Fellow Hoosiers in Central IN: Take Cover!

[Brigid]

Tornado and flash flood warnings all over the area. We're the big news story on the Weather Channel right now. It's raining heavily here in Indy. Stay safe and don't forget your pets!

[snooper2]

1. I always wondered why folks in Indiana took that slur name and owned it LOL

I thought everyone knew what a hoosier was but maybe it was just us who grew up in Missery LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier

The word "Hoosier" is still used in St. Louis, Missouri, to denote a "yokel" or "white trash".[13] The word is also sometimes encountered in sea shanties such as Shanties from the Seven Seas[14] in reference to its former use to denote cotton-stowers, who would move bales of cotton to and from the holds of ships and force them in tightly by means of jackscrews. "To hoosier" is sometimes still encountered as a verb meaning "to trick" or "to swindle".[citation needed