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Wilson

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Nov 25, 2009, 9:37:30 AM11/25/09
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Quote of the week:

A winter statistic:

98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
road.

The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they
say "Hold my beer and watch this."


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Wilson
http://puddinheadwilson.tumblr.com/


DT

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:16:08 AM11/25/09
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Wilson wrote:
> Quote of the week:
>
> A winter statistic:
>
> 98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
> road.
>
> The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they
> say "Hold my beer and watch this."

This is quite a revelation. I had been under the impression that "hold
my beer and watch this" was a uniquely Texan (or at least Southern)
expression.

Evidently it's possible to be a redneck and a Yankee at the same time...

DT


Keynes

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:51:08 AM11/25/09
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Or even an Alaskan.

Yankee city slickers pissed me off, the prissy dudes.
So I moved to the wilds of Wisconsin to find the real
people, the honest, salt of the earth yeomen. I found
that they were just the same as everybody else. What
a let down. Now I'm a hermit and don't expect much
from myself or anybody else.


Beerlet Dhiblang

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:52:49 AM11/25/09
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On Nov 25, 9:37 am, "Wilson" <Wil...@nowhere.net> wrote:
> Quote of the week:
>
> A winter statistic:
>
> 98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
> road.
>
> The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they
> say "Hold my beer and watch this."

This is true.

I'm native-born Miamian, but I turned Yankee when I did a 180 in the
snow on an exit ramp & rolled it backwards into a little pullout.

OK, I drank a beer afterwards.

/l

DT

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Nov 25, 2009, 11:51:37 AM11/25/09
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"These are just simple folks. These are people of the land. The common
clay of the New West. You know..... Morons!"

DT

Lee Rudolph

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Nov 25, 2009, 12:32:14 PM11/25/09
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DT <dal...@gnusguy.com> writes:

The relevant part of the essence of "redneck" (as we understand it
here, well outside its home territory) is captured by two quite
distinct ethnic groups hereabouts: "swamp Yankees" and "Frenchies".
Plenty of both in both Maine and Vermont. I'm not sure if they'd
hold each other's beers, though.

Lee Rudolph

Love

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Nov 25, 2009, 2:23:59 PM11/25/09
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In article <hejhj...@news1.newsguy.com>, dal...@gnusguy.com says...

I'd thought it was Newfies. I got email recently
informing me of this.


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Love

Love

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Nov 25, 2009, 2:29:07 PM11/25/09
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In article <h6kqg5ld9f357p0ok...@4ax.com>,
Key...@earthlinkspam.net says...

"I expect nothing, Master."

"Then you shall receive it, in abundance!"


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Love

Kitty P

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Nov 25, 2009, 2:35:52 PM11/25/09
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"Love" <no....@from.you.bub> wrote in message
news:2b9e9$4b0d844f$4038ecbe$51...@PRIMUS.CA...

I was informed that it was Oklahoma in an email last week.

Kitty


Love

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Nov 25, 2009, 2:39:21 PM11/25/09
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In article <q4GdnfEiz6uE3JDW...@supernews.com>, Wil...@nowhere.net
says...

>
>Quote of the week:
>
>A winter statistic:
>
>98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
>road.
>
>The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they
>say "Hold my beer and watch this."


98 + 3 = 101


Obviously the joke started in _______________

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Love

DT

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Nov 25, 2009, 3:19:30 PM11/25/09
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Well, you know what they say. There are three kinds of people in the
world; those who are good at math, and those who aren't.

DT

Wally Chapman

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:52:38 PM11/25/09
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Wilson wrote:
> Quote of the week:
>
> A winter statistic:
>
> 98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
> road.
>
> The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they
> say "Hold my beer and watch this."
>
>

So, 98% and 3% is, ummm.... where y'all from?

Wally

^@%>---*=#**

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Nov 25, 2009, 9:49:13 PM11/25/09
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"Wilson" <Wil...@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:q4GdnfEiz6uE3JDW...@supernews.com...

> Quote of the week:
>
> A winter statistic:
>
> 98% of Americans say "Oh Shit" before going in the ditch on a slippery
> road.
>
> The other 3% are from Maine, Vermont or the U.P. of Michigan and they say
> "Hold my beer and watch this."

the "yoopers" in the u.p. in michigan
say that they don't slow down on icy
or snowy roads because if you go in
a ditch you can drive right back out
at a fast speed but if you slow down
for bad roads that's why you get stuck
in a ditch.

Wilson

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Nov 26, 2009, 10:25:15 AM11/26/09
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And they're in a hurry to get to the bar. That was the last beer.

--
Wilson
http://puddinheadwilson.tumblr.com/


^@%>---*=#**

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Nov 26, 2009, 10:27:02 AM11/26/09
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"Wilson" <Wil...@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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to the yoopers there is no
such thing as a "last beer".

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