Comments on: Southern Culture on the Campaign Trail

By: SayUncle » I disagree

SayUncle » I disagree — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:50:19 +0000

[...] First of all, I don’t hunt. Haven’t since I was a teen. I, the big bad gun nut, just don’t much care for killing. I know how. I am capable of killing, cleaning and cooking nearly anything that crawls, walks or swims. Just don’t like it. I’m a pacifist of sorts. Heck, I’ve even admitted that: I don�t even kill spiders; I escort them outside. This annoys the wife, who thinks all things with more than four legs should be eradicated from the planet. [...]

By: SayUncle » Why he will lose

SayUncle » Why he will lose — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:45:55 +0000

[...] I beg to differ with UpChuck, here. The south is pretty much about the same, generally speaking. In fact, here’s something I wrote on the subject about two and a half years ago: It�s getting to be election time. This is a rare occasion because it represents the only time the rest of the country gives a fuck about the South. The rest of the year, our region is made fun of on sitcoms, reality TV, and in various op ed pieces. We�re ridiculed by snooty intellectuals and hated. We�re belittled a bit because our region consists mostly of troublemakers. At least we�re viewed as troublemakers. After all, we did secede. [...]

By: Indigo

Indigo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

A MASTERPIECE! In addition to linking it, I’m emailing it to all my keypals who do not read blogs.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

That’s funny. I don’t kill spiders, either. But as far as deer and elk and stuff goes, if you’ll kill it, I’ll gladly eat it. So long as it isn’t endangered.

Frankly, I’ve never understood Iced Tea, sweetened or not. The stuff is nasty. If you’re going to drink tea, it should be hot tea, and not some yuppie earl grey shit, either. I’m talking about the cheap orange pekoe stuff that you get at chinese restaurants. And yes, you should sweeten the hell out of it.

By: triticale

triticale — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Earl Grey was a member of the appease-Napoleon faction in Parliament.

Most of us know how to kill, skin, and prepare various animals for food upnort here in Wisconsin, damn betcha.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Amen, Brother…

By: skb

skb — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Outstanding.

By: BSTommy

BSTommy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Excellent, sir….I’m interested in your ideas and would like to subscribe to your pamphlet.

By: Drake

Drake — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Good piece. I beg to differ on the spiders. They must die horribly.

By: arrogant bastard

arrogant bastard — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Say Uncle= Thomas Paine??

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, all.

By: Indigo

Indigo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I know it’s sacriledge for me, Southern born and bred, to agree with tgirsch on iced tea –
BUT I DO!!

By: SLoth

SLoth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

It sucks to be condesended to, don’t it? We have that here in Illinois, to a lesser extent. Just substitute the City of Chicaguh for the “Northeast”, and the rest of the state as the “Southeast”. Just because I know field corn from sweet corn, that makes me some sort of hick. I guess my MBA has no place in the matter.

By: peggy

peggy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Hey, good one, Uncle. I’m a damn yankee who’s had the pleasure of living among great folks here in Tennessee for seven years now, and I find the uppityness of ignorant and offensive.
And who are they to put me down for killing, skinning and preparing my own vegetables, anyway?

By: peggy

peggy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

make that, ‘the uppityness of many northerners”…etc.

By: Wince and Nod

Wince and Nod — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

As a Kansan I can relate. What everyone knows about Kansas: It’s flat. We’re all farmers. It’s flat. We have lots of tornadoes. It’s flat. Dorothy and Toto. It’s flat.

At least people think the South is interesting. Kansas is fly-over country.

Yours,
Wince

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

triticale:

Most of us know how to kill, skin, and prepare various animals for food upnort here in Wisconsin, damn betcha.

Being from there, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I look forward to my father-in-law’s venison sausage every year.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Wince:

You forgot “it’s not where Kansas City is.”

By: YELLOW DOG '04

YELLOW DOG '04 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Howdy Ya’ll,
Yellow Dog here. I’m out on the campaign trail sniffing out voters and shaking paws, but when my campaign manager showed me your blog– well, being a born an’ bred Southerner, I couldn’t help but shed a tear… some fur too.

Anyways, I told my campaign manager to be sure and link to this post so even more voters would understand, and thanks Uncle Says, for sayin’ it so fine. -Yellow

Come on America! Get off your porches and run with the pooches– the big Yellow Dog that is! Vote Yellow Dog ‘04, and vote for a new beginning!

By: LOL

LOL — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

This is funny to read. I’m a TN native and have never lived anywhere but TN.

Ironically I find this post to be nothing more then stereotyping of the entire north. So what if a few northerners look down upon the south? The majority don’t care. That’s a fact. I didn’t know this until I travelled a bit and got to know people in places in the northeast.

And the funny thing is – many people who have a big problem with the south are ex-southerners who feel as if they were ran out for whatever reason. LOL!

By: again

again — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Forgot to mention in the last post – I bet anything that there are just as many anti-northern southerners as there are northerners who look down upon the south.

A Hollywood sitcom doesn’t represent what some factory worker in Pittsburgh thinks…

By: Trojan Horseshoes

Trojan Horseshoes — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

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By: Voluntarily in China

Voluntarily in China — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

It’s the condescension stupid
I’ve been looking for for an opportunity to go off on this and I got my opportunity.Now, you probably waste a whole lotta good-fishin’ Saturdays readin’ yourself the papers, watchin’ all the talk on the TV, and sittin’ around thinkin’…