🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan27.180307.9591@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:
>In article <2937207291.3.p00168@psilink.com> "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com> writes:
>>I would like to make a passing observation about Texas.  My whole family 
>>is from Texas.  All my grandfathers/grandfathers/uncles/aunts, etc., are 
>>from Texas and live there now.  I have lived in Texas.  Do not mistake 
>>Texas with the United States.  Legally, it is one of the states, but 
>>when one is in Texas, one is in a whole 'nother country, as they say.
>
>Molly Ivins's hero, a late 19th century reporter, once said that the
>only trouble with Texas Baptists was that the preacher didn't keep
>them under the water long enough.

(smile)

>
>>Living in central New York gives one a perspective on rudeness.  Not for 
>>nothing is New Yorker the international synonym for asshole.  One has to 
>>go to the City for the full treatment, but it's amazing the level of 
>>interpersonal verbal abuse that transpires without fisticuffs.
>
>Here speaks a man who has not spent much time in Paris.
>-- 

Or London, if one removes the word "verbal" from his last sentence.
We'll not mention Germany at all here.

In fact New Yorker is not the exact synonym for asshole generally 
in the USA.   Hear the exact words of a marketdroid as we left 
San Francisco Int'l airport after a trip to visit Nynex:

	"Jeeezus, easterners are such assholes!"

Hear my words:  "Jeezus, marketdroids are such assholes!  The
engineers I deal with world-wide are Just Fine, thanks."  No,
I didn't say that to him.  He wouldn't have understood.

There are plenty of synonyms in the US and internationally.  

Why not be fair, and say that life in The Big City seems to create
special cultural adaptations in the animal life there.  Likewise
all along the continuum between Big City and The Country.