XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: jimled@bellsouth.net   
      
   Ann wrote:   
      
   > Jim wrote:   
   > > Ann wrote:   
   > >> Jim wrote:   
   > >> > Ann wrote:   
   > > <...>   
   > >> >> their car went off I-95 in NC.   
   [....]   
   > >> >   
   > >> > I heard about this wreck today.   
   [....]   
   > >> > just short of blasting dumb southerners for not   
   [....]   
   > >>   
   > >> Since the person who called 9-1-1 gave the next mile marker (141; the   
   > >> car was eventually found near 140),   
   > >   
   > > see what poor math skills can do.  "dumb southerner can't even read a   
   > > number correctly."   
   >   
   > No, they said they looked as far back as 138.   
      
   government worker must have had a box of doughnuts.   
      
   >   
   > >> it is hard to understand how the car could have been missed if   
   > >> searchers had gotten out of their vehicles and walked (or atved) the   
   > >> ditch line.   
   > >   
   > > to get out of the vehicle meant the government worker would be leaving   
   > > their doughnut.     
   > >   
   > >> I didn't find any comments by the family placing blame on   
   > >> "southerners", but did find these comments in Myrtle Beach Online"   
   > >   
   > > just a quick blurb on the local evening news is where I saw what I   
   > > remarked on.   
   > >   
   > >> "Next time a granpa Yankee drives 30MPH in the fast lane he should   
   > >> think back to this. Then again if the damn Yankees would stay up north   
   > >> bad things like this would not happen to them down here."   
   > >>   
   > >> "To the daughter who keeps complaneing about our police I don't blame   
   > >> if they did not want to put up with you. Maybe after this you will go   
   > >> back above the mason-dixon line where you belong and please take all   
   > >> the other yankes with you."   
   > >>   
   > >> "I think that out of panick for their parents this family did what any   
   > >> family would do, everything they could to find them. Unfortunately, I   
   > >> think they stepped on alot of southern toes in the process. Their tone   
   > >> which was stereotypical northern was aggressive and placed blame on   
   > >> southern law enforcement."   
   > >   
   > > yep, it was the "tone" in which they were speaking on camera doing the   
   > > toe stomping.  as I said "cut just short of blasting dumb southerners".   
   > >  I don't think that particular news clip will ever be aired on the   
   > > national news.   
   >   
   > But "short of" isn't there.   
      
   more than likely this is why the english language contains   
   words with meanings such as the following short list:   
      
   connotation - a: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart   
   from the thing it explicitly names or describes   
   b: something suggested by a word or thing   
      
   implication - 3: something implied   
   a: suggestion   
   b: a possible significance   
      
   implied - :to involve or indicate by inference, association,   
   or necessary consequence rather than by direct statement   
   :to express indirectly   
      
   inference - :the act of passing from one proposition,   
   statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose   
   truth is believed to follow from that of the former   
      
   hint - :a statement conveying by implication what it is   
   preferred not to say explicitly   
   :an indirect or summary suggestion   
   :a slight indication of the existence, approach, or nature of something   
      
   inkling - :a slight indication or suggestion   
   :a slight knowledge or vague notion   
      
   innuendo - :an oblique allusion   
   :hint, insinuation; esp   
   :a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation   
      
      
   > And, would they have reacted any differently   
   > if the same thing had happened in DE or NJ/PA?   
      
   IMHO most likely not since they were obviously emotionally   
   driven to react as they did.  after all, it was their loved   
   ones they were responding to the loss of.   
      
   > What would have bothered   
   > me was that the person that called it in said the vehicle lights were on   
   > ... and they both died of drowning.  Since the woman didn't have   
   > life-threatening injuries, the family is always going to be haunted by the   
   > thought of her last minutes.   
      
   Ann, death by any cause is a completely horrible   
   event for those who do not under the following Word:   
      
   For by grace are ye saved through faith;   
   and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:   
   Not of works, lest any man should boast.   
      
      
      
   >   
   > > the event was tragic and it is MHO that all traffic   
   > > accidents are in one way or another a tragedy.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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