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Reply to: #100441 by speedsquare
Jun 15, 2007 11:08am
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can Ryan give us the Top Ten Threads of all time.


I could, but the long threads tend to wander over several topics so I'm not sure it's particularly accurate. In any case, you are right about the butterbeans vs. lima beans ranking up there.

The longest threads on AQ:

  1. Just what does your vocabulary say about you? - 218 posts and counting!
  2. What do you do for a living? - 160 posts
  3. Mystery boxes - 158 posts
  4. The Free Cell Battle Continues.... - 141 posts (don't be fooled, though, only about two posts in this thread is actually about Freecell!)
  5. Two Guys... - 122 posts
  6. blue diamonds - 122 posts (You'd expect a blue diamond thread to crack the top ten!)
  7. I nearly got arrested letterboxing today.... - 117 posts
  8. Fried Ice Cream - 109 posts
  9. Anyone know? - 108 posts (about Purple Skull Guy)
  10. kmartha - 106 posts

A trip down memory lane, huh? =)

-- Ryan
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100466 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:08am
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what a quahog is?


Is is some sort of oyster or clam or something else with a shell?

TG
Re: more beans
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Reply to: #100468 by Green Tortuga
Jun 15, 2007 11:11am
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The longest threads on AQ:

I can't believe Sex on the trail didn't make the top ten
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100425 by 6kiddiez
Jun 15, 2007 11:11am
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...oh man...have you been missing out if you haven't had pulled pork...!
Re: more beans
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Reply to: #100390 by dewberry
Jun 15, 2007 11:12am
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My parents grew up 30 miles apart in part of the deep South--same state. One called the durn things butter beans, one called them lima beans. There were some small differences in their background, but they were definitely of the same time and place. So it doesn't all come down to regionality either.


Oh definitely...
my mom and dad was raised just over the mountain from one another...
probably on 3 miles by way the crow flies but in totally diferent communities with different ideals.
one was a close knit church community, the other was a logging camp without a church for 2 or 3 miles.

there were differences in MANY things!
that is why I love these mountains... and love language.
even accents on speech could sound different from one cove to the next when I was younger...
now they are all kinda blending in and not as diverse as before. That is also due to more education, and more folks moving in with different or more "proper" speech.

dixie
Re: more beans
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Reply to: #100471 by oread
Jun 15, 2007 11:14am
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Quote I can't believe Sex on the trail didn't make the top ten


Somehow I knew youwould have to bring that up... ;-)
Re: more beans
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Reply to: #100475 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:15am
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Somehow I knew youwould have to bring that up... ;-)

It's my lot in life
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100393 by Green Tortuga
Jun 15, 2007 11:17am
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LOL

I never was arguing... I was playing!

I don't argue... especially over beans.
we always called pinto beans "soup beans"
and then some even thought they name "fart beans" suited them better ;)

however, I don't call them soup beans when asking for them etc with other people cause I realize they probably would not know what i meant.
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100453 by J Walkers
Jun 15, 2007 11:18am
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Quote It's always been a milkshake to me. Never heard it called anything else.

Christie (from way down south in Alabama, now in SC)


Right, it wouldn't be a malt unless it had malt in it, to me and then I would differentiate bewteen a milkshake and a maltedmilk.

But you know you're in the south when iced tea is automatically sweetened.

~Perdu
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100454 by knit wit
Jun 15, 2007 11:20am
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We use china cabinet and breakfront interchangably here. The same with sack and bag.
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100466 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:21am
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A quahog is a type of mussel, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly from one of my son's alphabet books.

Knit Wit
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100480 by Perdu
Jun 15, 2007 11:21am
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Quote But you know you're in the south when iced tea is automatically sweetened.


Darn tootin'!

BUT... that "South" stops at the GA-FL state line. In just about anyplace except Cracker Barrel you have to sweeten the tea yourself.

What the &#^%$?

