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Old 04-25-2014, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
Could be an asshole attempt to fit in, or he could have been an Ohio cracker. They're sort of thick down by the river, along the south edge.

Also, see 'briar,' Ohio slur word for someone originally from the 'briar patch' (Kentucky).
I got a lot of stories like that from my 67 years of living here in Dixieland.

Regrettably, during my younger years I went along with some of that shit myself in order to fit in.

Not that it's confined to the south.

My uncle hooked me up with a construction job during the summer of 68 when I was in college.

It was in North Jersey.

There was plenty of on the job banter there.

The worst insult among the construction workers where I worked was to call someone a "Porta-rican"

I can hear it like it was yesterday.

If someone wasn't working fast enough the foreman would yell "Hey, you, Puerto Rico, whatsamatter? You and your men no wanna work?"
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