HAASpittle wrote:
"Jerry Spinrad (from Nashville, and some of my New York relatives
still seem
unsure whether we have indoor plumbing)"
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In the Marines in '66, some of my New York buddies actually asked
if this
was the first time I'd ever worn shoes!! Some also thought
Charleston was the
South's largest city.
One of my all time favorite New Yorker stories was told by my
brother who
at one time was a salesman for a company HQ'd in Atlanta. Every odd
year the
national sales meeting was held in Atlanta. So, one of his salesman
pals was
down from the NYC territory. This was about the time of the first
Gulf War...
and at the big company dinner the guy from New York was carrying on
about how
CNN was running circles around the networks in their war coverage.
Suddenly he
stopped and asked the table, "You guys get CNN down here, don'tcha?"
He didn't
know he was about three blocks away from CNN HQ.

Old Haasie

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One of the first things I had to learn when I moved from Ohio to
practice law in Tampa in 1990 was "dog talk," often heard in oral
argument down he i.e. (1) We don't have a dog in that fight; (2)
That dog don't hunt; and (3) We're in this one 'til the last dog dies.
kiddon