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Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« on: March 11, 2019, 01:39:05 am »


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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2019, 01:52:39 am »
Scored 86% Dixie. Do you still use confederate money?
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2019, 01:54:00 am »
I got a lot of these, the most by far:  "Used heavily in Great Lakes and Midwest region."

Total:  "35% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee."
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2019, 02:06:19 am »
 96% Dixie.  Is General Lee your grandfather?!
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2019, 02:08:13 am »
 92% Dixie.  Is General Lee your grandfather?!
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2019, 02:14:41 am »
90% Dixie.  Do you still use Confederate money?
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2019, 02:31:00 am »
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90% Dixie.  Do you still use Confederate money?

Where did I go wrong with the other 10%?
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2019, 02:43:16 am »
Well, I really must say that I disagree with this test in its entirety.
I'm at a loss to explain how my speech was determined to be Northeastern.
All of my acquaintances say that I speak with a very distinct Southern draw.
I have said 'Yall' several times, well I said it once. And I even know what it means.
This test is substandard and issued a precocious, ridiculous, result.
I protest, HARUMPH, HARUMPH...
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2019, 02:45:05 am »
Quote from: 240B on March 11, 2019, 02:43:16 am
Well, I really must say that I disagree with this test in its entirety.
I'm at a loss to explain how my speech was determined to be Northeastern.
All of my acquaintances say that I speak with a very distinct Southern draw.
I have said 'Yall' several times, well I said it once. And I even know what it means.
This test is substandard and issued a precocious, ridiculous, result.
I protest, HARUMPH, HARUMPH...

So, how much northeastern?   :pondering:
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2019, 02:52:02 am »
79% Dixie. Not bad for having spent the lat 40 years 70 miles south of Canada.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2019, 02:53:17 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on March 11, 2019, 02:45:05 am
So, how much northeastern?   :pondering:
I'm lying. I don't say 'yall' ever. And I don't say fixin' to, or fissin to, or fiddin' to. However, I am curious about these people. In a dentist office, the dentist said, "I'm fixin' to fix me some teeth." <--real thing, actually happened
I suddenly got a severe migraine. I had to leave immediately. And I did.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2019, 03:11:28 am »
Quote from: 240B on March 11, 2019, 02:53:17 am
I'm lying. I don't say 'yall' ever. And I don't say fixin' to, or fissin to, or fiddin' to. However, I am curious about these people. In a dentist office, the dentist said, "I'm fixin' to fix me some teeth." <--real thing, actually happened
I suddenly got a severe migraine. I had to leave immediately. And I did.

Oh, so, you failed the test?

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2019, 04:18:54 am »
100% Dixie.  Is General Lee your grandfather?!

2 generations, and 2000 miles removed.

Thus I reiterate my general contention that outside of the cotillion and genteel manners of the South, what is considered Southern is just a whole lot redneck.

And I didn't even use Doodlebug or mudbug (though I knew em alright).
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2019, 04:23:39 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 04:18:54 am
100% Dixie.  Is General Lee your grandfather?!

2 generations, and 2000 miles removed.

Thus I reiterate my general contention that outside of the cotillion and genteel manners of the South, what is considered Southern is just a whole lot redneck.

And I didn't even use Doodlebug or mudbug (though I knew em alright).
I had to learn Yankee to get by over here. When I first got to ND, they couldn't understand a thing I said, even If I wrote it down...Did some of that become habit? Uff da. You betcha.  :laugh:
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2019, 04:40:06 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 04:23:39 am
I had to learn Yankee to get by over here. When I first got to ND, they couldn't understand a thing I said, even If I wrote it down...Did some of that become habit? Uff da. You betcha.  :laugh:

Well if you ever need a little bit of the holler, come on up in here. It'll slide back on ya like an old pair of jeans.
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Some of that was weird though...
I know what a poke is, but it is not used up here... a 'polk', which is a sled towed behind sounds too close... For all intensive porpoises, they're both said as 'poke'... SO I said sack, but I probably use tote more often... And tote was not even mentioned.

