Monday, April 27, 2009

Yankee

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)

2009 Update: A domestic alien.

14 comments:

The Boy from S.A.C.A.D.A. said...

Id rather play for the Cincinati Reds than on the Yankies!

weirsdo said...

Yes, Doug. Strongly suspected of harboring 19th-century vices like industry, thrift, and taciturnity.

Tom & Icy said...

Don't yank my chain.

TLP said...

Icy is the yankee, tom is the yanker.

pia said...

Oh it's known in Southern States. In Calabash NC there's a subdivision known as (damn) Yankee Stadium

the amoeba said...

YANKEE, n. Green Bay Packers fan, aka cheesehead.

quilly said...

YANKEE n. leg puller

Jamie Dawn said...

Yankee - Damn Yankee - I don't know what those Yankees did, but in the south they are looked upon with great suspicion.

:-)

sauerkraut said...

Yankee - a baseball team formerly ruled by bleeping bucky dent but more recently swept by the bosox. woo hoo!

Mutha said...

A team to steal home on.

Doug The Una said...

Boy, you're a big red machine.

Weirsdo, don't you just know they're guilty.

Icy, I wouldn't dream of it.

Haha, TLP. Was there any doubt?

Pia, that's funny. Do you see "We don't care how you did it up North" signs in the local businesses?

Ariel, have you seen our veil dance?

Amoeba, most midwesterners think we're not Yankees. I imagine so do Bostonians and those from Southern Maine.

Quilly, woudn't that be leg pullee?

JD, I think it was beating the Braves in the '99.

Sauerkraut, Dent was one of the Yankees I liked when he played, along with Willie Randolph and Thurman Munson.

Mutha, Darn right. Go White Sox!

Ariel the Thief said...

Would you let me live if I did, Doug?

quilly said...

Doug - -a pulley is for moving heavy objects. What, exactly, are you implying?

sauerkraut said...

Thurman Munson.

Prolly the only yankee I ever liked.