Re: Greetings!


Val Adams wrote:
> Jane Margaret Laight wrote:
> > Val Adams wrote:
> >
> >>Glenallan wrote:
> >>
> >>>"Daniel Mac an Toisich"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>look up alt.english.usage - fake english
> >>>>
> >>>>nyk nyk (as her leader would say)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Am I really as 'thick' as I feel.??
> >>>Whut the *** are you talking about..!!
> >>>
> >>>G
> >>>--
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>dont sweat it, luv, he's simplistically straining at a pun that wasnt worth
> >>the laxative to begin with.
> >>
> >>Welcome, Jane Margaret..nice not to be the only Merkan git around anymore.. :-P
> >>
> >>Val de Lerkan Merkan
> >
> >
> > Glad to be here--and the sad thing about it all, I think I actually
> > understood what he was straining at; however, it all boils down to an
> > understanding of US geography, where I do believe he is (based on his
> > attempt) rather deficient--
> >
> > He was doubtless referring to me as a native of my home state which has
> > been referred to as "North Carolingus" which is north of "South
> > Carolingus" and south of "Virgina"--generally its residents are
> > referred as "carolinguists" and their actions and activities are lumped
> > under the heading of "carolinga"--however, these references can be
> > found in the OED as "archaic"--most natives of NC are now referred to
> > as "Tarheels" which may refer to the fact that most of us cannot afford
> > decent footwear and have problem contributing tax money to effectively
> > Macadamize the roads. Oh well.
> >
> > Back home, just to mention, I do have some relatives living in the town
> > of Scotland Neck, in Caledonia Township, Halifax County NC--it has
> > never been determined if the town's name referred to the fate of some
> > recalcitrant Scot emigrant to the area, of which there were many,
> > including (for a time) the ever popular Flora Macdonald.
> >
> > I think I'm going to like it here.
> >
> > Calamity Jane
> >
> Oh, dear..I seem to be geographically deficient as well, my thoughts
> immediately lept totherwards..or perhaps I have simply achieved that length
> of years that allows one to be a dirty old lady with (relative) impunity.
> (NOTHING in SCS is carried out with TOTAL impunity; especially by a Yank.)

Oh really? Then I do expect that there will be some fireworks here;
most of my folks have bulled their way through life shouting "Nemo me
impune lacessit" at the top of their respective lungs for a while (for
example my uncle was a career Marine non-commissioned officer who would
tick off most of his comrades by strolling around the post playing
bagpipes very late at night, stopping under windows belonging to people
who had pissed him off for some reason during the daylight hours--he
said it helped him to relax), and I think I can hold my own in
situations like that. We shall see.

> I should not have expected to see Carolingus except on a VERY old map and
> indeed never considered it in this connection. Tarheel I have heard, but
> never guessed the etymology. I believe my native Chicago also used cheap
> macadam; but in the days of my youth the inner-city streets were buried so
> deeply under uncollected detritus that it is perhaps as well no similar
> referant ever developed.
>
> I do believe I have some shirt-tails in your general area; of the howdied
> but not shook category. But they are Welshmen, so perhaps it doesnt matter.

I wouldn't say that--Andy Griffith is from my neck of the woods, and he
is a dark Welshman, and I think it matters a bit that he is both Welsh
and a Carolinian--my mother's folks, who are more from this area have
some Welsh but are descended from *** Cockneys, stray French
Hugenots and Ulster Scots, or "Scotch-Irish" as we call them here.
>
> Oh I do hope you will stay! You've only been here a day and a night and
> already I've learned two new things. I am highly elated, as that is why I
> wandered in here in the first place, lo these many years ago, and the
> pickings have been rather slim lately. I myself flounce off in a huff from
> time to time, but as I am generally pretty quiet anyway hardly anyone notices.

Quite all right--I do plan to be around here for some time--my
Scot-Canadian brother-in-law who is surnamed Macsparran (and will punch
out anyone who calls him "Scotty") declares that he is "exiled" on the
North American continent--he himself emigrated to Ontario when he was
twelve--and so his wife, my sister Fannie, and myself, being the family
cooks, have attempted to prepare national Scottish dishes that he might
appreciate--how many ways can you cook oatmeal?--one of these days I'll
have to tell you the story about "Macsparran's Flying Haggis".

> EVal and de Fuzzy Frenz ( you've probably heard about the sheepees, if
> you've been lurking long.. )

As in what's the first sound a Scot hears when he loses his virginity?

JML

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