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We grew up in NC saying all of those things and also "Give me a Nab and a Coke." Wondering if any transplants use the same term and who from NC remembers what it means.
This conversations reminds me of the thread that wanted to know where all the southerners where. I have thought since that she really did not want southerners, but people around her who knew what "Nab and a Coke" means and that "ugly" is your behavior, and all the other things from our younger days that binds a southern community together and are stuck in our memories. Hope the language doesn't die out.
Around my neighborhood, we ate "four-corner square nabs" and drank "Ahra-Cee Colas".
I shocked myself a couple weeks ago when I told my Southern husband he'd have to "carry me" to the eye doctor (because my eyes were to be dilated for the exam, and I didn't want to drive home like that).
He says I have a Southern accent that changes to Northern when I talk to my NY sister on the phone; I don't notice it myself.
That camp wouldn't happen to be Camp Seagull would it? I went there 3 summers in a row and loved it! The summer of 68, 69, and 70. The best place on earth. I wonder if it's still there. We always said Ahoy there Wyatt to the man that was in charge.
Yep we still say crack the window for some air. We still say cut off the light or cut off the tv. Not many people say carry anymore. But in my circle people still ask if you will carry them to the store.
Actually is was Seafarer. I was one of the few males that had a coveted position working in the mess hall at the girls camp. Sixteen guys working around about 600 girls. Didn't get much better than that.
It was "turn out" the light or "turn on" the light for us. What that actually meant was to pull the string that turned off and on the one light bulb that hung from the ceiling in the middle of the room....and that's all the electricity there was in the room. One day we got this screw in adapter for the light socket that would allow us the run a radio cord over to the nightstand. We were in "high cotton" then
If I'm not mistaken, some early wall light switches were sort of key shaped. You would turn the switch, like you turn a key in a door lock.
Camp Sea Gull is a fantastic place. It was around $850 back in the late 70's. My son has gone for the past several years. It is right at 4k. But well worth it IMO. Lots of Raleigh boys still go to CSG. Wyatt Taylor was a great man. Remember him well. I went to Camp Morehead as well back in the day. It is now a housing development. Capt Purcell got old and sold the camp 15 years ago it so.
I worked at Seafarer for a couple of summers in the early 70's. There were two 5-week session each summer. I believe at that time each session was about $500.
Wyatt and Lil Taylor. Wyatt oversaw Seagull and Lil was at Seafarer.
[quote=roscomac;28827553]Hey, I'm a Southerner, too! (from just over an hour away) I think any pack of 6 sandwich crackers (not cookies) qualifies as Nabs. [/QUOTE
My wife says that I often confuse my opinion for fact. She is probably correct. I just always think Lance. They are southern made. Many other nabs are not. I grew up eating Lance and that is all I think of when I think of nabs. To each his own though.
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