Face it, if we too simple then ya'll don't get the basics: The Southern Thread, Deuce

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NOLA, Little Rock, Tennesee, MO, Georgia, Georgia, and of course TX. Who else is up in here?

Let's talk about our favorite things: the weather and food.

Today in Austin, lovely cool morning, high this afternoon 90. Weatherman says "Hot and humid". My favorite kind of day. Tonight for dinner we're having ribs and potato salad.

What it do in your neck of the woods? Talk to me.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

The weather is exactly the same here in Little Rock: High of 90, hot and humid. NOT my favorite kind of weather, however, today some men start work on replacing our whole air conditioning system. Yay!

Dinner tonight? Probably a Marie Callendar "Cheesy Chicken w/ Rice" at midnight. Such is life with a baby.

― sunny successor, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

I was joking about the hot and humid part. I figured and I take a break from my usual whining self as I've got months to go.

Yay fixed AC! A friend of ours who does HVAC came and fixed ours last weekend. Ahh, cold house. nice.

Ahh baby life. I actually thinking my cooking skills are up to par for life with a baby. I could eat frozen pizza every night and be a happy woman!

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Tubing weather. Hell yeah.

― adam, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK YEAH!

We're going to the lake on Memorial Day so I was talking about getting a new suit. Which prompted me to remind G. that we *must* go tubing soon before it gets too hectic.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Weather today and this past weekend in GA/FL: FIRE, PARTLY SMOKEY, W/ CHANCE OF DESTRUCTION.

― petey_carnum, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that sucks.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I drove into South Georgia this weekend to pick up an organ and Southbound 75 was shutdown, which made for some interesting backroads navigation in order to get home.

I guess since I technically live in Florida, I have no claims to this thread.

― petey_carnum, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

no? why not?

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Florida proper is it's own entity, though I suppose where I live seems more South Georgia than Florida proper.

― petey_carnum, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, according to wikipedia FL is considered part of the south traditionally but by modern defition you, and us here in TX, are only sometimes the south.

We definitely often regard ourselves as our own entity but I still think we're more South than West. (although Southwest is a completely different story.)

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Time to cut off my hair, shave the beard and wear shorts for the next six months.

― milo z, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's finally, FINALLY dead armadillo on the side of the road season. I took this one yesterday.

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

The picture, not the armadillo.

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

haha poor little fucker. I've never noticed how much they look like possums. . .

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I call 'em "possum on the half-shell." (I can't claim the phrase, but I don't remember where I heard it first.)

It's smoky-smelling all the way up here in N. MS.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

DEAD END

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

omg iiiijjj, that dead possum with the baby on your flickr is horrible.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

It wasn't a baby! It was a bloated stomach I think. You're horrible for thinking that.

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

ah okay. bleargh. I thought it was a baby in a pouch or something.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

ok i get that florida and texas, to varying degrees, are often not considered 'the south', but their own entities. what do you think about that? why is that? arkansas is the south right?

im sure we've had this discussion before and there was disagreement between certain people as to whether va/wv/ky were the south or not, or maybe whether they were the proper south?

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

Traditional south seems defined by who was in the Confederacy. I'm not really sure by what basis "modern" definitions are made.

When I went out with the dogs around 6am it was a lovely, brisk cool morning. By the time I was walking to my office at a quarter of eight the heat and humidity were upon us. Damn TX weather. . .

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

We're supposed to have high 76/low 49 later this week!

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

bastards!

The high tomorrow is slated for 83 which pleases me enough. As the summer goes on low 80s sound really good.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

ah, ok, confederacy, that makes good sense

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Culturally the Florida panhandle is Southern but not really the rest of it, and the parts of Texas that border Arkansas and Louisiana are definitely Southern. I feel like once you get up into Oklahoma type country it gets vaguer.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

We've been without a/c for 24 hours now. Looks like we picked the best week of the season to do it. It's been hot, but the humidity has been reasonable, which is saying something for Arkansas.

Yeah, I guess The South is hard to define in some ways. There are certain pockets of Pennsylvania that could very loosely be defined as being part of the South. Look at Joe Biden, trying to tell everyone he's a Southerner because he's from Delaware.

I'd agree with Ms. Misery that The South is basically the former Confederacy, although Missouri has always stuck out like a sore thumb on that map.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Funny thing is, one of the thickest southern accents I ever heard was from an Okie.

Is "Okie" a pejorative term? I'm not sure...it's not meant to be in this case, anyway.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I have no problem with perjorative terms for Oklahomians. :) (see also "Okie from Muskogee")

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oklahoma is one of the deepest pits in hell.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Parts of Pennsylvania definitely feel Southern - even parts of southern New Jersey. It's a mountain thing. That Appalachian accent runs right up there.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Once when driving back to TX in the middle of the night my brother and I made a pit stop near some casino in OK. It was truly frightening. There was a legless guy panhandling us for gas money right next to a casino. at 3 or 4 am.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

I was driving through Oklahoma once and I saw a billboard advertising Oklahoma wines. It said they were just as good as California wines, "but not as fruity." I thought that was pretty Southern.

