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let it be fixed!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

Having dead relatives on the losing side of the woah. Classic.

Country music.

Rustic handcrafts.

Minnieballs.

― ModJ, Monday, 18 August 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

Oh go on!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

apparently the south has never made it out of the late 19th century. alert the black folk.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

New Orleans

Charleston

Savannah

Hushpuppies

Southern men

roadside fruit stands selling peaches bigger than your head

banana puddin'

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

Jimmy the Mod has perfected his time machine! I say we go to Nov 2000, move to Florida, and vote.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

Me!
Hot Browns
Royal Crown Cola
Cotton

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

This is out of control.
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

mannie fresh.
dj magic mike.
simon trife.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

strongo I can't believe you're giving this question the time of day

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

i am JUST THAT BORED, t.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Y'all better watch it, now . . .

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

most.
obscure.
poster.
e*v*a*h

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

;)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

It isn't the North.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

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

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

it isn't the pacific northwest.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Winters are not too cold.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Millar.
Tracer Hand.
Yanc3y.
Carey.
Blount.
Ethan.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

Alex Chilton!

And yes, Ludacris.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.pigglywiggly.com/mfy/templates/pigglywiggly/images/MrPigSteppin_AN.gif

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

Lebowskifest. ATL. Memphis BBQ. The Mississippi River. Cee-Lo Green. Corvettes. Nickalicious. Frickles.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

Seriously, does Florida count as the South? I know geographically speaking, Florida is like the southest of the south, like I'm not that dense, but it seems that in colloquial terms, no one seems to think that Florida is the South. It's like it's its own little crazy rogue nation down there. If it counts, then Disneyworld and Sea World.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

Spring Cotillions!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

giant subwoofers.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

Winters are not too cold.

They're not cold at all. We have about one day a year where it stays below freezing all day. You pay for it in the summer, but there are good stretches in the "winter" where you can leave your window open. Niiice.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Debutantes!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

the Southern Girls and the way they look (or is it cook?) they knock me out when I'm down there

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

no one seems to think that Florida is the South.

It depends on the context. I get into this with my ex a lot, cause her diss is on Southern lit, and my MA was in history. Like Texas and Louisiana, it's geographically South, but it doesn't share the same English-settled/plantation/etc. culture as the Carolinas and Virginias, etc. It's certainly South in the sense of not-being-North.

That's why I've ended up not posting to this thread much; I don't know from the South so much as I do from Louisiana.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

I was kinda cold in Tennessee a few times.

I think parts of FL are definitely 'The South'

― oops (Oops), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I've decided Florida is the South and ergo people need to give more love to the Atlantis ride at Sea World, fuck.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

Florida = "America's Wang"

― Homer has taught us well. (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

Our food be good.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, see, Texas is way south of TN. That's why you were cold, oops. Not south enough.

And I agree that South Florida isn't really "the South." It's more like Cuba.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Well then I'm saying something nice about Cuba.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Cape Horn!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

Cajun food.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

those commercials for Bartles & James wine coolers

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

Hurricanes are way better than blizzards. Both kinds of each.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

Parts of Central and Northern FL aren't really the south to me either. I mean, Orlando? Gainesville? (ok, college town). I guess maybe it's the difference between rural and non-rural. Are there any bona fide Southern towns/cities in Florida? Pensacola???

Oh:
Friendliness
Great service, ie waiters/waitresses
Relaxed pace

― oops (Oops), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

The Drawl

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Cajun food.

Some cajun food is OK, but keep the crawfish away from me. They're insects that live in the mud. Horrible nasty little vermin that actually *taste* like mud if you don't season them right. Sometimes you bite into one to find that it still has mud in it. Oh horrible, most horrible.

And gumbo? This is not cuisine. This is what prisoners and exiles found in the swamp they'd been banished to. Oh, look, okra! Bleeeargh.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

Sarah, and me (although I was born in Florida (not really the South) and then have only lived in the South for, let's see, 7 of my 24 years, though, hell, I live in the capital of the confederacy now so that should make up for lost time).

