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Pray for mild weather and gentle breezes, so that the homeless of the midwest will suffer slightly less? I’m all over it! Compassion is my middle name.
Actually “Luty” is my middle name but I spell it “compassion”.
It’s 14 degrees outside here. Colder than a well-digger’s ass. But no snow in sight.
Yes! Butt-angel madness!
Oh, fucky, icy mix?
Robert, my friend’s brilliant but bipolar brother wound up homeless but, being brilliant, left Chicago and went to Los Angeles.
Um, “Luty?”
You guys are so lucky. I went to grad school in the snow capital of the US. 4 inch snowstorm happened daily. The only time there was a snow day was when it was more than 2 feet!
I will still cross all that’s crossable for you, though!
You’ve scheduled the atavism for when I’m at work both times now, but I’ll be thinking real hard, if not actually shaking my shit at/for the gods.
Um, “Luty?”
Yes?
YES! Dance for snow, ice and cold!!!
Think of the poor Oil Companies… they need our money!
God I miss living in the North. Endless Texas fall gets so. fucking. old.
Look, I know I have a great ass, but if you want to see me shake it, all you have to do is ask. You don’t need this ‘snow day’ excuse.
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I’ll snow-dance for you if you’ll do a MTA-contracts-negotiation dance for NYC, so that I don’t have to walk 20 blocks in 20 degree weather on Friday due to a strike! ;-)
…I went 10 years without seeing so much as a flake of frozen stuff: Of late we’ve had some each year. A dusting sends everybody into spasms…
I observe you used “y’all” in your post: I wasn’t aware the use of that particular word extended beyond The Heart of Red-State Amerika….
OK. Hold it right there. That alleged Snow Dance is at present the subject of intense litigation being pursued by Queen Modjadji, the Rain Queen, under the Law of International Intellectual Property Copyright (or whatever).I suggest you cease and desist at once before you find yourselves in deep doo-doo and, trust me, you don’t want to mess with the Rain Queen.
Indiana is the heart of Red State America™. States don’t get much redder than Indiana. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the word “y’all”. It’s a perfectly legitimate and much less confusing way to signal that one is talking to all of you guys and girls, not just one of you. Just think of it like “ustedes” or “vosotros” in Spanish.
I observe you used “y’all” in your post: I wasn’t aware the use of that particular word extended beyond The Heart of Red-State Amerika….
fuck you. no, seriously. I believe the blogiverse already had this discussion, and condescension to liberals who don’t live in Philly, LA, and NYC is bad. “y’all” is present throughout appalacia, which is nice and blue. Illinios uses it, as does everyone in the glorious isles of blue: Austin, St. Louis, New Orleans, on and fucking on.
more importantly, it’s a genuinely gender neutral second person explicit plural, which “you guys” fucking ain’t.
that’s right. I said ain’t too. wanna make something of it?
Golly! Such impassioned rhetoric!
Chill. I use “y’all” each-and-every day. I’m a native speaker (if there is such a thing). I love the word because I find it difficult to use in anger without sounding silly: “Y’all suck!” or “Y’all are a bunch of jerks!”.
Hadn’t considered the gender-neutrality. Good point.
Red-states: yeah, I can read an electoral map. Indiana is indeed in the red-zone and has been for some time. But here at the intersection of the two Carolinas is where Our Preznit got his Big Win over McCain in 2000. This is the land of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms and Liddy Dole and Jim and Tammy Faye. If there is a red-state epicenter (choose another metaphor if you like)—it is here.
Anyway: Y’all have a nice day.
What’s wrong with “youse”?
What’s wrong with “youse”?
Too hard to make it possessive.
“Bring me all of youse’s clothes and I’ll wash them” – horrible.
Whereas “y’all’s” rolls off the tongue like brandy into a snifter.