This is ME!!!

[PrezLeefun]

I finally have a pic online. Its not the best photo of me. It was dark and I was talking but here ya go....


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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/wave.gif Hi Prez!

[PrezLeefun]

Hey! That pic was taken in the East Village at a resturant with friends.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Interesting!

You know, it's ard for me, a life-long Southerner, to even imagine what New York is REALLY like. We get mental images from telly shows and things, and I'm sure they are no where NEAR depicting the truth. The background of your picture looks very much like a small deli in the college town I live near.

[Suzie]

And what a lovely lady you are. Good to see you. :)

[BEST45CAL]

Hi Prez!


Say hello to my friends in Manhattan for me!

[Beowulf]

Hi, Prez! Good to meet you finally.

[Melz]

What a cute picture, and you look all smiley and happy :)

[PrezLeefun]

Hey guys. Thanx suzie.

Homes, from that I can assume you've never been in the city.

First thing: the Statue of Liberty is not that big. My favorite example of this "ginormas" Lib Lady is in "The Day After Tomorrow" She is much smaller. She is in fact smaller than most of the skyscraper buildings in the area. She was given to us by the french- don't expect them to offer a big gesture.

As for the crowding- its real. In any movie shot where people are cramped hip to hip; those are the people of New York. Its hard to walk more than a block without touching a fellow New Yorker.

Men- yes they are rude. Up here everyone is equally tough; and no exceptions are made. Courtesy takes a back seat to rushing in the crowd.

The city is fast paced. We don''t stop for anything. If you don't rush you will be rushed over. But don't take offense- we never mean to be rude.

The entire finanical district is normally fifteen degrees cooler than the rest of the city.

Ground Zero is like a makeshift museum and memorial. Its spaces are wide and open and windy. Last time I visited November 04'.

The village is the hang out spot of town for locals. Times Square is for tourists.
The docks are beautiful. The view is always amazing.

Yes the Vil is Gay City. However they are a happy ( pardon the pun) sweet group. I never had any problems being Republican amongst my liberal and gay friends.

As for expense: Its...expensive. The entire area of Manhattan is completely price jacked. If you plan to visit give me a heads up. I'll find find you good discounts.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Prez,

I don't know if I could make it in the "Big Apple," :smirky: . Y'all just need come on down here to our little slice of heaven. Let me contrast with yours . . .

Prez's Town:
First thing: the Statue of Liberty is not that big. My favorite example of this "ginormas" Lib Lady is in "The Day After Tomorrow" She is much smaller. She is in fact smaller than most of the skyscraper buildings in the area. She was given to us by the french- don't expect them to offer a big gesture.

Hms's Town:
Well, the tallest thing around here would be the clocktower in the old city hall (that's where my Mother-in-Law works, she's the City Clerk). 'Course, we do have a big ole water tower, but unless you wanna paint somebody loves somebody on it, you really have no need to go over there, :smirky:

Prez's Town:
As for the crowding- its real. In any movie shot where people are cramped hip to hip; those are the people of New York. Its hard to walk more than a block without touching a fellow New Yorker.

Hms's Town:
'Round here, if you were feeling 'specially spry, you could walk to the post office stopping off at the bank to get some money, the Country Kitchen for some good eats, and the Dollar Store for some paper towels. 'Course you could always go to Marvin's for a barber cut, or that fancy hair-do place beside the restaurant. You probably wouldn't bump nobody, but you'd run into everyone, and everyone would smile, wave, and nod.

Prez's Town:
Men- yes they are rude. Up here everyone is equally tough; and no exceptions are made. Courtesy takes a back seat to rushing in the crowd.

Hms's Town:
Courtesy is practically a requirement round here -- it's part of the "code." And our fellers, well, we grow 'em big, strong, and tuff. No softies, no sissies, no nonsense.

Prez's Town
The city is fast paced. We don''t stop for anything. If you don't rush you will be rushed over. But don't take offense- we never mean to be rude.

Hms's Town:
We pretty much take everything slow and easy. The only rushing goes on, is trying to get across the street to the Backyard Bar-B-Que, which is always packed. Everybody has time enough to chew the fat -- especially at the Hitchock's Saveway (that's the grocery store) or the post office.

Prez's Town
The entire finanical district is normally fifteen degrees cooler than the rest of the city.

Hms's Town:
In the summer it's HOT, HOT, HOT here, but the winters are fairly mild for a northerner (we real Southerners believe, anything under 80 is freezing, LOL).


Prez's Town
Ground Zero is like a makeshift museum and memorial. Its spaces are wide and open and windy. Last time I visited November 04'.

Hms's Town:
The only thing we have that is even remotely like that (what could compare to such devastation), is if you go a piece into the Big Town (Gainesville), we have a memorial wall with the names of the college students lost to the Gainesville serial killer.
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:1g0K0mnuFUIJ:web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/wall.jpg (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/wall.jpg&imgrefurl=http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/ufarch/wall.htm&h=338&w=632&sz=28&tbnid=1g0K0mnuFUIJ:&tbnh=72&tbnw=135&hl=en&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGainesville%2Bwall%26svnum%3D10%26hl% 3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8) The black section of the wall smack dab in the middle has the names of all the students killed, a small heart, and it reads we will always remember.

Prez's Town
The village is the hang out spot of town for locals. Times Square is for tourists.

Hms's Town:
Backyard BBQ is the favorite haunt here, unless it's football season, then EVERYBODY whose ANYBODY is at Panther Stadium routing on our mighty Panthers!

