Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?

Subject: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: LeTenebreux
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:03 AM

Surely not?????

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Alice
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:05 AM

No, you're not.
Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: M.Ted
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:07 AM

No-not by a long shot. They may talk a lot, but when it comes down to it, we can still lick 'em;-)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 10:41 AM

That depends on who you call Yankees. My wife's a Yankee. I'm a Texan. That's a little like being from Hull.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Azizi
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:23 AM

Who's Crikey? And how would she or he know where every Mudcat member of Mudcat {regular} guest is from?

;o)



Just kiddin.

No, LeTenebreux, you are not the only Yankee on here.

Welcome to our usually interesting & informative {and sometimes fun} international forum!

Azizi,
originally from New Jersey but living now living in Pennsylvania {both "Yankee" states in the US of A}.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:33 AM

Cor! The bloomin' site 'as been infested by all these bloody sods from the UK and Australia wot talk loik they've got a pillow stuck in each cheek. They go on and on about spotted dick, toad in the 'ole, and rubbish loik that. They say their car 'as a bonnet instead of a hood and they put petrol in it instead of gas! They drive on the LEFT side of the road! They call other people wot they don't like "tossers" and "wankers". Shocking!   ;-)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:35 AM

You may well be. Lots of damn yankees though. Or so my friends from the south tell me . . . .

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 12:40 PM

Not me...I consider myself a westerner. A USian, yes.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 01:29 PM

How far west?

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Peace
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 01:33 PM

Any further west and he'd be swimming.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Bert
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 01:49 PM

""and rubbish loik that"" You've obviously never tried them LH!

I'm tranplant from the UK, living in Colorado at the moment. But I have a house in PA and I'm an American Citizen so that kinda makes me a Yankee. There's still a load of UKian culture left in me yet so if you visit me in Colorado LH I'll serve you up some English delicacies.

The difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee is that and Damn Yankee is one who visits 'The South' and stays there.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 02:02 PM

So what's with the "crikey" thing? Trying to be Aussie or what?

Lots of yankees around but a number are at the DC Getaway. But feel free to yank my doodle........its a dandy!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 02:37 PM

I'm in New Mexico, LH.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 03:23 PM

My husband is a Yankee, I am a Westerner, even when I lived in Yankeeland I wasn't one.:-)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 03:25 PM

Ah, I've heard good things about New Mexico, Art.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 03:29 PM

I am an ex-yankee, but it's been a long time since I yanked anything.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 03:57 PM

I'm from, and live in, North America... and I live in the South but wasn't raised here...

And George Papavgeris, my condolences!

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 04:06 PM

Thanks Mrrzy, but at least I saved my eyesight!

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 05:15 PM

But did you salvage your Doodle? I mean, that's the main question here isn't it? Hawk's Doodle for instance was never yankable owing to its tiny size and with age it has shriveled and dessicated to the point of total uselessness.

So forget about the eyesight, just watch out for your Doodle.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 05:27 PM

Spaw! Go stand in the corner and be quiet. And put that thing away!
SINS in Maine by way of NYC

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 05:30 PM

And wash your hands...

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Beer
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 05:56 PM

I'm not a Yankee doodle dandy.
Welcome to the Mud.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 07:06 PM

I'd quliafy for most definitions of Yankee - being a Cape Codder born and raised even if I now live in NY. Of course, growing up, "Real" Yankees came from Maine.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 08:02 PM

As a new subscriber, you are not aware of the "invasions."

Original mission statement by the creators - was a commitment to AMERICAN Folk/Blues

There was a temporary (20 month) invasion from female-wixcans

Postings in 2003 began tip the till towards.....UK "who is singing where".....

Unfortunately,

As a source for serious, annotated, folk discusstion, Mudcat (like a retiring Wyoming Brothal Queen) is slowly fading into the background.

Don't fault MAX....he is a mere conduit with a family to support...and bills to pay,

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 08:05 PM

"Mudcat (like a retiring Wyoming Brothal Queen) is slowly fading into the background"

And so are the rank and file of its membership... ;-) This happens as time goes by with anything. It's a natural process. Ever seen a sine curve?

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 08:16 PM

Garg has a very short and shriveled willie, flaccid and pathetic. In heat, his looks like a melting popsicle flanked by two Tic-Tacs.

This all makes him irritable on his best days. Pay him no mind......Just rip a fart in his direction and move on.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 08:22 PM

Dear HawkSpittle

Contribute - TODAY!!!

The dollar is declining, US Real Estate is declinking (MAX is involed with both)

Yours, MY.... veritable exhistance within this board are based on his benevolent.....

We could ALL be eliminated in a nano-seceond.

Be kind to Max before this New Year.

