POLL: When I say "I'm a toothless hillbilly from Polecat Hollow", as I often do,what do you think?

[Richard Steele]

Poll question: POLL: When I say "I'm a toothless hillbilly from Polecat Hollow", as I often do,what do you think?

I really -am-, you know.
"Polecat Hollow" is a real place up in Bedford county, PA.
It runs between "Lemnus Ridge" and "River Mountain", and I am *from* there.

[realisticphish]

1. There's a road near where I grew up

called "Coonpath Road."

also "Stump Hollow Road."

This is southeastern Ohio, which is in the western part of appalachia

[petronius]

2. Other: I'd think "why does he 'often' have a need to say that?"

:shrug:

[Richard Steele]

4. Because I've spent the last 2 decades associating with folks who attended the BEST schools in the US

It's been near a decade since I've been invited to a party
where I wasn't the only person there without a College degree.

My ex-Sweetie held dual degrees from Swarthmore
and had a Masters Degree from UNC.
All her friends had similarly impressive
letters after their names, on their busines cards.

My "formal education" was ten years worth of RURAL Public School,
and I've been asked "Where did you go to school?" about a THOUSAND times
by folks who just ASSUME I went to college, because I dress well
and have an excellent command of the English Language...
so I guess I've gotten a bit 'touchy' about that over the years.


Your point is well taken, Petronious.
I hope I've answered your question.

[rebel with a cause]

3. Other...

I think you must be one of my neighbors, and then I pray you are not one of them pick up truck driving nuts with your gun rack and a confederate flag decals on your rear window.

Edited to add: I often say "I am in shitville" (meaning a bad place either in life or geographically) which gets either a laugh or scolding from my children (about the only people I talk to). ;) But then they admit that this whole area can be called that at times. :rofl:

[Richard Steele]

5. I haven't owned a truck since 1994, and I've never owned a Vehicle-Mounted gun rack.

So I guess I'm not one of your neighbors.

That's a bummer, because the garden here is just going all "jungle"
on us with the recent heavy rains, and we are gonna need to invite
LOTS of extra folks to our cookouts when the tomatos and onions start
coming into season.

And I think you and I might get along well at a neighborhood cookout...
but, sadly, it's not gonna happen any time soon.

[rebel with a cause]

7. Not all my neighbors are like that.

Especially not the ones with liberal ideals and good sense of humors and a lot of people here have pickups who are not like those mentioned in my earlier post.

We have had a lot of rain here also, and weird storms that just keep coming. Around thirty three days ago we had a 'derecho', a straight line wind ranging from 65 to 106 mph, which lasted for around 45 minutes. We lost thousands of trees and had quite a bit structural damage, but luckily only one fatality. The night before that we had a hail storm with ice the size of golf balls. Since then we have had more straight line wind storms that last shorter times (micro-burst) and usually only get up to around 65 mph. The other night we had a tornado, a micro-burst and then another tornado withing twenty minutes. Lucky for us this one did not hit us directly like the derecho did. There were hundreds of trees lost to that storm. We are an area that loves our woody areas and our shady yards, so this really hit us hard. Of course it could be worse if there had been more lost of lives.

We don't have a garden but I know what you mean about the jungle. Things are growing leaps and bounds thanks to the constant rain. Take care and have fun at your cook outs. :hi:

[rrneck]

6. I'd think you're probably a long lost cousin.

I started out life a tractor jockey, and I still sound like Dunlap on Red State Update.

[REP]

8. Other: I miss your old screen name

And:



I'm doing this on an iPhone - that's how much one of my favorite DUers you are.

Edit because I can't type for crap even with one finger.

[Richard Steele]

9. Wow. I bow down before the unassailable might of your iPhone.

That guy's face looks just like my old friend "Tommy"...
AKA "Colonel Thomas T. "Tommy" Thompson",
AKA "Tommy No-Thumbs".

We took him in off the street, and he was my special little guy.

I had a bit of a "go-round" at the Vet's office getting them
to put his name on their paperwork.
They eventually saw things my way, and he's listed as "Colonel Thompson"
in their files now.

I miss him a lot.

[REP]

10. Bow to the might of my *finger*!

Can't cut and paste on iPhones until 6/17 - until then, I have to type in links to cat pics! That's Toki Wartooth, by the way; cute, fuzzy evil.

[Deep13]

11. You must be English too.

There's enough metal in my mouth to build an F-16.