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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: garycottle on December 11, 2007, 04:58:30 am ---Wow! Bear hugs from two very nice men -- I don't know Alex, but if he's with you, he must be nice -- and wet, sloppy kisses from Cody. You make it hard for me to resist making reservations right now.
Do you know that I live right outside of Yosemite? If you and Alex were to come out here, I could show you two the park.
Gary
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Alex is a sweetheart. He really is. And he has an accent like Hugh Grant!! :D
God, our alarm clock is f*cking up on us. The part of the screen that has the seconds on it is showing something like L1 and L2. What the hell does THAT mean? lol I've never seen it do that before. It doesn't really matter anyway, because Cody will wake us up when he wants to go out to pee, which by my calculations should be in about 2 hours. We gotta get our asses in bed!
Nighty night everyone! :D
Kelda:
I like th hossiers - catchy songs!
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Susiebell on December 11, 2007, 07:38:54 pm ---Ey up chuck! Have you heard of the British Band, The Hoosiers? Isn't that what you call folks from Indiana? Here they are in action....
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Yes, people call us Hoosiers. We refer to ourselves as Hoosiers too. :)
I have never heard of this band before Susie. I will ask Alex if he's ever heard of them when he gets back home.
How do they pronounce "Hoosiers"? Over here, we say WHOO-jhurs. I'm wondering if you say the word the same way we do over here, or if it has a different pronunciation.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Susiebell on December 12, 2007, 06:13:49 pm ---Hmmmmmm! I think we pronounce it more like HOO-ZEE-URS! ... They're very good ... not that well known yet!
Susie :)
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HOO-ZEE-URS?? :o
That's not how we say it here! :laugh:
We say HOO-jhur or HOO-zhur. Something like that. Only two syllables though. :D
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: garycottle on December 12, 2007, 06:50:59 pm ---What is a Hoosier? I mean aside from a person from Indiana.
Gary
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Over in Missouri they will tell you Hoosier means a dirty, lazy and mean hillbilly. haha. Missorians don't like folks from Indiana very much I guess. Nobody really knows how the word started. Most people agree it probably comes from the men working for Samuel Hoosier, the man who built many of the levees down in Southern Indiana along the Ohio River. They were called Hoosier's Men, or Hoosiers. And since most of them lived in Indiana the word stuck and nowdays everyone in Indiana is called a Hoosier.
Some people will tell you it comes from the pioneers. According to legend, when someone knocked on a cabin door, the Indiana settler would ask "who's here?" and later it corrupted down to Hoosier. And some people say it comes from the brawling and fighting many Indiana frontiersmen engaged in during the early years of the state. They were called "hushers" because they could "hush" their opponent with their fist.
Personally I think the word probably comes from Samuel Hoosier.
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