From: derekr@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: alt.suicide.holiday
Subject: Re: Summer Depression?
Date: 12 Aug 92 20:37:39 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

> derekr@yang.earlham.edu writes:
> 
>>Kentucky = Deep South???  That set off my NitPicker Alarm so I have to 
>>respond. :-)  Kentucky is northern South (??Uh?).  Otherwise, your statement 
>>of the weather is accurate.  I'm from South Carolina and the added factor 
>>there is the humidity.  Humidity + Mosquitos/Gnats + Heat = Hell = SC summer.
>>	I'm living in Indiana this summer and everybody said it would be 
>>really nasty.  They meant hot and windy but its been cold and rainy.
> 
> I suppose I made a mistake, but don't take offense, okay? If you do it
> will get you upset, and if you get upset, you'll remind yourself that life
> is not worth living. (maybe I'll post Chapter 1 of my book.. I could prevent
> millions of suicides with it, I think.. :)

	I'm an easygoing guy, it takes a lot to get me upset :-).  The 
main reason I started reading this newsgroup was because a close friend of 
mine tried to commit suicide (55 aspirin) and another friend of mine 
called me  up and said "Derek, I've got a .38 revolver pointed at my head. 
I really want to do it but I thought I would call you first.".  I've 
learned a lot of helpful things from this newsgroup.
> 
> Surely to god you did not think (how would you know, this is true, and why
> I asked you not to be offended. :) I am *FROM* Kentucky.. Kentucky deserves
> the deplorable reputation it has, for the most part. Lexington and Louisville
> are two modern cities with modern people. Lexington is the Yuppy Capitol of
> the South, no doubt.. :) If I were from Kentucky, I would not have the 
	And I thought Greenville (the city from which I hail) was the 
Yuppy Capitol of the South. :-)  If you go by population, I guess 
Lexington wins.  But Greenville has its own BMW factory (brand new).

> sense to distinguish "'faar" from "ize". I would live in them thar hills and
> talk funny and spit on the ground all the time (drooling too much, I guess)
> and live off welfare and blame everything on the Japanese and the government.
> I would cruise the plaza in my one-horse town in my tacky redneck truck and
> pass holler chicks around like a joint. Only culture I've seen where three
> or more friends can have separate sexual encounters with the same girl on
> the same night.. If one person were to catch AIDS, the whole town would have
> it in a week. I might also note that in many parts of Kentucky, there are a
> lot of similar last names, and everyone is related in one way or another.
> In fact, when talking about someone, it's customary to mention a little about
> their family tree, so everyone knows who you're talking about. e.g. "You 
> know, so and so's son.." I suppose it points a finger in the general 
> direction in other places, but in Kentucky, an offspring is just a clone of
> one of the parents, so if you know the father, you know the son.
> This is the land of Billy Ray Cyrus and his achy breaky head. The clans
> in Kentucky are hard to trace because EVERYONE in a town (outside of 
> Lexingont or Louisville, of course) is related. "So, who in this town
> ISN'T your cousin? How about that? It will be quicker.." The inbreeding
> must be the cause behind Appalachian ignorance and poverty.
> Shit, how did you let me get started? :)
> Anyway, *I* am from Louisiana. NOT Kentucky <ick>. THAT is the deep south.
> I do not talk funny because I live here in Lexington. Most anywhere else,
> and I must remember to bring my English to Hillbilly translator. I shit you
> not..

	No shit taken.  I completely understand.  I don't have an accent 
either but I don't know why.  I'd like to think it has something to do 
with intelligence, but I doubt it. :-)
 
> Still, whatever possessed you to move up north? That's where Yankees live.

	Well, you can find most of the reasons in your little monologue up 
there.  I got tired of walking into bathrooms and overhearing 
conversations about killing all the 'niggars' and 'Bless Jesus".  All in 
the same breath too.  On a map, I drew a 500 mile radius circle around 
Greenville and only looked at colleges outside this circle.  
Unfortunately, I picked a small farming community where the accent is 
barely different and the attitudes very similar.  The college is great, 
but the environment sucks.

Derek Reubish
Dept. of Biology
Earlham College
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