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Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 5:40 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:23 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: So, he recovered from the overdose? Happy to hear it.

Boru

You don't understand Hillbilly/John's relationship with me. 

It works like this.

Me, "Oh yea, prove it"

John/Hillbilly Atheist. "Verbal Jiu Jitsu"

I know many of you think you own my ass, but trust me. John kicks my ass in any conversation, big or small.

 Correct, I don’t understand your relationship, nor do I have any particular interest in doing so.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 5:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

I was unaware that ‘Dixie’ has bad connotation, so I looked up the origin.

Back when individual states printed their own currencies, Louisiana issue a ten dollar note that had ‘dix’ (French for ‘ten’) printed on the back. These notes came to be called ‘dixies’, and were said to be from ‘Dixie-land’.

So, originally, there wasn’t anything especially odious about the term ‘Dixie’, but meanings change over time.

(There are some other origin stories for the word, but the above seems the most likely.)

Boru

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If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
It's interesting that "redneck" is an acceptable ethnic slur.  Well, it's okay when we call each other rednecks.  It sure beats "okie."  That's like calling someone "boy."



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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 5:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

I was unaware that ‘Dixie’ has bad connotation, so I looked up the origin.

Back when individual states printed their own currencies, Louisiana issue a ten dollar note that had ‘dix’ (French for ‘ten’) printed on the back. These notes came to be called ‘dixies’, and were said to be from ‘Dixie-land’.

So, originally, there wasn’t anything especially odious about the term ‘Dixie’, but meanings change over time.

(There are some other origin stories for the word, but the above seems the most likely.)

Boru

Here's an example of the negative connotation with the use of Dixie.

https://www.civilwarheritagetrails.org/c...-land.html

I wonder what the wife of an old friend of mine is going to do.  She has to be close to 70 and has lived with the name Dixie a little too long to change it up now, I would think.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:11 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I love my best friend John, I have known him since the early 2000s. I posted this ad a friendly dig to him because he is a country music fan, but the truth is, while I am teasing him with this, he has broken stereotypes of the middle of the country I grew up with.

I am still not a fan of country music, but I do like empathetic people, like Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton and the Dixie Chicks. But he is responsible for me loving my first country music song with Margo Price "About To Find Out".




FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

"The Chicks" is a worse name anyway. I know more than a few women who abhor being called chick
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 6:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

"The Chicks" is a worse name anyway. I know more than a few women who abhor being called chick

Well, I guess there's always the other "c-word"...
Disappointing theists since 1968!
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 6:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

"The Chicks" is a worse name anyway. I know more than a few women who abhor being called chick

I don't care what they call themselves.  Their music is crap.  In fact, it's barely music.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
Brain, what written verbiage do you write to the rest of your redneck friends in Oklahoma?  Huh
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Ode To My Best Redneck Friend from Oklahoma.
(July 6, 2020 at 5:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(July 6, 2020 at 5:21 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: FYI - The Dixie Chicks dropped "Dixie" from their name due to everything that's currently going on.

I was unaware that ‘Dixie’ has bad connotation, so I looked up the origin.

Back when individual states printed their own currencies, Louisiana issue a ten dollar note that had ‘dix’ (French for ‘ten’) printed on the back. These notes came to be called ‘dixies’, and were said to be from ‘Dixie-land’.

So, originally, there wasn’t anything especially odious about the term ‘Dixie’, but meanings change over time.

(There are some other origin stories for the word, but the above seems the most likely.)

Boru

Yep. Meanings change over time. "Fly" originally referred to flight or an insect, but "Fly" back in the late 80s and early 90s meant " cool" or "sexy".

But the truth still remains that some terms/words/icons cannot be saved once turned into a oppressive connotation.  It is why for years now I no longer defend the "Redskins" team name.
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