BS: Merry Christmas from Florida

Subject: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:23 PM

CHRISTMAS IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE

A man stopped in a small Florida Panhandle town, and noted that there was a "Nativity Scene" which showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it One small feature bothered him -- the three wise men were wearing firemen's helmets. Totally unable to come up with a reason or explanation, he stopped at a convenience store on the edge of town, and asked the lady behind the counter about the helmets.

She gently rebuked me with a smile, "You Damn Yankees! Ya'll never do read your Bible!"

The man assured her that he did, but simply couldn't recall anything about firemen in the Bible.

She lifted her well worn Bible from under the counter and quickly found the page she wanted. Holding it for me to see, she said, "Looky here, it rightly says, 'The three wise men came from afar.'"

Merry Christmas Y'all

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:26 PM

lol. I thought that happened ratcheer though.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:27 PM

Exxcceellllent!
How do you know if someone from Georgia wants a pen or a pin? Cheers, Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:29 PM

Oh that's simple Larry, one has two syllables.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:33 PM

Hmmmmm. Pen?

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:34 PM

no silly, pi-uhn.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:36 PM

I am flummoxed! Well, I will just have to travel with a translator, local guide, or go to Berlitz!
Merry Christmas! - Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:38 PM

Most times you just ask for a pin-sul or a bald pont.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:40 PM

or a pinney, thankew.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:41 PM

Also Larry, the word "pen" comes out more like "pehn" and is almost always preceded by the word "ink."

AND TROLL.......I'm sittin' here tryin' to figure out which is older.........you or that joke.(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 09:43 PM

Ah yes, just like to get REAL tea in the South, one has to ask for Hot tea!, As my father would say, "my... my... my..."
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: CarolC
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:05 PM

Idinit sumpm, how you like to prolly commite nigh to break down crine if you caint zackly find the thang you want to git for your kin for Christmas? 'Course, you can always "say it with flares".

Have a merry one yourself.

Carol

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:11 PM

ME 'Spaw. It mentions a "convenience store". We never had them when I was a boy.
Larry, REAL tea is pre-sweetened with sugar, has ice in it, and is called "swee'tea". HOT tea is for old ladies, Yankees and sick folks.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 10:11 PM

Lemon is optional.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: paddymac
Date: 18 Dec 00 - 11:48 PM

"Pi - uhn" is what most men folks is doin offen the back porch.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: mkebenn
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 07:48 AM

Pan handle 'taint Florida, it's Weesianna.

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 08:02 AM

Look at a map. Yew gots to go threw Alabam AN Missisip afore yew gets to Weesianna.
Wasamatterthyew? Don' yew no jogerfy?

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: mkebenn
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 08:27 AM

weesiania, gawga, mawsippi, albama, allasame..

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: InOBU
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 08:36 AM

I say Troll!
Tea, proper, black, strong tea, with owld sour milk, was good enough for the 35th foot (the Otways) when, in the rags supplied by their patron (the Otways) they faced hardship and noble death, facing cannon and muskit, bayonet and sword, thousands of miles from home and harth, sweating in heavy red wool in 90 degree summer, loosing toes in the bitter winter, with nought but love of King and fear of the lash, year after year of hardship, so that you might someday enjoy the freedom to vote for your leader (lets not get into that again!). Now if after that, you can put lemon and ice in your tea, well, in my book, it was a waisted effort, and we may have just as well fought harder so that you learned to be civilised - to drink hot tea in the summer and count the... no, I can't go there again!
Cheers
Larry Otway

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Blackcatter
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 11:36 AM

greetings

We know the Florida Panhandle as "L.A." here in Florida. - not Loosianna - Lower Alabama. By the way - when a Georgian asks for a pin or pen - it's really simple to figure out - we know that most true Georgians with can't write so they must be asking for something which to hold their overalls.

pax yall

Subject: RE: BS: Merry Christmas from Florida
From: Troll
Date: 19 Dec 00 - 02:29 PM

Mike, it is NOT all the same as I shall illustrate forthwith.
A man is sitting in a bar working on his sixth drink when another man-of oriental persuasion- sits down beside him.
"Go 'way" mutteres the drunk.
"Whats wrong with you?", asks the second man.
"'Don like Japs.'Causa Pearl Harbor."
"Oh", says the man."Well, I"m not Japanese. I'm Chinese."
"Jap'nese, Chinese. "S all the same."
Well, you're Jewish, right?"
"Yeah. Sho what?"
?"Well you guys sank the Titanic."
"Whadya mean, we sank th' Titanic. Th' Titanic was sunk by an iceberg!"
ICEBERG, GOLDBERG; It's all the same".
Differences are crucial, Mike.

troll