Happy Groundhog Day!

[Satan]

OK OK CALM DOWN. (I know it's hard to contain all the excitement.) Here are the results...

In Gobbler's Knob <snicker> Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and once again condemned the Yankees to another six weeks of Winter, as he has 92 times in the past.

However...

The venerable General Lee, of Lilburn GA fame (reknowned throughout the GA - TN - SC area) did not see his shadow, deciding that we in The South shall scoff at the ancient Knob-Gobbler, and inviting the dogwoods to bloom. Hell we've had two months of Winter already. That ought to be enough.

;)

[ponygurl]

Well.. have not yet heard what our lil vermin a.k.a. WiartonWillie did, but I expect to see spring round about the first week of April.
#%&^%%% winter.

[Satan]

Welcome to NoPC, ponygurl.

We don't have Spring here in GA. We have early summer, summer, late summer, and winter (for a few days).

About July we start saying "#%&^%%% summer". 8)

[wendy]

Hell we've had two months of Winter already. That ought to be enough.

;)


Don't you mean two weeks?

You know...we're screwed, don't you? When was the last year we had NO ice?

[truelies]

Hell we've had two months of Winter already. That ought to be enough.

;)


You folks down south just do not know what a REAL winter is. A REAL winter starts with a first snow no later than 30 September and continues until at least mid-May the following year. Heck upon Lake Superior in 1977 our last snow for '76-77 was on June 2 and our first snow for '77-78 was in the last week of August. Over 300 inches fell on the town I lived in each of those two winters. The hard thing for a civilised (yankee) person to survive is those 95 degree/95 percent humidity summer days in the deepsouth. Thats why we went back home after we Recounstructed ya. ;)

Don't you mean two weeks?

You know...we're screwed, don't you? When was the last year we had NO ice?

[wendy]

You folks down south just do not know what a REAL winter is. A REAL winter starts with a first snow no later than 30 September and continues until at least mid-May the following year. Heck upon Lake Superior in 1977 our last snow for '76-77 was on June 2 and our first snow for '77-78 was in the last week of August. Over 300 inches fell on the town I lived in each of those two winters. The hard thing for a civilised (yankee) person to survive is those 95 degree/95 percent humidity summer days in the deepsouth. Thats why we went back home after we Recounstructed ya. ;)



Truelies, I'm not a Southerner by birth (but I am NOT a Yankee) so I do know how laughable our winters can seem to the nothern neanderthals.

As for our summers....yes, they are miserable but they keep the Yankees away so I figure it's a fair trade-off. :)

[LanceALott]

Out here is Wyo, it's snowing this morning, about three inches; and our prarie dog has got more sense than to stick his head out of his hole in Feb.

Frankly my dear, I'd be tickled to death with only six more weeks of winter. Some of our best blizzards come in May.

Us Northerners (displaced rebels) have learned to enjoy winter. Skiing, sledding, snow boarding, smow mobiles; but the best is we get to sit around the fireplace, sipping a beer, and talking to people we like; while down South, they huddle around their inadequate little heater freezing their ass off complaining about the damn temp down to 40 again.

[Persephone]

We've had a particularly harsh winter this year...about four days below fifty for every two days above sixty. I'm sick to damn death of it. Let the dogwoods bloom and the daffodils take over the lawn!

Any side bets on whose azaleas bloom first?

[wendy]

We've had a particularly harsh winter this year...about four days below fifty for every two days above sixty. I'm sick to damn death of it. Let the dogwoods bloom and the daffodils take over the lawn!

Any side bets on whose azaleas bloom first?


I'm pissed off because the single digit temps have destroyed the buds on my camelias. :( If we get another week of warm weather, all the bulbs will come up. Heck..the trees have already started budding out. I'm sure we'll get a nice freeze in march to totally screw it up.

[Persephone]

We've had a particularly harsh winter this year...about four days below fifty for every two days above sixty. I'm sick to damn death of it. Let the dogwoods bloom and the daffodils take over the lawn!

Any side bets on whose azaleas bloom first?