Sincerely, Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 08:23 PM

Definition of "Yankee" gets complicated.

Can mean a USer. In the US can mean a northerner. Among northern USers, can mean New Englanders. Hmm. Among New Englanders, mostly means those from Maine. Not living in Main, but at least 3 generations of Maine Yankees.

My New Hampshuh born and bred husband claims I was born a Yankee -- despite having the misfortune to be born in Upper Michigan (ayuh, I'm a Yooper) and brought up in Wisconsin on the shores of Lake Michigan instead of the mighty Atlantic.

I feel honored to be considered a Yankee by someone born in New Hampshuh and from many New England generations.

Linn

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Gurney
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:50 PM

Spaw, would you care to enlighten us as to how you came to be such an authority on the member's members?

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Slag
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 11:59 PM

California. Different planet altogether.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 06:56 AM

Spaw has a vivid imagination. Doesn't mean he's wrong. 'Course, he's from Kukinich Kountry.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 07:15 AM

Good question Gurney!!! Funny story about that actually........

A few years ago there was a contest sponsored by the Viagra folks to find the tiniest and most unusual genitalia in the world. As it turns out a number of 'Catters entered and were actually winners in their categories! Hawk won for "Most Dessicated" and Garg finished second in the "Most Completely Pathetic" category losing only to a trans-gendered male who suffered post surgical organ rejection. It was however a close second.

As the winner of a previous Viagra contest a few months earlier ("World's Greatest Massive Schlong Swordsman") I was asked to judge and I must tell you I personally voted for Garg as "Most Completely Pathetic." The guy-gal who won was having a second transplant and still had hope whereas Garg had none.


Spaw

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 10:43 AM

Speaking of which, take a look at the "Don't forget to turn your cock back" thread for my tale of woe....

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 11:05 AM

I am an ex-yankee, but it's been a long time since I yanked anything.

George, wouldn't that make you a yanker instead?:-)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 11:29 AM

I had heard that a yankee was, to a European, someone from the US, to folks south of the Mason Dixon line, someone born north of it, to someone from the mid atlantics, someone from New England, to New Englanders, someone from Vermmont, to Vermmonters, someone who eats pie for breakfast. I am one, only when I'm tired enough and the true accent comes out, I call it "poi"

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 11:38 AM

Spaw, I was wondering if I could get you to be my personal publicity agent and handle all my promotion? You have such a way with words. Whaddya think?

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:33 PM

I was born and raised in New Jersey, and have lived in New Orleans since 1969.

You figure out whether or not I'm a Yankee.

;^)

But wait: it gets even more complicated (potentially, anyway):

Thanks to my forebearers being relatively recent immigrants (my dad's parents came to the US as adults), I am eligible for Irish citizenship if and when I move there and stay for a certain defined period.

An elderly second cousin is still living on the land that has been home to our family for centuries, and none of his three kids is interested in inheriting because they have all moved away and adapted to city life. (The family farm, which I was able to visit once a few years ago, is way out in the country, in east Mayo.)

If I could afford it (i.e., if I were to win the lottery), I would love to buy that property rather than have it be sold off to strangers after Cousin Tom and his wife pass away. I'd probably prefer to live there only during the summer months, but would consider a more extended stay for the first year(s), in order to meet those citizenship requirements. (I'm pretty sure that dual citizenship would be an option ~ I would not have to "renounce" the US.)

************************

I believe that there are still plenty of Mudcat participants in the US, but those Brits ~ relative newcomers to this originally-all-American site ~ certainly make their presence felt. I think you'll eventually learn how easily some topics can be identified as strictly-UK in subject matter. You can "tune out," if you prefer, by simply not opening such threads.

Speaking for myself, I find some of those "UK-only" discussions extremely interesting and/or amusing, since they provide a window into a world about which I would otherwise be totally ignorant.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Desdemona
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 02:53 PM

Not hardly; I live in Massachusetts. That said, I do spend part of every summer in England, and in the unlikely event of my becoming fabulously wealthy I'd like a lovely thatched stone cottage in Gloucestershire! Does that make a difference?

~D

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Becca72
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 11:26 AM

I am a Yankee by all definitions given here. And damned proud of it, too.

Becca in Southern Maine.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 11:29 AM

No, indeed; the "Colonies" are well represented, and eastern Canada seems prominent enough. I know the great Northwest is well represented, and I hear a few comments from the Bay Area folk. I have had the sense, at times, that there were too few of us west of the Rockies, however.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 11:34 AM

I'm married to the genuine article - Kendall was born and raised in Downeast Maine and has lived all his life in Maine to date. That gives him the real credentials - Spaw....DON'T.

