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    According to Jeff Foxworthy, Redneck status entails a "glorious lack of sophistication." Brother Pen is most certainly sophisticated, or at least moreso than Larry the Cable Guy...
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    Thats a fairly easy accomplishment though Robin. I think Pen is in the top of the top for sophistication.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dramasnot6 View Post
    Thats a fairly easy accomplishment though Robin. I think Pen is in the top of the top for sophistication.
    Thank you, Drama. Yeah, any big farm boy around here could wear a shirt with no sleeves and talk dirty and say "Git 'er done!" Foxworthy may call it a "glorious lack of sophistication" but you'll notice he knows what the words mean, so he isn't uneducated. I do have an accent, but I'm also a mimic, so I can do a fair British upper crust accent when I want or a Croc Hunter, (miss you, Steve!), which drives people crazy to have you pull it on them at a drive through window! I speak French to some extent, some Spanish, (my daughter is fluent!), understand a lot of Latin, and words from dozens of cultures pop up in my sonnets. So I'm not that hick, I guess!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    Drama, if you happen to have a world atlas that gives a state by state breakdown of the USA, look at Virginia. You may find a small town called "Marion" near the borders of Tennessee and North Carolina, and not that far from West Virginia, tucked into the mountains. That's where I grew up. I live north of Marion now in a small town called "Atkins" which may not even be a dot on the map. To leave my home any way except by the I-81 corridor is to cross a mountain within five miles.
    Haha now I have a pretty fair map to come and visit you bye only thing is last time I flew out to virginai in one of those tincan things they call planes I looked out the window while we were taking off .....NEVER AGAIN

    course thats where I met my first proper library and read the Oz books and learned to ice skate.....and swallowed a fly through my eye...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    Haha now I have a pretty fair map to come and visit you bye only thing is last time I flew out to virginai in one of those tincan things they call planes I looked out the window while we were taking off .....NEVER AGAIN

    course thats where I met my first proper library and read the Oz books and learned to ice skate.....and swallowed a fly through my eye...
    hh good times
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    No it was tiny 12 seeter jet I could see the wheels as we took off and landed and there were sparks lots of them and I know its normal but I didnt like it one little bit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    No it was tiny 12 seeter jet I could see the wheels as we took off and landed and there were sparks lots of them and I know its normal but I didnt like it one little bit.
    I hear you, Nightshade. When I was in the Air Force, on my way to my first duty station in Grand Forks, North Dakota, I was flown in to the Twin Cities. From there, I was put on a puddle-jumper, prop air plane that I could actually feel twisting around me. I don't mean twisting as in the plane was doing loop-de-loops or barrel rolls--no, I mean twisting, as in the left side of the aircraft was twisting in a direction contrary to the direction of the right side.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    No it was tiny 12 seeter jet I could see the wheels as we took off and landed and there were sparks lots of them and I know its normal but I didnt like it one little bit.
    Hummmm. That could land at the Wythe County Airport, about 15 miles north.
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    Oh God, flashbacks . . . i travel a lot, but since i live in Pittsburgh, a relatively small city (or at least with small numbers of people flying), i ALWAYS get these bumpy, horrible puddle-jumper planes. I just got back from Yellowstone, and going in i had to ride on one of the smallest yet, with terrible turbulence! I think i'm never going to fly again . . .
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    no your not never mind........... so who am I looking for?
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    he he, don't mix threads!

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    nope sorry....
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    Quote Originally Posted by mir View Post
    Oh God, flashbacks . . . i travel a lot, but since i live in Pittsburgh, a relatively small city (or at least with small numbers of people flying), i ALWAYS get these bumpy, horrible puddle-jumper planes. I just got back from Yellowstone, and going in i had to ride on one of the smallest yet, with terrible turbulence! I think i'm never going to fly again . . .
    I hate that so much. Flying I guess is a necessity if one has to go far, but I don't like it anymore. Was it a small plane, mir? If you hit turbulence with a small plane, it's way worst. It scares the dickens out of me. It really feels like the plane is going to come apart. Of course I'm an engineer and have confidence in engineering, but it's still nerve rattling.
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    yeah, i think it was . . . i'm always afraid that it will just fall right out of the air!! Although, i've found that if i don't look out the window, and concentrate on something else (like a book), it isn't that bad.

    Plus, i recently read Airframe, by Michael Crichton, and now i'm expecting every plane i get into to fall apart into a bunch of little pieces!
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