You haven't seen DUCK DYNASTY on the A&E channel?

 

Nuhhh.. and I thought the British were  eccentric   odd   just plain strange.

 

Are they really real? ('First rule: always Carrie a pistol in da woods').

 

 

Are they really real? ('First rule: always Carrie a pistol in da woods').

 

Yes, they are... very real.

Only in America can there be shows such as Duck Dynasty and Swamp People.  I haven't watched either of them but I'm proud to be in a country that thinks up this kind of stuff.

Only in America can there be shows such as Duck Dynasty and Swamp People.  I haven't watched either of them but I'm proud to be in a country that thinks up this kind of stuff.

Really? Frankly, I'm just embarrased...

 

...and this is coming from a genuine, old-school "Florida Cracker..." :ph34r:

This is more my cuppa tea

 

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And now I've been hijacked by these...   

And now I've been hijacked by these...  

Yes you have, I like it when something like Curtains leads to Duck Dynasty on here. I am a sucker for those reality TV shows.

Really? Frankly, I'm just embarrased...

 

...and this is coming from a genuine, old-school "Florida Cracker..." :ph34r:

I meant that only Americans can understand those kinds of Americans, and I'm proud to be among those who could understand them if I wanted to.

 

For 2.5 years forty years ago I used to travel on business to Europe every quarter. Trust me, Brits "get" us but on the continent they do not. For example ...

 

Our Geneva sales guys (I was a marketing "suit" with DEC at the time) took me to lunch one day at a restaurant-with-parking-garage that had been built under whatever river it is that feeds Lake Geneva. They were very proud of what had been done and were absolutely appalled when I said that in America we would have simply moved the river ...

 

... At least that was the case in the America in which I grew up. (I'm 69, born in 44.)

I meant that only Americans can understand those kinds of Americans, and I'm proud to be among those who could understand them if I wanted to.

 

I live in New Zealand now and I always tell people that America is not what you think, because America is different everywhere you go. Just get in a car and drive from Maine to Florida and hear the many accents as you go through Massachussettes, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, The Carolina's, Georgia and Florida.....Amazing people and lots of differences.

 

Road Trips in the USA are the best anywhere in the world. People need to go there to see it to properly understand it. The biggest problem is people overseas only see what is shown on TV, gives the wrong impression.

I live in New Zealand now and I always tell people that America is not what you think, because America is different everywhere you go. Just get in a car and drive from Maine to Florida and hear the many accents as you go through Massachussettes, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, The Carolina's, Georgia and Florida.....Amazing people and lots of differences.

 

Road Trips in the USA are the best anywhere in the world. People need to go there to see it to properly understand it. The biggest problem is people overseas only see what is shown on TV, gives the wrong impression.

I live in New Zealand now and I always tell people that America is not what you think, because America is different everywhere you go. Just get in a car and drive from Maine to Florida and hear the many accents as you go through Massachussettes, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, The Carolina's, Georgia and Florida.....Amazing people and lots of differences.

 

Road Trips in the USA are the best anywhere in the world. People need to go there to see it to properly understand it. The biggest problem is people overseas only see what is shown on TV, gives the wrong impression.

I want to qualify my earlier remark -- citizens of what I call Pax Anglica, not just Brits, "get" Americans. (In one of my upcoming novels, Pax Anglica is a currency union and mutual defense league consisting of UK, Canada, NZ, Australia and USA.)

 

In the summers of 1976 through 1981 my wife, children and I saw -- and camped out in -- every state in the Lower 48. It's an immense country just as Oz and Canada are, and the people are diverse as you say. Yet they are all Americans just as, if you scratch any Pax Anglica citizen deep enough, you will find an Englishman of the old school -- the English who civilized the world, or at least tried to.

 

In our first trip in 76 we were specifically looking for a place to live other than Massachussetts, where we had been for ten years, as refugees from New Jersey and, before that, NYC. On that trip we covered 10,000 road miles in three weeks, it having been a scouting expedition. (I estimated three years later that by then we had covered 90% of the paved miles in Wyoming, which had become our favorite state to visit, though not to live.)

 

So ... In 1976 we found three places that suited us -- San Diego CA, Flagstaff AZ and Colorado Springs, CO. I was fortunate enough to be able, in 1978, to force a transfer through from DEC in Maynard, MA to a new DEC plant in ColoSpgs, as we used to call it. (Pronounced CoLahSpuhGeez )

 

We are westerners now, having abandoned the east coast for Colorado in 78, half a lifetime ago. Yet when someone says to me "the city" there is only one, and I do not mean the City of London, nor do I mean Paris. Even so I don't like going east of the Missouri/Mississippi any longer -- the people get nasty as soon as you cross the Big River, and I no longer like the smell of chlorophyll. No, I prefer Big Skies and the occasional smell of water. (It does have an odor, easterners.)

 

I'm thinking of applying for vanity Colorado license plates that will read "NTV-NYC" -- Native New Yorker. I am one but I have no trace of a NYC accent, even though my sister has a heavy one.

 

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There. My writing jones has been sated for another hour or so.