Re: Making pictures

On 9/28/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On 9/27/07, li_sasxsek@nutter.net <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
> > I don't like picking on hometowns,
>
> And yet you bit the bullet and forced yourself to do so:
>
> > that pit known as Atlanta
>
> Good job.
>
> > It is very much the "real" South.
>
> And now you're insulting the entire region!  Excellent.
When I read Dana's message I thought it fairly ambiguous:

On 9/27/07, li_sasxsek@nutter.net <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
> I don't like picking on hometowns, but I live the other direction
> (just outside Knoxville, which I also could pick on) and avoid
> Chattanooga like the plague because culturally it is very much like
> that pit known as Atlanta which I also avoid, though not as big.  It
> is very much the "real" South.
It's unclear which of the three cities "it" in the last sentence refers to,
as well as unclear what the quotes around "real" mean here.

Dana?

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