Are you a Redneck (Me) or a Yankee (Northerners)?

Ishmael · 04-02-07, 05:13 PM

66% Dixie. Mother's Family from Illinois by way of Vermont & Quebec. Father's family from the Raleigh-Durham area. He visited some of my distant cousins there in 1947. The way he characterized them was,

"You had to rope 'em out of trees to put shoes on 'em."

Fifty years later, I had to attend a Northern Telecom Fiber Terminal School in Raleigh. The first day of class, the instructor walks in, zeroes in on me and asks,

"Ain't I seen you somewhere before?"

I answered,

"Well, I've never been here before in my life. But you may have seen some of my distant cousins runnin' the ridges in their Tar Heels."

04-02-07, 05:13 PM	#18
Ishmael Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Morro Bay, Ca. Posts: 659 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	66% Dixie. Mother's Family from Illinois by way of Vermont & Quebec. Father's family from the Raleigh-Durham area. He visited some of my distant cousins there in 1947. The way he characterized them was, "You had to rope 'em out of trees to put shoes on 'em." Fifty years later, I had to attend a Northern Telecom Fiber Terminal School in Raleigh. The first day of class, the instructor walks in, zeroes in on me and asks, "Ain't I seen you somewhere before?" I answered, "Well, I've never been here before in my life. But you may have seen some of my distant cousins runnin' the ridges in their Tar Heels."