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Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Donna- My Mom and Dad was from Waynesboro. My Mom hated the Hillbilly Movies of 40's because their depiction of the people of Tennessee and because other Navy families in Norfolk were surprised of my family's intelligence and education. I guess we were better judges of reality versus prejudices and fictional representations. Donna Shore was an icon to us, showing we were just as proud and sophisticated as anyone. I guess we were smart enough to know the the Op'ry was an act. Eddie Arnold, Patricia Neal, Samuel L. Jackson, Megan Fox, Betty Page, Issac Hayes, Senator Albert Gore, Gov. and Senator Lamar Alexander, Vice President Gore, President Jackson is just a short list of people I'm proud to say they are icons from Tennessee. Move away if you want, but I'm staying in Tennessee.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
There is a Grinder's Switch, Tennessee, and a sign on a road off 40 East announcing the direction of Bug Scuffle, but my favorite is Buck Snort. You just know that deer did something else but the womenfolk put their foot down - they weren't going to live in Buck Fart.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
If xray doesn't like mean people he REALLY hates himself.
Re: “Frank Niceley Takes Up Blogging”
The fact that Naifeh and certain others did not want Campfield reporting what he was seeing with his own eyes in our legislature is why some of us have supported that endeavor from the beginning.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Unclesam, I remember my peers laughing at the Hollywood and other out-of-state depictions of Tennesseans way back when I was growing up in a small Tennessee town. Some things never change. I have a cousin in California who never lived here and starts in with the Deliverance music when we get to talking about the South, but particularly Tennessee. Her daddy grew up here, and she has visited here and, apparently, has a different memory, or the one programmed into her.
Different strokes, different strokes ...
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
It amazing that people think we are the manifestation of Lil Abner, Ma and Pa Kettle, Hee-Haw, Beverly Hillbillies, Grinder's Switch, and the era of Davy Crockett. We can put on a show and laugh along with people about a fictitious rural society but we are very much part of the real world. I guess some visitors think time has stopped in Tennessee and some of us wish it was so. We have inherited all the sins of the big city and they are doing a good job of corrupting the small towns and villages across the country. They come expecting to find a backwards mentality that does not fit with the population of the Volunteer State. You can find a show but it is not the real Nashville. They still go home and talk about how nice the people are. You are welcome to come back. Bring lots of cash. We aren't cheap anymore either.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
While Goad was in Nashville, I was in Atlanta and didn't see anything much but a sea of vehicles, the Ghost of Nashville Future.
Couldn't breathe a lick till I got out of metro (again) the other day. I have mild asthma from 31 years there.
Welcome to the world, precious grandson named after a Lonesome Dove character and an Atlanta Braves pitcher -- or maybe it's a NASCAR driver; sounds like the latter, actually, but, anyway, memorable. Little fella, my goal is to get you and your sister and your parents out of there. Don't get too attached.
Meanwhile, just livin' amongst the cows and the real hillbillies here in dairyland. No need for Goad to find us and tell anybody.
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
@AnglRdr: You only pay attention when it suits you so I'll repeat a previous rant: I don't like mean people, predators, or people who take advantage of other's misfortune for their own gain. Outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Mafia, the Russian mob, MS 13, and any other organization that preys on their fellow man deserve the death penalty. So do those black punks in the neighborhood gangs. Making your neighbors live in fear is a terrible thing and mean people deserve no mercy. Effin' predators should be glad I'm not king. Now, is my position clear?
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
I just love the irony of Betsy criticizing another writer for writing something allegedly ridiculous (much of of it seemed accurate, actually.). Betsy, who has written more ridiculous things on this blog that you can shake a stick at, gets her panties in a bunch over this guy who can write circles around her.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
All the wigger-lovers are sooo outraged. What a bunch of num-nums.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
You should also read the comment section. It's about as racist as they come. One of the commentors actually said "I generally prefer the company of other whites because we are, as a whole, a smarter, more industrious, more pleasant, and overall a higher quality of people than most immigrants."
There was mostly agreement. I bet X-ray and Zoombah have a new favorite internet blog.
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
I bet he was just exploring Antioch and saw on the map that it was in the eastern part of Davidson county and just got confused. That's got to be it.
Anyways, I clicked on the article and it is poorly written and full of stupid stereotypes, which is not surprising. "I thought the home of country music would be a little more…country?" He was expecting Nashville to look like Broadway in the 1950's apparently. Instead it looks like "the Bronx." I guess there are too many minorities here and he needed a respite from that kind of thing since he lives in Atlanta. I hope he didn't venture down to Nolensville Road. He would have learned that there were "furners" down there.
Anyways, a person could learn more about Nashville by watching the show "Nashville" than by reading that article.
Re: “The Southern Baptist Convention Walks a Fine Line”
some of the biggest (closeted) queens i ever met were youth ministers at SBC summer camps
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
stupid in stereo
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
"You can also tell us how Nashville benefits from the seemingly teeming white trash wiggers."
Hey, now. That's no way to talk about Fan Fair.
Re: “Dean's Proposed Affordable Housing Fund Heads to Council”
>>such as a portion of an existing tax or fee that would be directed to the fund<<
A liberal wanting to increases taxes. Whoda thunk it??????
Re: “Blowhard Lou Dobbs puts his foot even further down his throat opining about women in the workplace”
>>All I will say about Ben Wa balls is that there *may* be one rolling around somewhere in Charleston. But that's another story.<<
Abby, Abby, Abby. I'd buy you drinks all night to hear your stories!!!! ;)
Re: “Bill Haslam and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week”
>>The new governing mindset is based on cronyism and ignorance<<
Tell us again the name of the guy Gov. Bredesen named to head the TN board of Regents whom doesn't even have a Master's Degree? I can't recall his name. The job description was written so as fit his (& only his) resume` to a "t".
I also don't recall virtually ANY outrage over former House Speaker Naifeh's wife being a lobbiest doing business with the state?
Libtards crack me up in here. Y'all act like there's NEVER been an iota of graft, corruption or incompetence with a Dim administration or pol (go look up the golf course & business park, etc. built in Naifeh's & Wilder's district for starters) in TN, EVER. Y'all can't seem to remember Ray Blanton & his being REMOVED from office early due to pardon selling.
For the slow-witted (i.e. liberals), no one is saying Haslam is the greatest Gov since Ellington. But he's sure as hell by no means the idiot nor the crook liberals wish him to be. Too bad. Enjoy the next four years!!!!!
Re: “Bill O'Reilly and Dennis Miller Coming, Boldly and Freshly, to the Ryman”
'' Liberals were no friends of freedom seeking Europeans and it was conservatives who caused the Berlin Wall to come down. Left up to liberals, the Soviet Union would still be in existence and Iran would still be holding American hostages.'
' i LOLed so hard at your hero ray gun , and your assumptions he and neo cons caused the communism to crumble, really idiot, really?, it was the communism and his own weight that caused the natural death, ray gun had no influence at all..also you have to take responsability and your neo cons, and ray gun, of causing massive killings in central america,, more than 200, 000 killed by death squads,(Rios Mont) in guatemala, (ARENA) in el salvador, and the contras in nicaraugua, seems your stupid trolling and revisionist history is a little hazy, but that is ok,,dementia is taking over your decrepit ass,, you just got served, self serving asshole, now go and take your medicine , and call the nurse to change your diaper..
Re: “Meet the World's Worst Visitor to Nashville”
Why are you reading racist publications, Betsy?