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~ The rules of rural Pennsylvania are as follows:

  1. Let's get this straight: it's called a 'dirt road.' No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus.  Drive it or get out of the way.
  2. They are cattle. They're live steaks or walking milk bottles. That's why they smell funny to you, get over it. Don't like it? I-80 goes east and west, I-79 goes north and south. Pick one.
  3. Pull your droopy pants up, you look like an idiot.
  4. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.
  5. So you have a $60,000 car, we're impressed. We have $150,000 corn pickers and hay balers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
  6.  Every person in rural Pennsylvania waves. We think of it as being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
  7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and three does are coming in, You are in our way. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.
  8. Yeah, we eat scrapple, pot pie, funnel cakes, haluskie, macaroni and cheese. We fry our fish after 'catch'n 'em'. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.
  9. The 'opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held on the Monday after Thanksgiving.
    1. The first deer season in Pennsylvania was set in 1721, and allowed hunters to shoot deer between July 1 and Jan. 1. Those caught hunting in the offseason were fined 20 shillings, according to a history of the Game Commission. Today, rifle deer season is far shorter — only two weeks — and carries much larger fines.
  10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.
  11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak, or you can order the chef's salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.
  12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats (includes fish), vegetables, and breads. We use four spices: salt, pepper, hot sauce and Heinz ketchup. Oh, yeah...we don't care what you folks in Jersey call that stuff you eat.  It’s not real chili.
  13. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.
  14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, and have long hair.
  15. College and high school football are as important here as the Steelers and Eagles and a lot more fun to watch.
  16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards---it spooks the fish.
  17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have state universities, community colleges, and vo-techs. They come outta’ there with an education plus a love for God and Country. They still wave at everybody when they come home for the holidays.
  18. We have a whole ton of folks who have been in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.
  19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump-thump stuff is not music anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. Refer back to   # 3  .
  20. Four inches isn't a blizzard--it's a flurry. Drive like you got some sense, and don't take all our bread, milk, and toilet paper from the grocery stores. You’re not in Alaska . Worst case you may have to live a whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow plows will have you out the next day.
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) 2nd Inaugural

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. 

 

 
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