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9. October 2007 @ 15:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You all Pacman Michigander speakin lookee over here http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/51/539722
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9. October 2007 @ 18:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Pacman-I know what a poke is. Lived in W.Va. for a while. A poke
is a sack. Picked up the drawl when I lived there. To this day
every time I hear the drawl it automatically comes back.
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9. October 2007 @ 22:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Shardel
That's close. A poke is a brown paper bag of any size. I guess you could say brown paper sack. A plastic bag can't be a poke though. LOL You can have a poke of candy, a lunch poke, or a poke of groceries. "Double poke the groceries so they don't bust out on the way home." "He's carryin' a poke lunch." "Is there likker or a gun in that poke?" LOL Being from WV you probably heard them all at one time or another. Poke isn't in Webster's dictionary, but can be found in Bubba Hillbillies Dixie Slang Dictionary. LOL
http://www.totse.com/en/ego/no_laughing_matter/dixie.html
You gotta take that with a grain of salt. It sounds a bit like Jeff Foxworthy. As well as WV, I've heard similar in the hill country of VA, TN, and KY, also in different rural areas around Dixie. I used to hunt in different areas of Appalachia (Appa-latch-uh) and other parts of the South. Now I know why you have guns. Everybody from WV has at least one. LOL Don't they start babies out with a 22 or 4-10 in the baby buggy? By the way, are your guns originals or reproductions?

"Pop" isn't in Bubba's dictionary. Do you know that one? Don't tell and see if anyone else comes up with it. You just about gotta go back in the hills to hear thaten or hear a hillbilly say it. I'll give you a hint. A kid asked, "Where's the pop?" The store clerk pointed and said, "they're over thar in the pop-cooler."


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10. October 2007 @ 04:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@pacman,
.410's are for city dudes who don't like big noises. 12 Gauge is the only choice in a shotty gun. Even the women folk carry 12's. Who carries 20 and 28 gauge? Politicians who are more likely to shoot their own than the intended quarry. Heck where I grew up, even the chipmunks would laugh if they caught you with a .410. Jusy my 2¢ worth.
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10. October 2007 @ 05:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Pacman-I'm not from WVa just lived there for a while. I'm from the
midwest originally. WVa is a beautiful state especially in the
spring.
The guns are originals and I have lots of things that go with them.
Another of my favorite things is a torch from the revolutionary
war. It is a metal eagle on a long pole. Actually it's a torch.
There are places on the top of each wing for wicks.
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10. October 2007 @ 05:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
12ga. Coach Gun ala John Wayne.
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10. October 2007 @ 06:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
When I was a kid, I had a "spud-gun" that used real potatos .. beat that guys LOL!
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10. October 2007 @ 06:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I had something similar, gerry. A piece of gutter pipe that I fired tennis balls out of. Put them out of sight straight up. HeHeHe
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10. October 2007 @ 09:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@ young Ben :)

bloody hell!!!!!! shows how often i break surface now adays....i missed you becoming a.....MOD...when did this happen did you suddenly get out off nappies?
anyway.. a belated big congrats from me ;)

@gerry1 :)

i had one of those. dambed things hurt as well, especially when hit in the eye
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10. October 2007 @ 11:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by PacMan777:
Originally posted by Lethal_B:

Ironically i am sitting here right this second doing an english literature essay on a shakespeare play.

we know what a truck is.. i would call it a truck before i would call it a lorry.. do you's know what a pram is, or a plaster, or a nappy? Changing words to suit the pronunciation doesn't really add up as there are still hundreds of words that are pronounced completely different from the way they spelt. I also dunno what big difference in pronunciation you gain with or without the "u".. certainly none here.. ;-)
Lethal B
I was wondering how long it would take to get a response. LOL A pram is a baby buggy, we use a Band-Aid as a plaster, and we use nappies on the little ones bottoms. Does a nappy have to be cloth or will a Pamper work? I'm not ignorant to the fact that word differences used in different countries speaking English would fill a large book. There's differences from state to state here in the US. What would you think if I said poke or pop?

