Would you have any thoughts on the origins of 'Vermont charity'? I, a Brit always assumed the VT was a good liberal and thus generous state. As I noted, it didn't make DARE, which disappointed me, and it doesn't make an appearance on line as far as I could find. Or not in this definition.
The poorer, more rural, farming-or-fishing parts of New England (notably Maine & Vermont) had a long-time reputation (so far as I know largely maintained by holiday visitors; e.g. "New Yorker" writers) as tough, laconic, self-sufficient, xenophobic, & understandably stingy.
I always liked "sympathy is in the dictionary between shit and syphilis."
I'll be using the term Vermont charity a lot more often...
Would you have any thoughts on the origins of 'Vermont charity'? I, a Brit always assumed the VT was a good liberal and thus generous state. As I noted, it didn't make DARE, which disappointed me, and it doesn't make an appearance on line as far as I could find. Or not in this definition.
The poorer, more rural, farming-or-fishing parts of New England (notably Maine & Vermont) had a long-time reputation (so far as I know largely maintained by holiday visitors; e.g. "New Yorker" writers) as tough, laconic, self-sufficient, xenophobic, & understandably stingy.
Thank you. Next task is to find a few more examples.
I think Ray said it better than I could. A kind word costs nothing, and that's all you're going to get
Me too. There's probably a fun book to the compiled of such (mis)placings. But I think both you and I have other commitments.
🙂Holy Shite!
Another 'bob & kneel' gag from Old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer_