The sensitive Smallholder requests a modification to this weekly feature:
Names are so hurtful. We prefer “agrarian sons of the soil.”
Need I mention that this is a man who repeatedly posts about his delusions concerning my residence in his barn? As much as I’d love to accommodate your metrosexual tendencies, Smallholder, your suggested phrase just doesn’t have the same zing. Carry on.
Note: To those who thought I’ve been too rough on the Agrarian Adonis, I’ll point out that Smallholder and I have an ongoing silly linkage spitting match. In fact, I owe him several teasings. At least our little deviant game isn’t quite to the point of excess, unlike Zonker and Sandy. In a pinch, I also have the readily available excuse of “Just following orders.“
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I think this request has a Simpsons genesis (from the Treehouse of Horror where Bart learns he has/is an evil twin)…
Dr. Hibbert: Yes, I remember Bart’s birth well. You don’t forget a thing like… [dramatic] Siamese twins!
Lisa: I believe they prefer to be called “conjoined twins”.
Dr. Hibbert: And hillbillies prefer to be called “sons of the soil”. But it ain’t gonna happen.
(sorry, I can’t get this to format)
At least in the preview mode. Forget I said anything.
Ah this must be subliminal on the Smallholder’s part… he’d never willingly admit to the influence of pop culture on his cultivated psyche.
Or would he????
We got a name for rednecks. It starts with “Sons of” but ends with something else.
Been called one myself.
Today.
Redneck = a glorious absence of sophistication. At least that’s what my friend ‘Neck would say.
Somehow, naked villiany and you just seem to go together. ; )
“Naked villainy and Sadie… Perfect together.”
Sounds like an tourism ad for New Jersey from the late 80s. But, I’ll take it.
And as long as Smallholder is the only one being called a “Son of…Something” I’m cool.
Face it, Mike: The last time you were cool was…
Well, come to think of it, you’ve never been cool. Except, perhaps by association in college. A couple of the guys you hung out with were very cool.
Smallholder, I think you’re stretching the laws of association if you’re going to take what little cool you possessed by knowing me and stretching it to Mike.
Anyway, if Sadie asks nicely, I’ll gladly provide false testimony to the fact that you’re a metrosexual.
Heh heh. Please?