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Old 10-03-2015, 03:59 PM
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Jeeze! I remember those! There was another hillclimb in Duryea, Pennsylvania back then. That was pretty cool too.

BUT! For a real hillclimb, you have to go to Pike's Peak. Truly scary!
My best friend since high school prepped a bike for Pike's Peak and then dropped over dead just a short time before the event, three years ago. Another friend took the bike and ran it in David's memory, but he wasn't near the rider David was. Still, a nice gesture.
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Old 10-03-2015, 04:22 PM
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Pre-Abraham. B-B-Q OK.
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Downtown 6 feet below sea level. They spend millions on new drainage every year trying to defy the laws of physics.
Funny, I haven't heard any bagger talk of abandoning Charleston because it's below sea level like there was of New Orleans.

Oh, wait!

Charleston is a center of WHITE culture!
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Old 10-04-2015, 12:39 PM
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Funny, I haven't heard any bagger talk of abandoning Charleston because it's below sea level like there was of New Orleans.

Oh, wait!

Charleston is a center of WHITE culture!
Hahaha. If nothing else, you are dependable.

It's a mess down here, but the good outweighs the bad through the calendar year.

Actually, although only getting the academic and social recognition it deserves in the past 50 years, Charleston is one of the centers of black culture.

Google Gullah, Geechie, or Avery research center.

The black population is the majority in Charleston county and a political and financial force.

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Hahaha. If nothing else, you are dependable.

It's a mess down here, but the good outweighs the bad through the calendar year.

Actually, although only getting the academic and social recognition it deserves in the past 50 years, Charleston is one of the centers of black culture.

Google Gullah, Geechie, or Avery research center.

The black population is the majority in Charleston county and a political and financial force.

I always thought the Gullah culture was fundamentally rural.
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Old 10-04-2015, 01:07 PM
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I always thought the Gullah culture was fundamentally rural.
The origins certainly are, and very few young people can speak the language any more - I don't try to speak it but I understand it when spoken.

The sweetgrass basketmaking has survived and thrived on the lowcountry coast; art form brought by the captured slaves from mostly Sierra Leone, it is still handed down from one generation to the next.

They fetch big money - I have a closet full of them, couldn't afford them now.
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The black population is the majority in Charleston county and a political and financial force.

Since when is 28.6% a majority?


http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45/45019.html

Sucks having someone like me around to check stuff you say doesn't it?
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Since when is 28.6% a majority?


http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45/45019.html

Sucks having someone like me around to check stuff you say doesn't it?
Well, I'll be darned - I was sure the black population was still a majority.

And actually, I should have checked - good call.
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Well, I'll be darned - I was sure the black population was still a majority.

And actually, I should have checked - good call.
I understand.

When a preppy white boy like you finds himself in a place were 28% of the people around him are black he probably does feel outnumbered.
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I understand.

When a preppy white boy like you finds himself in a place were 28% of the people around him are black he probably does feel outnumbered.
Damn - you were not kidding - you are angry all the time.

But the "boy" part I appreciate.
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