On Tue, 16 May 2006 01:13:19 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner
quickly quoth:

Don said:
Ahhh... Transplanted Yoopers! That explains *EVERYTHING*!

(Personally, I'm a transplanted "Trooper" - Half Troll, ('cause I wuz
born "below da bridge") and half Yooper, 'cause I spent a big chunk o'
my early years eatin' pasties like they was goin' outta style, and
taking money from fudgies on Mack-a-traz Island )

Yall couldnt tell by my accent?.

The Internet filters out most accents. Time does the rest. I no longer
sound like a 13 y/o Arkansan, do I? 40 years will do that.


Finally settled down in Grayling, where I spent the last 3-4 yrs of
high school and graduated. Dad quit the construction biz..went back to
watchmaking..owned a jewelry store there for nearly 30 yrs before he
retired, Mom worked various jobs, finally wound up as the head of the
county buiding inspectors department. Was the only woman building
commissioner for some years in the US..head of a bunch of code
organizations and whatnot.

Cool.


I had other priorities...shrug..so Im the blacksheep of the family,
eh?

As an alcoholic, I thought I was the black sheep until I realized that
my cousin had been through law school.



Went into the green machine in 71..only been back a few times since
then.

For some reason, I've never wanted to go back to the South. Perhaps I
remember the idities, stup- and hum-. Oh, and the Hellfire and
Brimstone preachers. I'd had enough of those when I was 5 that I
pleaded with my mother "Please don't make me go to church any more."
She didn't. Whenever I pray now it's "Lord, please protect me from
those who think they speak for you."

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"Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not misery but
the very foundation of refinement." --William Morris
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