FORUM FUN FEATURE!! Are You a Southerner?

[Critter]

Tappy -> The drive through liquor store didn't faze me, but the slushie style bar in the food court at the mall did. Now that is civilization.

Bumper -> I am disappointed, I figured you could do better than an old and dusty rednecked changed to southerner response.

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by sctx

Hey Bump.... how come you never pick on Californians ????

I suppose I could go for the obvious, and say "Too easy!", but I won't. I'll just look on that as another challenge and do some digging. H-m-m-m-m, where did I put that California file...Oh Yeah!...here it is. I feel another thread starting. Consider yourselves warned.

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by Lil G

oh, sir bumper......how does this always get so out of hand?????

You mean like, "When, precisely, did we lose control?" That rashly presumes there ever was any.

[Bumper]

Okay, for all of you who have been so patiently waiting, here's the answers.

Are You a Southerner? - Answers

Note: Some responses have been expanded upon somewhat, for the edification of us poor, ignernt Canucks, and them Damn Yankees.)

1. 7
2. 43, Red & Blue
3. Fishin’
4. University of Tennessee
5. University of Georgia
6. Hard peanuts
7. 283
8. French
9. A small parasitic red bug (Almost invisibly small. Generally only seen with a magnifying glass.)
10. A sausage-like meat loaf made out of the less desirable pig parts
11. Panama City, Florida
12. Spanish moss
13. Evinrude
14. Mudfish (Also called dogfish, mud pike, blackfish, cabbage pike, spot tail, griddle., Cypress trout, speckled cat, lawyer, scaled ling and cotton fish.) Described as a “living fossil”, supposedly unchanged in 100 million years. A good fighting sport fish, but not generally considered very good eating.)
15. Nothing. A steer has been castrated
16. Hank Williams
17. Corn
18. Paul Bryant (Legendary football coach of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide. Winningest coach in the history of major college football. Coached Alabama from 1958 - 82.)
19. Because of pollen in the air
20. “The Recipe” (Moonshine liquor. From the TV series, The Waltons.)
21. Helen
22. WSM
23. Calf roping
24. Mandolin
25. 4 or 5
26. The same thing
27. A wild grape (Sometimes cultivated commercially for use in production of wine.)
28. Yes (Kudzu is considered to be a nuisance plant, growing almost uncontrollably, largely in Georgia. Originally introduced from Japan to be used as a ground cover plant to combat soil erosion.)
29. Because that’s where the more desirable cuts of meat are.
30. Green
31. Another trick animal husbandry question. Mules are sterile. They are produced by crossing horses with donkeys.
32. Tobacco
33. Vidalia, Georgia (Called the “Sweet Onion City”, home of the Sweet Vidalia Onion, supposedly the sweetest onion in the world. Apparently, they can be eaten like an apple.)

[Critter]

55 without looking any up. But I do have to disagree with a couple.

One is only semantics. The kings cars were blue with red stp logos.

and the smallest GM V8 block in 66 was not the 283, but the 265 found in Pontiac from 55-81. It is also still in production but is now know as a 4.3 Liter.

Good test by the way.

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by Critter

55 without looking any up. But I do have to disagree with a couple.

One is only semantics. The kings cars were blue with red stp logos.

and the smallest GM V8 block in 66 was not the 283, but the 265 found in Pontiac from 55-81. It is also still in production but is now know as a 4.3 Liter.

Good test by the way.

Can't argue with any of your points, Crit. Like I said, I managed a 68 1/2 score. More luck than good planning. The Petty question was the one where I gave myself the 1/2 point. I recalled the blue & red, but couldn't remember the number.

As for the 265, I don't know enough about it to comment on that one, but I rather suspect that particular mill wasn't around up here in Canada, or at least it doesn't sound familiar. You have to remember, Pontiacs and Chevys are the same car in Canada, just different tin and lipstick, and I think the smallest 8 in them was the 283 in that era. Great engine, in my humble opinion. As far as I'm concerned, when GM hit on the 283, and Ford on the 289, they should have stopped all further development and left well enough alone. Why screw around with perfection?

[denisea]

Originally Posted by bumper

27. A wild grape (Sometimes cultivated commercially for use in production of wine.)

North Carolina is the home of our nation's first cultivated grape --- the scuppernong grape which is a white muscadine grape. The earliest written account of the scuppernong grape occurs in Giovanni de Verrazzano's logbook. Verrazzano was a the Florentine navigator who explored the Cape Fear River Valley for France in 1524.

North Carolina was also the nation's largest wine producing state up until Prohibition. It has only been in recent years that the number of wineries in North Carolina has come close to approaching the number of wineries prior to Prohibition. There are currently 20 wineries in North Carolina opposed to 25 wineries prior to Prohibition.

Originally Posted by bumper

28. Yes (Kudzu is considered to be a nuisance plant, growing almost uncontrollably, largely in Georgia. Originally introduced from Japan to be used as a ground cover plant to combat soil erosion.)

Kudzu is also rampant here in North Carolina. It's growth is definitely uncontrollable. It takes over anything in it's path including trees and buildings. The Kudzu vine can grow as much as one foot per day!

[Bumper]

Originally Posted by denisea

Kudzu is also rampant here in North Carolina. It's growth is definitely uncontrollable. It takes over anything in it's path including trees and buildings. The Kudzu vine can grow as much as one foot per day!

Scary stuff, Denise. "Day Of The Triffids" - type scary. Better get some more goats on the job.

[denisea]

Originally Posted by Bumper

Scary stuff, Denise. "Day Of The Triffids" - type scary. Better get some more goats on the job.

Yeah, I agree. I imagine Stephen King could have some fun with it too.