XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: jimled@bellsouth.net   
      
   Ann wrote:   
      
   > Jim wrote:   
   > > 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   
   >   
   > Then there is the phrase "reading into".   
      
   assumable assumption by a person doing some   
   assuming.  pretentiousness on my part, OK, my bad...   
      
      
      
   >   
   > >> 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.   
   >   
   > So why interpret it that they were singling out southerners?   
      
   because they were addressing southerners with their complain.   
      
   Ann, it is a well know fact of how a good number of the people   
   of the north look down upon the people of the south as being   
   unsophisticated, benighted, empty-headed, illiterate, know-nothing,   
   uneducated, toothless inbreeds, displaying an uncouthness second to   
   none.   examples abound in our country concerning this stigma the   
   south has brought upon itself.  many times over I've witnessed the   
   berates showered upon southerners by the relocated northerners as a   
   result of their displeasure related to a certain event.  it is these   
   circumstances and past experiences that condition southern people to   
   react with a stereotypical assumption towards those from the north who   
   express a dissatisfaction with any incident or occurrence that has not   
   met with the northerners expectations.   
      
      
      
      
   >   
   > >> 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 understand the following Word:   
   >   
   > Disagree.  If people didn't believe that there are situations worse than   
   > death, no one would execute a living will or name a health care proxy.   
      
   Ann, I was not implying there are not situations in life   
   where the misery of a continued existence might seem to   
   be worse than death.   
      
   what I was saying is, death for a person who has rejected   
   the gift of salvation is a horrible event.   
      
   Ann, have you ever overheard a northerner poking fun at the   
   south by making reference to the south as 'the Bible Belt'?   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   btw - Ann, if we are to continue this cross posting I suggest   
   one of us say something nice about Oregon while the other goes   
   and hugs a tree.  oh, and if you get the tree hugging assignment,   
   don't hug a pine tree, you could get something sticky on you.     
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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