CNN article on 50 best jobs -- #1 is software

And another 10 to 20% hanging out here on s.e.d.? :-)

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Well, let's just say that the OP pointing to CNN instead of the BBC is a bit of a give-away. ;-)

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Not quite that much, but I have ulterior motives.

John

Its really sad that the best reporter on Fox is Kent Brockman on "The Simpsons"

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I agree, John. As Hanibal Smith (George Peppard) used to say on the "A Team": I love it when a plan comes together!"

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You know the place wouldn't be the same without him.

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Those are the Brits of old who failed to assimilate into the bigger US culture.

Various parts of the Southeast. You can find unassimilated toothless ex-Queen's subjects all over - except California has made it too expensive to live.

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Strange as we don't have anyone like that in the UK...

I thought that was generally Cajun and of mainly French extraction?

Actually California is one place you do find a lot of Brits. Working in the SW industry. Been out there myself.

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How about Benny Hill? ;-)

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Cajuns live mostly in southwest Louisiana and a bit over the line into Texas. They are certainly not hillbillies, who live in east-central USA, like Tennessee and West Virginia.

Lots of people from all over the USA and the world settle here. One common question is "where are you from?"

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Now sadly departed. But he was into [lots of] women not pigs.

BTW I was not suggesting everyone in the USA was a hillbilly or into pigs....

Some like goats :-)

It is just that I was not sure where the "hilbilly" areas were considered to be. Just as most Americans would not know where the black country in the UK was.

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In article , John Larkin writes

Thanks I will have to look at the map.

In English and then Spanish :-)

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Then, after I tell them "Vermont", they ask "what state is that in?". (no, not kidding)

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Dunno, they sure seemed like pigs on the tele.

Vermonters like sheep.

Is that like the "Black Irish"? ;-)

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The joke going around here right now... "Ba-a-ah means NO" ;-)

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Having read the James Harriot books at least twice, once by myself and once to my daughter when she was little, I think I got a pretty good description of rural UK life. Whether that's the same as black country, I don't know.

There were two bulls living on a hilltop pasture, a very young one, and an old, experienced one. They notice a new cow pasture just down the hill with some very attractive cows. The young bull says to the old bull, "Let's run down there and make love to one of those cows!" The old bull says, "Humph. Let's _walk_ down there and make love to all of them."

Cheers! Rich

What does that mean? I don't speak hillbilly.

John