Years ago, a friend gave me almost exactly that instruction as part of the directions to their house.
They had moved to a nearby town, and invited me to dinner. While I’d been to the downtown, and the shopping areas, I didn’t know all the residential streets…. And they lived up a big hill.
He’d told me to turn left at the biggest tree on the hill, cos the street sign was missing… but I didn’t see any tree on a corner… I kept driving, all the way to the top of the hill. I knew I’d gone too far.
No cell phones back then. I finally stopped and knocked on someone’s door for directions… A scary thing!
Luckily they were nice. They told me the street names right before and after the intersection I needed…. about a mile back down the hill…. and said the city had cut down that tree… a huge eucalyptus that had dangerously cracked… just the day before.
Florida pioneers, are shown in front of their cabin. A view along the route of the Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad, approx 1895.
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Apologies for any offence caused, it was not intentional, and I have edited the post. It is not a term that is/was used over here, except in the description of criminals who break open safes. If anyone wishes me to do it, I shall delete the post entirely.
Hi, Arfside – not knowing much about any crackers bad or good ones … only know it as something to eat and making a noise while eating – like crackcrack… German word may be Keks… and “Graham Crackers” is the name of all the one who are fan of Graham Harrop’s Ten Cats and maybe more of his other comics.
I once was asking about a recipe (in English words) about baking and there it was that I have to use crackers for this dessert, and I asked the American/Canadian friends at Ten Cats… and suddenly the name was born, suddenly we are all the “Graham Crackers”, wonderful people who loves to be fan of Graham Harrop’s comics. That is all I know about Crackers. Leipniz Keks, maybe you are familiar of this. Oh dear, would love to speak better English than this one.
Crackers are sweet or salty baked “somethings” for me to eat and to enjoy by sometimes wine or TV or with friends at BBQ… Oh, dear, oh dear, hope I did nothing wrong! 😁🤠😎🙋♀️😘 ❤
No one seems to agree on where it comes from… but to most people it’s a slur…. something akin to poor white trash, but strictly southern.
I have… I suppose had, cos it’s been a while since we’ve spoken…. a friend who calls himself a Florida cracker, because, as he explained to me, among a certain group of Floridians, it means having a sort of defiant pride in having generations of Florida ancestors, even though they may have been dirt poor, and looked down on by strangers.
According to him, even though he called himself a cracker, being a Yankee, I couldn’t use the word.
Unless you are one, describing someone you don’t know as a cracker is almost always taken as an insult…. But if you’re a southerner, you can use it as a joke.
The caption on this picture may say these people are “known” as crackers… but it may have been written in a time when books also labelled pictures of Black children “pickaninnies.”
I just looked at this again, and it had a thumbs down on it from me… NOT something I did intentionally.
I just removed it, which can be done by clicking thumbs up, to zero it out.
It’s very easy to make stray marks on my tablet, since it’s hand held and everything is done with touch… further complicated by the fact that my thumbs up and down are now invisible on three people’s comments until I refresh.
One is yours.
I have no way to know whether I just made the accidental thumbs down, in this visit, or it’s been there all night.
It did NOT have anything to do with my post about “crackers” … I didn’t think you were familiar with the word, and it’s not really offensive, just a bit cringy, even to people who know.
I was out all day and so posted yesterday before I left. When I checked back in the evening the downvote was there, I didn’t however check who had left it. It is gone now.
OMG! Are some people who are THAT sensitive??? I have ancestors who grew up in that kind of poverty and dragged themselves up by their bootstraps! Dust Bowl, migrations, you name it. All were proud of what they were, what they had become, and how they took care of family!
It’s not a question of being “that sensitive”…. the people who call themselves crackers are proud of their background. And, like your relatives, of what they’ve become.
But words used as a pejorative don’t have to make sense… It’s often not the meaning, but the tone and the usage.
“Booger butt” insults you when you’re 5, even though you know you don’t have boogers on your butt.