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Toby Keith is from Oklahoma. He wears snakeskin Stetson hats. Enough said.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

This sandwich claims to be "Nashville's Crunkest Fish":

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/499628231_133b64a41c.jpg?v=0

(it was delicious)

Do other Southern cities have competitions of Crunk?

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have no problem with perjorative terms for Oklahomians. :) (see also "Okie from Muskogee")

-- Ms Misery, Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:51 AM (1 hour ago)

Really, it's the only thing people from Texas and Arkansas agree upon.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I once got caught in a rush-hour traffic jam in Tulsa. I've never in my life seen so many dreamcatchers in one place.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, I've never been to New Mexico but I bet they could rival it.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Molly, is that the fish's head?? I know of no crunk contests here but there is a fish place near me called Phat Daddy's.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

dreamcatchers = shudder

pp, you going out at all this week?

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

re: sandwich

i haven't had white bread in so long, it looks SO GOOD. i know you put hot sauce all over that thang!

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/state/rank/aiea.txt

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

The whitefish sandwich was all filet and no head (thank god). It had a delightful amount of Old Bay on it, as well as pickles, cheese, mustard, etc. It was spicy enough, actually, that I didn't slather it with hot sauce, for fear of my imminent demise.

What made it crunk, though, is a question I cannot answer.

(a better picture I found on the internets)

http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Cover_Story/2007/04/05/dining_eastside-fish-400.jpg

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

pp, you going out at all this week

Playing at S.F. tomorrow night. Going to the movie on Friday. Playing it by ear the rest of the times. I'm just now recovering from a sore throat, so I don't know if I can do WWT tonight, even though that's likely the best show of the week.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell how is that even a sandwich

people can't be going around putting slices of bread on top of and on bottom of assorted foods all willy nilly and calling them sandwiches. if we lose our grasp on sandwich structure the term becomes meaningless and that will seriously bum me out because they're one of my favorite foodstuffs

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

oh hey look i'm eating a burrito

oh cool hey put a piece of bread on either side LOOK IT'S AUTOMATICALLY A BURRITO SANDWICH

no

― iiiijjjj, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

But this is what Nashville does! We like putting whitebread on anything. Hot Chicken is ripped off the bone, placed on whitebread with pickles and coleslaw (see also Yo La Tengo's song, "Return to Hot Chicken").

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

there there

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

burrito sandwich = awesome.

I want a pet goat.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Prince's Hot Chicken:

http://www.deepfriedkudzu.com/hello/305195/400/DSC09994-2006.12.12-19.08.57.jpg

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

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I want those hamburgers

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 18 June 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

hi girls!

i thought it was going to be a slow afternoon, but it's my boss. he is being bossy.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 18 June 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

hello!

The new house looks directly on to the Hot fish and BBQ place across the street. Most excellent.

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 18 June 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

i looked @ the CITY OF PANIC photo, since that is my window to outside world from my desk. is it gonna rain? i hope so. my plants are tired of city water.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 18 June 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

how do i look at that site, s.s.?

also, did beeps give dad any giffs?

― Ai Lien, Monday, 18 June 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Shoes, a card, and a really cool hardcover photo book of the Beeps.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 18 June 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Do you guys call her Beeps when you're talking to her, or do you use her name?

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 18 June 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Beeps is her internet name.

I don't call my wife Sunny either, but I do warble that Bobby Hebb song to her occasionally.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 18 June 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

We actually call her a whole range of names at home: Beeps, Beats, Squids, Poop Pants etc

We're pretty convinced she is going to think her name is Veruca since she hears a whole lot of "Veruca, lay down!" "Veruca, be careful!" "Veruca, do you need to go out?" "Veruca, you're such a galoot!". There's a lot of dog reprimanding when you have a clumsy, curious, jealous great dane around a three month old.

The weather site AMD? I think its just linked from the channel 7(? katv) site.

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

If I ever meet you guys I'm definitely calling you PP, Sunny and Beeps.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

major xpost: "wish the worst" a la the old 97s doesn't swear in it, does it? i don't remember it doing so.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

offhand I don't think so. . .(plays song in head). It's rather mean though.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

it is. i am thinking about playing it on my radio show. but it is mean. hmm. i shall debate this.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I still want to know why PP is in the hospital with big bags under his eyes.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps it's a bit personal.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in the hospital right now. With my current sick humor, I thought it would be funny to break up the beach and picnic pictures with one of me here in the room. HAVE A NICE SUMMER!

