Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > > At 06:51 PM 3/8/2001 -0600, henry wrote: > >(apologies to our members from outside the US - its a southern thang) > > Bullshit, sir, with all due respect. You dudes down in Tidewater are just > that -- dressed-up, prancing dudes. You want red-necks and hill-folk, come > up here to the Appalachians. Generations of inbreeding and sipping at > Kerosene-cut 'shine have produced a rather unique outlook on life. > > My folks have been up here since the 1740's, north and south. We aren't > much on the inbreeding thing (a couple of fifth cousins and the like), but > we do specialize in alcohol. However, a genetic defect in my clan has > deprived us of a taste for Kerosene, so we tend to stick to the smoother > stuff. > > But, Tidewater? Brother, I spent three years in the Flatlands at the > Marshall-Wythe School of the Law at the College of William and Mary in > Virginia (and, me, a committed Jacobite, going to a school named after this > Bonnie-and-Clyde pair!), and there is nary a red neck within a zillion > miles of the area. Now just a minute! I, sir, live nary 20 miles from Williamsburg in the backwoods of Gloucester county. Perhaps you have forgotten the area known as Guinea... These people settled there around the time Yorktown was founded and kind of kept to themselves. How much did they keep to themselves? Well, they still had cockney accents up until the turn of the 20th century! Talk about inbreeding! To this day, residents of Guinea are known as the most hell raisin, what you lookin at, trouble making residents of the middle peninsula... No rednecks indeed... Guinea is a Virginia treasure! In fact, every year they have Guinea pride day (I'm not kidding) complete with parade! Isaac