Prez's Town
The docks are beautiful. The view is always amazing.

Hms's Town:
We have Watermelon Pond for the local water-hole, but most folks hitch-up the boats and head for the Suwannee or Santa Fe rivers.

Prez's Town
Yes the Vil is Gay City. However they are a happy ( pardon the pun) sweet group. I never had any problems being Republican amongst my liberal and gay friends.

Hms's Town:
We wanna see any of that, we just go to the Big City, sit in the mall and people watch. Gatorville is filled with "diversity." LOL

Prez's Town
As for expense: Its...expensive. The entire area of Manhattan is completely price jacked. If you plan to visit give me a heads up. I'll find find you good discounts.

Hms's Town:
It's not real expensive around here, but we don't make a lot either. I think things are relatively reasonable (except gas right now, which is astronimical for our paychecks). You wanna talk discounts, hunny, I got coupons for EVERYTHING -- you come down here, and I'll get you in anywhere for $4-$10 less :smirky: . We may not have much, but we KNOW how to use it -- and if we can't we BBQ it, LOL.

[TechnoPrincess]

HI Prez! Nice to put a face with a name!! :howdy:

[UhUhNoWay]

Prez sweetie, what a beautiful girl! I edited your photo to brighten it up..here's the result....better yes?

[PrezLeefun]

Cute Homes. Thanks Princess. UhUh Thank You. That is better.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

PrezLeefun:
Hey guys. Thanx suzie.

Homes, from that I can assume you've never been in the city.

First thing: the Statue of Liberty is not that big. ... She was given to us by the french- don't expect them to offer a big gesture.

:moo: Well, you can hardly blame the French. Mount Rushmore is not as big as it appears in pictures, either. I think they take close-up photos of those landmarks, just to make them appear really huge.

[PrezLeefun]

yeah but what they do to lady lib is outrageous. She is computer animated to look bigger than everything else in Manhattan- including the island if you ask me. lol

[Keb]

Lovely, Prez.

[ConservativeYouthMovement]

Mount Rushmore is pretty big, but if you want to see the ruins of cultural 'diversity' just drive a few miles away and see the 200+ foot tall statue of some indian war cheif. Truly sick our presidents arent given a bigger monument then some fool killed at wounded knee. It isnt finished yet, wont be for another 50 years probably. (monument is called crazy horse, right outside of Custer South Dakota near mount rushmore.)

BTW in South Dakota we dont have delis, barbeques, crowds (except at horrible national monuments), sky scrapers, foot ball (except on cable), and for cheap gas you have to drive to wyoming. The majority of the state is a barren wasteland (literally, all of the indian reservations are completly decimated, by their own means I might add), the parts not occupied by them are filled with dead wind swept grass in the summer, and snow drifts some up to 15 feet high on the plains. The black hills where I live receive a lot of snow on the western side and less snow in the east. Past times include buffalo shoots and indian hunts (not really!)

There is hardly any manufacturing, so the majority of the economy relies on ranching and farming, but also service industries like banking and credit (credit card companies are allowed to set higher interest rates in South Dakota). Housing is extremely expensive, as are groceries. I'm told the busiest Wal-Mart in the nation is also here, although it might not be THE busiest it is fairly high. (Not sure if my source is reliable)

To give an idea of what the state is like, 50% of the population live in large cities, 25% a long the interstate, and 25% spread across the rest. North and South in the east are not very different in my opinion because the only difference i could tell is that after you cross the Mississippi river the only thing that exists are people. There are cities every 5 miles or less, where as where I live cities are 20 miles away where its densely populated and 50 miles away where its not. In some areas there are no people not even to mention cities or developements.

And on a side note there is no way I could stand New York, I think traffic is horrible in Iowa let alone any farther east. I-90 in Minnesota has little traffic until you get to Wisconsin which is officially part of Chicago. (Yes the entire state, what I would consider city never ends. Illinois and Indiana are people hell!) I also have no idea how you live waiting hours in traffic....

[Longhorn_Platinum]

ConservativeYouthMovement:
I also have no idea how you live waiting hours in traffic....

:moo: CD Players.

[PrezLeefun]

LP you are sooo smart! Thats Right! i am permenately attached to mine. I have AM/FM radio and the Disk player. But I don't sit in traffic...most New Yorkers don't. We prefer the subway system.

[Teenager]

Prez, nice photo. I've never been to Noo Yawk, but my lil' sister has. She loved it. I also have a friend who lives there, but you probably wouldn't know him because there are so many people up there! :D

Homes, I have a freind who is going to Suwannee College(are we talking about the same thing?).

[Trevelyan]

My family and I were in New York City this past July. Insanely hot.

We went to a Mets game and the Museum of Modern Art. Well, we did some more than that, but those were the things that I wanted to do.

We also went to New York the year prior, and we had an extremely scary incident happen on the subway train we were taking to Shea Stadium. There was this guy who was sitting in a wheel chair, and he appeared to be of some sort of Middle Eastern ethnicity. He was holding a red bag. Well, we are going along, and suddenly this guy stands up out of his wheelchair and starts walking around just fine. He then proceeds to yell stuff in some sort of foreign language. He then sat back down and wheeled himself out at the next stop. It was terrifying. I don't know if it was just some crazy guy with a wheelchair for whatever reason, or if this was some kind of terrorist casing or what.

[PrezLeefun]

Trev Holy crap! I would be so scared I would not have moved. But I do know some people who have administered a serious beat down on that guy.