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Offline Polly Ticks

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2019, 10:10:52 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on March 11, 2019, 10:02:52 am
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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SALE
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Right?  It's just logical on every level.

Also, a rummage sale is what we have in the church basement.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2019, 10:13:26 am »
61% Dixie.Well  under the Mason-Dixon Line

Sounds about right.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2019, 10:16:09 am »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on March 11, 2019, 10:10:52 am
Also, a rummage sale is what we have in the church basement.
That also is true, and reminds me that our church rummage sale is coming up. I need to rummage through my basement for stuff to donate.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #28 on: March 11, 2019, 11:03:11 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on March 11, 2019, 09:40:49 am
@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.

@roamer_1

Yeah! Real tow sacks are as handy as a pocket on a shirt but VERY difficult to find these days and flour sacks are all paper now I think.

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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #29 on: March 11, 2019, 11:51:20 am »
54% Dixie. That score betrays my Chicago Illinois origins. As they say, I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could. I do know that my speech has evolved since I moved here in 1994. wink777
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2019, 11:51:49 am »
Quote from: Bigun on March 11, 2019, 09:28:17 am
@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?
I get coffee beans by the sack, I have a few. Never had a flour sack, myself, but I have seen them when I was living in western VA, long ago. They've been paper most of my life.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2019, 11:56:06 am »
Quote from: 240B on March 10, 2019, 10:43:16 pm
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...

Well, bless your heart.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2019, 12:03:50 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2019, 11:51:49 am
I get coffee beans by the sack, I have a few. Never had a flour sack, myself, but I have seen them when I was living in western VA, long ago. They've been paper most of my life.

Last time I was at Costco they still had the 25lb sacks of flour that were cloth...

Miss Slippy got me a nice stack of bar rags that are made of that material.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2019, 12:26:04 pm »
So if you don't drink coffee and don't have a Costco nearby you are SOL.
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2019, 12:33:21 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on March 11, 2019, 12:26:04 pm
So if you don't drink coffee and don't have a Costco nearby you are SOL.

It's flour in the sacks, but you're right about the Membership.  I let mine lapse because I never went there much.  I'm happy with the bar rags... :cool:

We got them from Walmart...lol
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Re: Are You a Yankee or a Rebel?
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2019, 12:40:42 pm »
50% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.  :shrug:
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