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Okay so I'm taking this girl from Rhode Island to Bonnaroo this year and she's very nervous. She's very scared that she's not going to have a good time because she's never been to the south and doesn't know a single thing about Bonnaroo. I keep trying to convince her that she has absolutely nothing to worry about as long as she likes partying, good music, and good people. So my question for ya'll is what would be a good thing to say to her to convince her that everything's going to be alright.
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Gotta agree with Becca - get on youtube also - search for Bonnaroo - there are a couple of really good videos on there that journal the road to Bonnaroo
being a Roobie myself i've just read mostly a lot of threads here that seemed to clear most of my doubts and querys also watching some vids on the youtube helped me see more of a live feel of the crowd and stuff my gf also is a Roo vet so she's preety much conviced me to go you dont have to ake me twice to go to Roo but yea since I've never been I was kinda nervous
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"You're either on the bus or off the bus." Ken Kesey
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
Post by stuckinutero on May 17, 2007 16:23:40 GMT -5
illyb said:
Okay so I'm taking this girl from Rhode Island to Bonnaroo this year and she's very nervous. She's very scared that she's not going to have a good time because she's never been to the south and doesn't know a single thing about Bonnaroo. I keep trying to convince her that she has absolutely nothing to worry about as long as she likes partying, good music, and good people. So my question for ya'll is what would be a good thing to say to her to convince her that everything's going to be alright.
No worries really about the south. All of us Yankees must have gotten some weird pyschological side effects from the movie Deliverance. Simply, nobodies going to be making anyone squeel like a piggy. The most obnoxious part of traveling for me has always been hearing one phrase repeated over and over again. "You're from New York huh?". I'm actually going to meet up with some long-time friends later tonight who will be attending, and have never been south of Maryland. I guess I completely forgot about the anxiety involved with your first Roo, because they took me by surprise with their worries.
I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!
man...yall is sooo much faster. I am from Houston and everyone says yall....but it's not like "yaw'll" with the southern accent. It's just another word here. But actually I have heard it in a lot of other states to the north too. Anyway, BUY A BONNAROO DVD
Post by howyafeelin on May 17, 2007 18:29:14 GMT -5
Karma to Spacefunk great name & gif. Alex Grey rules
As for the south I had 2 weird experiences at Roo.
1st in a long line coming in a guy was selling popcorn (a local) and another guy rides up in a quad (local). Local 2 looks at our plates and says Jersey huh you boys are Yankees didn't we chase you out years ago? Baked as we were we laughed it off.
Day 3 we went to get ice early morn and this kid at the show looks at us almost smelling where were from and says "were gonna rise back up" My bro asks "who" he says "The South".
Odd Some what isolated incidents.
As odd as this may sound we loved it. A big fan of Hunter S. and I gotta say FREE ENTERTAINMENT. Outside of that the free entertainment kept coming, mostly without the uncomfortable edge. People there are great freak flags waving real high.
In closing you would have to make an effort not to have a good time. Nuff said.......
Hey there ain't even one South. There's the mid south (like around Manchester) there's the Deep South (like AL & MS), there's the hillbilly south (up'n East TN & KY), there's cowboy south (TX), not really the south (FL & Atlantic Coast) Each has it's own custom, speech, food, etc. But basically we're all just "good folk" though.
Lumpin' Southerners together is kind of like saying people from NY, ME, and RI are all the same.
I personally am a hillbilly (I'm poor and I can't play golf so I can't be a redneck. )
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said, "Oh, you're from the south? What a cute accent! Say 'ya'll'!"
Well I have never been told I have a "cute" accent, but whenever I leave the south I get the whole say this and say that spill. At first its okay then it gets old quick.
Post by oatmealschnappz on May 17, 2007 23:04:54 GMT -5
Just impart this valuable advice to your friends and they won't be able to resist:
1.) Money is worth 6 times as much in Tennessee. 2.) Start every sentence with "you'ns" and you'll fit-in just fine. 3.) A tequila breakfast makes everything much easier to handle. 4.) Be sure to pat everyone on the head when talking to them. 5.) If you donate half of your beer to the "Oatmeal Innebriation Fund", everyone will love you.
Trust me, I know!
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Post by AintNoFreedom on May 17, 2007 23:30:36 GMT -5
stuckinutero said:
The most obnoxious part of traveling for me has always been hearing one phrase repeated over and over again. "You're from New York huh?
It was pretty funny when I went down to Florida (which I never really considered part of THE south) and some guy said to me "Y'all from Boston or sumthin'? Y'all got an accent".
^I got alot of it when I was growing up in the ghetto schools of East Knoxville.
They say you'ns, but it's the more backwoods folk now (like out in Union County).
Where'd you go to school? I moved here in the tenth grade from Florida, and ended up in Halls. Spare me the humor. (Seriously, though, which school'd you go to?)
Post by oleander124 on May 18, 2007 8:50:29 GMT -5
I'm originally from Winston-Salem, NC, then moved to Boone, NC (mountains of western NC).
I worked at a retail store that had a lot of people from eastern TN as customers, and I never heard YOU'Ns until I met those people. Then, I moved to East TN and hear it a lot. I always thought it was an eastern TN thing.
HEADED TO BONNAROO!!!!
