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re: 15 out of every 100 homes in Alabama are mobile homes
Posted on 9/21/18 at 3:59 pm to koreandawg
Posted on 9/21/18 at 3:59 pm to koreandawg
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They are so proud of that fact they named a city after it.
I always found it interesting that so many people, even Southerners, are unaware that mobile homes got their name from Mobile, AL. That was the heart of the industry back in the day. Before that, they had names like "trailer home" and the like. It's an interesting but meaningless coincidence that these homes could be moved with relative ease, thus making them -- at least for a short while -- mobile. But when was the last time you saw an established mobile home that you'd call mobile, anyway?
In any event, neither Alabama nor the South in general should be embarrassed about this. The region nursed a major profitable industry and did it so well that the product actually came to contain the name of a Southern city.
This post was edited on 9/21/18 at 4:03 pm
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Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:02 pm to Old Sarge
Florida has a lot too. A lot of old retirement areas that are trailers make up a large portion of it. Then North Florida...which is basically Alabama.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:06 pm to Old Sarge
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Old Sarge
Wow, glad you got Bama's dick out of your mouth. Didn't think I'd see the day.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:06 pm to Old Sarge
One Southern state making fun of another Southern state about mobile homes. Thats chutzpah
This post was edited on 9/21/18 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:06 pm to randomways
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I always found it interesting that so many people, even Southerners, are unaware that mobile homes got their name from Mobile, AL.
No it didn't. Mobile homes were named because they are mobile. Mobile (AL) and mobile aren't even pronounced the same.
This post was edited on 9/21/18 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:10 pm to Mobtro
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No it didn't. Mobile homes were named because they are mobile. Mobile (AL) and mobile aren't even pronounced the same.
Do your research and get back to me. I'm correct.
Edit: And, yes, I'm aware they're pronounced differently. The half-century plus that has passed as the name became generic is responsible for that.
This post was edited on 9/21/18 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:15 pm to randomways
A link would be nice. I was born and raised in Daphne and I've never heard that.
They're pronounced differently because they are homophones. Mobile, AL was named after a tribe.
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Edit: And, yes, I'm aware they're pronounced differently. The half-century plus that has passed as the name became generic is responsible for that.
They're pronounced differently because they are homophones. Mobile, AL was named after a tribe.
This post was edited on 9/21/18 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:19 pm to Mobtro
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I always found it interesting that so many people, even Southerners, are unaware that mobile homes got their name from Mobile, AL.
You cannot be this dumb
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:25 pm to Mobtro
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link would be nice. I was born and raised in Daphne and I've never heard that.
Google it, it's on Snopes. I didn't think it was true either, but it is
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:32 pm to Old Sarge
A large number are in Lee county being used as dorms
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:38 pm to Old Sarge
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15 out of every 100 homes in Alabama are mobile homes.
Good Lord, who gives a frick? Doesn’t say anything about Alabama or the people who live in those homes. Does say a lot about you.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:11 pm to Old Sarge
There are more mobile homes in Texas than Alabama.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:17 pm to jchamil
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link would be nice. I was born and raised in Daphne and I've never heard that.
Google it, it's on Snopes. I didn't think it was true either, but it is
My attempt to do a joke got out of hand. I'm not sure how I was going to finish it, but it wasn't well done. The Snopes entry is fake. It looks convincing but it's deliberately misleading for some reason I'm not entirely clear on.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:24 pm to Old Sarge
Mobile homes are an SC thing. Gay a Texas thing. Meth Mizzou. Miss is just dirty poor, Alabama just racist, Tenn all hillbillies
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:25 pm to Old Sarge
They are called manufactured homes.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:37 pm to Old Sarge
It’s like 25% in Mississippi and I think like 40% of kids live at least some time in mobile homes
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:38 pm to randomways
Ok I going to have to ask you for a source for that.....
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:42 pm to TutHillTiger
A ton of them are made in Alabama around Andalusia etc?
Guess who owns most of the mobile home manufacturers now?
I will give you a hint, the company name intials are BH and his intials are WB....I shite you not.
Guess who owns most of the mobile home manufacturers now?
I will give you a hint, the company name intials are BH and his intials are WB....I shite you not.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:43 pm to TutHillTiger
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Ok I going to have to ask you for a source for that.....
As far as I know, there is none. It was a badly-executed attempt at an extended joke and the fact that people took it seriously is entirely on me and the fact that I didn't think through where I was going with it. It might have worked IRL with me wearing an excessively innocent expression on my face, but probably not. I do have my dumb moments like everyone else. Mine are just nerdier dumb moments. So feel free to call me an idiot and steal my homework.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 5:46 pm to kbrake37
No southern state living baw should throw southern stereotypical jokes at other southern states. Out west and up north we are all backwooded, redneck, sister fricking dumbasses with no education or running water.
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