I always thought it was "That Most Recent Unpleasantness"  :-)

Amy Marshall
Curator
Ft. Bliss Archaeological Collection

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> From:         STUD Brent Stauffer[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Sent:         Monday, March 02, 1998 1:36 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Yankee bashing
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> War of Northern Aggression?  Who fired the first shot?
>
>
> On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Deborah Raven Fuller wrote:
>
> > According to J. McCrain:
> >
> > > River is the northern boundary of Texas.  In other words, if you
> aren't
> > > from Texas, Louisianna, Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia, you are
> a
> > > Yankee!  Florida doesn't count!)
> >
> > See, I've never understood those boundaries.  I was born in
> > North Carolina, spent 1/5th of my life in Texas and the rest in
> > Va., home of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson (and his shrine),
> > and the captial of the Confederacy as well as the greatest
> > Rebel spy, Rosie O'Neal Greenhow.  Yet my Alabama relatives
> > still insist on calling me a yankee like I lived in NYC.  I still
> > have a pretty thick drawl even after living right outside of DC
> > for most of my life and even retain a fondness for grits.
> >
> > > PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS (TOO) SERIOUSLY!!!
> >
> > Why sir, matters concerning the War of Northern Agression are
> > always serious in nature!!
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > Deb Fuller, ya'll
> >
>