Also, people really are more polite here. Though there's usually some intense hatred lurking underneath the politeness. Guess we got it from our colonial forefathers.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

i must go to pensacola

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

And gumbo? This is not cuisine. This is what prisoners and exiles found in the swamp they'd been banished to. Oh, look, okra! Bleeeargh.

I kill you, Kenan :)

Actually, lots of gumbo isn't made with okra. I know that's where the word comes from, but that's sort of like the old-fashioned gumbo. It's fallen out of fashion. I'm not crazy about it myself, most of the time.

(They weren't prisoners and exiles so much as misled landless nobility.)

Crawfish are just lobster! It sounds like you've had them mis-prepared or fished from the wrong places.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

HAha! beat horace to it!

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

Could be. But I've had a lot of them.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

(x-post)

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

Well, excuse me, Kenan. Dickhead.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:05 (twenty years ago) link

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Because they're full of sin.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know, maybe I don't. Tell me some good ones.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

And don't say Charlotte because then I'll know you're lying.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

have you ever driven on the Blue Ridge Parkway?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Like when gygax tried to trick me into going to a gay club in LA.

xpost - I tried to, but it was closed!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Check this out.

What's wrong with gay clubs?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Other places I have been - Savannah, Memphis, New Orleans, Charleston, somewhere in Virginia.

xpost nothing, but I was asking where I could go to watch football.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

do you not know about KURT WARNER's PICTURE on GAYSPORTSFANCENTRAL.COM?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes I do. Actually I meant "soccer". Are there "soccer" players on GAYSPORTSFANCENTRAL.COM?

And are the two of us just going to derail every single thread we post today, h? That's my wish.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Your search - gay sports fan central soccer - did not match any documents.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Now that is surprising.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha that pink ball is great.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't be bothered reading through all of this (though I did get far enough to say Dee, we have Weinerschnitzels in CA), but I must mention (even if it's been mentioned already) Dixie Beer.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzz/Southerners_Dying_Early

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

not surprising AT ALL

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Isn't that electoral map a bit outdated now?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

You can say what you like about Southerners, but at least they are not uptight.

― The Real Dirty Vicar (dirtyvicar), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Except for, like, the Bible Belt, I guess.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

not everyone in the bible belt is a bible thumper! dirty dirty represent.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, as I'm well aware, but the numerous bible thumpers there certainly don't class as being freewheelin'.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm in the "buckle of the bible belt" and we're really liberal, but I reckon that comes from just living in a fairly large city. Go out to the sticks, and you'll find some Dixie Chicks-hatin' folks at every turn.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Southern Schools Serve Funnel Cakes and Pizza for Breakfast

by brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com

I WANT

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 January 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"You can say what you like about Southerners, but at least they are not uptight."

What the fucking hell are you talking about?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The South is warmer than where I am writing from.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never had want for a ride home or a place to crash in the south.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Springs smells (and is) delightful in the South. Nashville smells like fresh laundry.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

it's really easy to take naps here

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome awesome food

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Meat and 3s.
Fried okra.
Turnip greens.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Except for, like, the Bible Belt, I guess.

I'm talking about manner and mien rather than world view. Any Southerners I've met all seem pretty laid back, unlike most Northerners.

As an aside, I do love how saying you like Southerners is such a red lines crosser for Northerners.

― Remember Fredericksburg! (dirtyvicar), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

broad generalities are accurate both ways vicar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never had want for a ride home or a place to crash in the south.

So, so true.

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"As an aside, I do love how saying you like Southerners is such a red lines crosser for Northerners."

Not a line crossing thing for most people I know, more just a matter of thinking that anyone who would make a generality about an entire region's people (aka "they're all likeable", "they're all laid-back", etc) doesn't really know much about that place or those people.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Bourbon

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Headed to Dollywood tomorrow!

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 31 July 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link

Ooh! I've never made it there, but I hear it's fun.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 05:39 (nine years ago) link

It's weirder than one would think, and probably far more gay than most of its punters realize.

Bitchin roller coasters, too

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 31 July 2014 05:52 (nine years ago) link

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