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40 Responses to “My Rebel Yell”

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1. 40% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

   Dagnabbit. I loved the one on drive through booze. I answered never heard of it (technically, I call them “what genius thought that up?”)and got
   “Dont worry, this is a common response.”

   ha ha ha!

   Comment by maskedfencer — January 13, 2005 @ 12:47 pm

2. Native Texan here. I shouldn’t take that test, it might damage the webserver that’s hosting it.

   Comment by inviolet — January 13, 2005 @ 1:05 pm

3. We also call them Beer Barns
   What do you call the little roads that run by the freeway? Growing up in Houston, I thought everyone called them Feeders.

   Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 1:07 pm

4. Can you beat my 98%
   I’ve lived in Texas my whole life

   Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 1:09 pm

5. Yeah, I got barely Yankee too, though more “barely” than you (48%). Weird. I didn’t realize pa-JAH-mas, yard sale, and access road (which really isn’t a term I use at all, but I’d more likely use it than the others) were Southern things.

   Then again, if the Mason-Dixon went straight across and didn’t dip down when it hit Delaware…I’d be below it.

   Comment by transientmind — January 13, 2005 @ 1:14 pm

6. Well with our Grizzly Adams look-alike for a father… how else are you “spossed” to sound?

   Comment by jamieson585 — January 13, 2005 @ 1:24 pm

7. service roads.

   Comment by maskedfencer — January 13, 2005 @ 1:25 pm

8. Oh yeah? Well, I’ve lived in either Dallas or Houston my whole life. So neener. And I’ve always rooted for the Cowboys, or for Jimmy Johnson’s Dolphins, even though I have no interest in sports. So double neener.

   Comment by inviolet — January 13, 2005 @ 1:25 pm

9. Service roads, baby!

   Comment by inviolet — January 13, 2005 @ 1:26 pm

10. See, I’m worse than you :p

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 2:19 pm

11. I’ve always lived in Dallas or Houston, other than that year I spent in Corpus. Since it’s even FURTHER south, who’s neenering now?!

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 2:20 pm

12. He lives!

    Good point. He doesn’t look like Grizzly Adams though…more like…okay, maybe you are right. But you look more like him than I do :p

    I had to move away from home to learn that picking up (dead) animals off the side of the road wasn’t a typical family pastime.

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 2:25 pm

13. What do you call it then, if not access road, service road or feeder?

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 2:26 pm

14. I don’t think we have roads like that around here. Or if we do, we have so few that I’ve never had to refer to one in conversation.

    Comment by transientmind — January 13, 2005 @ 2:28 pm

15. I’d like to see a GPS plot of every hour you’ve spent in Texas. Compute the average distance you have spent from the geographic center of Texas. This will be your Texan Quotient. I’ll compute mine, too, and then we’ll see who’s more Texan.

    Of course if you have steer horns on the front of your car, or if more than 50% of your footwear is boots, or if you own more than two cowboy hats, or if you know the original purpose of tassles on leather jackets (and have used them for that purpose), then you automatically win.

    Comment by inviolet — January 13, 2005 @ 2:30 pm

16. 47% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

    Not shocking having living in Washington my whole life I ’spose

    Comment by grizzilla — January 13, 2005 @ 2:49 pm

17. We don’t have them in Jersey. We have traffic jams.

    Comment by rasputinaxp — January 13, 2005 @ 2:53 pm

18. I have 6 cowboy hats:
    Black felt – dress
    Black felt – work
    Silver Belly – dress
    Brown felt - work
    Straw – work
    Straw – dress

    I like shoes too much for more than half of my footwear to be boots. I only have 7 pairs of boots that could be bought at a western wear store (I’m not counting Doc’s in this number).

    I can run a barb wire fence, pound a T-post, stack hay so it doesn’t spoil, carry 2 50-lb bags of feed at a time, vaccinate my own pets and set a rodent trap. I used to own a Ford F350 diesel dually. I learned to drive in a cow pasture. I can shoot the heads off matchsticks with a pellet gun, a pistol and a rifle. I know the difference between an English and a Western saddle. I know fox piss is good for keeping skunks away from your house and horses will colic if left on green pasture for too long when they are not used to it.

    Is that enough?
    Oh, and I own steer horns - but they will go back in my living room when I get my own place

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 2:55 pm

19. Dixie (71%) — who knew? Apparently the California influence and the hundreds of hours of English classes can’t compete with being raised by hicks.

    alwaysthesun2me, Grammar Ninja

    */winks at Yarha

    Comment by alwaysthesun2me — January 13, 2005 @ 2:55 pm

20. ……………..

