Thar's a yankee!

[Bob Wright]

I was having coffee with my friend this morning, place called Panera Bread. We were sitting at a little table near the door, when I saw a man wearing a Union Army uniform coming in. Looked like he just stepped out of a Matthew Brady portrait.

"Charles," I whispered in my best stage whisper, "there's a yankee!"

Except for being sober, he was a dead ringer for Gen. U.S. Grant, and lacking a cigar.

Well, come to find out, Grant is his alter ego, and he was doing a history lesson at a nearby St. Mary's Episcopal girls school, something about the battle of Shiloh.

Now Charles was raised down around Tupelo, Mississippi, and in his time made many excursions to Shiloh and is pretty well versed on that set-to. Time did not permit any comparison of stories.

Bob Wright

 

[rkittine]

When I moved to Franklin, TN I was always accused of being a Dam Yankee, especially coming from New York. Lots of Civil War history in that town. I ended up becoming a "Good Yankee" when I moved back North! Couldn't make it to the level of "Great Yankee". Just didn't have it in me. :mrgreen:

Bob

 

[Critch]

Yankees are people from the North; damn Yankees marry your sister...

 

[gramps]

Roland can bend your ear for hours on end about the battles and politics of the South. Needless to say I have learned a bunch of history, I am ashamed I didn't already know. Roland is from Indiana. When he found out where the South was he came here to Tn. :shock: :mrgreen: Of course he will probably tell the real version of how he came south!
gramps

 

[phonejack]

I'm from Tupelo. When I was growing up the old folks would talk about what happened to our family after Shiloh.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Yankees are people from the North; damn Yankees marry your sister...

AND come down to Florida to clog our roads, walmarts and grocery stores !!

 

[rkittine]

You don't have to worry about me, I do not like Florida and you will not catch me in a Walmart.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Yankees are like hemorrhoids . . .

If they come down but then go back up. no problem.

If they come down and stay down, they're a pain in the . . .

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Hey, this is how it was explained to us when we moved from Iowa to SC. Turned out to not be a problem when they learned my wife did better "southern" cooking than many of them. We enjoyed our "native" neighbors while we were there, and stay in touch with many of them.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[BlkHawk73]

Yankees are people from the North; damn Yankees marry your sister...

AND come down to Florida to clog our roads, walmarts and grocery stores !!

and support the states economy.

 

[Fox Mike]

I married one of them thar Damn Yankees. I have gotten her somewhat 'Southernised' though. I even got her to change from a Massachusetts Democrat to a Maryland Republican. Now if I could only get her to eat grits. :? :roll:

 

[Poco Oso]

Yankees are people from the North; damn Yankees marry your sister...

AND come down to Florida to clog our roads, walmarts and grocery stores !!

...and spend their money, which keeps Fla. from reverting to the swamp it was... We have just the opposite problem here. :mrgreen:

 

[RSIno1]

Now if I could only get her to eat grits. :? :roll:

I'm another Yankee not into eating sawdust either. Only found one ancestor who went south. That was in the late 1600s. I looked up where his land in Carolina was. No wonder nobody stayed today it's called the Great Dismal Swamp.

 

[rkittine]

Nothing wrong with grits, but you can make it quicker, just as tasty and for a lot less by Grinding Up Cardboard, putting butter, salt and pepper on it (and in some cases , maple syrup) and you get the added benefit of fiber content.

 

[GP100]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_iRIcxsz0

Sure it's the wrong war, but I love Johnny Horton doing this.

 

[Poco Oso]

Some of us Yankees like grits too, and red eye gravy, as well as fried mush, (with a little butter and maple syrup)
Greens, corn fritters and plain ol' hush puppies. Good eatin'. :mrgreen:

 

[RolandDeschain]

Gotta burn my boots - they tetched yankee soil...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRyIMqXA_o8

 

[Colonialgirl]

You don't have to worry about me, I do not like Florida and you will not catch me in a Walmart.

Sag Harbor and Manhattan are safe from me , SO we're equal.
The last time I was in New York was AFTER I won a free trip from a Orlando Radio station for two round trip flights, 3 days and two nights, plus two tickets to the Radio City Rockettes Xmas extravaganza. Had to be there DEC 28th, SO, I took my son for his birthday which was the 23rd of December. Had a good time, flew on Jet Blue (cant remember the hotel name) visited Central park zoo and ate in one of them fancy whatchamacallits , had a GIANT Ruben sandwich, saw the giant Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Plaza, but I wouldn't want to live there or drive on the streets there.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Yankees are people from the North; damn Yankees marry your sister...

AND come down to Florida to clog our roads, walmarts and grocery stores !!

and support the states economy.

DREAM ON !!!
Raise the price of property, clog the stores, clog the roads and clog the VA and other medical clinics; Should I mention the voter fraud?