Title: Re: [VFB] RE: Hoosier
>  I think they all fit.
   DEan
Dean,  are you still sure you want to bunk with a Hoosier at Sowbug?

> Neville Gosling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in part):
> "throughout the Southeast in the eighteenth century, 'Hoosier' was used
> generally to describe a backwoodsman, especially an ignorant boaster, with
> an overtone of crudeness and even lawlessness."

Sounds about right to me, Neville.

Allan

Greenwood, IN
IN stands for "In The Great Hoosier State"

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