OT- July 4th Origin of Yankee Doodle Dandy...

Yankee was a derivitive of the Indain work ankee or theif…
Dandy was a derogitive name for a wanna-be aristocrat…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandies

" The B&M train streamline train Yankee Clipper was one of the fastest trains in New England capable of doing 110 and runs the route of the Amtrak train “Downeaster” Portland-Boston

The B&M YC couldn’t hold a candle to the New Haven’s Yankee Clipper…[:D]

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