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My results, 81% Dixie....."Do you still use Confederate money?"
So how do you say it?
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53% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
Which makes no sense. All of my answers said "common throughout the US"
Which makes no sense. All of my answers said "common throughout the US"
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fuggeddaboudit! (must be the time I spent in Cali, heh. 
That's 'cuz I lived in da South for over half my life...43% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
(But I still consider myself a Southern Yankee.
)Have you hugged your arghule today?
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
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"For millions of years
mankind lived just like the animals.
Then something happened
that unleashed the power of our imagination -
we learned to talk."
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If PRO and CON are opposites,
then the opposite of PROgress must be...
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It's 4:19...
gotta minute?
74% (Dixie). Your neck must be at least pink!
do tell! esmah honey, will you pay-us me uh blossomwatah, sugah? ah do buh-leave ahm feelin' just a bit faint!
cspeak.blogspot.com/2005/06/kentucky-is-not-south.html
mah old granny always used to tell me "always call tomayto tomahto, and always call potayto potahto, but never call cake cahk, y'all!"
do tell! esmah honey, will you pay-us me uh blossomwatah, sugah? ah do buh-leave ahm feelin' just a bit faint!
cspeak.blogspot.com/2005/06/kentucky-is-not-south.html
mah old granny always used to tell me "always call tomayto tomahto, and always call potayto potahto, but never call cake cahk, y'all!"
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here ya go! 
52% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
Odd, even though I live in MD, my family is from the South and California.
Odd, even though I live in MD, my family is from the South and California.
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Being that I have lived on Long Island most of my life, I can agree with that.35% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
BTW......has anyone here actually seen or even heard of a "drive-thru" liquor store?
"Yeah, um, I'd like a Big Mac, uhhh, large fries, and two cheeseburgers."
"Would you like anything to drink with that?"
"Yeah, um, I'll take a bottle of Jack's."
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48% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category.
Comes from living in MD, watching Canadian cop shows, and going to college in VA.
Comes from living in MD, watching Canadian cop shows, and going to college in VA.
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The test is screwed anyway. I don't pronounce aunt in any of those four ways. 
You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.