Woohoo! I’m American by birth, Southern by the grace of…ok, I’m Southern because I moved to the DC area after college, and figured that taxes were lower in Virginia than the District or Maryland. But that doesn’t work as well as a slogan.
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Or, paraphrasing the Indigo Girls, “When God made me born a Yankee, She was teasin’”…
On second thought, that’s not a paraphrase, a deliberate mis-quote.
I personally think it’s a shame that there aren’t more conservatives online calling themselves “Becky” and “Twinkle.” Alas, poor Twinkle.
Come to think of it, wasn’t “Twinkle” William F. Buckley’s nickname during his Army years? Or perhaps I am thinking of someone else.
I would totally date a conservative named “Becky.” She just sounds like she’d look incredibly hot in a gingham summer dress.
Dixie’s fine, by the way. She’s still safely tucked away in my mom’s cedar chest. I had no idea she was also a well-known conservative; but then there’s a lot I don’t know about the contents of that cedar chest.
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Come to think of it, wasn’t “Twinkle” William F. Buckley’s nickname during his Army years? Or perhaps I am thinking of someone else.
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Close, Bill F. Buckley was lovingly refered to as Twinkle-toes. Minor difference though.
Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me
I’m glad to see you tell me I’ll be you and the friend I’m longing to see
Are you from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Any place below the Mason Dixon Line
Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie 'cause I’m from Dixie too.
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Isn’t Sampiro duty-bound to make an appearance in this thread?
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Wherever she was, there was [del]Eden[/del] Dixie.
Irrelevant, but an interesting trivia question nonetheless that I haven’t had an occasion to ask anyone: What was the shared occupation of [Charles] Mason and [Jeremiah] Dixon of Mason-Dixon Line fame? (Hint: their main interest/occupation had almost nothing to do with surveying or cartography.)
They were English astronomers and seismologists who took the job for Calvert & Penn to make money when their research funds ran out.
The term “Dixie” doesn’t have anything to do with the Mason-Dixon guy Dixon though does it? Because that would seem to imply that he spent most of his time on that job standing south of Mason, for some reason.
Also, if that were true, then the North would naturally be referred to as “Macy,” and I have never heard of such a thing.
Macy’s where I want to be!
Golly gee! Golly gee!
Get me out of Tennessee
and take me back to Macy!
–from “([Take Me Home to] My) Sweet Macyland Home” by Bizarro Stephen Foster
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Doesn’t this violate the “no cross-board war encouraging” rule?
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Did he even tell us which other board he was talking about? Kind of hard to have a board war if you don’t know where the battlefield is.
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Did he even tell us which other board he was talking about? Kind of hard to have a board war if you don’t know where the battlefield is.
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Wherever she was, there was [del]Eden[/del] Dixie.
Irrelevant, but an interesting trivia question nonetheless that I haven’t had an occasion to ask anyone: What was the shared occupation of [Charles] Mason and [Jeremiah] Dixon of Mason-Dixon Line fame? (Hint: their main interest/occupation had almost nothing to do with surveying or cartography.)
They were English astronomers and seismologists who took the job for Calvert & Penn to make money when their research funds ran out.
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This made absolutely no sense until I went back and re-read “(Charles) Manson” the right way. My guess before reading the spolier was “song writer? jailbird? I don’t know”.
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It’s actually unknown where the term comes from, though the two most likely theories are Mason-Dixon line and the Louisiana Dix Notes.
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Damn. I thought it had to do with those cute paper cups.
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Yeah, if you don’t get that booster every seven years you get the urge to sell your pickup truck, marry a homosexual, and toss your gun in a landfill.