[SOC] Boite de Pandore

Sun, 2 Feb 2003 19:41:34 -0000

Ahhh.

Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: "W2AGN" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Boite de Pandore

> Well, I remember a neighbor I had when I lived in Mississippi. He honestly
> had over 20 junk cars in his back yard. His mother lived in a trailer on
his
> property (she was 65 and looked 90, chewed tobacco). His kid cut school
all
> the time, but he didn't care. He actually said to me. "I only made it to
the
> 4th grade, but I own all this (gesturing to the junk cars), and someday,
> they'll all belong to my boy."
>
> He was the poster boy for "Redneck."
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 02:16:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Boite de Pandore
>
> Purely out of curiosity, where does the term 'redeck' orinigate? Or is it
so
> simple as to describe someone who spends most of the time outside in the
hot
> sun and gets burnt?
>
> Curious,
>
> Paul :-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "W2AGN" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Boite de Pandore
>
>
> >
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: [email protected]
> > Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 01:50:42 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [SOC] Boite de Pandore
> >
> > >Ad hominem remarks add nothing to this discussion and show a lack of
> > respect
> > >or understanding for different cultures.
> > My remarks were not directed at an individual, but at "rednecks" in
> general.
> > I had never thought of it as a different culture, but perhaps you are
> > correct.
> > >I own a firearm which is, since I
> > >live in a small place, is within arm's reach now and when I am asleep.
> > >It is, with two large dogs, not my first line of defense but I would
> rather
> > >be judged by 12 than carried by six.
> > I really find this using "2 large dogs" as a line of defense ludicrous.
> You
> > are saying they are more mentally equipped deal with an intruder than
you
> > are? As a alarm, dogs are fine, as a "defense" they are worthless. I
would
> > not want my life to depend on one who could be bribed with a nice large
> > ribeye or T-bone.
> >
> > >But I still prefer to sleep with both
> > >a Ham rig and firearm within arm's lenght.
> > Great, until you pick up the firearm, put it to your mouth to call CQ,
and
> > mistake the trigger for the PTT switch. Or try to shoot that 6'4" mean
> > intruder with a rubber ducky.
> > >But I only carry a Ham rig in
> > >public.
> >
> > Why in public? Good for picking up chicks?
> >
> > >And in an emergency my rigs are more of important concern to me
> > >than my fiirearm with my two dogs and two cats more important than any
> > >inantimate objects
> > That's the one thing that you said that makes sense.
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