As for the -our and -or, it's trivial. Everyone gets that unless they want to poke a bit of fun at word differences. But we here in the US tend to pronounce -our phonetically as owr and -or as er or ur, i.e. labor, janitor, tailor, governor ... and those sound nothing like hour or scour.

Shakespeare was one of England's greatest gifts to humanity. I hope you enjoy your Shakespearian studies as much as I did. Without doing some study of it in Old English, the true flavor of the writing is lost. I'm not trying to act the academic here, just saying I liked the works of a great writer. Which play are you doing the essay on?

We no longer have our bitch thread, but one of mine is that reading is becoming a lost art.
LOL!

i remember sitting on the tube once (london underground train service) and an american family bumped into another american family, and i think they were from the same state.. but neither family could grasp the concept of what a "pram" was!

funnily enough, i used to think (when i was a small child) that band aid was a drink.. (bandade; as in lemonade!)

and as for a nappy, i thought you called it a "daiper" - and yes, anything that stops a baby from peeing or crapping itself is known as a nappy ;-)

i'm studying the play "much ado about nothing" for a-level - have you read it? it's a good play, and very easy to understand (probably helped by the watching of the film, which stars denzel, keanu reeves, kate beckinsale etc). i do enjoy english literature, particularly shakespeare - one the most creative playwrights that ever lived. i don't read it by choice or in my freetime, but i enjoy the lessons!
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10. October 2007 @ 11:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by gurnard:
@ young Ben :)

bloody hell!!!!!! shows how often i break surface now adays....i missed you becoming a.....MOD...when did this happen did you suddenly get out off nappies?
anyway.. a belated big congrats from me ;)

@gerry1 :)

i had one of those. dambed things hurt as well, especially when hit in the eye
haha, thanks. ye i've been a mod for several months now fella.. you should stop entertaining your missus and chill out on the net once in a while ;-)
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10. October 2007 @ 13:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Or maybe Ben, you should stop chillin out on the net once in a while and start entertainin your missus :P :P :P :P
:-)
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10. October 2007 @ 13:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by billybob:
Or maybe Ben, you should stop chillin out on the net once in a while and start entertainin your missus :P :P :P :P
:-)
i don't have one anymore :-( she wants to get back with me but she's too stubborn to make the first move and so am i! :-(

that's probably why i've been a lot more active over the last couple of weeks!

i can't even believe i'm actually enjoying writing this essay at 11 o clock in the evening! 1,244 words so far! woop woop!
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10. October 2007 @ 14:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@Little155 ... ah, kids don't know what they're missing today with all these video games when they could be playing outside and regularly coming close to killing themselves with our home made gadgets and concoctions LOL!
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10. October 2007 @ 14:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Lethal B
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Nappy? We call them diapers as well. Pampers is a brand name disposable nappy. This discussion sure turned to crap. LOL

For those left wondering... "pop" is a soda, i.e. Pepsi, RC, 7 Up, Doctor Pepper and the world famous Co-Coler (Coca Cola). ;)

I dropped you a PM on the Shakespeare stuff. I didn't want to bore the rest of the members.
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10. October 2007 @ 15:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by blivetNC:
@pacman,
.410's are for city dudes who don't like big noises. 12 Gauge is the only choice in a shotty gun. Even the women folk carry 12's. Who carries 20 and 28 gauge? Politicians who are more likely to shoot their own than the intended quarry. Heck where I grew up, even the chipmunks would laugh if they caught you with a .410. Jusy my 2¢ worth.
LOL
Real men carry 10 Guage. LOL Just kidding. They blow everything apart. High altitude goose guns and guarden prizners is about all they good fer. I only mentioned 22s and 410s (four ten) as baby toys. For rabbit huntin an such, I've got a Remington Model 1100, (old model, 12 Guage), for big game I've got a Remington Model 4 in 30.06. I've got a little Remington 410 pump to keep the varmints around the house laughen. LOL I upset the neighbors when I use the big guns. ;) The last few years I've started feeling sorry for the little critters, so I'm not as bad to blow 'em away nowadays. The wife would throw me out if I blasted one of them cute groundhogs that come in the yard to eat apples. She sez they look like little people settin thar on their rump holden them apples in their front paws and eatin.