I'm a transplant from the UK, got the honorary title of Maineiac, along with SINSULL and ranger1, more for our antics than our origins.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Blindlemonsteve
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 12:20 PM

Hi Guys
i am one of those U.K chaps who speaks with a funny accent!!!! (Its our language), we also drive on the left, this is the correct way to drive, this is because when you are driving a coach and horses, you can use the reigns with the left hand and whip with the right, thus being away from pedestrians, Napolean changed it on continental europe when he couldnt invade us, therefore we are very proud to drive the way we choose, not the way we have been dictated to.... I am all for the E.U but i think we should just call it Great Britain, and rename the "Euro" the "Pound".
Right, thats enough from me, i am off to eat a "doughnut", whilst checking under the "Bonnet" of my right hand drive car while i fill up with "Petrol".
Time permitting, i might pop in and get a "Big Mac" on the way home. just to give my support to our colonial friends.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 12:41 PM

Hmmm, never thought of "doughnut" as an exclusively British word. We eat 'em on this side of the Atlantic, too. (Our police are famous for their consumption of same.)

Perhaps the implication is that the simplified spelling, "donut," continues to gain acceptability here in the US, while the more traditional form is surviving in the UK.

That change in spelling is relatively new and still ongoing. When I was a kid, the long-form "doughnut" was still in very common usage, while "donut" was considered semi-ignorant, appropriate only for lowbrow advertising. (Very much like how the forms "lite" and "nite" are viewed today.)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 03:38 PM

I thought you were going somewhere else PoppaGator..........like to Beighnet which contrary to what most of y'all in the Crescent City think is still just a doughnut/donut thingy.

(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 04:10 PM

Beignets are very tasty members of the doughnut family, presumably French in origin. Available from two and only two sources:

The famous Cafe du Monde, located just across Decatur Street from Jackson Square in the French Quarter, serves them up very generously covered in powdered sugar. (Don't wear black!) CDM has expanded and now has a number of "branch" locations around the New Orleans suburbs, where the coffee and beignets are pretty much the same as at the original cafe, but the atmoshpere just ain't the same.

The other source for authentic beignets is the Morning Call Coffee Stand, formerly located just a couple of blocks down Decatur from the CDM but ~ since sometime in, I believe, the 1980s ~ now housed in a strip mall in suburban Metairie. Some of the woodwork and furniture from the original Morning Call was moved to the new place, so the interior offers some echo of the former glory. Many old-timers will swear that the Morning Call's product has always been clearly superior to Cafe du Monde's; they may be prejudiced by the fact that Morning Call used to offer carhop-type curb service, way in the distant past. (By the time I arrived in town in 1969, that service was already a thing of the past, and the subject of many nostalgic discussions.) Morning Call serves their beignets "nekkid," without sugar ~ they provide shakers of powdered sugar so that patrons can apply their own.

Beignets are made with no holes in 'em, and are deep-fried like any "standard" doughnut. The main difference is that they're good to eat only when very fresh, still hot from the grease pit. The dough is constituted in such a manner that if you let 'em cool off, they very quickly become thick, heavy and unappetizing.

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Emma B
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 04:24 PM

and then there's the wonderful Churros con Chocolate dunkin' "doughnuts" on the wild side :)

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Rowan
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 05:50 PM

All this talk of doughnuts reminds me of

"As you go through life, brother,
whatever be your goal,
keep your eye upon the doughnut
and not upon the hole!"

But I'm not a Yankee so I'll just keep lurkin'

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Nov 07 - 07:01 PM

TOWNSMEN SALOON BROTHEL OLD WEST TRUE WOMEN PHOTOS - no doubt including Gargoyle's "retiring Wyoming Brothel Queen".

Some interesting stuff in there - for example:

"An Irish fiddler named Kelley, employed in a saloon in Idaho City, Idaho, grew so apprehensive over the hair-trigger tantrums of the local miners that he insisted on an ingenious safety measure. He had the proprietor build a platform that was rigged to the ceiling by a system of pulleys and halyards. Whenever gunfire broke out he was hoisted aloft, where he played on, presumably above the line of fire."

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Grab
Date: 07 Nov 07 - 09:08 AM

That's *got* to be a cue for a limerick...

An Idaho whorehouse musician
Improved his working conditions
As bullets started to fly
He was hoisted on high
To continue his fiddling mission

Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Nov 07 - 07:45 AM

Well, I was a Yankee until I got tired of scraping ice and shoveling snow. So I moved west... a long way west... only changed planes in Hawaii and kept going west for another seven hours. Luckily the pilot could find that little dot in the middle of the ocean.

It was a nice November day today in Guam. Temperature hit the mid-80s, again, but the humidity is lower and the heat is not so fierce. Nice views of the mountains and the ocean on the way home from work.