75-68

whoa when i typed the score the screen shook.

no joke.

...weird.

anyway...

i have promised myself that next basketball season i will follow UNC like a REAL fan and not just be lukewarm. soooo i have tried to educate myself on the history of the tarheel and.... its...stickyness. ...harhar. anyway. here is some in. fo. sho.

        "hmmmm...thats a lot of text....."

DONT SNORE!

IT'S

T h e  L e g e n d  o f  T a r h e e l s !

     "YEAH!!"

-- Tar Heel --

---------------is a nickname applied to the state and inhabitants of North Carolina, as well as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's athletic teams.

The exact etymology of the nickname is unknown, but most experts believe its roots come from the fact that tar, pitch and turpentine created from the vast pine forests were one of North Carolina's most important exports early in the state's history.

Because the exact history of the term is unknown, many legends have developed to explain the history of the term. Some people believe it to be a nickname given during the U.S. Civil War, due to the state's importance on the Confederate side. "The North Carolina's troops stuck to their ranks like they had tar on their heels," you will hear some Southerns say.

History of term

In its early years as a colony, North Carolina settlements became an important source of the naval stores tar, pitch, and turpentine especially for the English navy. At one time, an estimated 100,000 barrels of tar and pitch were shipped annually to England. Historians Hugh Lefler and Albert Newsome claim in North Carolina: the History of a Southern State that North Carolina led the world in production of naval stores, from about 1720 to 1870. Tar and pitch were largely used to paint the bottom of wooden British ships in order to both seal the ship and to prevent shipworm from damaging the hull.

At the time, tar was created by piling up pine logs and burning them until hot oil seeped out from a canal. The vast production of tar from North Carolina led many, including Walt Whitman, to give the derisive nickname of "Tarboilers" to the residents of North Carolina. North Carolina was nicknamed the "Tar and Turpentine State" because of this industry.

Somehow, these terms evolved until the nickname Tar Heel was used to refer to residents of North Carolina and gained prominence during the American Civil War. During this time, the nickname Tar Heel was a pejorative, similar to how the nickname white trash is used today, but starting around 1865, the term began to be used as a source of pride.

Legendary explanations

River fording by General Cornwallis

According to this legend, the troops of British General Cornwallis during the American Revolutionary War were fording what is now known as the Tar River between Rocky Mount and Battleboro when they discovered that tar had been dumped into the stream to impede the crossing of British soldiers. When they finally got across the river, they found their feet completely black with tar. Thus, the soldiers observed that anyone who waded through North Carolina rivers would acquire "tar heels."

Ability to hold ground

In the third volume of Walter Clark's Histories of the Several Regiments from North Carolina in the Great War, the author explains that the nickname came from the North Carolina troops ability to hold their ground during a battle. According to the book, North Carolina troops held their ground during a battle in Virginia during the American Civil War while other supporting troops retreated. After the battle, supporting troops asked the victorious North Carolinians: "Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" and they replied: "No, not a bit; old Jeff's bought it all up." The supporting troops continued: "Is that so? What is he going to do with it?" The North Carolinian troops' response: "He is going to put it on you'ns heels to make you stick better in the next fight."

-Reluctant secession-

The State of North Carolina was one of the last states to secede from the United States of America (Tennessee was the last to do so) and as a result the state was nicknamed the "reluctant state" by others in the south. The joke circulating around at the beginning of the war went something like this: " Got any tar?"- "No, Jeff Davis has bought it all."- "What for?"- "To put on you fellow's heels to make you stick." As the war continued, many North Carolinian troops developed smart replies to this term of ridicule. Such as when the 4th Texas Infantry lost its flag at Sharpsburg. Passing by the 6th North Carolina a few days afterwards, the Texans called out, "Tar Heels!", and the reply was, "Ifin you had had some tar on your heels, you would have brought your flag back from Sharpsburg."

Robert E. Lee quotation

During the late unhappy war between the States it was sometimes called the "Tar-heel State," because tar was made in the State, and because in battle the soldiers of North Carolina stuck to their bloody work as if they had tar on their heels, and when General Lee said, "God bless the Tar-heel boys," they took the name.

A letter found in 1991 by North Carolina State Archivist David Olson somewhat supports this theory that Lee might have stated something similar to this. The letter dated from 1864 (in the North Carolina "Tar Heel Collection") a Colonel Joseph Engelhard described the Battle of Ream's Station in Virginia. In that letter he states: "It was a 'Tar Heel' fight, and ... we got Gen'l Lee to thanking God, which you know means something brilliant."

SO....

BASICALLY ITS BECAUSE NC HAS A LOT OF TAR IN IT.

yep.

ANYWAY

ill do more of these posts

posting records

stats

that kind of hooplah.

IN OTHER NEWS

SUPER SMASH BROTHERS BRAWL CAME OUT!!!!!!!!

how uber excited i was...is:

i know you guys arent excited but i sure i am :)

and I WOULD say that Kevin is the best brother in law EVER

BUT Jason is getting Rock Band.

.....so maybe we'll call it a tie.

  "hm.."

OH. and thanks everyone for prayers for dad.

i personally am feeling so much better about the whole situation with so many people behind us.

and could you also keep these boys at my school in your prayers?

these three boys lost their mom and dad in a motorcycle accident

as they were headed to one of the boys trackmeets and it wasnt their fault.

thanks. :)

Heres something for Sam.

haha.......*achem*

Im glad KU won. They deserved it. That 9 point return was AMAAAZING.

And the OT outcome was inevitable.

haha.

ohyeah. SPEEDRACER (the movie) IS COMING OUT

goseeit goseeit GOSEEIT.

it looks amazing ill upload my trailer later.

but it has RAIN in it. so it should be amazing.

awesome.

Johnny Depp didnt die but I wanted to draw him after watching

'At Worlds End' 5 times

I messed up on his eye so I added an eyepatch

It looks ok that way doesnt it?

INDIANA. HOME OF THE HOOSIERS.

...what is that anyway.

it was so exciting!!!! ...as you can tell. btw pants are borrowed from emily. i do not own care bear pants.

Is that a threat?

Emilys amazing Taco Bell parking job.

it was very windy and cold but sam still managed to smile. wow. haha emily..

there was a cabin in the middle of the park. we were checking if there were hobos in it.

new years on the tv. ...yep.