Purdue and Minnesota for sale
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Very misleading post. I thought you were selling the state of Minnesota. I was wondering who would pay anything for that frozen wasteland. I was going to suggest you try to let it go back to the bank.
Yes, it's one of our fun jokes that we all grew up with as Minnesotans (I grew up there and lived most of my life there), but, to be honest, I'll take the Minnesota mosquitoes over the southern mosquitoes any day!
You all better stop the slander on my homeland. Ya'll live in shithole states.
What the **** is a Commonwealth, anyways? Are ya'll this country's first snowflakes, or are you not even a real state?
What the **** is a Commonwealth, anyways? Are ya'll this country's first snowflakes, or are you not even a real state?
States aspire to commonwealth status. Kinds like new money and old money.
The worst are noseeums, also known as sand gnats. 50% of their bodies are the bite. Very small and even when biting you can't see them. Thus the name, no-see-ums. You can get 10 ankle bites walking to the mailbox.
You are butchering the use of "y'all." It is a contraction of "you" and "all", not "ya" and "all". I know because I lived in Tennessee for 13 years, and was even given honorary southerner status by the biggest redneck I know, for my pork shoulder smoking abilities. Plus, they have these at the FedEx St. Jude Classic to quiet the crowd:
We have those here in Iowa as well. My father in law once said that if you were to put their teeth under a microscope they have to be enormous, relative to their bodies!
Think about it, though: their bite packs a heck of a wallop for a bug that you can barely see!
In Iowa, we've found nothing that will keep them away-as well as gnats-other than this local, Iowa product. Stuff is worth it's weight in gold!
Look for Bug Soother. https://www.simplysoothing.net/#
Noseeums are irritating. But you haven't lived until you've choked on a swarm of saltmarsh mosquitoes.
HAH. I thought they were selling their wrestling teams. I was gonna put a bid in for Gable S ...
anymore that those little things are the problem....it's the damn ticks!
Proper pecking order as follows:You are butchering the use of "y'all." It is a contraction of "you" and "all", not "ya" and "all". I know because I lived in Tennessee for 13 years, and was even given honorary southerner status by the biggest redneck I know, for my pork shoulder smoking abilities. Plus, they have these at the FedEx St. Jude Classic to quiet the crowd:
1) You’s guys
2) You’ins
3) Y’all
Only use Y’all to try to fit in and only in places that are warm in January. Do NOT use Y’all if you are located/visiting a “Commonwealth”.
Ex:
“Y’all got any grits at this here diner?”
The lack of a proper 2nd-person plural pronoun is probalby English's single greatest failing. Personally, and aside from the southern stigma, I think y'all makes the most sense, and should be canonized.
Not an English prof or major but even I know that the PROPER plural of you is YOU. Just saying.
There were several things I swore I would never say when I first moved to Memphis, "y'all," "fixin' to" and "do what now." When you live there for 13 years, and you hear it often enough, some things just can't be helped. I probably use y'all and do what now equally as often, with fixin' to a distant third.
Y'all flows off the tongue more easily, doesn't discriminate by sex, and will forever be part of my vocabulary, no matter where I live. Consider these examples for asking what someone is doing.
What are youse guys doing?
What are you'ins doing?
Whatchy'alldoin'?
See? One word, four syllables, versus four or five words and six syllables for the other two. The "y" in there is actually optional, making it simply whatchalldoin?
So, what about "do what now?" That is the gold standard for what to ask if you didn't hear what someone said, weren't paying attention or think they're crazy for having asked the question.
Examples:
Me: <watching a wrestling match on Flo>
Wife: Blahbedablahblah. <Not actually what she said, but I can only do one thing at a time when watching wrestling.>
Me: Do what now?
Wife: Stop using that expression. We live in the north again. I asked if you wanted to go shopping with me.
Me: Do what now?
Finally, "fixin' to". This means you are getting ready to do something. "I'm fixin' to go shopping with my wife." I can take it or leave it, although it is easier to say than "I'm getting ready to go shopping with my wife.
For you NCIS fans out there after the second "Do what now" Mrs. Yoder gives you a slap to the back of the head. She does read these boards, doesn't she?
Also insert the devil emoticon here that is no longer available on rivals. Love VISITING/FISHING northern Minnesota, can't handle the longer winters though. Skin so Soft is just an urban legend, it dose nothing. I can handle the mosquitoes, they don't bother me with deet every hour, but I've been hit with horse flies up there and it was like getting hit with 220volts.
I go to Charleston, SC often, I think northern Minnesota and Wisconsin are worse. They do pretty well with mosquito control around Folly Beach, SC.
It all depends on the weather and seasons. Noseeums, like you said, are just a small nusence compared to boating through black clouds of mosquitoes.
I grew up on the river on a bayou, I'm immune to mosquito bites, but Chigger bites on my ankles can make me want to shoot myself.
Exactly, it needlessly causes confusion regularly. No other language I know does this.Not an English prof or major but even I know that the PROPER plural of you is YOU. Just saying.
The proper spelling and pronunciation of #2 is "yinz". As in "Did yinz see the Stillers choke against the Jagoffs?"
For those that didn't know...we have spent a ton of time in the 'Burgh during the past 5 years...and now even I don't think they "talk funny"...
Yinzer is a 20th-century term playing on the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania second-person plural vernacular "yinz." The word is used among people who identify themselves with the city of Pittsburgh and its traditions.
History[edit]
Main article: Pittsburgh English
"Yinzer" (or "Yunzer") was historically used to identify the typical blue-collar people from the Pittsburgh region who often spoke with a heavy Pittsburghese accent. The term stems from the word yinz (or yunz), a second-person plural pronoun, brought to the area by early Scots-Irish immigrants. Over time, yinzer has been used by many Pittsburgh residents to self-identify, even if they didn't speak with a thick accent.
The concept and use of the word gained popularity in the 21st century as the area's population loss slowed, and the city became a hub for revitalization. As the city gained note as a desirable place to live,[1][2] more outsiders have moved or returned to the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The term has taken on a slight pejorative connotation to identify someone who, for better or worse, is either a lifelong Pittsburgher, or says a phrase or commits an act that could be identified as something a stereotypical Pittsburgher might do.
In sticking with my southern terminology, the appropriate terminology would be, "Mrs. Yoder hits me upside the head." Same result.For you NCIS fans out there after the second "Do what now" Mrs. Yoder gives you a slap to the back of the head. She does read these boards, doesn't she?
She absolutely does not read these boards, as far as I know. Just in case, let it be known that I love her very much, and I'm ready to go shopping now.
I've had quite a bit of experience with inland mosquitoes, horseflies, ticks, greenheads, and saltmarsh mosquitoes. Inhaling (and subsequently gagging on) swarms of saltmarsh mosquitoes on the bay side of Assateague Island while simultaneously being bitten every half-second all over unreachable parts of my back was the only time bugs ever made me freak out. Trying to sprint through saltmarsh in waders and 2-ft deep water was not very effective in eluding them. The clouds even chase you while driving through the woodland portions out of there, banging against the windows and windshield when you stop. Crazy ruthless.
I haven't had chiggers, but don't they just itch/irritate a ton? I have poison ivy probably 10 months out of the year, and so I'm used to perpetual skin irritation...
Anyway, someone posted a "state bird" emblem of a mosquito for MN -- turns out Maine & NH claim the same. I remember seeing one of my dad's friends wearing such a tshirt when I was a kid.
Is that before or after she grabs you by your britches and says she's going to toss you over yonder.
When you go shopping with Mrs Yoder, do you carry her to the store?
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