- 21. Re: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: <dcong996@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:07:35 -0500
- During the start period of a local Chemical Plant, I was assigned as "start-up engineer" and we were in the preliminary stages of training the operators. All of the control panels had not been labele
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00040.html (9,194 bytes)
- 22. Re: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Johnson" <robert.w.johnson@charter.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:19:15 -0500
- 45% Dixie 35% General American English 10% Yankee 5% Midwestern (I think "fixin'" is just an absolute hoot. Means getting ready to or preparing to do something, and I use it all of the time, part of
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00041.html (8,237 bytes)
- 23. Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "G. Brierton" <gbrierton@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:29:04 -0500
- Two stories, both second hand: A number of years ago while in the Navy, a Yankee buddy of mine needed to make an airline reservation and inadvertently uncovered a gap in Air France's training program
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00042.html (7,849 bytes)
- 24. Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: Hartangus@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:18:51 EST
- Hi Rich and Michael, well done chaps you were spot on,top hole and spiffing.I would never have thought a couple of septics would have such a command of the common language. Just in case Patrick is wi
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00051.html (7,539 bytes)
- 25. RE: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <ynotink@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:20:13 +0000
- I worked in the West Texas oil fields a few (well quite a few) years ago and one of my coworkers was from Shamrock, TX. One day I walked into the shop while he was packing tools and parts to send bac
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00053.html (9,182 bytes)
- 26. Re: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:16:02 -0600
- I worked at a movie theater through college, the first time someone from the South asked for "2 cokes, a diet coke and a sprite" I thought they wanted four dirinks, but in fact they were using coke a
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00055.html (7,953 bytes)
- 27. Re: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "Patton Dickson" <57healey@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 23:11:58 -0600
- When I was a kid when some asked for a coke, the correct responce was "what -- Patton Dickson - http://Austin-Healeys.com 1957 Austin-Healey 100-Six "Built to run 'til the road wears out."
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00057.html (7,538 bytes)
- 28. RE: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:58:48 -0500
- A few examples from my experience: Some years ago I was having dinner in a family steak house in Knoxville, TN. I heard one of the waitresses asking if anyone knew where the desert (accent on the fir
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00083.html (8,869 bytes)
- 29. Re: Y'all (score: 1)
- Author: mike brooks <hypercubic@yahoo.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 03:19:09 -0800 (PST)
- Having spent a few years in Houston, a regular coke seems to be a coke that's not diet, sprite etc. As in "two cokes, one regular, one sprite". Rgds Mike Brooks Milano Italy I worked at a movie theat
- /html/healeys/2007-02/msg00085.html (8,197 bytes)
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