VW Eos Now: Yankees

[jlagnese at massed.net (John S. Lagnese)]

As opposed to Lilliputians with small body parts that offset large mouths.
John
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> John Lagnese wrote:
>> New Englanders have traditionally been known as Yankees, not Red Sox.
>> The New England magazine is Yankee magazine, not Red Sox Magazine.
>> The novel is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
>> I could go on, but...
>> New England Yankee fan
>> John
> 
> I went back and asked Mark Twain:
> 
> Yankee (yan-kee) n.  An overpaid curd-guzzling pretty-boy who runs 
> god-fearing folks off the road of life with the cow-catcher on his sport 
> utility chariot because they told him that they weren't interested in 
> seeing him buy his way in to the grand cotillion again this year with 
> his tainted doubloons borne of entertainment parchment sales in his 
> Brobdingnagian home district.
> 
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