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Welcome => Hi, I'm New => Topic started by: izumiryu on 14 Nov 2012, 16:07
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I've read for awhile. and even started re-reading before I lost my place.
So "Howdy" from the Lone Star State.
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Okay, of all the things I had to say. "Howdy?"
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Apparently. Greetings from the Godless North (Minnesnowta), and welcome to the forums~ Have fun, and good luck... crazy is contagious in here.
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Welcome!
I worked in the 70s and 80s with a fellow suburban Detroiter, a Jew who loved to celebrate Christmas and taught our newsroom Yiddish expressions, sometimes leaving me farblondjet. She was a smart woman, a joy to work with. But she picked up two expressions and for a few weeks at a time, did'em each to death: "Boy Howdy!" and I can't recall how she used it, and "Ain't that about a willie?" long before the Clinton presidency.
So if your howdy comes with a Texas twang, it's good. Hers had a distinctly Michigan sound.
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Welcome, new person!
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Howdyoodoo?
Yes, quite. Enjoy the amibance here, this is as good as it's gonna get.
A customer actually asked me the other day:
"If I say 'howdy' and I'm from New England, is that racist? Is it, like, 'their word'? Like, only cowboys can use it?"
He was completely serious. I didn't know how to answer.
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Hi.
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Bluesummers, it's just a slang term as far as I'm concerned. I find it stereotypical and usually don't like using it outside of just being funny.
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Fair enough. Same here, ol' chap.
I'll keep being annoyingly faux-cockney until I get my right honourable friends from across the pond riled up, wot wot!
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As long as I don't get "Where do you park your horses?" I got that all the time when I lived in Saint Louis for a few years. We DO have cars, you know.
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Seriously? Horses? wow...and St. Louis isn't really that far from there, comparatively...
Hey, where did you get your monocle? Can you set me up an appointment with your monocle-smith? And your haberdasher, if you please, my good man.
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Gidday