I'm pissed off because the single digit temps have destroyed the buds on my camelias. :( If we get another week of warm weather, all the bulbs will come up. Heck..the trees have already started budding out. I'm sure we'll get a nice freeze in march to totally screw it up.



Yes, it's bound to happen. The only things I have sprouting early so far are weeds, but it won't take many days in a row of nice weather to start seeing some new growth that will just get zapped when we have The Great Easter Freeze of '03.

[Satan]

As for our summers....yes, they are miserable but they keep the Yankees away so I figure it's a fair trade-off. :)


And for those Yankees who do brave the elements of the armpit of the country and show up in Georgia, we just point toward Orlando and say, "Look! Shiny things!" ;D

[wendy]

And for those Yankees who do brave the elements of the armpit of the country and show up in Georgia, we just point toward Orlando and say, "Look! Shiny things!" ;D


;D

[Persephone]

And for those Yankees who do brave the elements of the armpit of the country and show up in Georgia, we just point toward Orlando and say, "Look! Shiny things!" ;D



You reminded me of something I've wondered about. How do you think bad and tile would hold up in a Mississippi July? I was thinking maybe we could all float the creek for the fourth. :)

[wendy]

And for those Yankees who do brave the elements of the armpit of the country and show up in Georgia, we just point toward Orlando and say, "Look! Shiny things!" ;D



You reminded me of something I've wondered about. How do you think bad and tile would hold up in a Mississippi July? I was thinking maybe we could all float the creek for the fourth. :)


I think they'd sit around whining about the humidity and the mosquitos. Bad would trot out his west nile virus statistics and neither of them would get anywhere near the creek.

[Persephone]

And for those Yankees who do brave the elements of the armpit of the country and show up in Georgia, we just point toward Orlando and say, "Look! Shiny things!" ;D



You reminded me of something I've wondered about. How do you think bad and tile would hold up in a Mississippi July? I was thinking maybe we could all float the creek for the fourth. :)


I think they'd sit around whining about the humidity and the mosquitos. Bad would trot out his west nile virus statistics and neither of them would get anywhere near the creek.



Somebody has to guard the beer.

[truelies]

You folks down south just do not know what a REAL winter is. A REAL winter starts with a first snow no later than 30 September and continues until at least mid-May the following year. Heck upon Lake Superior in 1977 our last snow for '76-77 was on June 2 and our first snow for '77-78 was in the last week of August. Over 300 inches fell on the town I lived in each of those two winters. The hard thing for a civilised (yankee) person to survive is those 95 degree/95 percent humidity summer days in the deepsouth. Thats why we went back home after we Recounstructed ya. ;)



Truelies, I'm not a Southerner by birth (but I am NOT a Yankee) so I do know how laughable our winters can seem to the nothern neanderthals.

As for our summers....yes, they are miserable but they keep the Yankees away so I figure it's a fair trade-off. :)


Are you SURE that you are NOT a transplanted Yankee??? :) I maybe wrong ( And if so I am sure you will tell me) but I remember you alluding once to having been raised in a nominally Episcopalian or some such other 'mainline' household. I was in Atlanta for a day last July and weather seemed about like I had left in Wichita-hot & sunny. Not too bad really, unless one earns their living as a roofer. Now Mississippi in summer-MY GOD!!!!!!! Even Hunstville which is slanting towards much higher ground than down on the gulf is still bad even on that ridge where the folks who have money tend to build. This is not even to mention the snakes and cockroaches the size of small dogs that a warn climate allows to breed. Once back in the early 1990's I made some trips to Lake Charles in Louisiana and made friends with a couple of the local good 'ole boys that we worked with. One of them took me to favored fishing spot since we had a common interest and it wasn't at ALL like fishing moutain streams in wyoming. I saw more damn water moccasins than I did fish. That was my first & last bayou fishing trip. That and the fast food like places where you could get a tap beer to go AND Drinkin' & Drivin' are AOK really drove home that I had crossed the border into a whole 'nother Country. I had another friend from NY (he went to Huntsvil,e to work on the spacestation) who found that the basic rude manner of the Northeast will in short order cause some local to believe that Honor requires them to call you out to the parking lot to wump and/or kill yourdamnyankee ass.

