Okies in the BYC The Original

[GracefulBantams]

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Is this Doc talking (typing

)? Yours would be head-auction-caller, chief auctioneer, head auctioneer.... or something along those lines!
Now, if this really is Reina, yours should be auction wife, chief mother hen.... or something along those lines

Oh I forgot, either of you could use Spring Chicken!

 

[fletcherpoultryauction]

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Is this Doc talking (typing

)? Yours would be head-auction-caller, chief auctioneer, head auctioneer.... or something along those lines!
Now, if this really is Reina, yours should be auction wife, chief mother hen.... or something along those lines

Oh I forgot, either of you could use Spring Chicken!

Grace, I couldn't believe that you would call me a "Spring Chicken", I'm old enough to be your Grandpaw. Renia isn't old enough to be anything related to you other than older sister. She is a "Spring Chick", not even old enough to be a chicken. ( Yep, I robbed the cradle. )

 

[fletcherpoultryauction]

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What did I mispell?

 

[fletcherpoultryauction]

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Wait a minute!!!!!!!!!!!

I was sure I had read that you was from Indiana. If so, that is not a Yankee.

Well, it's north of that Mason-Dixon, ain't it?

Actually, No it isn't north of the Mason-Dixon. It may be north of the line in some people's mind but geographically it isn't. The Mason-Dixon was commonly known as the line seperating slave states verses free states. It runs along the border between PA and MD but is grid south of the Mason-Dixon.

She is just a Mid-Westerner. Now I have heard people call anyone north of Alabama a Yankee ( among other things )but the folks from Tennessee take offense to that too.

 

[okiemommy]

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Hey fellow Okies!! Man, it sounds like poops was awesome again!! One day I will make it out there!!!

(though I must say that I am secretly glad that I wasn't there when the cameras were ^_^ )

So I just found out a little while ago that the city council will be voting on legalization of backyard chickens in OKC on May 18th. Even though the poll that was set up was heavily in favor of legalizing backyard chickens, reportedly only two city council members plan to vote to approve it. We need your help!! Chickens are legal where I live because I live in a rural incorporated area that is still considered city limits, BUT for so many backyard chicken owning wannabes it is not so. As I'm sure you all know, backyard chickens can provide a low cost source of food for families, is a great way to support local food, and it will further prove OKC'S image as a progressively minded city. Please visit this link to read more information on the vote coming up, and to contact the city council members. Share your chicken owning experience and see if we can further the cause of local homegrown food, and backyard chicken owning in OKC!! Thanks for reading!

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[QueenPeaches]

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What did I mispell?

"I still have to practise patience during conversations to ensure I don't finish others sentences.''

What word is spelled incorrectly in the sentence above?

 

[quenston]

OK I give up on catching up!!
Great to see everyone is doing good!!! Except for Al!!! Are we gonna have to get you some Fisher Price tools Al so you can be safe???
Hope everyone has a great evening, gotta get back outside and put the rafters up on my barn!!!!

 

[Poco Pollo]

Buster,

I moved your boy in with the ladies today. He's been anxious for company. He and our biggest Barred Rock hen are already tight. I saw her scratching some grass for him. I think they're soul mates.

I heard a strange snapping sound when I got home from work today. I found the source of the noise, Fence Fried Snake. I think it was a bull snake. The would-be chicken taunter put his enormous girth through one inch hex netting and couldn't back out when he came in contact with the electric wire. He was trying to get into my pen full of juvenile birds. They were anxious to have him gone. I had to bisect him to get him out of the fence wire. He turned out to be three feet long. I'm glad he wasn't trying to get into my laying pen. If he had, I wouldn't see another egg for a month!

 

[CityClucks]

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What did I mispell?

"I still have to practise patience during conversations to ensure I don't finish others sentences.''

What word is spelled incorrectly in the sentence above?

Actually, the only real mistake in the sentence is the lack of a possessive apostrophe after "others." I can imagine Doc might argue that he was typing with a British accent when he used the common United Kingdom spelling of the verb that we Americans usually spell with a 'c' instead of the 's' - practice.

(My family sometimes refers to me as "The Grammar Snoot")

 

[Buster52]

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Well, it's north of that Mason-Dixon, ain't it?

Actually, No it isn't north of the Mason-Dixon. It may be north of the line in some people's mind but geographically it isn't. The Mason-Dixon was commonly known as the line seperating slave states verses free states. It runs along the border between PA and MD but is grid south of the Mason-Dixon.

Fair enough. I should know better than to argue geography with a PhD.

But when I was growing up in Texas, culturally speaking, if it isn't Dixie, it's Yankee.

Now, if you look at it from that perspective, the states that wore Union uniforms during a certain unpleasantness were considered Yankees, and Indiana falls squarely in that lot.

So, Yankee it is, I reckon.