After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in about 4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

Yippee
John

--
The Toymaker
Quality Puzzles & Wooden Toys

"John Gilham/Patsy Scott" wrote in message
After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little
tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in about
4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

Which "non-aligned" country might that be?

New Zealand
"Upscale" wrote in message
...

"John Gilham/Patsy Scott" wrote in message
After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little
tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in
about
4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

Which "non-aligned" country might that be?

John Gilham/Patsy Scott wrote:
Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.


Welcome back to God's Country. Where in North Carolina?




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

"John Gilham/Patsy Scott" wrote in message
...
After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little
tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in about
4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

The song, however, was definitely "aligned" - to the North!

Might want to look up the lyrics to "Dixie" if the pressure groups still
allow it to be played.

Granite Falls


"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
om...
John Gilham/Patsy Scott wrote:
Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.


Welcome back to God's Country. Where in North Carolina?




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

Better brush up on what's been going on in NASCAR if you're going to be
living in NC. My cousin in Raleigh tells me that they teach their
children to count this way: One, two, Earnhardt....

Dick Durbin

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:01:10 +1300, "John Gilham/Patsy Scott"
wrote:

After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in about 4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

Yippee
John

Congrats, John!!
If you were going to be closer to the left coast, we could get
together and swap Aussie jokes.. *g*

patrick conroy wrote:
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
om...


Welcome back to God's Country.

Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...


Precisely.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:56:35 GMT, patrick conroy wrote:

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
om...


Welcome back to God's Country.

Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...

I was thinking the same thing.

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:05am (Upscale) asks:
Which "non-aligned" country might that be?

I'm not sure, with the "non-aligned" he could be meaning
California.

In any event, North Carolina isn't a bad place to be. Jeez, I've
been here 25 years already. Damn. And they still call me a Yankee.
LMAO



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:56pm (EST+5)
(patrick=A0conroy) says:
Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...

I've been in that part of the world. He obviously meant NC.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:29:19 -0500, J T wrote:
Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:56pm (EST+5)
(patrick*conroy) says:
Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...

I've been in that part of the world. He obviously meant NC.

Well, just don't come here in Winter, is all. During summer,
Wisconsin is right pleasant. Last year, Patrick, it was July
5th through the 7th, wasn't it?

Dave Hinz

"patrick conroy" wrote in message
...

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
om...


Welcome back to God's Country.

Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...



Sorry. I even have the T-Shirt with the caption "God's area code is 906" and
the proper outline....

J T wrote:
In any event, North Carolina isn't a bad place to be. Jeez, I've
been here 25 years already. Damn. And they still call me a Yankee.
LMAO


After only 25 years, you're lucky they don't call you a Damned Yankee.



Fergit? Hell!



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE

J T wrote:

I'm not sure, with the "non-aligned" he could be meaning
California.

What a wonderful bit of insight! (and possibly a really good
/triple/ entendre [not to find fault or anything])

In any event, North Carolina isn't a bad place to be. Jeez, I've
been here 25 years already. Damn. And they still call me a Yankee.

Don't feel bad. I'm originally from Georgia; and they still make
me "re-qualify" when I go back to visit.

BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
cure. (-8

Actually, NC is a really /good/ place. Unlike most of Iowa, NC
actually has real live forests (with trees and everything!)

Strange thing for me to latch onto - but I remember being able to
buy milk in North Carolina stores that was richer than I ever
found in any other part of the country, including the "Dairy State."

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:26:16 +1300, "John Gilham/Patsy Scott"
wrote:

New Zealand
"Upscale" wrote in message
...

"John Gilham/Patsy Scott" wrote in message
After 3 years living in a "non-aligned" country, I am moving my little
tribe
back to the USof A. We bought our house and sent off the papers for my
wife's visa today. With any luck, I should be buying my new shop in
about
4
months. Look out North Carolina, Johnnie is marching home.

Which "non-aligned" country might that be?




I thought New Zealand was aligned kind of Southwest to Northeast

:-)

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 10:00pm (EST+5) ve
(Mortimer=A0Schnerd,=A0RN) says:
After only 25 years, you're lucky they don't call you a Damned Yankee.

Nah, I fit in right well. I'm the Yankee version of a good ol'
boy.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:02pm (EST-1) (Morris=A0Dovey) says:
snip BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
cure. (-8 snip

With me, it's when people hear me, that don't know me. Then it's
usually, "You're not from around here, are ya?". I tell 'em yep, from
just up the road. That often throws them for a bit, then they usually
say that wasn't what they meant, and ask where I originally came from.
I tell 'em I was born and raised in MI, then spent 20 years in the Army,
and been down here since '79. The usual response to that is, "I 'knew'
you weren't from around here by the way you talked". Then we get along
fine. The really funny part is when I went back to MI for my dad's
funeral - everyone was telling me how I sounded so southern. LMAO

Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
here. Damn Yankees.



JOAT
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont
matter, and those who matter dont mind.
- Dr Seuss

J T wrote:

Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from
moving in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them
where they're from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like
they were visiting down here.

