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Re: Alabamian alphabet - non LSR

To: Tim <timbryant44@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Alabamian alphabet - non LSR
From: Jon Wennerberg <jon@infodestruction.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:37:58 -0400
On Wednesday, April 6, 2005, at 03:34 PM, Tim wrote:

> Just did a google news search, came up with this
> http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/11244395.htm
> This is about half way down the page, not just anyone, but a Baseball 
> player
> no less...
>
>
> POINTS FOR ORIGINALITY: Far be it for us to make light of the DUI 
> arrest
> experienced by Baltimore Orioles pitcher Eric DuBose. There's nothing 
> funny
> about somebody getting liquored up, then taking the wheel. But we will 
> give
> credit to DuBose for not pulling out the "Don't you know who I am?" 
> card
> when he was pulled over after nearly hitting a parked car along a 
> shoulder
> of road in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
>
> Asked to recite the alphabet backwards by officers, DuBose came up 
> with this
> beaut: "I'm from Alabama. The alphabet's different there."
>
> -Tim Bryant
>
>

How did we ever get so far along the evolutionary chain before Google?  
Thanks, Tim

                 Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
              Marquette, Michigan
              (that's 'way up north)






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