You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - May 01, 2009 2:00:21 pm PDT #17700 of 30000

Oh, I'm definitely home. In chaos, but home.

Mister Kitty has finally migrated to sleeping on the bed all day. I think the cats are happy. Loki clearly is and Devi isn't hinky anymore, hanging out in whatever room I'm in (her usual behavior.) I can't believe the length of my short-term to-do list, but that is what it is.

Now to go assemble some furniture, find my sheets and towels and my hard drives....


Trudy Booth - May 01, 2009 2:49:50 pm PDT #17701 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

although in North and Central Florida, at least, "cracker" denotes native-born, with no negative connotation.

A chunk of my family moved to Central Florida a few years ago (this not being the side of the family that is FROM Florida) and their native-Floridian neighbors proudly identify themselves (as opposed to the recent arrivals) as Crackers.

It doesn't seem to be dependant on income.

Edit: And so far as I know, only white people. I think I'd bust a gut laughing if I heard a black person refer to him/herself as a 'cracker'.


Glamcookie - May 01, 2009 2:58:29 pm PDT #17702 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

My family has always used cracker interchangeably with redneck. Mostly it is said to my dad, who considers either to be a compliment. Wacky Southerners.


javachik - May 01, 2009 3:11:46 pm PDT #17703 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Myself? My ancestors were North Carolina crackers. And I was born in California, which to those Southerners like my gramps, is "fancy". So I was a fancy cracker.

Which is why one of his terms of endearment for me was "Ritz".


Sue - May 01, 2009 3:31:55 pm PDT #17704 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Michelle Obama in the Ita dress:

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Jesse - May 01, 2009 3:37:24 pm PDT #17705 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hilarious. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with you, Sue!


megan walker - May 01, 2009 3:38:48 pm PDT #17706 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

My impression was that "cracker" was more about racism than income, but that may be based solely on Bernie Mac in Ocean's 11.


javachik - May 01, 2009 3:47:56 pm PDT #17707 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Oh, it's totally racist but it has overtones of "white-trash", too. I just think it's a funny sounding "insult" and am not personally at all insulted by it.


Trudy Booth - May 01, 2009 3:51:56 pm PDT #17708 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Oh, it's totally racist but it has overtones of "white-trash", too. I just think it's a funny sounding "insult" and am not personally at all insulted by it.

Yeah. I can't remember it precisely, but I think it was Richard Pryor who had a bit about how "Honky never caught on like it was supposed to..."


sarameg - May 01, 2009 3:54:58 pm PDT #17709 of 30000

I can't find the rest of my towels. I have no clue.