From: kateh_1@charter.net
Chuck, Helen posted this before most of us had heard about the miners. It
made me smile after a rough and rocky holiday when I'd lost a dear family
member of my own....and I thank her for that. For the record I've got some
pretty serious WVA roots, myself....including a couple of miners.
KateH
"sf" wrote in message
news:lDRuf.83$5D3.14@fe07.lga...
> Helen I certainly hope your post was for entertainment only. If that is
> the case then you missed your mark. Also, you did not indicate if you was
> from West Virginia or another state. No matter where you live, you should
> understand this group is Bluegrass related. Your attempt to draw attention
> to yourself is unforgiving. At this time West Virginia is in the nations
> spot light with regard to the mine tragedy. Nobody in their right mind
> would think of enjoy jokes about a state that suffering losses as great as
> ours. I will close in saying that you are "one sick individual".
>
> Chuck
> From West Virginia and Proud of it..................
> "Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote in message
> news:ZAStf.29482$dZ1.28925@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
>> Things I've learned about West Virginia
>>
>> Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
>>
>> There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in West Virginia.
>>
>> There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in West Virginia, plus
>> a couple that nobody
>> has seen before.
>>
>> Squirrels will eat anything.
>>
>> Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
>>
>> Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are
>> ripe.
>>
>> If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
>>
>> A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
>>
>> Onced and Twiced are words.
>>
>> It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
>>
>> Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
>>
>> People actually grow and eat okra.
>>
>> "Fixinto" is one word.
>>
>> There ain't no such thing as "lunch." There's "dinner" and then there's
>> "supper."
>>
>> Sweet tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when
>> you're two.
>>
>> "Backards and forwards" means, "I know everything about you."
>>
>> "Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
>>
>> You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is,
>> you work until you're
>> done or it's too dark to see.
>>
>>
>> More about West Virginia....
>>
>> You know you're from West Virginia if...
>>
>> 1. You measure distance in minutes
>>
>> 2. You've ever had to switch from heat to air conditioning in the same
>> day.
>>
>> 3. You see a car running in a store parking lot with no one in it no
>> matter what time of the
>> year.
>>
>> 4. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
>>
>> 5. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
>> grain, insect or
>> animal.
>>
>> 6. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
>> unlocked.
>>
>> 7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
>>
>> 8. You know what "cow tipping" is.
>>
>> 9. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete and catsup.
>>
>> 10. The local papers cover national and international news on one page
>> and six pages for local
>> gossip and sports.
>>
>> 11. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
>> ( we had the whole week
>> off)
>>
>> 12. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
>>
>> 13 Going to WalMart is a favorite past time known as "Goin' wal-martin"
>> or "Off to Wally
>> World'."
>>
>> 14 You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean
>> weather.
>>
>>
>> --
>> It has always been the policy of the
>> advocates of error, when unable to
>> sustain themselves by sophistry, specious
>> reasoning and false logic, to stigmatize
>> the advocates of truth.
>>
>>
>
>
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