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Michael Whitaker

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Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« on: April 11, 2007, 01:13:39 PM »
Can you be understood?

If you are planning to attend this year's Dixie Cup or Union Cup I thought you might be interested in how some of the slang and phrases used by our various members can be misunderstood.

Click on the following link and take the test... see how likely you are to be understood outside your local area:


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RSLivingston_III

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2007, 01:16:48 PM »
Fun link. I came up 60% Dixie.
What dates are the Union and Dixie Cups?
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Bill_McBride

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2007, 01:21:57 PM »
Dixie Cup in Georgia the weekend of October 4-6, at Cuscowilla and Mike Young's Longshadow Golf Club nearby.  Details will be announced soon.

Union Cup?  That must be somewhere up in Yankee country.  ;)

Oh yes, 61% Dixie!  In spite of my Northern California upbringing, my southern birth and current residence shine through!  ;D
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John_Cullum

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2007, 01:32:49 PM »
91

(Anxiously awaiting Brother Hendren's score)
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Michael Whitaker

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2007, 01:33:46 PM »
Surprise... I'm 75% Dixie!!!
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Doug Braunsdorf

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2007, 01:35:37 PM »
Wow...I'm 42% Yankee.  Farthest south I've lived is Bethesda, MD.  I must be confused.  

Great link, Mike.  This is a lot of fun!
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wsmorrison

Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2007, 01:37:07 PM »
45%, barely a Yankee.  I think my score was low because I'm not a New York/North Jersey Yankee.  We are a breed apart in Philadelphia and thankful for it  ;)
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A.G._Crockett

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2007, 01:37:20 PM »
Quote from: Bill_McBride on April 11, 2007, 01:21:57 PM
Dixie Cup in Georgia the weekend of October 4-6, at Cuscowilla and Mike Young's Longshadow Golf Club nearby.  Details will be announced soon.

Union Cup?  That must be somewhere up in Yankee country.  ;)

Oh yes, 61% Dixie!  In spite of my Northern California upbringing, my southern birth and current residence shine through!  ;D

At the end of the survey, mine said:
"94% Dixie.  Is General Lee your father?"

Mike,
If my daughter gets granted in-state status at UNC (possible, not certain) then I WILL be there.  If she remains out-of-state, I'm hosed again...
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Brent Hutto

Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2007, 01:43:14 PM »
71% Dixie for me.

They didn't ask the all-important 21st question...

By what name do you customarily refer to events of the period 1861-1865?

a) The Civil War
b) The War Between the States
c) The War of Northern Aggression
d) The Late Unpleasantness
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Brent Hutto

Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2007, 01:44:45 PM »
Quote from: A.G._Crockett on April 11, 2007, 01:37:20 PM
At the end of the survey, mine said:
"94% Dixie.  Is General Lee your father?"

Obviously written by a Northerner. A local boy would ask "Is General Lee your daddy?", now wouldn't he?
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mike_malone

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2007, 01:45:22 PM »
 53% Dixie--must be because Delaware is below the Mason/Dixon line. Even though I lived in N.Del. and we had nothing to do with the rednecks below the C+D Canal, which is about 15 miles south of Wilm.or 45 miles from Philadelphia.

  This is interesting, because I know I'm not Dixie, but I don't want to be a Yankee either.
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K. Krahenbuhl

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2007, 01:48:42 PM »
48% yankee...about what I would expect having only lived in the south for 6 months.
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Dale_McCallon

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« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2007, 01:48:58 PM »
86% Dixie--asked me if I had Confederate ancestors.

Of course if a southerner wrote the survey it would have read "Confederate kin folk".
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Doug Braunsdorf

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2007, 01:51:30 PM »
Quote from: Dale_McCallon on April 11, 2007, 01:48:58 PM
86% Dixie--asked me if I had Confederate ancestors.

Of course if a southerner wrote the survey it would have read "Confederate kin folk".

Dale,

  There's no way in hell you're a southerner! ;)
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Pete Lavallee

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2007, 01:54:39 PM »
I truely expected to be 100% Yankee. Seems like I've lost 38% by living in So. Cal. so long. :-[
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Brad Tufts

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2007, 01:57:52 PM »
55% Dixie??  Yeah right...

They didn't ask me whether I replace my R's with A's, and A's with R's...

I also didn't understand what they meant by Bubbler...as it is pronounced "Bubblah."

Also, the soda question was missing a choice...how more New England-centric can you get than "tonic."

You can' get theyah from heeyah...

Guy, the frickin' Sox 'ah wicked pissah dood...
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2007, 01:57:53 PM »
46% barely Yankee...
I'm sure it was the Bubbler answer that put my round ass in the square hole... ::) ;D
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Dan Kelly

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2007, 02:05:13 PM »
That's a terrible test.

I scored 41% Yankee -- or barely Yankee.

Then I changed one answer (to rhyme "creek" with "hick," as many of my fellow-Minnesotans do) ... and "dropped" to 49% Yankee.

Huh? (Rhymes with Duh.)
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peter_p

Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #18 on: April 11, 2007, 02:09:04 PM »
45% Yankee. Somehow I moved from NE to the midwest halfway through. Portland has bubblers, but the one closest to my boyhood haunt was called the fountain and was the convenient gathering place, especially on Halloween.
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John Goodman

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« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2007, 02:11:24 PM »
92% Dixie.  Down here telling somebody that they're only 92% Dixie could well result in an ass-whuppin'.
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Mike Hendren

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #20 on: April 11, 2007, 02:17:01 PM »
84% Dixie.  

I have cut up my Hillbilly Tour card, donned a burlap sack and am spreading Martha White self-rising flour over my entire body as a sign of repentence.

I'm tore up.  :'(
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PThomas

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« Reply #21 on: April 11, 2007, 02:20:04 PM »
wow, 49% Yankee...I must close to y'all Southern boys than I reckoned...
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #22 on: April 11, 2007, 02:24:34 PM »
Dave, I'll bet when you were a kid, your parents used to go 'by' da fish fry in T'rivers, 'inso?
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Tiger_Bernhardt

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #23 on: April 11, 2007, 02:28:28 PM »
I am a 70% Dixie, like we did not know that already.
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RJ_Daley

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Re:Separated By A Common Language: Are You Yankee or Dixie?
« Reply #24 on: April 11, 2007, 02:30:44 PM »
Hey Mike Young, take the test!   And I want to know what Charlie scores, without a microphone in front of his yap!  ;D
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