Some words for Jewish people are just informative (like “Jewish people”), some mildly hurtful, others terribly racist… even if the words have no meaning in English that you understand.
When I was a kid calling people Black was racist… now nobody likes the “nicer” word we used then.
You’re not allowed to call them crackers because they know you mean it to be derogatory… whether it’s the poverty, or you think they’re dirty, or you just think they’re lesser beings. They don’t have to know exactly what it means to you, except something to put them down
So they don’t like it… that is, except for some modern people who have taken back the term and use it with pride.
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Squeaky toys! Or at least they sound like that when they’re hungry. Fun to watch them as they grow!
according to the caption, this their dad
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Isn’t Peter Lorrie too old for this crew?
Makes me think of Stray Cats! Should be perfect background music!
Kinda looks like a Dudolf puzzle in motion. Find the bat, or the butterfly.
Almost MC Escherish, with one shape morphing into another.
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Me too.
That’s me!
So?
And the cat…and the horse…but then, the hosts have them because they love them too.
So what kind of a chicken draws a target round his head?
Maybe one that’s trying to attract a chicken hawk?
Trying to pass incognito.
I wanna see the other side.
Me too and I couldn’t find it online.
Tim Nyberg
Coffee buddies.
Morning face before the first cup?
Does coffee cure ringworm?
My father-in-law was LA County Fire Department. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did this too.
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“YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! AH, DAMN YOU! GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!! “
Not the full quote (but close).
You maniacs!
You blew it up.
God damn you all to Hell!
Perfect timing!
My computer is acting up.
When I posted, you weren’t there.
I did find this though.
I know. You weren’t either!
,..
Okay, I had to Google it. I know who they are but I sure don’t recognize them!
I recognized them, but I didn’t know where they were….
So I googled it too…. and found a version with a third person.
I think i know one of them.
Nope.
Sorry, big white blank at 12:04AM PST.
It was there last night, but that’s all I see today too…
,,,.
I’m impressed with the linework.
This wouldn’t enlarge last night — now I can see who the battlers are!
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel
Ye Gods!
That just ain’t right!
this was titled: ‘Standing in Buster Keaton’s footsteps’
about a hundred years apart in Los Angeles
Here he is on “This is Your Life” (I think).
https://youtu.be/yHoT_Qch7jE
I see the soccer ball…. OTOH, any of those perfectly round pandas could be a soccer ball, if you tend to paint panda faces on your soccer balls.
Try it before you peek here, cos it’s pretty visible… but if at some point you want verification or some such….
We seem to have been finding a lot of hidden objects in that same spot, lately. It’s not a triangle… maybe the Bermuda Square for missing objects?
That’s what i found.
“When you come to the intersection … … there’ll be a big tree there, you can’t miss it. …”
Years ago, a friend gave me almost exactly that instruction as part of the directions to their house.
They had moved to a nearby town, and invited me to dinner. While I’d been to the downtown, and the shopping areas, I didn’t know all the residential streets…. And they lived up a big hill.
He’d told me to turn left at the biggest tree on the hill, cos the street sign was missing… but I didn’t see any tree on a corner… I kept driving, all the way to the top of the hill. I knew I’d gone too far.
No cell phones back then. I finally stopped and knocked on someone’s door for directions… A scary thing!
Luckily they were nice. They told me the street names right before and after the intersection I needed…. about a mile back down the hill…. and said the city had cut down that tree… a huge eucalyptus that had dangerously cracked… just the day before.
LOL … though it took a few days to be funny.
After all this time people are still peeling the tops of their trucks off.
This guy also ran a red light.
Nobody’s watchin’. Go for it!!!
Florida pioneers, are shown in front of their cabin. A view along the route of the Sanford and St. Petersburg Railroad, approx 1895.
.
Apologies for any offence caused, it was not intentional, and I have edited the post. It is not a term that is/was used over here, except in the description of criminals who break open safes. If anyone wishes me to do it, I shall delete the post entirely.
