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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:03 PM
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Whar da hale did Hilry pick up da Hoopey accent?
I jus noticed Hilry has a Hoopey accent wile in Wes Virginya.

Whar in da hale did Hilry lern Hoopey?

She don' speke it good.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:04 PM
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1. Hoopey?
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:07 PM
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6. It's dialect spoken by folks...
who you would just LOVE to meet (I am only just barely kidding - or not).

You'd have to spend some time in W. Virginia.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:08 PM
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7. It's a West Virginia thing n/t
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pkz Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:16 PM
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16. Hoopey is an old slur
not a dialect.
The Scot-Arrish have the dialect honors.

Hoopey is a slur for the Polish-Slovak workers that came to the northern panhandle of the state.
They literally made the metal hoops for wooden barrels.
Italians that immigrated here either were stonecutters, masons or miners.
I guess by now, y'all know all the slurs for them.

I am half Italian, half Slovak Roman Catholic, married to a real mountain man of the Scot-Irish type.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 12:15 AM
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53. Thanks for the explanation
That's a new one for me.

(Kinda like when I heard dago for the first time in school (spoken as a point of pride, of course): In our family, we used Wop and 'Tally (e.g., I was the mule-headed Wop and my brother was the lying sack of 'Tally shit).

:hi:
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:05 PM
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2. I kome too farrrrrrr
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:05 PM
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3. Way to go Mountain Mama!! Take me home!!!
:rofl:
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:06 PM
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4. I can't wait 'till she visits Tokyo.
:popcorn:
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PoliticalAmazon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:09 PM
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8. LOL. Good one. n/t
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mythyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:11 PM
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12. bwahahahahahaha! that's a DUzy
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:22 PM
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19. So, I accomplished something sitting at home with a bad cold. Thanks.
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hogwyld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 11:05 PM
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37. As Godzilla or Rodan? n/t
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:22 PM
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42. I don't know. Who's better under sniper fire? n/t.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:07 PM
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5. Obama sporting flag pin as he campaigns in W. Virginia
Obama sporting flag pin as he campaigns in W. Virginia

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama, who labeled discussion of whether he wears a flag pin in his lapel a false issue in a debate with Hillary Clinton, was wearing one Monday as he campaigned in West Virginia ahead of Tuesday's primary vote there.

Obama made no reference to the pin, which could be clearly seen in television images and through telephoto lenses as he spoke in Charleston, W. Va., about veterans issue. There was no public comment from his campaign.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/36725.html
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:12 PM
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14. Shouldn't this be posted in LBN?
I mean, it's soooooooooooo important ...
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:13 PM
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15. Obama has made lapel watching a sport.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:18 PM
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17. A sport only followed by Hillary supporters ...
... who actually think anyone cares about this shit.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:21 PM
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18. You seem to have acquired an interest.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:28 PM
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20. Not so much an interest ...
... as a bizarre fascination with the desperation of the Hillary camp. Kinda like watching a pile-up on the highway - you don't want to look, but you just can't help yourself.

So Obama wears a flag-pin or he doesn't - do you think the SDs are going to endorse Hillary as a result, either way? Does she miraculously acquire more delegates if he wears one, or doesn't? Do you believe the sporting of lapel jewelry makes a difference to anyone?

I take that back - you probably actually do.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:38 PM
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22. The only acceptable topics are the ones that have the power to influence SD's?
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:43 PM
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23. No, not at all.
Just wondering why Obama's wearing of a flag-pin would be worth discussing, or posting here.

You obviously thought this was 'news' worth posting about.

I understand Hillary had asparagus with her lunch last week. Same kind of importance. But I didn't post about it.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:27 PM
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27. I posted it in a thread about Hillarry's voice, I thought it appropriate.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:50 PM
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30. Hillary's voice = Obama's flag-pin ...
Yeah, I can see the obvious connection.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:55 PM
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31. both not important to the real issue affecting Americans today.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:01 PM
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33. Guess what?
We agree!