[wendy]

Are you SURE that you are NOT a transplanted Yankee??? :) I maybe wrong ( And if so I am sure you will tell me) but I remember you alluding once to having been raised in a nominally Episcopalian or some such other 'mainline' household.

What...you think they only have Episcopalians in Yankee land? ;) It's even worse...I attended a private Episcopal school. :o

I was in Atlanta for a day last July and weather seemed about like I had left in Wichita-hot & sunny. Not too bad really, unless one earns their living as a roofer.

As amazing as it may seem, we do get an occasional nice day in July.


Now Mississippi in summer-MY GOD!!!!!!! Even Hunstville which is slanting towards much higher ground than down on the gulf is still bad even on that ridge where the folks who have money tend to build. This is not even to mention the snakes and cockroaches the size of small dogs that a warn climate allows to breed. Once back in the early 1990's I made some trips to Lake Charles in Louisiana and made friends with a couple of the local good 'ole boys that we worked with. One of them took me to favored fishing spot since we had a common interest and it wasn't at ALL like fishing moutain streams in wyoming. I saw more damn water moccasins than I did fish. That was my first & last bayou fishing trip. That and the fast food like places where you could get a tap beer to go AND Drinkin' & Drivin' are AOK really drove home that I had crossed the border into a whole 'nother Country. I had another friend from NY (he went to Huntsvil,e to work on the spacestation) who found that the basic rude manner of the Northeast will in short order cause some local to believe that Honor requires them to call you out to the parking lot to wump and/or kill yourdamnyankee ass.


In Georgia we get the benefit of weather systems hitting us from all sides...which is why it is impossible to forecast weather here. It is possible to have several days with high temps and moderate humididty...depending on what's going on in the rest of the country. We've also had summers where we hit the mid 90's in May and didn't stop until late September. If you ARE a Yankee visiting Georgia, I'd suggest staying in the metro Atlanta area. There are enough of your bretheren here to make it possible for you to carry on a conversation without a translator. If you venture into the North georgia mountains (hills) or the low lands, you're on your own.

[Satan]

I had another friend from NY (he went to Huntsvil,e to work on the spacestation) who found that the basic rude manner of the Northeast will in short order cause some local to believe that Honor requires them to call you out to the parking lot to wump and/or kill yourdamnyankee ass.


We don't take kindly to 'uppity' folk. ;D

(Edit: And the correct pronunciation is 'whup'. As in 'to open a can of whupass on'.)

[truelies]

[quote author=Wendy
......... If you ARE a Yankee visiting Georgia, I'd suggest staying in the metro Atlanta area. There are enough of your bretheren here to make it possible for you to carry on a conversation without a translator. If you venture into the North georgia mountains (hills) or the low lands, you're on your own.

[/quote]

Actually I do speak fairly good conversational Southron. The folks I really have trouble with are those born & bred in NYC, Rhode Island or New Jersey. I think they go out of their way to have a dialect that is obtuse to outsiders. I have better luck with a Mexican or a person from the ME for whom Standard English is an imperfectly mastered second language.

[Lazarus]

[quote author=Wendy
......... If you ARE a Yankee visiting Georgia, I'd suggest staying in the metro Atlanta area. There are enough of your bretheren here to make it possible for you to carry on a conversation without a translator. If you venture into the North georgia mountains (hills) or the low lands, you're on your own.



Actually I do speak fairly good conversational Southron. The folks I really have trouble with are those born & bred in NYC, Rhode Island or New Jersey. I think they go out of their way to have a dialect that is obtuse to outsiders. I have better luck with a Mexican or a person from the ME for whom Standard English is an imperfectly mastered second language.
[/quote]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)

Laz..IOW..."fuggitaboutit."

[wendy]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.

[quote author=Wendy
......... If you ARE a Yankee visiting Georgia, I'd suggest staying in the metro Atlanta area. There are enough of your bretheren here to make it possible for you to carry on a conversation without a translator. If you venture into the North georgia mountains (hills) or the low lands, you're on your own.



