[SOC] Boite de Pandore

[Bob N0UF]

If my memory of history class is correct and it always isn't.

After the US Civil War many Northerners went into the South to sell a
variety of products.
The term was coined because in very short order because them "Damn
Yankees" all had RED NECKS from the hotter Southern sun.  Some of them,
maybe most, also carried their goods in a bag made from old carpet,
whence the term "Carpet bagger",  neither a term of endearment.

The comedian Jeff Foxworthy says, "If you go over to help take the tires
off the house of your riches relative, you maybe a redneck." and "If the
directions to your houses include the phrase, 'Then you turn onto the
dirt road', you may be a red neck."

73
Bob N0UF
SOC #521
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bartlett" <paul@fulking.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:13 PM
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" <w2agn@w2agn.net>
> To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 7:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Boite de Pandore
>
>
> >
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: soc@mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Sunday, February 02, 2003 01:50:42 PM
> > To: soc@mailman.qth.net
> > 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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