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  • From: "kmr" <rossreport AT bellsouth.net>
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  • Subject: Re: schooner note
  • Date: 29 Apr 2006 04:27:28 -0700

Schooner is a fine band wherever they're from.
Now about Mr. Simon- Good God what is he thinking? Indianian is not
acceptable--ever.
I think I remember that textbook, but when I was in school back in the
home state it was hard to see on cloudy days unless you sat by the
fireplace.
There are at least four definitions for Hoosier that I know of;
The whose ear barfight thing
The traveling salemen who sold hoses and irrigation lines
The shifty Ohio riverboat guy named Mike Hoosier
and the variation on 'Who's here?'
None are probably right.
Don't even get me started about daylight savings time.
Consarnit, indeed.

kmr



grady wrote:
> I just realized that in the "stuff to do" I neglected to redo the entry
> about Schooner, as I have been informed, somewhat belatedly, that
> they're no longer OF Raleigh. I guess technically having formed while
> Raleighites, they will in some sense always be FROM Raleigh, at least as
> much as I'm FROM Indiana (and a proud Hoosier at that -- the other day I
> was listening to NPR and heard Scott Simon explaining, apparently in
> response to some angry letters, that "Indianans" was also an acceptable
> term for those of us from that state, and that it's his preferred term
> due to concerns about some listeners mis-hearing "Hoosier" as something
> else. I missed the part where he specified what that something else
> might be, though. Either way, that's BULLSHIT, consarnit. Did I mention
> the part where in 4th grade we were taught (this was in the textbook,
> mind you) that while nobody really knows the origin of the term
> "Hoosier," one speculation was that the frontier was a rough place, the
> sort of place where bar fights were common, and rough enough that the
> outcome of many such fights might be someone holding up a severed bloody
> ear saying "Whose ear?" There was a fucking illustration, I swear to god.)
>
> Anyway. Schooner are now OF Chapel Hill, at least mostly. I will leave
> to the respective citizens of the various towns involved to come
> together in some sort of colloqy to determine where they are, in fact, FROM.
>
> xo
>
> Ross
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  • schooner note, grady, 04/28/2006
    • Re: schooner note, kmr, 04/29/2006

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