For shame, Jeffery. I think you grossly underestimate yourself and the rest of the Atlanta Dopers. If our beloved Braves cannot put the New Yorkers to shame, then it will be up to us.
In case y’all are wondering why I seem so eager to get together with the Atlanta area Dopers and not the Phoenix area Dopers, then the following lists should explain.
Phoenix area Dopers (now):
Strainger
Phoenix area Dopers (a few months ago):
Strainger
ARG220
Oh I have no doubt that the rest of the Atlanta Area dopers would put the New York bunch to shame, I was speaking of myself, though I did not indicate that.
I am not likely as witty as the New York bunch. But I shall give it a whirl.
Jeffery
Let us know when you will be in town and we can try to set something up.
Yep - as previously noted I’m in Atlanta. I live ~35 miles east of town, but I work across the street from Hartsfield. As you Dopers fly through Atlanta (and everyone who flies, flies through Atlanta), look at your compass and wave due south. I’ll see ya.
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
daniel: I’ve lived in Tennessee for the last 37 years of my 40-year life. (I was born in Cincinnati, lived in Sacramento as a toddler.) I still get “where you from?” frequently. Yet people from other parts of the country say I have a Southern accent. Go figure.
Falcon: I’d go along with Memphis being “Mid-South”…perhaps Nashville, too. Chattanooga is sort of a “Gateway to the Deep South.” But Knoxville is a city without an identity in many ways. I’d describe it as Southern Appalachian.
I’m from Chicago, but I live in Huntsville, AL. In fact, I know more Chicagoans here than Birminghamians or Atlantanites. In many ways, Huntsville is not a very southern city.
White Wolf: You’re a Chalmatian?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sorry about that. We seem to be the only ones down here in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Anyone else? This could be a great city for a get-together.
“Oh we were brought up on the Space-Race, now they expect us to clean toilets. When you have seen how big the world is how can you make do with this?”
Pulp, “Glory Days”
I reside Huntsville, TX (but I live in Houston!) Is Texas Deep South? Thought we were too far west. . .
PS Sealemon – when are you going to show up at Rocky? Huh? I’m dying to meet some Houston dopers!
Northeast Tennessee here. Born in a teeny town in North Carolina, Hudson. My mother is British so I guess you could say that my accent was a little odd as a child. More like Middle English–strange. But it’s all worked out now and I just sound Southern.
Born O.K. the first time…
If you are born again, do you have two belly buttons?
Polycarp is getting a Raleigh get-together… Look in this forum for his thread if you’re interested in attending! It’s gonna be on a Saturday, which is a good travel day…
Seems like maybe this is, for logistics sake, dividing into Southeast and Deep South groups. Perhaps ,immediately, we can meet as such, then meet together, then rent a Winnebago & head to NYC or Chicago…YEEEEEE- HAAAAAA!!!
Satan: Okeydoke, you always say you belong “up there” but now you belong to us…