South, West and East, USA, tell me!

[Rock]

Ive seen a bunch of movies, where guys from new york somehow end up in the south, and they get in trouble because they are from new york and stuff.

how is really that relationship, is that just movies, or would there be reactions if a guy from new york showed up in a little southern town, I have always thought about this, because Ive seen so many movies about it.

[J450n]

You've been watching too much "Rambo"

[Rock]

ah yes Rambo is another example, I just wanna know, I get these questions in my mind, and I have to know the answer.

[the doc]

yes it does happen, not in the metropolitan areas, but in the rural areas

rural folk know when a stranger is around

[SoulOfKoRea]

^^ true, especially if they have accents...

[Rock]

cool, so does stuff like the rambo intro happen from time to time?

[PowerManDL]

Yeah man, just last week we had an ex-Special Forces guy go berserk. It took a week and like 10 FBI agents got sliced up. Somehow he stole a helicopter too.

Third time this month.

[Rock]

dang! kick ass!

[SoulOfKoRea]

Originally posted by PowerManDL
Yeah man, just last week we had an ex-Special Forces guy go berserk. It took a week and like 10 FBI agents got sliced up. Somehow he stole a helicopter too.

Third time this month.

[DoubleGulp]

Rock, yes it happens. It's not as extreme as movies, but when I was in New Orleans a few years ago I got some funky looks. The worst is when someone asks in a very strong southern accent "Y'all from California?"

[Rock]

haha way cool, so it does happen, well my question has been answered!

[Tryska]

Originally posted by DoubleGulp
Rock, yes it happens. It's not as extreme as movies, but when I was in New Orleans a few years ago I got some funky looks. The worst is when someone asks in a very strong southern accent "Y'all from California?"

you got funky looks in New Orleans? what pray tell were you doing?

that's liek getting funky looks in NYC - you've got to really work hard for that to happen.

[steveo]

Knock-Around Guys:

[DoubleGulp]

Originally posted by Tryska


you got funky looks in New Orleans? what pray tell were you doing?

that's liek getting funky looks in NYC - you've got to really work hard for that to happen.

I was just buying a soda and asked the clerk how much it was. He asked if I was from California and I said yes. Then he went on about how evil California is.

[Tryska]

baha. what the hell does a california accent sound like?


actually i could go on and on about how california is evil too. it's quite easy really.

but that's neither here nor there.


actually rock, what we really liek to do in the south is catch yankees, and force them into fiddle contests with us. then when they lose we make them pull down there pants and crawl aroudn squealing liek pigs. eventually sodomy occurs.

other than that, we are really nice and show everyone that southern hospitality tho.

[Rock]

ah ok that sounds okay, a little fiddlin, a little sodomy, sure, hospitality is great! hehe

[Shane]

Originally posted by DoubleGulp
Rock, yes it happens. It's not as extreme as movies, but when I was in New Orleans a few years ago I got some funky looks. The worst is when someone asks in a very strong southern accent "Y'all from California?"

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Hey, did people keep asking you if you surfed? I laugh that up.

Tryska, I was talking to a friend in Chicago and she said I had an accent. I never figured Californians had specific accents either.

[DoubleGulp]

No one asked me that down there, but in chat rooms, it was nonstop. Good thing I stopped going to those when I was a teenager.

[Tryska]

Originally posted by Shane



Tryska, I was talking to a friend in Chicago and she said I had an accent. I never figured Californians had specific accents either.

yeah - i've known quite a few californians and...well actually i take that back...northern californians do have this kinda...melodic thing going in their cadence, but that's pretty subtle.

[APE.]

I come from a very small southern village.Yes a village in the mid. of Central Louisiana.My grad. clas was 16/17 graduates.The village is about 1500/2000 ppl. around. It isn't as bad as movies make it out to be.Except when ppl come in and act the snob just because they are from a larger town/city. That annoys us. We are actully quite inviting ;moreso than a person might conceive. If that person doesn't have the perception that we are all inbread (sp?) are racist.

[SoulOfKoRea]

uhh, it's the worst when I go to a restaurant in a different state, and the waiters are like,"You speak very good English."....

[Tryska]

i hate when I say I'm indian and people ask "what tribe?"

[Rock]

or when I say I am norwegian and people ask where in russia I am from.

[WillKuenzel]

Originally posted by Tryska

actually rock, what we really liek to do in the south is catch yankees, and force them into fiddle contests with us. then when they lose we make them pull down there pants and crawl aroudn squealing liek pigs. eventually sodomy occurs.

other than that, we are really nice and show everyone that southern hospitality tho.

I thought that was our Southern Hospitality thing. You mean that's not nice?



If you are ever in California, don't say, "Howdy." You are immediately labeled. Not that my accent wouldn't have given me away anyway.

[Tryska]

you say howdy?


you know what i find kinda irksome? (and this is even wierder since i'm a transplanted northener) When you say Ma'am to a Northern woman she get's offended. I never noticed that when i was up north.