Interesting point. Perhaps the real (underlying) question is
actually: "Are you a committed community member/steward, or are
you just here because you're not somewhere else?"

When you answer that it's been your home for 20+ years, there's a
reasonable chance that you /might/ be a committed community
member (/might/ because you did, after all, leave the place you
were before) - an answer of NY or NJ would seem to deny that this
is where home and heart are and imply: "I'm here because I'm not
somewhere up north."

I've found that small town and rural areas of Minnesota and Iowa
are much the same; and there's growing concern because here we
have some of the most productive farm land in the *world* and
it's being subdivided and paved over at an ever accelerating pace.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

Well, I just wanted to say that we chose the Hickory area because we wanted
to be close to a large city, but still have the peace and quiet of a rural
area. Also, my son is now in Charleston learning to operate nuclear
reactors for the Navy and he will in all probablilty be sent to the George W
Bush when it is ready. That will be based in Norfolk. I have family in
Pennsylvania (but I don't want that cold a winter) so we thought NC would be
nice.

Plus, my great-great-grandfather and uncles fought for the South...

John
"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
...
J T wrote:

Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from
moving in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them
where they're from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like
they were visiting down here.

Interesting point. Perhaps the real (underlying) question is actually:
"Are you a committed community member/steward, or are you just here
because you're not somewhere else?"

When you answer that it's been your home for 20+ years, there's a
reasonable chance that you /might/ be a committed community member
(/might/ because you did, after all, leave the place you were before) - an
answer of NY or NJ would seem to deny that this is where home and heart
are and imply: "I'm here because I'm not somewhere up north."

I've found that small town and rural areas of Minnesota and Iowa are much
the same; and there's growing concern because here we have some of the
most productive farm land in the *world* and it's being subdivided and
paved over at an ever accelerating pace.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/solar.html

JOAT notes:


Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
here. Damn Yankees.

Hell, I'm from NY, and I've been in this area of VA for over 27 years now. I'm
told I still sound NY, but I'm not looking to return. I've done my moving.

But, then, my mother's family is VIrginian, has been since beforfe the
Revolution, and, tales say, the first Self (spelled Selfe then, which is the
way on SIL still spells it), landed in VA about 1653.

Might even be true. It still wouldn't shut up all these Scots-Irish Johnny Come
Latelys who didn't get here until 1750s.


Charlie Self
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Mark Twain

Silvan responds:

Charlie Self wrote:

Might even be true. It still wouldn't shut up all these Scots-Irish Johnny
Come Latelys who didn't get here until 1750s.

Hey now!

Don't sweat it. The other part of my father's reputed family was waiting here
to offer the first Selfe, and everyone else, the Indian's gift: a peace pipe
full of that wonderful herb, tobacco. Talk about getting even in advance!

Charlie Self
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." Mark Twain

On 9 Dec 2004 20:54:03 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:29:19 -0500, J T wrote:
Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 5:56pm (EST+5)
(patrickÂ*conroy) says:
Uhh, he said N.C., not Wisconsin...

I've been in that part of the world. He obviously meant NC.

Well, just don't come here in Winter, is all. During summer,
Wisconsin is right pleasant. Last year, Patrick, it was July
5th through the 7th, wasn't it?

I dunno about that- it gets disgustingly hot in the summer in
west-central Wisconsin. OTOH, the winters have been so mild, I'm
actually beginning to believe that there might be something to global
warming. December 12th already, and I can still see grass outside my
window. Heck, it *rained* last week- very odd for WI.

Dave Hinz

Aut inveniam viam aut faciam

Richard Schmidt wrote:

In article ,
(J T) wrote:

Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:02pm (EST-1) (Morris*Dovey) says:
snip BTW, yankeehood doesn't normally wear off and there's no known
cure. (-8 snip
Now if we could just stop those people from NY and NJ from moving
in down here and spoiling the neighborhood. Ask them where they're
from and tkey'll always say NY, or NJ, just like they were visiting down
here. Damn Yankees.


JOAT

First, if someone is from NY, or ANYWHERE west/south of the
Hudson River, they CAN NOT be any kind of yankee!!!!!

Yankees come from New England state ONLY!!!!!!!!!

If they are from Rhode Island, Mass, Vermont, NH, or Maine,
they may be referred to as yankees [never Yankees]. Only
folks from Connecticut can be referred to as Yankees[PERIOD]!!!

So all those folks in blue that mah granddaddy shot in the late
unpleasantness were what? He sure thought they were "Yankees". No, I take
that back--those guys were "damnyankees", which I was taught to believe was
synonymous with "Yankees" but maybe I was mistaken.

Richard Schmidt

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:33:19 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


So all those folks in blue that mah granddaddy shot in the late
unpleasantness were what? He sure thought they were "Yankees". No, I take
that back--those guys were "damnyankees", which I was taught to believe was
synonymous with "Yankees" but maybe I was mistaken.

So what were they, Dodger fans ?