You cain't properly sweeten tea when it's COLD!! (oh, durn... there's that Southern Accent coming out)
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100482 by Perdu
Jun 15, 2007 11:21am
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I have never heard of a breakfront before. If I had just heard that term somewhere without having it explained, my response probably would have been "The front of what is broken?" hehehe

TG
Re: more beans
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Reply to: #100471 by oread
Jun 15, 2007 11:23am
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Naw, people will talk about food waaaay more readily than that other topic you mentioned. At least in mixed company...

Knit Wit
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100449 by Rosmarinus
Jun 15, 2007 11:23am
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I call the orange melon Cantaloupe and the green melon Muskmelon. We are in Michigan
and I love Alton Browns show for the entertainment. Rachael Ray or Sandra Lee for actual cooking.
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Reply to: #100484 by knit wit
Jun 15, 2007 11:25am
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Quote A quahog is a type of mussel...


Nope.
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Reply to: #100491 by The hicks from the sticks
Jun 15, 2007 11:25am
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green melon Muskmelon

I thought the green stuff was Honeydew?
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Reply to: #100494 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:26am
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I looked it up and I was right (well, I gave a couple of different options, so one of them was bound to be right). It is a clam.

TG
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Reply to: #100495 by oread
Jun 15, 2007 11:26am
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Yes, the green melon is definitely honeydew. :)

TG
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Reply to: #100485 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:27am
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Quote You cain't properly sweeten tea when it's COLD!!


Thank You!!!!!

It took me ten years of marriage to teach my husband this. You'd think he would have already known, being from Louisiana, but his family didn't drink iced tea much, and when they did it was that powdered instant stuff.

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #100497 by Trekkie Gal
Jun 15, 2007 11:28am
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Green Melon=Honeydew

Thats what the sign always says but we've just always called it Muskmelon *shrugging*
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100495 by oread
Jun 15, 2007 11:28am
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Well, it is in Georgia... ;-)
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100466 by BrewHiker
Jun 15, 2007 11:28am
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Quote Now... can anybody can tell me —WITHOUT looking it up!!— what a quahog is?


Ha. That's the easy part. Now, how do you pronounce it?
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100439 by knit wit
Jun 15, 2007 11:28am
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If the strip of grass is between the two lanes (opposite direction) traffic, then we call it a median or a median strip, if it is to the right along side it...like where you'd pull over if you had a flat tire...we call that a shoulder.

I have heard of berm, but usually with regard to the beach; and I've heard verge, but to me, verge can refer to any bit of grass/lawn area, not just the highway. Isn't this interesting...how we can all speak the same language, but use different words!

I love it.
~Perdu
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Reply to: #100498 by knit wit
Jun 15, 2007 11:29am
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My house has his and her ice tea (his is southern hers is as my husband calls it Yankee tea)
Re: You know your a southerner if....
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Reply to: #100496 by Trekkie Gal
Jun 15, 2007 11:30am
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Quote It is a clam.


A clam is not a mussel? What's the difference? They both have shells, you can steam 'em or fry 'em.
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Reply to: #100504 by oread
Jun 15, 2007 11:31am
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Only UNsweetened will do over here (please don't gasp so loud, the kids are sleeping) lol
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Reply to: #100503 by Perdu
Jun 15, 2007 11:32am
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North of the border, a shoulder is gravel, never grass. Grass right next to the road is a boulevard. A berm is raised, like a small hill.
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Reply to: #100509 by Fiddleheads
Jun 15, 2007 11:36am
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Quote North of the border, a shoulder is gravel, never grass. Grass right next to the road is a boulevard. A berm is raised, like a small hill.


I agree it usually is gravel, I was making a distinction between shoulder and berm/median-median strip/etc.

Our boulevards don't have much grass...maybe some of them do, but the ones that come to mind right off, don't.
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Reply to: #100509 by Fiddleheads
Jun 15, 2007 11:36am
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I must insist upon altering the heading of this post.
Regards,
The Mad Grammarian