(January 22, 2015 at 2:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Folks in the north don't have to deal with sandspurs or cottonmouths, people in the south don't have to deal with sloshy muddy snow and shit. The shoes stay on (if'n you can afford em, eh Cletus).
Oh, I know. It's just entertaining to see it in action, like when my southern relatives visit my house in the north. Having been raised by southerners, I don't see shoes in the house as a big deal, but my wife and in-laws are always flabbergasted that my relatives don't take off their shoes.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
