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10b4me
Ice climber
Bishop/Flagstaff
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Dec 13, 2013 - 11:20am PT
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I was born, and raised in California, but my folks are from SE Missouri. Pert close to the Arkansas line. We used to take summer road trips there every year until I was ten.
When I was twelve I lived back there, with my grandmother, for the summer. I grew to love southern cooking, and had the blue plate special ($2) at Millers' Cafe every weekday They always served 'taters, or 'maters; and of course catfish, on Fridays. I will say, I never have liked grits.
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Dec 13, 2013 - 12:42pm PT
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SE Missouri. Pert close to the Arkansas line.
I too was there when I was small. Left at age 6 and never went back. But to this day, I have a taste for fried chicken gizzards, okra, turnips, don't see it very often though.
Nowadays, it's billed as "Soul Food".
http://sylviasrestaurant.com/
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
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How big were those ladies?
Huge, at least 3 bills each.
My hometown is the most obese city in the country. Indiana is considered midwest, but the southern part is definitely the South. The hills and creek bottoms in those parts produce a lot of hillbillies. Like me.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/may/14/no-headline---15aoxwalkroll/
A Gallup poll released in mid-March ranked Evansville, Ind.-Ky. as the most obese metropolitan area in the country with 37.8 percent of its residents in 2010 overweight. That was a jump of almost 10 percent over the results of a similar survey conducted in 2009.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2013 - 04:19pm PT
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And yes, southern Ohio, Illinois and Indiana are redneck as all hell. Kentucky is farther north than those places.
LOL! I remember watching the news as a kid on the TV, and there was a story about something in Kentucky and it was in a city, with paved roads and cars and stuff. I was amazed that there were cities in Kentucky! Concrete buildings and cement ponds!
But yeah, there's places in southern Indiana more Appalachian than Appalachia, little outposts tucked away in dark limestone hollers no one knows about. Deep in those hardwood forests. Places you'd only get to if you were out looking for caves. Places right out of Deliverance.
Growing up as a hillbilly down in the Pigeon Creek bottoms wasn't so bad, though. We didn't have two dimes to rub together, but we had plenty to eat, what with the garden and the chickens and rabbits we raised, and the schools were good. Lots of places to romp and explore with the dogs. Poor kids in the city are f*#ked, that's for sure.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2013 - 04:30pm PT
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I'm right at home in such places Gary. The sun still don't shine where I'm from.
Yep, Tennessee is all the same. Ouch! came from the same place, I forget which state, but it was the same. I always got a kick out of his pictures of cornbread, sliced tomatoes and big glasses of milk. A downhome guy.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2013 - 04:33pm PT
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Little neighborhoods of survivalists, and those off the grid for numerous other reasons
Yeah, but those are weirdos. The desert draws a certain type into its fold. The hill folk back east were just born there.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Dec 13, 2013 - 09:01pm PT
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The desert draws a certain type into its fold. The hill folk back east were just born there.
bite me
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Dave.B
Trad climber
29 Palms, CA
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Dec 14, 2013 - 09:07pm PT
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Totally speechless...
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Dec 14, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
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Free trip to Hospital ^^ Print out this coupon on healthcare.gov ! !
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scaredycat
Trad climber
Berkeley,CA
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Dec 15, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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Who's gone? Ron?
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Remember when Joe Biden famously said that Obama was "clean" ...as in cleanliness?
One for the Biden blooper reel, for sure
No, one for the constructive misinterpretation reel. Clean...as in clean record. coming from Chicago, an accomplishment.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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The only good confederate flags are the ones made out of toilet paper.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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if "clean" refers to a political track record then that means that NO OTHER mainstream African-American political candidate EVER had a clean track record, according to Old Joe?
Clean enough to run for President? Probably.
---and the hardest thing for you to swallow
Biden was right.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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You're really clueless about politics, aren't you? Try voting sometime.
If you are legal.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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"Yeah I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun
These people ain't seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one"
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