Then you all had to add those kind words of concern. You just had to ruin my joke.

:-)

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Feel better, dude! Quick recovery!

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Then you all had to add those kind words of concern. You just had to ruin my joke.

lol, ruined the fun of hospitalization. Ain't I a stinker.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Get well soon, guy!

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently eating a hot fish sandwich from the tiny place across the street. It surpasses, in my opion, "The Crunkest Fish in Nashville." This is way better, and spicier, and at a cool 4 bucks, how can you go wrong?

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

so... hot... can't... take it

Keeping it in the 80s all the way through June was a cruel joke, God.

― milo z, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

I had some flamin' cheetos for lunch. This was a mistake.

Avoiding outside as much as possible although I've been talked into hiking/tubing the greenbelt this weekend. Ugh.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

There's some massive construction going on outside of my new place. It's really fucking hot here too. Should I offer the dudes who are digging a whole in my front yard some water? They have Gatorade, but I am not sure of construction dude etiquette.

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think they should be prepared. This is their job.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone tried those Doritos that are yet to be named? X-360 or something? I think they should be called, "Schoolburger."

xpost: I know, but I want to be nice. They're fixing my plumbing.

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

Rain sucks. It rained here (Houston) again today. It rained yesterday, and the day before, and... I starting to forget what life was like when it wasn't raining.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Monday, 16 July 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

I hear the air-conditionin'
It's comin' thru the vents
And I ain't felt the sunshine
Since I don't know when.
I had an operation
So I wouldn't die
And now when I hear that A/C coolin'
I hang my head and sigh.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 16 July 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I tried those X-itos this weekend. They struck me as very Worchestershire-y. With a flat finish. Sort of like a Dorito version of the Chex Mix Bold Party Blend, but without the media variety (corn and wheat chex, pretzels, bagel chips, etc.)

I doubt they will survive testing.

― B.L.A.M., Monday, 16 July 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Are these the Doritos that won the caged wrestling match? Because my newspaper didn't cover any of that at all.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 16 July 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think Nancy Reagan-approved ketchup, grade D ground beef, and some government cheese.

They're foul.

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 July 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

get well post-haste Unpleasant Pains, we still have to form and perfect our Hüsker Dü cover band before I bail on this state in a year or two

re: Chex: I got a free sample box of CHOCOLATE CHEX breakfast cereal with my Sunday paper last weekend. B+ would eat without milk again

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 16 July 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

Since I haven't had a true bath in a week, I've got the Grant Hart look down to a tee.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 16 July 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

cool. those Chocolate Chex helped me round out my Bob belly

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 16 July 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

i am waist deep in homegrown tomatoes!

― Ai Lien, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

:( please send me some.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

and me

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

tomatoes and green onions and zucchini. thanks, sis! i didn't know that if you let your zucchini keep growing it gets like a foot and a half long...

― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in love with the bus here. I wasn't able to take it before, as it's routes are pretty stupid, depending on where you live. New house has a bus stop RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. And, it's free for me, as I work for big university. I also saw a dude with the BEST GRILLZ. HOORAY, BUS.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 19 July 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

we've the worst transit system known. n little rock/ little rock

― Ai Lien, Thursday, 19 July 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Tourists from all over flock downtown and wave at the empty trolley cars as they pass by.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

I live in Asheville NC now, ans they've got lots of tourists trolleys running around, but every time I see one it's like stuck in traffic in front of a Krystal Burger... what fun. And they're always packed!

― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 19 July 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

We too have the tourist trolleys. We also have these giant pink school buses for the "NashTrash Tour", where buxom women sit on your lap and call you "darlin'".

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 19 July 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

riding the bus everyday sucks.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 19 July 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

So dark and scary in the house right now, at three p.m. Lots of thunder outside, windchimes banging...

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5491/im003690oz6.jpg

All the while, an off-key digital version of "Do Your Ears Hang Low" reverberates across the neighborhood.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8082/im003689wi2.jpg

I just hope my girls make it home before it gets too crazy out there.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, i miss southern summer thunderstorms something awful!

― tehresa, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ice Cream trucks do not like it when you photograph them.

― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

hopefully that storm will hit us (and not be to bad for you and the fams, PP).

my sinuses are telling me a storm is coming. blurrrrgggh.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

urrrggggh. spelling. brain hurts.

― molly mummenschanz, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha, I just said to J "It looks like it's 8:30 at night out there," and then sat down and opened this thread. Nice long soaker...the thunder is way off in the distance. I hope the Braves game isn't rained out, though.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

All the while, an off-key digital version of "Do Your Ears Hang Low" reverberates across the neighborhood.

jibbs?

― and what, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

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