It really does give me a little pleasure seeing a “Yankee” flinch just a bit when you refer to them as such. I try to do it at work at least once a week.
It can really be hard on folks from Mich, Minn, and Wis…because they don’t consider themselves such. But the further South you are, the more broadly the term applies. I use it for anyone North of Cincitucky, and in Minn and eastward (though usually not Iowa).
A car full of Yankees is a good reason to be carrying a gun. ☺ (being a transplanted Yankee, I know whereof I speak). And I thought the Ohio Navy stopped at Exit 41 in Kentucky and headed west to Lake Cumberland. Didn’t know they had invaded TN.
April 29th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Don’t you mean Kaaa fulla yankees.
April 29th, 2011 at 11:20 am
I resemble that remark!
April 29th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Wow…the economy must be really tough if Jeter & Co are hitching rides…
April 29th, 2011 at 11:39 am
My money is that by the end of the day half of them will be chugging JD and singing Sweet Home Alabama.
April 29th, 2011 at 11:43 am
My condolences. Keep in mind that you can always get even later by inviting them to a necktie social.
April 29th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Could be worse, you could be in NJ in a car full of commies.
April 29th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Wait a minute. You’re in the same car, and you’re blogging at each other??
Geeks. 😀
April 29th, 2011 at 11:49 am
I happen to know for certain that one of those Yankees brought his OWN JD to PA and knows the words to Sweet Home Alabama. 🙂
April 29th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Oh, the humanity!
April 29th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
It really does give me a little pleasure seeing a “Yankee” flinch just a bit when you refer to them as such. I try to do it at work at least once a week.
It can really be hard on folks from Mich, Minn, and Wis…because they don’t consider themselves such. But the further South you are, the more broadly the term applies. I use it for anyone North of Cincitucky, and in Minn and eastward (though usually not Iowa).
April 29th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
And if you doubt that Ohio folks are Yankees, just go out on Norris Lake sometime.
April 29th, 2011 at 4:29 pm
A car full of Yankees is a good reason to be carrying a gun. ☺ (being a transplanted Yankee, I know whereof I speak). And I thought the Ohio Navy stopped at Exit 41 in Kentucky and headed west to Lake Cumberland. Didn’t know they had invaded TN.
April 29th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Complaining about drivers and traffic in Steeler Town by Yankees? Something about stones and glass house leaps to mind.
April 29th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Their blood may be blue, but their necks are as red as yur’n. Go ahead on and take a look.
April 29th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Uncle, you don’t know just how right that remark was. Here’s the definition of a Yankee, peeling the onion edition:
Everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line calls anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line a yankee.
Anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line calls anyone in New England a yankee.
Anyone in New England calls anyone from Maine a yankee.
Anyone from Maine who eats pie for breakfast actually IS a yankee.
Weer’d and I are from Maine. I don’t know if he eats pie for breakfast or not.
May 2nd, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Borepatch, is that real pie? Or what NYers call pie?