Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: What constitutes being a Yankee? [was Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn] Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Date: 29 May 2014 14:58:30 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 40 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <535.289T2107T5005012@kltpzyxm.invalid> <1389.291T2105T7235354@kltpzyxm.invalid> <230520142158065729%timstreater@greenbee.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1401389948 14909 166.84.1.5 (29 May 2014 18:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 18:59:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:3355 Stephen Sprunk writes: > On 23-May-14 15:58, Tim Streater wrote: >> In article <1389.291T2105T7235354@kltpzyxm.invalid>, Charlie Gibbs >> wrote: >>> "Y'all makin' fun of us, boy?" >> Hell yes, you Yankee pipsqueak. > "Yankee" is an interesting word: > To those from outside the US, it means someone from the US. > To those from the Southern US, it means those from the North. > To those from the Northern US, it means those from New York City. > To those from New York City, it means a baseball team. Hmph. Damn kids! When I first read this (in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960's, in a humor column in the Jackson Daily News, which I delivered every afternoon for several years), it ran To those in other conutries, Yankee means someone from the US. To those in other parts of the US, it means someone from the North. To those in the North, it means someone from New England. To those in New England, it means someone from Vermont. To those in Vermont, it means someone who eats pie for breakfast, so a lot of Southerners are Yankees! Those from the post-Civil War western states were not considered Yankees in the South (Texas and Mississippi at least, and I would guess elsewhere) of my childhood, so the second line is more generic than in Mr. Sprunk's version. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/ to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...