Michigander...? Is that anything like a Buckeye? If only you coud hear my rich drawl, you wouldn't think so. Unless you're an old geezer, I've probably lived in the South longer than you've been alive. The writing skills are just a matter of good schoolin and keyboarden practice. LOL

Shardel
If you're going to have a small antique firearms collection, you have a couple of good one's rich in history. Do you know any of the history of your firearms, who owned them and such?

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10. October 2007 @ 16:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
gerry I had to go downtown today to Temple Dental school on Broad and Alleghany for dental work, I noticed going south on 95 there is a new high rise going up in center city, its a tall thin sucker, whats that building about, do you know, I know your in or near center city.
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I do happen to know the history. The muzzleloader originally belonged
to a Hatfield. I think you will recognize that name. The Harpers
Ferry Musket has an accompanying canteen with the original cover
which looks something like corduroy. It has the regiment on it. In
the center there is a metal star engraved with each battle it was
used in. I also have a 2 vol. set of civil war history that was
written at that time. It follows each battle mile by mile. There
are facts in it that I have not seen anywhere else. Also have the
medical kit used by the doc in that regiment. It isn't the guns-although I'm pretty fond of them. Its the history I really love.
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10. October 2007 @ 16:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I also have a little 410 "snake charmer". About 30" long single shot, it breaks apart in the middle to load the shell. Nifty in a boat. Many moccasins here.


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@FredBun ... I took this sometime ago from my living room; it is considerably taller now with much more glass that blinds the crap out of me right smack in my living room when the sun hits in. Is this is the one you're talking about? If so, that ugly monstrosity is Comcast's new Tower / Headquaters; a one hundred story or so blinding and seriously ugly building. If you have comcast at home, it's what your outrageous bills are paying for!!




It's going to look like this when it's finished:

a big giant mirror already causing accidents and lot of complaints because of the sun shining off of it .. god knows, it annoys the crap out of me every afternoon between 3:30 and sundown; it also reflects the heat of the sunshine too adding to the problems.

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The muzzleloader originally belonged
to a Hatfield.

There's folks by that name in these parts. LOL I know the ones you mean though. Your living in WV, you probably heard some of the stories and myths. Besides the history of the Civil War, I did some studies in Appalachian history. There was a portion about the Hatfields and McCoys. It's much more than just 2 families with a vendetta.
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10. October 2007 @ 22:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Quote:
I've got a Remington Model 1100, (old model, 12 Guage),

@pacman,
Who are you calling old? The first shotgun I ever fired was one of those, (My gawd, I am getting old)
really nice firearm.
As far as 10 gauge, I've only seen one of those, used for high altitude goose blasting and bringing down annoying satellites.
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10. October 2007 @ 22:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
gerry1, yep, thats the building alright, even though I still go back to philly quite often because of family or shopping or business, i'm in Bucks co. Featerville, Langhorne, just a half hour away from center city depending on traffic as you know I'm sure.

I never much paid to much attention to it, but know its gotten quite bigger, plus from 95 it looks very thin, as you know on our local news they always show the background of our slyline, but after viewing your pic its really not, 95 shows the side view unless you travel more south which I don't, I mostly get off on Girard ave. I use to live near 5th & Girard for years and still visit family and friends.

And your right, I am a comcast customer, yuk, fight with them twits all the time, and it's not like you can go anywhere else, Verizon just moved in and I have nieghbors that have it I don't like it much either, but no wonder I get higher bills every so often, its two bucks one month than another three bucks another and so on, probably paying for that monster you hate lol.
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10. October 2007 @ 22:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i wouldn't need cable accept i watch the Fox News Channel 24/7

i use my roof top antenna lots,the best high def signal out there plus its free!!
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10. October 2007 @ 22:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
gerry1, I forgot to add, your outline at where your at, I know it exactly, I know Philly like the back of my hand, and I had to laugh, poor Willy Penn on your pic, he looks so tiny, remember when there was a law for years than no building was ever suppose to be higher, oh well, I quess it's called progress, so they say anyway.
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