RE: Mississippi wants Bible as the official state book
January 23, 2015 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 11:31 am by Davka.)
(January 22, 2015 at 3:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote:You should check out the Big Island of Hawaii. Flip-flops are standard wear, and *everyone* takes off their flip-flops in the house. At parties there's always a huge pile of the things in the entrance-way or out front on the Lanai.(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.
It's a combo of integrated Japanese customs and the ease of kicking off sandals. I miss it.
(January 22, 2015 at 5:00 pm)Strider Wrote:(January 22, 2015 at 4:33 pm)Full Circle Wrote: Strider, I’m astonished there’s even one atheist in Mississippi! Congratulations, you alone are responsible for raising the State’s IQ by several points.I appreciate the compliment, but I wouldn't go that far. I'm a fairly dim bulb.
That is such a Southern thing to say! Maybe it's midwestern too, I've never lived there...
But the whole "aw shucks I ain't smart, jist plain folks is all!" attitude floored me when I first moved to the South. If you ask a roomful of people how to spell something, chances are good that none of them will admit to knowing how to spell. Not because they're stupid, but because that would be showing off. In fact, you're more likely to spark a flurry of "dumber than you" one-upsmanship than to get the accurate spelling of the word.
After I'd been there for a year or more and learned how the game is played, I remember a woman who lived around the corner introducing me to a friend (it was a computer-repair recommendation). She said "this is Sean, he's real smart but you'd never know it to talk to him!"
And she meant it as a compliment.
Garrison Keillor did a show at the Ryman in Nashville a few years back. he said something that I'll try to paraphrase (and probably botch) - "I came down here from New York City, where it's common practice for the average person to pretend to be much smarter and better-educated than he is. It took a while to figure out that the exact opposite is the case down here in the South."
