tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post1945808050906898655..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Provincialism, thy name is Manhattanite.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63148984720784270692013-09-09T12:40:28.011-04:002013-09-09T12:40:28.011-04:00I never knew it was an actual name. My next door n...I never knew it was an actual name. My next door neighbor growing up was Gloria Linda which was shortened to Lori Lynn and in heated moments became Lurlene. As many times as I have come across it, I always assumed that was how all Lurlenes came to be. oghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07551049745184408924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-62230973693480112192013-09-08T23:08:01.781-04:002013-09-08T23:08:01.781-04:00I recall that when this blog first started using t...I recall that when this blog first started using the anti-spam test word verification, most of the nonsense words seemed like good names for characters from fantasy fiction.<br /><br />Lurlene as a diminutive of Loreli Charlene, or something, might be possible, but still unlikely.<br /><br />If I wanted a solidly Christian fundy name, I'd go with biblical precedents, not a redneck version of the urbanite LaTonya.mikeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68995718979590594742013-09-08T17:40:52.390-04:002013-09-08T17:40:52.390-04:00"..have you ever set foot on the far side of ..."..have you ever set foot on the far side of the Hudson in your life?" <br /><br />Good Lord Tam!! Don't encourage "that sort" to come east of the Hudson. I like that they self-segregate in easily sealed locations.Stretchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-19942262696044117092013-09-08T13:00:34.480-04:002013-09-08T13:00:34.480-04:00Firehand,
I can't believe I missed those! I&...Firehand,<br /><br />I can't believe I missed those! I'd have paid good money for one, too.<br /><br />- DrifterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-28685243268727970352013-09-08T12:12:52.614-04:002013-09-08T12:12:52.614-04:00gvi -- It's possible, but remember that more o...gvi -- It's possible, but remember that more or less the same target audience lapped up <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> as if it were Tomorrow Morning's Headlines.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-38763467059860123152013-09-08T12:12:01.882-04:002013-09-08T12:12:01.882-04:00It sounds like that dreadful dreck "The Handm...It sounds like that dreadful dreck "The Handmaid's Tale" from the 80s. Another story of America turning into someone's idea of a Christian fascist state. <br /><br />Has there ever been one? <br /><br />Keep the commentary coming. It has been a highlight of the days. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14662509459627380672013-09-08T09:26:44.208-04:002013-09-08T09:26:44.208-04:00Drifter, Connie Chung was such a jackass that a bu...Drifter, Connie Chung was such a jackass that a bunch of cops and EMTs had shirts made with 'Hey, Connie Chung: Bite Me!' on the back.<br /><br />Her obvious shock and disbelief when the governor said "Of course we can handle this, we're doing it" was only a part of her idiocy.<br />Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-85897042988571397962013-09-08T00:58:08.567-04:002013-09-08T00:58:08.567-04:00Hey Matt G.
My great aunt was named Bertha, and li...Hey Matt G.<br />My great aunt was named Bertha, and lived most of her life in CONNECTICUT!<br />Just goes to show you about stereotypes.<br />:-)<br /><br />gfaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70771301369255583712013-09-08T00:51:09.570-04:002013-09-08T00:51:09.570-04:00What stunning revelations will be revealed in our ...What stunning revelations will be revealed in our next installment?<br /><br />-WILL President Palin be revealed to be a closet nympho?<br /><br />-Are the Republican Leadership secret priest of Great Cthulhu?<br /><br />-Will the USA be saved by Bionic Bill Clinton and the Planeteers?<br /><br />Tune in tomorrow, same Tam time, same Tam channel!Joe in PNGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70494017129721208472013-09-07T20:07:32.585-04:002013-09-07T20:07:32.585-04:00According to the Baby Name Voyager, "Lurline&...According to the <a href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager" rel="nofollow">Baby Name Voyager</a>, "Lurline" was ranked as the 956th most popular female baby name in the 19-aughts, and shot up to the 850th most popular female name in the 1910's, before dropping below 1000th, and off the map. "Lurlene" isn't listed as ever being in the top 1000 in the past 120 years. <br /><br />The late Governor Lurlene Wallace's short life began in 1926. She died 45 years ago. <br /><br />I deal with the public daily, and In my 42 years in Texas, I have met Mildrids, and Ethels and Mabels and Velmas and Berthas and Claras and Idas, but never a Lurline/Lurlene, to my recollection. <br />Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-34199694795572178332013-09-07T20:03:15.296-04:002013-09-07T20:03:15.296-04:00Well Ed, the fascist theocracy is a known know. R...Well Ed, the fascist theocracy is a known know. Remember the one Palin installed in Alaska? Or the one Bush turned Texas into? Or the happy smiling church run police state Romney made of Massachusetts? For that matter, how could you have missed the religious dictatorship in the US between 2001-09?<br /><br />See, everywhere right wingers have seized power we've seen this same horrible story play out.<br /><br />On the other hand, despite hysterical warnings of left wing statist totalitarianism, not once in human history has one ever sprung up.Steve Skubinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-19347575867406062022013-09-07T19:50:56.234-04:002013-09-07T19:50:56.234-04:00So, a futuristic theocratic Far Right government i...So, a futuristic theocratic Far Right government is to be loathed more than a Reverends Jackson, Sharpton and Wright inspired Far Left government of the present?Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-44454259628017588622013-09-07T17:58:04.098-04:002013-09-07T17:58:04.098-04:00Perhaps the book is parody. Too-Clever-By-Half pa...Perhaps the book is parody. <i>Too-Clever-By-Half</i> parody, but still...<br /><br />I bring this up for one reason - <i>cui bono</i>? I don't see such a book as the sort of thing the SWPL set would really go for, and I can't see anyone forgetting their copy in the taxi on their way to the Metropolitan either. Maybe the starving artists and whomever-rights activists in Greenwich Village might wallow in it for a while, but that's a mighty small market to write to.<br /><br />Not that the author might have had no conception at all of his market when he was writing this thing - worse books have happened (the only reason I first thought of <i>Patriots</i> rather than <i>The Turner Diaries</i> is that I haven't read the latter).<br /><br />This leaves the distinct possibility that the author is the 2013 reincarnation of Jonathan Swift.<br /><br />gviglobal village idiothttp://www.alpharubicon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-84952680718623865842013-09-07T17:00:24.026-04:002013-09-07T17:00:24.026-04:00I can't remember who said it first, but the qu...I can't remember who said it first, but the quote that sums up just about every coast-living liberal:<br /><br />They live their lives on a map where everything past the end of the subway line is blank, with the words "Here There Be Dragons" scrawled across the parchment.Ragin' Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04421198497767878287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-20349357732234063962013-09-07T16:58:33.231-04:002013-09-07T16:58:33.231-04:00Scott J,
Your comment reminds me of Connie Chung-...Scott J,<br /><br />Your comment reminds me of Connie Chung-Povich's shock in April '95 at seeing video of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Her shock was not at the destruction, but that the hometown boys had taken care of business. Before that, I'm pretty sure she was ready to lobby for foreign aid.<br /><br />I think she was expecting Taggart (from "Blazing Saddles, not Dagny) to be leading the horse-drawn fire-brigade and Sheriff Buford T. Justice to be keeping the peace amongst the cast of "Deliverance" set in an Old Western town with a few cigar-store Indians mixed in.<br /><br />- Drifter Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-11222870794137876622013-09-07T16:15:54.918-04:002013-09-07T16:15:54.918-04:00Actually, when I lived in Hawaii in the early sixt...Actually, when I lived in Hawaii in the early sixties, many people still came and went by ship. The Matson passenger liners would come and go from Aloha Tower. Montery, Mariposa, Matsonia...<br /><br />And Lurline.<br /><br />Other than that, I don't think I've encountered a Lurline/Lurleen in my life.Steve Skubinnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57449337135498970662013-09-07T15:39:48.758-04:002013-09-07T15:39:48.758-04:00Thankee.Thankee.Chuck Pergielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473338620167201696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88631180247927859172013-09-07T15:22:51.312-04:002013-09-07T15:22:51.312-04:00"Georgia, Alabama... practically the same pla..."Georgia, Alabama... practically the same place, am I right? Not as distinct and easy to tell apart as, say, Soho and Tribeca."<br /><br />I've always said there's probably a significant portion of the non-Southern population who think "O Brother Where Art Thou" was a current events piece. The author of that book is likely among them.<br /><br />As for the name I can think of no one younger than Mrs. Wallace who has it.Scott Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-31611088242233488742013-09-07T15:11:27.395-04:002013-09-07T15:11:27.395-04:00Annoymouse 2:26,
If you can't spot sarcasm, t...Annoymouse 2:26,<br /><br />If you can't spot sarcasm, this might not be the blog for you.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-56988283241805635362013-09-07T15:06:37.198-04:002013-09-07T15:06:37.198-04:00In answer to the actual question:
No, he hasn'...In answer to the actual question:<br />No, he hasn't.<br />He flies over it and shudders at the thought of being forced by mechanical problems to land in Flyover Country and breathe the same air as the lower orders.Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53125376454677263272013-09-07T14:56:08.616-04:002013-09-07T14:56:08.616-04:00Not surprisingly, however, our crime capital is pr...Not surprisingly, however, our crime capital is pretty much a Windy City 'burb.Buzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65112409491222242082013-09-07T14:47:30.380-04:002013-09-07T14:47:30.380-04:00'ceptin' our leftist shithole and our crim...'ceptin' our leftist shithole and our crime capital are different cities, neither of which drive our state's existence. Buzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-55093619318765041272013-09-07T14:26:59.134-04:002013-09-07T14:26:59.134-04:00"Georgia, Alabama... practically the same pla..."Georgia, Alabama... practically the same place, am I right?"<br /><br />I suppose the same could be said of Indiana and Illinois, no? Even the names are spelled similarly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-86832920525559264342013-09-07T14:12:36.590-04:002013-09-07T14:12:36.590-04:00Bob,
"If you do an Amazon review you should ...Bob,<br /><br />"<i>If you do an Amazon review you should title it "The Leftist Equivalent of The Turner Diaries" just to piss them off.</i>"<br /><br />Perfect! Dammit, but I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that...Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-79156744962803361372013-09-07T14:10:42.904-04:002013-09-07T14:10:42.904-04:00If you do an Amazon review you should title it &qu...If you do an Amazon review you should title it "The Leftist Equivalent of <i>The Turner Diaries</i>" just to piss them off.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.com