    I love you. Please come teach these yankee girls what real women are like?

    Comment by maskedfencer — January 13, 2005 @ 2:58 pm

21. my score-
    44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category.

    damn, and ive only lived in the south for about 8yrs..jeez.

    Comment by pathfinder02 — January 13, 2005 @ 3:03 pm

22. thats pretty damn impressive..

    Comment by pathfinder02 — January 13, 2005 @ 3:04 pm

23. Jersey traffic is worse than Dallas or Houston traffic?

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:05 pm

24. But I am curious about the original purpose of tassels. My chaps have tassels, but I never thought about why.

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:06 pm

25. We should talk more - I’ll rub off on you

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:09 pm

26. See, at least you can understand me

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:10 pm

27. Where do you live again? I don’t remmeber.

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:10 pm

28. I don’t think it’d do them much good, for me to come up there. I could hold a boot camp…

    /pondering

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:12 pm

29. Bwahaha! I’ll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too!

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 3:13 pm

30. You can tear one off to mend a saddle or other torn item. When a tassled jacket eventually ran out of tassles, a new one would be made or purchased.

    Comment by inviolet — January 13, 2005 @ 3:25 pm

31. Is that how cultures are passed back and forth? Rubbing? I am all for that!!!

    Comment by grizzilla — January 13, 2005 @ 3:40 pm

32. Wow, I almost won and have never lived in Texas.

    Have my footware is boots, I have 5 cowboy hats, I know that tassles or fringe was to help rain run off your clothes, and not only have had steer horns on a car but had steer skulls hangin from the garage.

    I don’t think I have ever met someone who could carry their own weight in feed at one time

    Comment by grizzilla — January 13, 2005 @ 3:48 pm

33. New Jersey

    Comment by transientmind — January 13, 2005 @ 3:53 pm

34. Ahh. I found a pair of old leather gloves that had tassels on them laying around my barn. I’ve cut those tassels off to repair various pieces of tack.

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 4:39 pm

35. I weigh more than 100 lbs :p

    The good hay bales weighed about 60-80lbs each. Moving a couple hundred bales from a field, on to a trailer and off again into the hay barn a few times a year…a girl will build up some muscle.

    I’ve lost all the muscle and gained some fat though You know, I always heard that muscle weighs more than fat, but when I was doing all that physical labor, I weighed less than I do now. Hmm.

    Comment by jaxia — January 13, 2005 @ 4:47 pm

36. 104 is close enough to 100, angel!

    Bucking hay can build muscles and also some good hand callouses.

    I have heard that too, but to be accurate they should say muscle is more dense than fat. A pound of muscle and a pound of fat each waigh a pound, but the muscle takes up less space.

    Comment by grizzilla — January 13, 2005 @ 4:57 pm

37. My result: 98% (Dixie).

    I guess the fact I use the word “Pop” instead of coke did not make me 100%. See what Oklahoma did to me. *cries*

    Comment by darkeyesdreamin — January 13, 2005 @ 5:35 pm

38. If I understand correctly, an access road is what road workers use to move along the sides of the roads to effect repair, right?

    We don’t have them at all, except in certain places.

    We have very large shoulders, though.

    I don’t know what Dallas or Houston traffic is like, but Jersey is a unique place in that it’s the most densely populated state (1134.16 people per sq. mile) in the country, has too many cars, and not enough road. http://www.transportation.njit.edu/nctip/final_report/congestionstudy12.pdf

    The traffic’s not just in one spot in Jersey, it’s everywhere. Around NYC and Philly, sure, but Princeton, Trenton, Bridgewater…

    We’re neat like that.

    That link up there mentions 261 million person-hours are lost to delay in NJ annually and individually we lose 45 each. This is why I liked living 15 minutes from my job on country back roads in south Jersey.

    Comment by rasputinaxp — January 13, 2005 @ 8:21 pm

39. I was going to say something witty here, but life apparently sucks again for both of us.

    If you survive, then I promise I will too.

    Comment by inviolet — January 17, 2005 @ 9:55 pm

40. lol today is my day to go to get a second opinion. i’m going to mom’s doctor so that at least if they come to the same conclusion as LBJ i’ll at least know they freakin listened to what i had to say. anyways i prolly shouldn’t rant it’s antiproductive. lol. i’ll probably call you while i’m in the waiting room or something. peace… love… ex-nay on the crabs though!

    Comment by jamieson585 — January 18, 2005 @ 10:10 am

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