Re: Re: Re: "Northerner rules"
 

I am sure that if the south had been settled at the same time the north was we would have "Ivy League" schools, also. I had several of my fellow HSchoolers go to Yale and Princeton so we southerners can get into the "Ivy League" schools.

BTW, I was watching a news program about some of the ivy league schools, specifically Harvard and the professors are handing out A's like candy even if they are not deserved-sorry not impressed with the ivy leaguers and it seems that employers are starting to feel the same way too (at least according to the news program). I know that A&M didn't hand me an A, I earned them.

UM,
I have to disagree with you on this one. I think it depends on where you are. I'm also in upstate ny and we use the word as opposed to pop.

Re: Re: Re: Re: "Northerner rules"
 

I wasn't implying that anyone was less intelligent than anyone else, nor that southerners cannot get into ivy leagues... because I work damn hard for my A's in school as well. I definately do not attend an ivy league school. But it is an honor just to be admitted to one (atleast in the north it is). I guess the true issues lie in each areas rich history...education was more heavily emphasized in the north. But anyways, I was only posting a reply to someone else's holding that because we have a "thick: accent and talk too fast...that we are unintelligent. :(

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Northerner rules"
 

Not a problem, I understand where you are coming from. Just b/c I have a Texas accent and talk slow (at least in some people's opinion, I don't think so at all) people think the same thing. Just goes to show you can judge a person by their accent :).

Just a note: The Ivy League is actually a specific group of schools. So none of them would be in the South anyway. The only schools that are Ivy League are Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn...that's it. Giving a high quality education or having smart people go there does not make a school ivy league. I know that is a common misconception, and that "ivy league" is sometimes synonymous with "elite" but I just wanted to set everyone straight.

IVY LEAUGE---BS!!!! They were some of the first schools in the New America thats all!

All people in the USA Have Accents except Kansas and Missouri, and Nebraska!!

We are the Normal people! DA!

I say how are Ya-all not are you all alright!

Why waste time on saying Thomas instead of Tom! Takes to much time and Breath!

Big Diff in California but still the land of fruits and Nuts! Of course the people there came from the East, but came thru Mo. and Ks.!

UMgirl does not sound like from Mi or NY! Voice that is! Still a sweet Heart with a great tan!

N and B dont sound like Ga. Havent figured that out yet!

Heck, New Yawk, New Yawk or Jerseeeey!:D

Of course, Arkies, Oakies, and Texasans all have their own lingo talk!;)

AH WELL Sh^* Happens! DO DO all day long!:cool:

Actually...ivy league refers to the sports league they belong to-- like the Big 10 schools.

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/19991110.html

that would be what I was referring to.

Nina, they are referred to as Ivy League in sports because the schools are known as Ivy League because most of them were some of the first colleges founded. :) Love ya!

Your from Schenectady though :p,:)

Re: Re: Re: "Northerner rules"
 

gee mama, I is sure unhappies that you made me born downs here in Georgias. I am surely dumbs and unemjumakated and there ain't no intelligent life downs here!

I have lived in Texas all my life and i did used to say "coke" for everything. My little brother, however, says soda.... and being from texas as well was weird at first. I used to always tease him about asking him what he was going to say next "what a cool record!" Anyway, now i also say soda and coke just doesnt make any sense to me anymore!

As I said before---depends on where you are from and sounds like it's pop in the Western part of the state. :):D

WRONG WRONG WRONG...and a list of observations
 

This is completely wrong!!! If anything you "northeners" are naive...

List of questions I have been asked by people from the east coast when they find out I'm from Kansas or that I go to school at Nebraska...and every single time the people are serious when they ask.

1. Do you have electricity yet?
2. Are the Indians still a problem out there?
3. Do you wish you had indoor plumbing?
4. What kind of tractor do you own? (I live in Kansas City for cryin' out loud!!!)
5. Are you excited that your streets are getting paved?

Conversation that I actually had with this kid from New York:

NY Kid: So why is your football team so good? Is it because you have corn growing on the field and so they get good at dodging at them?
Me: (secretly wondering what the hell he's talking about before deciding I was going to mess with him) Ummm....What? Oh...(this is where I decide to screw with him). Yeah the cornstalks. That's actually the secret. On tv they airbrush them out.
NYK: Really??? That's awesome.
Me: Yeah it costs our athletic department a million dollars for each game.
NYK: oh man that's like almost cheating
Me: There's no rule against it

Then he left actually believing that there are cornstalks growing in the middle of the field at Memorial Stadium at the University of Nebraska.

7: (keep in mind that I live in an affluent suburb of over 100,000 people, graduated in a class of 450, etc, etc...I'm by no means from a small town).
East Coast Person: So how do you like small town life?
Me: I don't live in a small town. I live in Kansas City.
ECP: You mean there is a town called Kansas City?
Me: Yeah where do you think the Chiefs and the Royals play?
ECP: How does a small town support a major league team? I mean if the town only has like 5000 people?
Me: Kansas city has a population of over 1.5 million people.
ECP: I didn't know that the state of Kansas had a population that big.
Me: Well, I'm just talking about Kansas City...not the state of Kansas.

I think that naive doesn't even begin to cover the above examples...I don't know whether it's just plain ignorance or what, but obviously I've been asked some pretty dumb stuff, and whenever I play along the people think I'm telling the truth...what's that all about :confused:


Finally my list:

1). Just b/c I'm from the midwest doesn't mean that I grew up on a farm.

2) Hello...New York. It's Kansas City: We want our steak back. When did the change occur that made it a New York Strip from a K. C. Strip. Don't think they ever had cattle drives to NYC, nor are there probably that many slaughterhouses/stockyards in NYC either.

3) You have never had real barbeque (or good barbeque) until you've had barbeque from Kansas City. KC Masterpiece is only average in kansas City. Putting barbeque sauce on something doesn't make it barbeque. Barbeque doesn't include a grill. There is a fundamental difference between grilling (which is what you do to hot dogs) and barbequeing (which takes hours to do correctly). The only people who have any claim about decent barbeque is people in the Carolinas with their southern style. (KC sauce is tomato based, while southern style sauce is Vinegar based...but they at least know that barbeque is an all day affair)

4) It's only soda or pop (and pop is preferable). If your talking about strawberry pop then you call it "Red Pop".

5)St. Louis is an Eastern City

6) The midwest is only Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and only Oklahoma sometimes. South Dakotans have an accent and are therefore not in the midwest, Same for Minnesotans. People in Arkansas are way too backward.

7) Only in the midwest are people kind to strangers.

8) Looking for excitement outside the big cities other than man made lakes, football games (Nebraska), or basketball games (Kansas)??? You can either drink yourself stupid, or you might as well keep going on to Colorado.

9)Iowa smells...bad.

10) We have fun weather.

11) The joke that the "N" (on the Nebraska football team helmets) stands for knowledge...it's old. It reached it's peak way before I was born, and YOU need new material. (and by last count Nebraksa still led the nation with # of academic all-americans in all sports)

12) We don't understand why everyone else talks funny

13) We don't understand Virginia and West Virgina...if the area of W. Va was already part of VA, then how the hell did they become a state? Did VA just decide it wasn't good enough for the rest of the state, was there a revolt?

Re: WRONG WRONG WRONG...and a list of observations
 

Hey!!! I resent that!! :rolleyes: :cool: :mad: :p