So how do you say it?
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So how do you say it?
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My results, 81% Dixie....."Do you still use Confederate money?"
My results, 81% Dixie....."Do you still use Confederate money?"
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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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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...
gotta minute?
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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."
________________________________________
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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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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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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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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"Now if you remember all great paintings have an element of tragedy to them. Uh, for instance if you remember from last week, the unicorn was stuck on the aircraft carrier and couldn't get off. That was very sad. " - Kids in the Hall
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The test is screwed anyway. I don't pronounce aunt in any of those four ways. 

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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.