I had just gotten my license and took my little brother to a movie about 2 1/2 years ago and was pulled over for some smoke coming out the exhaust or something (later found out *after* spending money and an afternoon that he pulled us over for the noise, it was a bit loud). He ran my plates and they came back some ford farmer's truck (I was driving a '86 Chevy truck). However, when they ran the vin (correctly registered in my name), it came back to the plates that were on the truck. After about 20 minutes of calls back and forth between him and someone in the dmv, the figured it out. Apparently the state would use the same license plates for farm vehicles as were also used for regular vehicles since the farm vehicles weren't supposed to be driven all over. With 7 spots for both letters and numbers, I would think they wouldn't need to do that since the almost infinite number of combinations license plates could have.
My favorite is the way the law used to be in Virginia. If you had a truck you could just write "Farm Use" on the back and you didn't have to get plates so long as you only drove it under certain conditions. - Freed
Well, me being a kid from the suburbs of Minneapolis never heard of such things. Kinda makes me think about the "Deliverance" theme!:laugh:
I always thought it was funny when you Minna-soh-tahns and Whis-consinites made fun of my supposed "Southern Accent". I became a regular foreigner at college just because I knew the proper usage of the word "Y'all". So is it Pop or Soda where you come from? Is it a fountain or a bubbler? Is it "Duck-Duck-Goose" or "Duck-Duck-Gray Duck"? - Freed PS- Deliverance was actually filmed in Georgia
How did everyone from wi/mn sound to you? I hear that we have no-accent and we sound like drones all the time. Duck-duck-goose/soda/bubbler when I was younger+fountain after high school. I just saw the first 20 minutes of Deliverance about a month ago, didn't watch all of it though.
Speaking of accents, When I lived in Indiana everyone asked what part of MN I came from, then when I actually moved to MN everyone asked what part of the south I came from.
Southern Indiana and Kentucky have their own strange language. I moved from St. Louis to Southern Indiana when I was a kid, and I had the hardest time understanding what the heck they were saying at first. By the time I moved to PA, I was definitely hillbillified. Ohio is a nice medium. Akron is the capital of west virginia, so we have some of that accent happening.
Honestly, I really don't notice accents much. I mimic them intuitively when I am around them for awhile, but I don't notice them much at the time. My dad was a Yankee, my mom was from Kansas, and I lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia growing up, so my drawl never really developed. I can use one if I need to, but my "normal voice" doesn't have much of an accent at all. I will say this, though: Wisconsin college chicks really dug the southern accent. Sounding like a polite Southern aristocrat really makes you stand out at Wisconsin Fraternity parties, and not in a bad way either. I think the funniest thing to me is when People from "Up nort der, hey" hear other people with the same accent and insist that they don't sound like that. My wife's from near Green Bay and she does this. - Freed
Duck, Duck, Goose. Everything is a Coke. Fountain Y'all is a complicated subject, but makes perfect sense to Southerners.
Hey Y'all I don't want nayer nobody tellin me I talk funny! I had to get the southern version of Windows to get my spell checker to work right............. Waynders SP:grin: The SP is for "special"
