Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?

04 Nov 07 - 10:03 AM (#2186177)
Subject: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: LeTenebreux

Surely not?????

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04 Nov 07 - 10:05 AM (#2186178)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Alice

No, you're not.
Alice in Montana

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04 Nov 07 - 10:07 AM (#2186185)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: M.Ted

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

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04 Nov 07 - 10:41 AM (#2186212)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: mack/misophist

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

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04 Nov 07 - 11:23 AM (#2186233)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Azizi

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}.

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04 Nov 07 - 11:33 AM (#2186242)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

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!   ;-)

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04 Nov 07 - 11:35 AM (#2186245)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Peace

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

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04 Nov 07 - 12:40 PM (#2186283)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks

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

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04 Nov 07 - 01:29 PM (#2186314)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

How far west?

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04 Nov 07 - 01:33 PM (#2186316)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Peace

Any further west and he'd be swimming.

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04 Nov 07 - 01:49 PM (#2186320)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Bert

""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.

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04 Nov 07 - 02:02 PM (#2186329)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49

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

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04 Nov 07 - 02:37 PM (#2186353)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks

I'm in New Mexico, LH.

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04 Nov 07 - 03:23 PM (#2186377)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: katlaughing

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

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04 Nov 07 - 03:25 PM (#2186380)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

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

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04 Nov 07 - 03:29 PM (#2186383)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: George Papavgeris

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

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04 Nov 07 - 03:57 PM (#2186395)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Mrrzy

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

And George Papavgeris, my condolences!

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04 Nov 07 - 04:06 PM (#2186399)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: George Papavgeris

Thanks Mrrzy, but at least I saved my eyesight!

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04 Nov 07 - 05:15 PM (#2186434)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49

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

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04 Nov 07 - 05:27 PM (#2186441)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: SINSULL

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

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04 Nov 07 - 05:30 PM (#2186444)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: SINSULL

And wash your hands...

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04 Nov 07 - 05:56 PM (#2186459)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Beer

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

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04 Nov 07 - 07:06 PM (#2186502)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: MMario

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.

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04 Nov 07 - 08:05 PM (#2186516)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

"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?

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04 Nov 07 - 08:16 PM (#2186520)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49

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

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04 Nov 07 - 08:22 PM (#2186523)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

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

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04 Nov 07 - 08:23 PM (#2186524)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Bat Goddess

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

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04 Nov 07 - 11:50 PM (#2186566)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Gurney

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

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04 Nov 07 - 11:59 PM (#2186570)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Slag

California. Different planet altogether.

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05 Nov 07 - 06:56 AM (#2186670)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: artbrooks

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

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05 Nov 07 - 07:15 AM (#2186678)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49

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

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05 Nov 07 - 10:43 AM (#2186783)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

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

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05 Nov 07 - 11:05 AM (#2186803)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: katlaughing

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?:-)

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05 Nov 07 - 11:29 AM (#2186821)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Susan A-R

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"

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05 Nov 07 - 11:38 AM (#2186824)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Little Hawk

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?

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05 Nov 07 - 02:33 PM (#2186956)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator

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.)

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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.

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05 Nov 07 - 02:53 PM (#2186978)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Desdemona

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

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06 Nov 07 - 11:26 AM (#2187551)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Becca72

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

Becca in Southern Maine.

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06 Nov 07 - 11:29 AM (#2187557)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego

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.

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06 Nov 07 - 11:34 AM (#2187562)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: jacqui.c

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.

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06 Nov 07 - 12:20 PM (#2187602)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Blindlemonsteve

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.

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06 Nov 07 - 12:41 PM (#2187626)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator

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.)

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06 Nov 07 - 03:38 PM (#2187772)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: catspaw49

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

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06 Nov 07 - 04:10 PM (#2187795)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: PoppaGator

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.

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06 Nov 07 - 04:24 PM (#2187807)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Emma B

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

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06 Nov 07 - 05:50 PM (#2187893)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Rowan

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

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07 Nov 07 - 09:08 AM (#2188292)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Grab

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

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08 Nov 07 - 07:45 AM (#2188884)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Naemanson

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.

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08 Nov 07 - 07:59 AM (#2188894)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Severn

As a former Civil War re-enactor, I've portrayed both sides and live in Maryland, a state that furnished ample troops to both sides.

By the way, the term in the hobby for dressing up as the other side when not enough troops show up from that side to make it look good and/or authentic for the spectators is to "galvanize"

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08 Nov 07 - 08:00 PM (#2189404)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: robomatic

I'm so far to the West another twenny feet and I'll fall off.

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08 Nov 07 - 08:21 PM (#2189415)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

All right, you Children of the Confederacy, I know you are out there. Esp. Texas Division.

Texas Division

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09 Nov 07 - 03:46 PM (#2190077)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith

Of course, the word "Yankee" to describe Americans( from USA) is rarely used in the UK. "Yank", in my experience, is the preferred choice; however, the word "yankee" would be used in the following sentence, " He drove a big Yankee car".

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10 Nov 07 - 12:05 AM (#2190329)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Barry Finn

Where's the guy that started this thread?

Barry

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10 Nov 07 - 02:56 PM (#2190624)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: fumblefingers

A Yank to the Poms maybe, but not a Yankee.

Texan

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10 Nov 07 - 03:07 PM (#2190639)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

Perhaps a f---?

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11 Nov 07 - 11:29 AM (#2191201)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: danensis

I always thought "The Yanks are Coming" was a reference to masturbation

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31 Jan 08 - 08:09 AM (#2249448)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST

I once understood that there were only ever Yankees, Yankees and damned yankees this told me by an old lady her ancestor was col Wade Hampton of Maryland where she said they are still fighting the wawar down there.

Chris

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31 Jan 08 - 11:35 AM (#2249618)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: GUEST,leeneia

I'm an American from the Midwest. I have never thought of myself as a Yankee. To me, 'Yankee' is a term used by the uninformed.

Becca is the first person I've ever heard claim to be a Yankee. I'm happy for her.

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31 Jan 08 - 12:07 PM (#2249644)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Becca72

Leeneia, you've never been to the Northeast, I take it?

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31 Jan 08 - 12:23 PM (#2249661)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: akenaton

The reason that USers post so seldom, is that they are so extremely poorly informed..........and in Catspaw's case, endowed......Ake

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31 Jan 08 - 04:49 PM (#2249891)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: Rowan

Tunesmith's "Yank", in my experience, is the preferred choice; however, the word "yankee" would be used in the following sentence, " He drove a big Yankee car" is half similar to the Oz experience.

During WWII there were many Americans in Oz and, while many were warmly welcomed (in as many senses as were possible) many Australians had 'less than complete' acceptance. Irrespective of where they came from Americans were referred to as "Yanks" and this led to the rhyming slang term for an American as a "septic tank".

I never heard the phrase " He drove a big Yankee car" in Oz. It was always "He drove a Yank tank"; the "big" was always implied and understood.

Cheers, Rowan

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01 Feb 08 - 05:06 AM (#2250227)
Subject: RE: Crikey, am I the only Yankee on here?
From: ard mhacha

The north of Ireland during the 2nd War, just before D-Day was practically taken over by the Yanks,it didn`t matter whether they were north or south of Dixie, they were Yanks.
The term "he was driving a big yankee car", would have applied here in the north, also Yankee was used as often as Yank.

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