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2008-02-11 -Obits-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 They don't make guys like this anymore!

Posted by Ebbuper Sforza5226 2008-02-11 00:19|| 2008-02-11 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 KOMMERSANT > RUSSIA FIGHTS CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-11 00:47|| 2008-02-11 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Reads like "swim or die," i.e. the life of a shark...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-02-11 01:03|| 2008-02-11 01:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2008-02-11 07:53|| 2008-02-11 07:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting character.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-02-11 09:15|| 2008-02-11 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Even an unabashed Swamp Yankee such as myself can appreciate the line...

Never," came Fawcett's lilting southern burr, "confuse a Virginian with a Yankee"

Hat's off, sir.

Posted by Mohawk Trail1776 2008-02-11 13:20|| 2008-02-11 13:20|| Front Page Top

#7 What's a Swamp Yankee?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-11 13:25|| 2008-02-11 13:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Here

Apt description of Rhode Islanders :)

Posted by Pappy 2008-02-11 14:39|| 2008-02-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 They have their own form of country music? Cool!

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-11 14:50|| 2008-02-11 14:50|| Front Page Top

#10 TW__The Wiki entry is, I suppose technically correct, but in my long-forgotten youth, the term applied to any Yankee redneck and was in common usage in the Vermont logging town I was exiled to in the summers, but less so in the Berkshires where I lived the rest of the year. Still, folks knew what you were talking about.

The point is, that somehow folks have the idea that the Appalacians (never could spell it) ended someplace in West VA; t'aint true - they go all the way into Canada and so did the mindset - of course MA and VT have been yuppified so probably most of that is gone. Anyway, as I recall, the only real difference I could see at the time between a southron redneck and us swamp yankees was that our mothers would beat the cr*p out of us if we wore our hats at the table.

/merc/

Posted by Mohawk Trail1776 2008-02-11 15:59|| 2008-02-11 15:59|| Front Page Top

#11 TW__

BTW, if you're a reader, there's two novels that give the swamp yankee flavor, somewhat grim in the first case...

"The Beans of Egypt, Maine"
"Spartina"

Posted by Mercutio 2008-02-11 16:05|| 2008-02-11 16:05|| Front Page Top

#12 I'll add Spartina to my reading list, Mercutio, with thanks. I don't handle grim all that well, I'm afraid.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-11 20:56|| 2008-02-11 20:56|| Front Page Top

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