|
10-24-2007, 07:19 AM
|
|
We really do surround them if we STAND UP!
Status:
"So much for judges, GM shafted us all!"
(set 21 days ago)
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Glacier Park area
5,364 posts, read 3,487,961 times
Reputation: 1755
|
|
well, did some web searching and found various references to curses and the Cherokee indians. All I can say if I ran into that lady is try washing your hands once in a while and maybe you won't get sick as often.... Now watch out for those crop circles, they're a killer!  |
|
11-21-2007, 02:26 PM
|
|
GENTLE ON MY MIND
Status:
"Rolling toward Palestine, TX"
(set 21 hours ago)
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: East Tennessee
4,380 posts, read 674,139 times
Reputation: 875
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Turkey Creek Tom
I hear that many people after moving to Tennessee get an illness called "Big Orange Fever" and some get it so bad their blood turns orange. This is state wide but especially true for people in East Tennessee around Knoxville.  |
This is true. After the Lady Vols beat Oklahoma last week I bled orange from a paper cut. And I was in Florida. |
|
11-02-2008, 07:48 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: NE TN
13 posts, read 9,144 times
Reputation: 11
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimj
Hiknapster suggested I post this here as well so here goes....
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My wife (who tends to obsess on things) had a customer last night who moved here from Nashville area just recently. My wife asked why they left TN (since we are going there) and she was told " We left because we were constantly sick there" and then the lady said "The indians who used to live here had a bunch of diseases and many died and left the illness's in the land so people who live there now get sick all the time".
Personally I think this is rediculous and told my wife as much, and then reminded her that everyone has some reason for leaving any area and could have just gotten ill from allergies or any of a million things besides, we are looking near Knox which is definately not Nashville.
I can't wait until these people have been HERE (MT) for a winter and a full fire season and see what they blame on being here......
|
Someone has this backwards. The Indians, especially the Cherokee and my ancestors, were basically healthy until the white man carried his diseases into their country. Search your history and remember the Trail of Tears. So sad our land was taken from us.
|
|
11-02-2008, 08:23 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: NE TN
13 posts, read 9,144 times
Reputation: 11
|
|
|
If you want to read about bigfoot in algood tn(putnam co.) type bigfoot in algood tn in your search engine. You are looking for stories from a lady named mary green. Interesting to say the least. Let me know what you think
|
|
11-02-2008, 08:26 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Knoxville,Tn.
1,442 posts, read 935,997 times
Reputation: 634
|
|
|
What a hoot this thread is. I can't believe I missed it before now....
well shoot- I bleed Orange ever since I arrived in Knoxville and Tn. three years ago....
Let me see if I can get this straight, Bill had a great grandfather or was it a great great, well no matter, he settled here in East Tn. married a Cherokee woman by the name of Cheek I think it was and if this is a "Indian" curse, it doesn't exist except in the realm of the Chulabaraca or however it is spealt.
Seriously, this has no basis in fact except those people that left Nashville needed a real excuse to validate why they left Tn. Other then the label of "Indian curse" I do believe the Indians are innocent of spreading disease. So I vote that there is no truth to this but I do believe Bill and I are inflicted with Big Orange fever though.
Pam
|
|
11-02-2008, 08:30 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Franklin
2,743 posts, read 2,179,765 times
Reputation: 967
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by alleycat
I guess we can add that one to the list of standard questions.
Is it hot and humid in the summer?
Are there mosquitoes and snakes?
How much are the taxes?
Will we be accepted?
And . . . do people get sick from the Indian curse?
|
THIS is hilarious. How did I miss it? |
|
11-02-2008, 08:32 AM
|
|
Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
8,099 posts, read 4,980,076 times
Reputation: 5922
|
|
LOL Pam, my grandmother on my dads side was Cherokee. I say we all need to bring back the peace pipe. 
As far as diseases, you have to blame the VD on someone right? One surely couldn't expect to take personal resposibility! Ha!
This is a hilarious thread and provides much entertainment!  |
|
11-02-2008, 08:45 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Knoxville,Tn.
1,442 posts, read 935,997 times
Reputation: 634
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokyMtnGal
LOL Pam, my grandmother on my dads side was Cherokee. I say we all need to bring back the peace pipe.
As far as diseases, you have to blame the VD on someone right? One surely couldn't expect to take personal resposibility! Ha!
This is a hilarious thread and provides much entertainment! |
SMG-
You are too funny. What VD??? I didn't inhale, so it doesn't count!
Personal responsibility went out the window, out of fashion with Bill Clinton and the 80's.
Pam
PS. I agree this thread is a hoot. |
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
|
|
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 700,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 15,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. 
Linear Mode
