From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Sat Mar 06 2004 - 04:02:48 PST
Well of course us Brits just call you all Yanks - or "septics" ( rhyming
slang for septic tanks = yanks) regardless of whicgh state you eminate from.
And of late, its beome "Bushettes".....
----- Original Message -----
From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:26 PM
Subject: [MV] YANKS, YANKEES,. etc.
> Well gentlemen, and ladies, please let this old southern boy make his .02
> contribution to the comments about YANKS, YANKEES,. etc.
>
> I have no animosity toward folks from the cold northern part of our great
> country, except for the few who think that just because I talk slow my
mind
> is slow - for I know that just because they talk fast their mind is not
> necessarily fast...
>
> I was born in the south, raised in the south, U S Government put a
uniform
> on me and exiled me to north for a short time, but they released me and I
> found my way home; and I when I die I well be southern dead.
>
> I am in no way be offended by being called "Reb" - "Rebel" -"Graybelly" or
> other terms used to describe followers -or want to be - followers of Gen.
> Lee and President Davis.
>
> I love my Confederate flag - and the Confederate flag is not the "battle
> flag" most often negatively associated with the South.
>
> Personally I refer to the conflict as "The War of Northern Aggression" and
> the invaders from the north as "them Da** Bluebellies."
>
> And as for "Carpetbaggers" -We still suffer from them.
>
> Yankees in my mind are a baseball team.
>
> I am always at a loss as proper term to use for persons from UK.... of
> course I am often at a loss....
>
> And by the way I have no idea what a "Pom" is, have I missed
> something???????
>
> Everette
>
> "Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things.
> You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less." General Robert E.
> Lee, C.S.A.
>
>
>
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