Ah, but why were they known as Crackers? And Saltines or Graham crackers???
Hi, Arfside – not knowing much about any crackers bad or good ones … only know it as something to eat and making a noise while eating – like crackcrack… German word may be Keks… and “Graham Crackers” is the name of all the one who are fan of Graham Harrop’s Ten Cats and maybe more of his other comics.
I once was asking about a recipe (in English words) about baking and there it was that I have to use crackers for this dessert, and I asked the American/Canadian friends at Ten Cats… and suddenly the name was born, suddenly we are all the “Graham Crackers”, wonderful people who loves to be fan of Graham Harrop’s comics. That is all I know about Crackers. Leipniz Keks, maybe you are familiar of this. Oh dear, would love to speak better English than this one.
Crackers are sweet or salty baked “somethings” for me to eat and to enjoy by sometimes wine or TV or with friends at BBQ… Oh, dear, oh dear, hope I did nothing wrong! 😁🤠😎🙋♀️😘 ❤
The word “cracker” is very iffy.
No one seems to agree on where it comes from… but to most people it’s a slur…. something akin to poor white trash, but strictly southern.
I have… I suppose had, cos it’s been a while since we’ve spoken…. a friend who calls himself a Florida cracker, because, as he explained to me, among a certain group of Floridians, it means having a sort of defiant pride in having generations of Florida ancestors, even though they may have been dirt poor, and looked down on by strangers.
According to him, even though he called himself a cracker, being a Yankee, I couldn’t use the word.
Unless you are one, describing someone you don’t know as a cracker is almost always taken as an insult…. But if you’re a southerner, you can use it as a joke.
The caption on this picture may say these people are “known” as crackers… but it may have been written in a time when books also labelled pictures of Black children “pickaninnies.”
I just looked at this again, and it had a thumbs down on it from me… NOT something I did intentionally.
I just removed it, which can be done by clicking thumbs up, to zero it out.
It’s very easy to make stray marks on my tablet, since it’s hand held and everything is done with touch… further complicated by the fact that my thumbs up and down are now invisible on three people’s comments until I refresh.
One is yours.
I have no way to know whether I just made the accidental thumbs down, in this visit, or it’s been there all night.
It did NOT have anything to do with my post about “crackers” … I didn’t think you were familiar with the word, and it’s not really offensive, just a bit cringy, even to people who know.
So…. if you did see it, I’m sorry!
Thought that it was interesting.
I was out all day and so posted yesterday before I left. When I checked back in the evening the downvote was there, I didn’t however check who had left it. It is gone now.
OMG! Are some people who are THAT sensitive??? I have ancestors who grew up in that kind of poverty and dragged themselves up by their bootstraps! Dust Bowl, migrations, you name it. All were proud of what they were, what they had become, and how they took care of family!
It’s not a question of being “that sensitive”…. the people who call themselves crackers are proud of their background. And, like your relatives, of what they’ve become.
But words used as a pejorative don’t have to make sense… It’s often not the meaning, but the tone and the usage.
“Booger butt” insults you when you’re 5, even though you know you don’t have boogers on your butt.
Some words for Jewish people are just informative (like “Jewish people”), some mildly hurtful, others terribly racist… even if the words have no meaning in English that you understand.
When I was a kid calling people Black was racist… now nobody likes the “nicer” word we used then.
You’re not allowed to call them crackers because they know you mean it to be derogatory… whether it’s the poverty, or you think they’re dirty, or you just think they’re lesser beings. They don’t have to know exactly what it means to you, except something to put them down
So they don’t like it… that is, except for some modern people who have taken back the term and use it with pride.
You might think that turkey is foolish, but honestly, the object of his affection is his biggest fan.
The mouse, though, should be careful. Those long-tailed computer mice will always be really attached to home.
Two items I found interesting from today’s London “Daily Mail.”
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“OMG… my order got here already…
I thought it would be shipped in a plain brown box.”
LOL
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