:toast:
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 10:56 PM
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35. really? wow. kinda cool.
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earthlover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:18 PM
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26. Aw...come on!....Hillary supporters are proud of her flag lapel pin.
Oops! I forgot! Hillary does not wear flag lapel pins. My bad.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:38 PM
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44. Nope. And she never made a MAJOR SPEECH discounting flag pins as phony, either...
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:00 PM
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WA98296 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:10 PM
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9. Not the first time this campaign that she's done this type of thing. SNL should love this.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:11 PM
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10. Back when she was a little girl she spent all her summers in West Virginia
Apparently she spent all her summer everywhere.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:37 PM
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21. That's where she met Catherine Marshall who used her as the model
for Christy



lol
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 11:35 PM
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39. Maybe she was on the campaign trail for 2008 every summer of her childhood.
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pompano Donating Member (506 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:11 PM
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11. I can't wait...
until the link on that comes out. To those us us that have a natural drawwwww, that orta be funny.

I'll be LOL for millenniums.

:rofl: :rofl:
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beezlebum Donating Member (927 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:11 PM
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13. see,s like she's doen that before...
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 07:44 PM
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24. She must have watch a few vintage Beverly Hillbillies tv shows.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0FGfzjf0AHE&feature=related
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:34 PM
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29. The Beverly Hillbillies were NOT Hoopey
The Beverly Hillbillies were supposedly from the Tennesee Appalachia area.

Heck, the folks in the mountains of West Virginia are not Hoopey.

Hoopey is generally along the Ohio River low country.

Generalizing Appalachia as one big group is the mistake people have been making for generations. Appalachia is a collection of different cultures and there are several different Applachian cultures in West Virginia alone.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 11:35 PM
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40. These people sound like down-river yinzers to me!
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wvbygod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:08 PM
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25. Your bigotted slur is noted.
Way to bring Democrats together. Got something original other than your bigotry?
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 08:31 PM
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28. So I'm bigotted against my wife?
She's the Hoopey in the family.

You know not of what you speak.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:51 PM
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51. You're still not getting anything in your stocking this X-mas.
Edited on Tue May-13-08 03:51 PM by rucky
It's been noted.
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thewiseguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 09:05 PM
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34. She actually made a mistake the other day and almost said she used to live in WV
But then she bit her tongue and said something else. I was very surprised that she almost went there.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 10:59 PM
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36. She has a childhood connection to WV
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:32 PM
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43. She visited once, but there were too many snipers, so she went home.
Ta KIN-TUCK_EE! YeeeHawwwww!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-12-08 11:33 PM
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38. Thaht rilly reads simler to sumfin frum Picksburgh.
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Raejeanowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 11:24 AM
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41. How Is That Different From Obama's Doing MLK For Black Audiences? n/t
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uponit7771 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:43 PM
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45. WHAT?!?!?!?!? He sounds preachy but not MLK, he has his own cadence which is for politics where MLK
...had the preacher pause.

There's no way they're alike.
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:44 PM
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46. Yet more pandering from Hillary....
...I cannot WAIT 'til she's gone....
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:46 PM
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47. Her acting coach taught her. Just like he taught her the NC drawl.
Everywhere Hillary goes she adopts the dialect. It's actually quite interesting.
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Texas Hill Country Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:47 PM
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48. nice slur...
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Liquorice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:48 PM
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49. They all do it, even Obama. And there's plenty of
evidence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGx2CoLh0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjRPyIDLGWY
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:51 PM
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50. I heard her
say sumpin' on MSNBC and had to laugh. *sigh*
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:53 PM
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52. I know very little about West Virginia
But my ex-husband had an aunt and uncle from WV (Uncle Cy and Aunt Sis), and they talked so slowly that I could barely understand what they were saying. I'm a native Masshole, and we talk really fast up here.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-15-08 12:56 AM
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54. You can be sure she'll adopt something real special
for Oregon too..maybe a song..
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