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Yesterday, I attended a weed/insect/disease diagnosis seminar, put on by several cooperative extension agents. Afterward, my coworker and I went to lunch with them.

Once the University of Tennessee football team talk was through, we got on to more interesting (to me, anyway) subjects. One of the agents mentioned he was glad the Phillies had won the first game of the World Series, not because he was a fan, but because he hated the Yankees.

He wasn't from The Noog, but it reminded me (through a stroke of coincidence, months in the making) of the Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon "Southern Fried Rabbit", where Bugs and Sam are in the South during the (U.S.) Civil War. Here's a transcript of the closing scene, courtesy of the folks that created the web page.

An injured messenger approaches the house on horse back (it is Bugs, disguised again) then crawls up the steps to the house
Bugs: Colonel! The Yankees! The Yankees! They’re in… Chattanooga!
Bugs pretends to collapse, too injured to continue.
Sam: Chattanoogee?!?!
Martial music plays.
Sam jumps on the horse left by the ‘messenger’ and rides away.
Sam: Chaaarge!

A ballpark. A sign saying “Exhibition Game – Yankees vs Chattanooga”
At the Yankee dugout, Sam is holding the players inside with a shotgun.
Sam: The first danged Yankee that steps out of the dugout gets his head blasted off!

Incidentally, The Noog does have its own (minor league) baseball team, the Chattanooga Lookouts. I ought to go to a game next season.