav things about the South in order:

-porch sitting
-double hashbrowns covered
-Beach music
-Link Wray
-Jockey's Ridge
-the junction in Athens, GA which has, like, 4 Waffle Houses about 1/4 of a mile from each other

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Amen, i need a waffle house. Closest one to me now is an hour towards Richmond...and thats just not worth it. So many years i took those bottomless cups of coffee and bitter waitstaff for granted...

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

if only the south weren't so damned hot!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

I lived in the South and I do a damned good accent - does it count?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 August 2003 23:48 (twenty years ago) link

God it's so humid. I'm never leaving the house again.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 18 August 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

I lived in the South and I do a damned good accent - does it count?

I would nominate you as honorary southerner but wasn't actually born there myself, so I'm not sure I can. My father's from the South, maybe I've inherited his title.

And yeah, it's hot, but -- even though I like the AC cooler than most people, etc. -- I'll take the heat over the cold any day. It's never so hot outside that it hurts.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

haha Tep you haven't spent enough time outside

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:30 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, that statement makes me think Tep's never been to New Orleans, much less lived there.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

Well, it depends on just how hot, I guess, but I'll take anything up to a hundred degrees with saturated New Orleans humidity, for hours on end, over ten below plus windchill for ten minutes.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:33 (twenty years ago) link

It's not that bad! I mean, don't get me wrong, it gets fucking hot, but you sweat, maybe you get woozy (luckily in New Orleans, when it's at its hottest it's rarely bright and sunny) and nauseous. It sucks. But it's better than that "ow, my face feels like it's being frozen into thin sheets which are going to slough off and reform into a Tep puddle in the spring, and the two of us -- Real Tep and Puddle Tep -- will have to fight for the right to the Tep name" thing.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link

you are insane. Ten minutes of ten below is not nearly as bad as hours of New Orleans heat.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

And all you southern girls got a way with your words, and you show it

kingfish, you get it.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

no, Tep's right in the sense that cold is more directly painful than heat, but cold is a lot less dangerous - but one football season spent travelling fm blistering heat to blistering cold in the same woolen uniform with a metal instrument over your shoulder playing 'Rocky Top' over 20 times + assorted other fun tunes - heat can hurt just as bad. I'm not a fan of any extremes.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

When it's ten below you at least get a new white landscape, which has its charms. Heat is just hot. And besides, in the cold you can layer, you can wear a parka, you can buy silk thermal underwear, whtever it takes. In the heat, you can't get naked, and it wouldn't help if you could.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link

Bad thing about the South -- hardly ever a justifiable reason to wear a big soft cable-knit sweater.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

Millar, you were... I'm going to have to guess... a Civil War soldier who carried his banjo to entertain the troops?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link

At football games?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:54 (twenty years ago) link

Yes that's exactly it, Kenan.

Unsurprisingly, I like the cold and the snow.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

exactly, except it was a sousaphone

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

Carpetbagger.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

Oh! Band! I see!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

No. Millar is really Bob Log III.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

i can't stand the NYC heat, i stay indoors all nice and air conditioned. how the hell would i be able to tolerate the Walls of Heat down south?

and i like winter and the cold, thankee much. it's the slavic blood, see.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

Racists.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:01 (twenty years ago) link

we prefer the term "bigots"

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, the heat is all well and good and all, right, but like v. surprisingly I prefer wearing turtlenecks and coats and jeans.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

I always think that until summer rolls around and I'm like WHOO shorts and T-shirts who gives a fuck.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

I'm with Tep. It's a southern thing. I'll take heat over cold anyday. That said I nearly died on the drive home today. (Did I mention how my boy passed out driving the other day via heatstroke?) Sitting at lights I was thinking "if this light doesn't change I'm going to run out screaming into the middle of the street just to generate a breeze." By the time I got the keys sitting in my ignition were too hot too touch, just from the sun coming through the windshield.

Luna I dub thee southern.

I love how this thread is almost all about food. I'll introduce the best thing though:

COUNTRY MUSIC!

yee haw.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:17 (twenty years ago) link

I refuse to wear shorts outside of the gym or my house.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

Me too honey.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link

I would never wear shorts if I could avoid it. My legs are like sasquatch.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:33 (twenty years ago) link

i don't tan, i burn. ergo, shorts and guinea teas are out.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

Millar were you in the UT band?!!!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

you are insane. Ten minutes of ten below is not nearly as bad as hours of New Orleans heat.

Chicago residents to thread!!!

Oh, wait, they're all outside, enjoying day 25 of our 45 day pseudosummer ... 9 months of miserably-frigid-to-tolerable-but-depressing-cold-and-damp weather is much worse than several months of brain-baking heat ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

No shit, that's why everybody, you know, moves away from here. However, I've come to the conclusion that extreme cold and extreme heat BOTH SUCK EQUALLY.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:16 (twenty years ago) link

I think they might. Ask me after this winter. Personally, I don't mind cold, and don't find it one bit depressing. And frankly, I'm looking for solid REASONS to never go outside, instead of just weak excuses.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

i like this bourbon better, millar:

http://www.cocktailtimes.com/tasting/bottle/woodford.jpg

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

Well, it may just be that I'm a reaaally skinny guy; extreme cold is just literally more dangerous, oppressive, joy-corroding to me ... heat'll drive me crazy (or is that the humidity, har har) but doesn't make me hate life ... and yeah, I've got waaaay too many excuses to stay inside as it is ...

But how cold are we talking about, anyway? Like gulf stream or otherwise coastally mitigated cold, or wind-whipped no-sun-for-five-months barren-midwestern-plain cold?

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:39 (twenty years ago) link

The latter.

Which is why you need this:
http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/6e/1b/fddkSpiritsBy_NameAllKnob_Creek_Kentucky_Straight_Bourbon_Whiskey-resized200.gif

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:42 (twenty years ago) link

Ah! I knew it wasn't my fault!

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:49 (twenty years ago) link

Southern girls make you feel at home; people are friendly; we send thank-you notes and wonder if you are feeling all right; we actually care about other people and it shows. We cook; we bake; we make you smile. We want to love you. Have a Co-Cola.
--Orbit of rural southeastern North Carolina

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:54 (twenty years ago) link

(crying)

I want to touch people!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

Southern girls make you feel at home; people are friendly; we send thank-you notes and wonder if you are feeling all right; we actually care about other people and it shows.

Sure ... but on some occasions, though, I've found 'southern hospitality' much more venomous by way of condescension + insincerity than good old fashioned northern fuck-off gruffness ...

(Isolated occasions, please understand; I totally see what you're saying, but sometimes the thinking strikes me as about as wishful as how 'plainspokenly friendly' and 'down to earth' Chicagoans get blanketly designated)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

I want to touch people!
Don't give me no lines and keep your hand to yourself!

, I've found 'southern hospitality' much more venomous by way of condescension + insincerity
I've found that this is often the hearer interpreting it through their own lens where the speaker is being perfectly sincere. The hearer isn't acculturated so assumes what they are hearing is bullshit, according to how such speech would be interpreting in their own regional culture.
imho.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 04:12 (twenty years ago) link

I want to touch you all.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link

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