Actually I do speak fairly good conversational Southron. The folks I really have trouble with are those born & bred in NYC, Rhode Island or New Jersey. I think they go out of their way to have a dialect that is obtuse to outsiders. I have better luck with a Mexican or a person from the ME for whom Standard English is an imperfectly mastered second language.


I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)
[/quote]

Which exit?

[Lazarus]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.


Why leave? ???

[wendy]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.


Why leave? ???

THAT is what I'm having difficulty understanding. ;D

[Lazarus]

[quote author=Wendy
......... If you ARE a Yankee visiting Georgia, I'd suggest staying in the metro Atlanta area. There are enough of your bretheren here to make it possible for you to carry on a conversation without a translator. If you venture into the North georgia mountains (hills) or the low lands, you're on your own.



Actually I do speak fairly good conversational Southron. The folks I really have trouble with are those born & bred in NYC, Rhode Island or New Jersey. I think they go out of their way to have a dialect that is obtuse to outsiders. I have better luck with a Mexican or a person from the ME for whom Standard English is an imperfectly mastered second language.


I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


Which exit?
[/quote]

I was born off ext 147 and currently live off exit 105. ;)

Exit 102 is Asbury Park. That's where Danny DeVito is from. 8)

[Lazarus]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.


Why leave? ???

THAT is what I'm having difficulty understanding. ;D


Well, if you can't think of a good reason why a person should leave, then I will simply put forward my good reason for staying. That is, simply because this is where my family lives. If the grass were truly greener elsewhere, then surely New Jersey would not be the most densely populated state in the union.

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.


Why leave? ???

THAT is what I'm having difficulty understanding. ;D


Well, if you can't think of a good reason why a person should leave, then I will simply put forward my good reason for staying. That is, simply because this is where my family lives. If the grass were truly greener elsewhere, then surely New Jersey would not be the most densely populated state in the union.


Well, of all the states in the Union, Nixon chose NJ to live and die in, hmmmmm.

[LanceALott]

"Well, of all the states in the Union, Nixon chose NJ to live and die in, hmmmmm."

Jeez, I can see the travel poster now; COME TO NJ AND DIE!

BTW, I hope we don't wake up tomorrow and have to live Grond hog's day over.

[wendy]

densely populated is probably the best description I've seen for NJ. ;D

[Lazarus]

I was born in New Jersey and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. What is so difficult to understand from or about people who happen to be from New Jersey? ::)


For starters, why they remain in New Jersey.


Why leave? ???

THAT is what I'm having difficulty understanding. ;D


Well, if you can't think of a good reason why a person should leave, then I will simply put forward my good reason for staying. That is, simply because this is where my family lives. If the grass were truly greener elsewhere, then surely New Jersey would not be the most densely populated state in the union.


Well, of all the states in the Union, Nixon chose NJ to live and die in, hmmmmm.


Upper Saddle River, Bergan County, NJ was a very Republican and well-to-do enclave. Most people simply left him alone. Not to mention that he still had Secret Service protection. Should California be indicted becuase Nixon once lived there? ???

[wendy]

Should California be indicted becuase Nixon once lived there? ???


That's as good a reason as any I've seen.

[Lazarus]

densely populated is probably the best description I've seen for NJ. ;D


Well, there is a reason why--it is that the workforce here is highly desired for its intelligence by many of the major corporations that have main offices or research facilities in New Jersey: AT&T, Lucent, Verizon, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Schering-Plough, UPS, Federal Express, Prudential Financial, Merril Lynch, ExxonMobil, Hess, Ford, General Motors, NABISCO, etc., etc. & etc.

;D

[Lazarus]

Should California be indicted becuase Nixon once lived there? ???


That's as good a reason as any I've seen.


::)

[LanceALott]

Wendy: densely populated is probably the best description I've seen for NJ.

LaL; I would not call the people who live in NJ dense, they are more air headed.

[Lazarus]

Wendy: densely populated is probably the best description I've seen for NJ.

LaL; I would not call the people who live in NJ dense, they are more air headed.


Well, this New Jerseyan--air head and all--seems to be doing a rather thorough job of ripping apart your chess game over in the Sports and Entertainment forum. ;D