BS: Wes Ginny Quiz

Subject: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:01 PM

What the heck? I mean this being quiz week and all I figured it was time to really challenge your thinkerators with a few questions about Wild and Wonderful Wes Ginny.

1. How do you spell "West Virginia"?

2. How many West Virginians does it take to eat a possum?

3. When does "shirt season" begin and end.

4. What is the average age of a man (hint) or boy when he gets his first tatoo?

5. Who's buried in John Brown's grave?

6. What is a West Virginia 7 course meal?

7. How many West Virginians live in "half a double wide"?

8. Why did the possum "attempt" to cross the road?

9. The best moonshine is stilled in the radiators of what model truck. (Clue: If you picked Dodge, then that may go along way toward explaining your other answers.)

10. What is the last question on this quiz.

There, these ought to keep a few of you up all night beating your heads against the wall...

the ol' hillbilly,

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:07 PM

Well I've just visited Almost Heaven so I'll have a go. 1:dunno
2:dunno
3:dunno
4:dunno
5:dunno
6:dunno
7:dunno
8:dunno
9:dunno
10:dunno

There, that didnt take long. Easy as kiss your arse.

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: khandu
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:13 PM

#2 Three, One to eat while the others direct traffic.

khandu

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:40 PM

Heck, Gregster, ya' got one right....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:28 AM

#6...a baked possum and a six-pack

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:29 AM

#10...#10?

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 12:54 AM

Hey Bobert

Ya'll got armadillos up in Wes Ginny? If not, ya need 'em. I'd be glad to send ya a few from down here in Flori-bama. They make much better roadkill than possum. Shell keeps 'em fresh longer.

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 05:16 AM

The roadkill theme points up one of those intriguing US/Brit cultural difference. Country people over here habitually eat roadkills(I have done so hundreds of times), but it doesnt tend to get joked about. The main topic of British humour about country people tends to concentrate on their habit of having unnatural relations with sheep. Don't they do this in West Virginia? Or isnt it considered funny?

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 10:39 AM

Greg,

One of the things about roadkill in the US is that the species that are most likely to be hit by a car are ones that are not usually eaten. Oppossums, armadillos, skunks, snakes etc. A few people will stop for a freshly smacked rabbit or squirrel. But deer are another matter. Just about everybody where I live has no problem with throwing a just-struck deer in the back of the pickup truck. But it should only be done if driving a pickup truck. Our modern-day folklore is peppered with tales of folks who have thrown a "dead" dear in the back of a passenger car, only to have the nearly stunned animal come to life and tear hell out of the car.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:00 AM

Thank you for that information, Bruce. Not admitting anything about sheep,huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 01:37 PM

Yeah, but did you notice, Greg -- he referred to the deer as 'dear'? Freudian slip or what??
BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:04 PM

Bee-dubya-ell: Danged! Armadillos, ya' say? How ya' cook 'em? They like crabs with all that armor? I'd think the grill myself, but there something about grilled food. Plus I like the the sound of grilled 'dillows (Do not go there, Greg... off limits!)

And 'round these parts it ain't the sheep with that worried look on their face when they see Bubba appraochin' them from behind, it's the goats...

Bill: Man, you're in 1st and 2nd place on the Wes Ginny Quiz.

Keep up the good work. Once ya' get 5 of them then we'll just proclaim you as the winner and tell ya', ummmmmm, whats ya' won. Oh, you want a hint? Go back two paragraphs...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: MMario
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:23 PM

#5 a possum.

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: SharonA
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:26 PM

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the 'possum that it can be done...

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 03:36 PM

SharonA is on the board.

Nice try, MMario. But not all Wes Ginny quiz questions involve possums, hard as that is to fathom.

Speaking of possums, I got a suicidal one. Hew comes around, oh, about midnight, climbs up a tall lealand cypris tree onto the roof, walks to the other end of the house and jumps off the roof into hydranga bush. Well, he makes such a commotion that the dog starts barkin' and I gotta go out in the middleof the night wearing, ahhh, only a flashlight and get him out of the bush...

Get to work, Bill. That hot breath on the back of your neck is SharonA's...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: CarolC
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 09:44 PM

Hey Bobert! Can I still tell West Virginia jokes as an insider now that I'm mostly living in Georgia? (I won't be completely moved out of Shepherdstown until October.)

I lived in WV for almost ten years. Is there any kind of grandfather clause thingie for former residents or something?

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 10:01 PM

You're covered for life CarolC and if anyone says anything about it you have 'em talk with my cousin Rufus if I ain't around, ya hear.

And, well heck, Georgia is just a hotter and flatter version of Wes Ginny anyway, girl.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: MAG
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 11:15 PM

#1: X

#3: with shoe season

#5: besides John Brown???

#7: now the answer is NOT all of them, but I bet you think it is.

#9: I'll take a stab at Chevy

... MAG, whose very middle-class West Virginny Mom HATES these jokes.

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 12:30 AM

1. How do you spell "West Virginia"?

Wes Ginny?

2. How many West Virginians does it take to eat a possum?

How big is the possum? and is it Thanksgiving?

3. When does "shirt season" begin and end.

Between Coat season and No shirt season

4. What is the average age of a man (hint) or boy when he gets his first tatoo?

16 as it is the youngest age for prison.

5. Who's buried in John Brown's grave?

John Brown's mother in law?

6. What is a West Virginia 7 course meal?

a six pack and pack of beef jerky

7. How many West Virginians live in "half a double wide"?

A lot! But can you call that living?

8. Why did the possum "attempt" to cross the road?

How big is the possum? Is it Thanksgiving?

9. The best moonshine is stilled in the radiators of what model truck. (Clue: If you picked Dodge, then that may go along way toward explaining your other answers.)

Carol thainks its a foward. I thaink so too cuz tha radimcater is baigger.

10. What is the last question on this quiz.

The last question on this Quiz possibly is...."What is the last question on this quiz. " But since the last question with punctuation is " 8. Why did the possum "attempt" to cross the road? " perhaps that is... My guess is that the last question is "Whut the heall???

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 08:38 AM

Mag: 4 out 5 ain't bad!

Jack the Sailor: Hey, 7 fir 10. You should have talked with MEG's Wes Ginny mom before attemptin' to ace this thing. But I gotta hand it to ya. Ford radiators *rule*, brother!

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Gareth
Date: 20 Sep 02 - 08:52 AM

Then there's this a repost but wot the hell !

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 10:26 AM

*Hey*, Iz resembles them remarks, Gareth!?!...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 10:50 AM

Well first, no completely home grown Wesginnan can spell at all since the "3 R's" in the WV schools stand for "Readin'-Ritin-and Route 33 to Ohio." This shows a certain degree of intelligence though as does the way they eat possum...Requires at least three to do it.....One to eat the possum and two to watch for traffic. True. they are not familiar with the 'dillas like they have in Texas and across to the Florida "Cracker" country, but anyone knows that armadillo is simply "Possum on the Half-Shell." As to the 7 Course meal....If WV is truly a southern state (some question of this arose in the 1860's), then they know that such a meal ends with dessert so they would join the rest of the south in answering, "A Moon Pie and a Six Pack." Most meals are eaten in the open air or on the highway and always the state bird is present....the Fly.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Wes Ginny Quiz
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 21 Sep 02 - 11:16 AM

Having lived there for a pleasant spell, I know the answer to #1 is "West-Bah-GOD-Virginia"!