quote:If your paying your tax's, have a JOB, not on the Dole and can read and write English, congratulations! Your a Republican
This just gets better and better Did you flunk 11th grade English too? I did
Your taxes should lose that apostrophe and gain an “e”, and both of your “you’re” probably needs an apostrophe and an “e”. Otherwise the English teacher won’t be pleased.
But what the heck, we know what we mean
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Most of the transplants I know from the Great White North tell me they like it much more here than home. Then they tell me what we are doing wrong, how funny I talk, how crappy our schools are, and how the locals don’t know how to drive.
Must have been pure Hell where they came from…
“Never argue with an idiot…he will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.”
They are telling you the truth… thats the part I don’t get. I understand and embrace the lifestyle, the low country, the weather…
but when your schools are just about slap the worst in the nation?? You don’t expect anyone to say anything?? or offer help??? Give me one good reason why not-
And no - you can’t drive. Sorry.
If something is flat out bad, in trouble, in need of major help - and has been that way for decades… why not be open for some help from people that may know something? Thats not changing the local politics, or being loudmouth outsider - thats trying to help make the place a little better for everyone.
I understand not wanting the culture changed, or the politics… but things like schools???
I wanna move south so that I can teach those poor folks the right way to make cheese grits, sweet tea, fried chicken, and barbecue.
I also plan to campaign vigorously against deviled crab, and okra.
I’d say that I also planned to teach them all how to hunt and fish, but I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.
I wanna move south so that I can teach those poor folks the right way to make cheese grits, sweet tea, fried chicken, and barbecue.
I also plan to campaign vigorously against deviled crab, and okra.
I’d say that I also planned to teach them all how to hunt and fish, but I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.
You can keep your cheese. Ill keep the grits. Dont care what you do with deviled crab.
What am I? I’ve been trying to figure it out for yrs.
I was born in Colorado, went to Japan when I was 2, then to Arizona from 5 till I was 8, we lived in Kansas until I was 14. Minot, North Dakota for a year then to Clark AFB, Philippines, where I graduated high school. After I graduated, I moved to Little Rock, Ark. for 4 yrs.(where I picked up a bit of a southern accent), then back to Colorado for 8 yrs. till I couldn’t stand the cold anymore and moved to Florida for 15 yrs. Then to New Bern, NC. for a year before moving to Columbia, SC in 1998. I’ve been here ever since(except for a yr. and a half in Sarasota, Fla.).
I’ve been saying “yall or y’all” since I was 17, if that makes a difference.
Please, help me! I’m so confused!
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>In my last 60 years, I have moved less than 8 miles from the place of my birth to where I pay my taxes, now (still in Charleston County). You sure feel as local as 90 percent of my neighbors. Main thing, you make good posts.
One thing Yankees Don’t Do is DEEP FRY a Soft Shell Crab…we pan sear it in Butta.
Woodfloats?
That pic in my post is a deep fried hard crab. That hump is a fat crab cake where the top shell used to be.
Now imagine doing the same thing with a nice big soft shell crab.
You have to be careful though if you eat one of those, cause you might lose sleep at night thinking about how good it was and when you’re going to eat another one.
Born and raised in SC and lived in what felt like just about every pin prick on the map.
I recently moved to New Smyrna Beach Florida for a job. Southern hospitality does not exist down here and I have never met so many stuck up pretentious clowns in one place. All the locals say this used to be a nice friendly beach town, and now the local answer is all about the northerners who moved down here and ruined everything (oops I guess that means me since I drove I95South to get here).
Don’t loose that southern charm/attitude because the bad apples are around. I was told not to expect any southern hospitality when I first moved here, that sucks, don’t let that happen in SC.
“If you had to tell someone how good you are, then you probably aren’t that good”
I was content sitting in the Peanut Gallery until someone started bad-mouthing our driving. I’ve done my share of driving all over the country and have come to a conclusion. “If everyone drives the same way, then there’s usually not a problem”. For example, if everyone runs yellow lights, then they also know not to go before it turns green. It’s when you introduce someone with different driving habits into the mix that you start having issues.
Here are a few of the habits we’ve adopted in the south:
Get into the merge lane as soon as you realize that one exists. We didn’t all move over so you could race to the front of the line.
We may move a little slower, but we’re not asleep. So don’t blow the horn the second the light turns green.
We use blinkers down here.
Just a few of the differences, but I’m sure there are more…
That pic in my post is a deep fried hard crab. That hump is a fat crab cake where the top shell used to be.
Now imagine doing the same thing with a nice big soft shell crab.
You have to be careful though if you eat one of those, cause you might lose sleep at night thinking about how good it was and when you’re going to eat another one.
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I remember ordering fried hard crab from Phillips at Harborplace. They weren’t blue crabs though. Only thing I ordered from there. That Phillips couldnt compare to the one “downy ocean”.
It is statistical really. There are just as many good people and jack wads in both places based on percentage. There just happen to many more Yankees in Yankeeville so you see more of them and interact with more of them.
All of the places you mention have beautiful places and beautiful people. The south doesn’t have a lock on that.
Honestly , the reason most of us come this way is your proximity to the equator, nothing more.
Agreed. There are some good folks and beautiful places in both regions.
Matthew K. Mizell
Columbia, SC
Sea Pro 190CC
Johnson 115 4-Stroke
I didn’t realize Columbia was such a popular destination for relocation…hope they don’t ruin that treasure for you.
2014 Key West 203DFS
1987 Landau
Columbia is no treasure for me. Not even where I’m from. Just a place I’ve been stuck temporarily. Very astute observation though. Nice comment. I commend you sir.
I need one!