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2019, 04:45:48 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 04:40:06 am
Well if you ever need a little bit of the holler, come on up in here. It'll slide back on ya like an old pair of jeans.
 :beer:

Some of that was weird though...
I know what a poke is, but it is not used up here... a 'polk', which is a sled towed behind sounds too close... For all intensive porpoises, they're both said as 'poke'... SO I said sack, but I probably use tote more often... And tote was not even mentioned.
It always does when I go back and visit relatives, too.
Pokes and tow sacks, burlap bags/sacks...samey~same. Bushel baskets were popular where I grew up, too, for everything from tomatoes to blue crabs and the trot line you caught them with. Not quite strong enough for oysters, those were made of wire.
'Tote' was a verb, though, until they came out with those plastic things....
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2019, 05:19:20 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 04:45:48 am
It always does when I go back and visit relatives, too.
Pokes and tow sacks, burlap bags/sacks...samey~same. Bushel baskets were popular where I grew up, too, for everything from tomatoes to blue crabs and the trot line you caught them with. Not quite strong enough for oysters, those were made of wire.
'Tote' was a verb, though, until they came out with those plastic things....

YEP. Tote is a verb up here too. But it is also anything you can put stuff in that you can carry on yourself. Like them plastic tubs, or a tow sack or a basket... It might be said that a tote is a sack for sacks, or a big sack, or works as any ol sack.  :shrug:

If you push it it's a buggy or a cart, and if you pull it behind it's a poke... unless it has wheels. Technically, a tow sack over your shoulder would be a poke too - folks up here would get that, because it's over your shoulder, so you're 'pulling it'... Tow sack itself would work, for the same reason, though prolly not as easy.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2019, 05:44:06 am »
100% Dixie.  Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Hmmm...  shocked I tell ya.
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« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2019, 01:28:17 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 05:19:20 am
YEP. Tote is a verb up here too. But it is also anything you can put stuff in that you can carry on yourself. Like them plastic tubs, or a tow sack or a basket... It might be said that a tote is a sack for sacks, or a big sack, or works as any ol sack.  :shrug:

If you push it it's a buggy or a cart, and if you pull it behind it's a poke... unless it has wheels. Technically, a tow sack over your shoulder would be a poke too - folks up here would get that, because it's over your shoulder, so you're 'pulling it'... Tow sack itself would work, for the same reason, though prolly not as easy.

@Smokin Joe @roamer_1

How long has it been since either of you saw a REAL tow sack?   Have you ever owned homemade shirts made from empty flour sacks?   
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2019, 01:34:46 pm »
48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.

I attribute this to being an Air Force Brat and being raised all over the US, Europe and No Africa
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2019, 01:40:49 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on March 11, 2019, 01:28:17 pm
@Smokin Joe @roamer_1

How long has it been since either of you saw a REAL tow sack?   Have you ever owned homemade shirts made from empty flour sacks?

@Bigun
No flour sacks around here. I have seen them in my life, but we never had em.
But I have a stash of genuine 50# burlap sacks, and one lives in my go-bag. I can do without em IRL I guess, and have been ever since they went plastic... but out in the woods, they are a precious thing.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2019, 01:46:05 pm »
I have questions.

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What kind of sale is it on the front lawn?
Rummage sale
Tag sale
Yard sale
Garage sale
If it's out on the front lawn, why would you call it a "garage" sale?  We have a yard sale unless it rains, and then it frantically morphs into a garage sale.


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What do you call gym shoes?
Sneakers
Tennis shoes
Gym shoes
Running shoes
This one is a little bit tricky, since I do buy shoes that are designed specifically for tennis.  I normally would call everything a tennis shoe, except if I'm trying to distinguish it as a separate thing from my shoes that I only wear to play tennis.  In that case, I just call it a 'bumming around shoe'. 

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What is spread onto the tops of cakes?
Frosting
Icing
Don't know
Don't care
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What is that bubbly carbonated drink called?
Soda
Coke
Pop
(Soft) Drink
Tonic
It's ALL "Coke".  The end.

Also:
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What's that bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it?
Potato bug
Pillbug
Roly-Poly
Doodle bug
Sow bug
Cellar Bug
These are fun to play with, no matter what you call 'em.  And I don't even much like bugs.

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2019, 01:53:04 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on March 11, 2019, 01:34:46 pm
48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.

I attribute this to being an Air Force Brat and being raised all over the US, Europe and No Africa

Then you probably did pretty well, that being considered.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2019, 02:02:52 pm »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on March 11, 2019, 01:46:05 pm
If it's out on the front lawn, why would you call it a "garage" sale?  We have a yard sale unless it rains, and then it frantically morphs into a garage sale.
I would call it a yard sale, because that's easier to write on the signs you're sticking out by the road.

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2019, 02:10:20 pm »
28% Dixie.    How the hell did that happen??? 
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