Say something nice about the South

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 ...

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

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?

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

I want to touch people!

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)

, 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.

1). GRAVEYARDS! RIGHT BY THE ROADSIDE!

2). CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS! WITH CANNONS(Forgive me, I'm a history teacher!

3). BIG ASS GLASSES OF SWEET TEA!

4). RELATIVE EASE OF ACCESS TO LIQUOR, FIREWORKS, LIQUOR AND FIREARMS!

5). PIGGLY WIGGLY!

6). TAKING A WEEK TO TELL A STRANGER THE TIME!

You forgot liquor!

Is this unusual? Where else would they be?

Ha! I like that. Like they're far apart, and excessively cute.

One truly great thing about the South is that the following people are/were Southerners:

Martin Luther King, Jr. (and his widow, Coretta Scott King)
Medgar and Charles Evers
Tennessee Williams
James Earl Jones
Oprah Winfrey
George Clooney (if you can count KY as the South)
Ron Howard
Will Rogers
Maya Angelou
Leontyne Price
Ray Charles
Otis Redding
Janis Joplin
Buddy Holly

... and I just found out through searching online that one of the few MTV personalities I actually really like still to this day, Tabitha Soren, WAS BORN IN SAN ANTONIO! YES!

"Your head is full of their language / There's wisdom there you're sure"

(I wondered if this weren't the case.)

Maybe, but most people can hear sincerety or the lack thereof through any accent or cultural habits the speaker may have. If Brian says he has encountered rude and slightly sinister Southerners, I see no reason to doubt him. So have I.

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Did I miss something?

Also, now that I think about it, once again I must point out that Fredericksburg, TX, is THE place to go for yummy peaches and fun times peach picking. And I'd be more than happy to start up a sign-up sheet for those who want to go peach picking next summer. I've already got Sam's and Luna's names on the sheet; who else? We could go eat barbecue afterward -- it'd be a great day!

and, according to Bruce Campbell, in fake blood.

sam, would you slurp that?

I'd like to add tubing the Guadalupe to what's nice about the South.

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