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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:57:00 MDT
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L (LP version)

Warmeth ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)

     Since Ruth seems to have taken to stuttering, I have included
exerpts from both of her attempts to reply.  And Ruth, the lines
preceded by a '1' are from your first reply, the lines preceded by a
'2' are from your second reply.  (See what living among yankees can
make a <good> <Southern> <boy> do?)

> >
> >Flameth "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
1 Well, I warmeth the list a bit, but you have never seen me flame, doll.:-)
1 You don't want to either; it's like being inside a blast furnace, and at that
1 it's better than being taken to task by my kid sister.  She's the Wicked
1 *itch of the East Coast to my merely nasty *itch of the Freenet.:-)

2 Nahhhhh - I have not yet begun to roast relative newbies....  If you think
2 this is bad, you don't want to be around when the shots fired in anger
2 start flying.

     Sorry, I just didn't expect much from one so proud of her
yankee-hood.  I stand corrected until such time as you flame in
earnest, at which point I reserve the right to ROTFL.

> >> churches [in the opinion of real fundies] don't let women preach.
> >     Just cause they don't let you up on the pulpit (Given your
> >reputation on this list, I don't wonder.), you can still preach.
1 Not really.:-)  I'm far too much of a live-and-let-live type to handle the
1 fire and brimstone some southern preachers require.  Besides, I have no
1 training as a preacher, and my reputation as you say, would precede me.

     I suspect that quite a few of those preachers you refer to don't
have much (if any) more training than you, just more experience.

> >> He may be a Southerner, but he ain't no gennulman.<radar antennae swivel>
> >> Mme. Bandwidth, care to take a sighting?
2 <We have a lock, ma'am.  >

[Raise shields if any *real* artillery finds us.]

> >     It would take an act of Congress to make me a gentleman, and
> >since I never enlisted, they never got the chance.  And I was never
1 It wouldn't have worked anyway.<smirk>

     Why do you think I didn't go in?  Actually, it had more to do
with me wanting to be a combat soldier specializing in highly mobile,
small group, international range tactics.  I was told (in 1977) that
not only did the Army not need such a specialist, it didn't need
combat types in general.  And then formed Delta Force about the time I
graduated.  I sometimes wonder if there aren't a couple of [then]
Captains wondering what I am up to now.

> >taught to believe that I came from a Southern state.  My grandfather
> >was quite firm on that.  I hail from a REBEL state.  Born, bred, and
> >brought up to rebel.  As for taking a sighting, I was taught never to
> >strike a lady.  I have, however, struck a number of beings with two
> >'X' chromosomes.
1 Then you probably won't be hitting anyone in here either.  Of course, I
1 have been accused of being a lady on occasion...

     Note recently, I hope.

2 Not when they had Bandwidth ICVMs to back them up, you didn't.:-)

     How little you know of me.  :{) [mustache and grin]

> >> >not totally responsible for this terrible birth defect.
> >> Hey!  We're not the ones who talk like we have a speech impediment!
> >     The South did not include Brooklyn nor the Bronx.  Still want to
> >talk speech impediments?
1 What about New Orleans?  The Irish Channel?   Sounds a lot like Brooklyn to
1 me!  And in any case, New York CIty is it's own little colony; no one else
1 wants it!

2 Ever hear of New Orleans?  The Irish Channel?  Besides, Brooklyn and the
2 Bronx are not part of the North really; no one up hear will own up to
2 having colonized them! [the original of this is better]

     I am aware of the large variety of incomprehensible accents on
both sides of the Mason-Dixon.  I note that as you come up possible
embarassments you immediately divorce them from your 'community' (I
read your comments about Boston.).  Typical yankee.

> >> There's no such thing as an ex-rebel either  - and we're not just whistling
> >> Dixie.  Chances are the Ronin has Confederate flag undershorts on....:-)
> >     No, but I used to have the Stars and Bars hanging on a wall.  May
> >again some day.  There is a lot that stands for besides slavery.
1 Yeah, the side that lost.<evil grin>

2 Yeah - Wait til next Civil War.  Maybe a Cubs pennant would be better?

     Just remember, the yankees were fighting to help cement the
Republican party in American politics.  And look where that got you.
Depending on a Southerner to save you from King George.

> >> <feeling very provocative and donning asbestos longjohns>
> >     I will leave to others to determine whether or not you look
> >provocative in asbestos.  I have no doubt that that foulest of
> >demon-spawn, the yankee (not capitalized because that noun is never
> >proper), has asbestos longjohns in its wardrobe.
1 <sweet voice>  You'll never know, now will you?  As if I'd let some Johnny Reb
1 into my closet....

     Then I will wait for you to come out of the closet and <reveal>
whatever it is you are hiding in there.

2 That's for me to know, and you not to bother your little head about.
2 It would certainly be a very improper Yankee who would let you examine her
2 underwear, asbestos or not.

     Yup, they sure were.  Finest kind of yankee there ever was.

The Ronin
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