[meteorite-list] Re: A Sign From Above (Sylacauga Meteorite)

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:38 2004
Message-ID: <120320030422.18862.145a_at_att.net>

Sounds like your credentials are impeccable. My grandparents and mother were
barefoot carrot farmers. We all have a glowing carrotine hue and great
eyesight as well.

Thanks for sharing,
Bill


> Hi, Bill,
>
> Well, I live in a town of 1700 people, so I have to be considered a
HICK.
>
> I never grew anything more agricultural than a house plant and always
worked
> under
> a roof, so I'm not a REDNECK.
>
> On the other hand, since my great-grandfather [b. 1853] came to
southern
> Illinois
> in 1875 from the little hill farm which he shared with 13 brothers and
sisters,
> his
> father [b. 1803], and mother, a farm that was a long, long way up the
holler
in
> the
> hills above Siebert, in Clay County, Kentucky, it would be purty hard to
deny
> being a
> HILLBILLY, at least ancestrally.
>
>
> Sterling
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> joseph_town_at_att.net wrote:
>
> > Wow,
> >
> > What term best describes your personal ethnology Sterling?
> >
> > Bill Kieskowski
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The term "hicks" refers to the inhabitants of Hicksville, New York,
> located
> > > on Long Island, which was once (a century ago) a totally rural
environment.
> > > Hicksville, which is on the end of Long Island nearest to New York
City,
had
> its
> > > quiet rural
> > > existence immortalized by George M. Cohan's long-ago hit song "Only 45
> Minutes
> > > From Broadway." So, by extension, a "hick" has become a term for any
> inhabitant
> > > of a small town or rural area, wherever located.
> > >
> > > A "hillbilly," though more easily found in those Appalachian (and
> Ozarkian)
> > > states (and West Virginia and Missouri and western North Carolina,
etc.),
is
> > > essentially a cultural classification, so members of that group could
be
> found
> > > anywhere. That
> > > culture is nothing more or less than the general rural culture of the
US
in
> > > times past, now surviving only in mountainous enclaves. Eighty years
ago,
> > > "hillbilly" would have applied to a much wider area of the South and
parts
> of
> > > the Mid-West, and a
> > > century and a half ago would have well described about half to two-
thirds
of
> the
> > > population of the US.
> > >
> > > And "redneck" is originally a term for a non-industrialized
agricultural
> > > worker. As there are very few folks out hoeing cotton by hand these
days,
> the
> > > term is widely applied in those areas where they used to be numerous
(like
> > > Alabama). Although I
> > > live in rural Illinois (not Alabama), there are plenty of folk about
whose
> necks
> > > are literally red from a lifetime spent in farm fields before tractors
had
> air
> > > conditioned cabs, GPS, laptop computers, stereos, and tinted glass. All
> those
> > > "rednecks"
> > > would also be "hicks" by definition (non-urban populace) and some of
them
> would
> > > be "hillbillies" too, although some would instead be German, Italian,
Polish
> or
> > > "Bohemian" in cultural origin.
> > >
> > > The English article, of course, was not about hillbillies, hicks, or
> > > rednecks; it was about stereotypes. More exactly, the English version of
> > > stereotypes and is riddled with errors. Can you imagine an Alabama
county
> that
> > > had only ONE frog-gigger?
> > > The term "cattywampus" is dialectically wrong; it should
be "cattywhumpus"
> or
> > > "cattywompus." Miz Hodges sez "As sure as grits is grits," when any fan
of
> > > country music could tell you this expression should be in the form of a
> > > comparative, as: "If I doan
> > > love you, then grits ain't groceries!"
> > >
> > > Perhaps somebody should write an American parody about a famous
English
> > > fall, like Wold Cottage?
> > >
> > >
> > > Sterling K. Webb
> > >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
> > > RYAN PAWELSKI wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually, there is no such thing as an Alabama "hick", there are only
> > > "rednecks" in Alabama. Just to clear things up, the following are the 
three
> > > different subgroups of the of the "subclassy" society, better known as 
> hicks,
> > > hillbillys, and rednecks:
> > > >
> > > > Hicks: Found in Midwestern states such as Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, 
> Illinois,
> > > Indiana, and Ohio.
> > > >
> > > > Hillbillys (mountains or hills): Found in Appalachian and Ozark 
states 
> such as
> > > Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas (Or "Our Kansas", because the hillbilly 
> founders
> > > were jealous that Kansas had a "too-cool-for-school" name).
> > > >
> > > > Rednecks (from hot southern sun): Found in south, southwestern, and
> > > southeastern states such as Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Louisiana,
> > > Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe Jeff Foxworthy should write a word collection with all this here
> > > information in it!
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, hope I helped ya'll in decipherin' them terms!
> > > >
> > > > -Ryan
> > > >
> 

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