Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] LUG manners - Crackers?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 18:56:28 -0500
References: <NDEIJCBGJPIEPDFEENCMEEGNCIAA.kitmc@acmefoto.com>

Well, several of you HAVE accused me on occasion of being "crackers" but I
have no feel, good or bad, for the term, other than knowing that National
Guard units from certain Southern states love being referred to as such. 

But my own family are hillbillies of the first water, many of them still
showing that genetic propensity to have one leg shorter than the other (so
that they can run faster around the mountains, of course!), and I find
nothing derogatory in the term.  We settled into these sweet Appalachian
mountains back in Colonial times and we're too damn stubborn to leave --
but, then, this IS, truly, God's country.  (And, yes, despite a Yale
degree, I can still comprehend 'Hillbilly', the jargon used by guys way up
in the Holler, beyond the spring and back of that New Highway they put in,
what was it, Ralph --  '37 or '39?  It was just before Jeff was drafted, so
it must have been '39...  I had to serve as a translator once, in a local
Court, when even the Sheriff couldn't understand one of these folks.)

Marc

msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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