Mr. KEVIN TRAINOR (The Surreal McCoys): I would have to say we were smart asses from Columbia University.
The McCoys took you out of the city and made you feel like you'd rambled into a Southern juke joint.
Not that a cultural Mecca like New York City needed The McCoys, but it was really fun while they were around.
The battling factions are "like the Hatfields and the McCoys, " says Melissa Scott, a Kiger owner and exhibitor from Decatur, Tenn.
That's Kevin Trainor, the highly entertaining front man for The Surreal McCoys.
The Hatfields and the McCoys would have been similarly verbally inventive had Twitter existed at the time of their epic, decades-spanning vendetta.
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There's North Carolina's Roy Williams, whose book "Hard Work" reveals that he traces his lineage to the McCoys of the famed feuding Hatfields and McCoys.
"We have an example of Hatfields and McCoys going on in this state like we have never seen, " said Brian Nemoir, a Milwaukee-based Republican strategist.
This has been the thinking of many real-life Sherman McCoys.
Nine of the eleven men who started against Italy in the final played for either Real Madrid or Barcelona, La Liga's feuding version of the Hatfields and McCoys.
As part of our occasional series about dustbin bands, great bands that are no more, producer Trey Kay tells us about an Ivy League country group known as The Surreal McCoys.
And their hatred is vehement, like Itchy's for Scratchy, like the Hatfields' for the McCoys, and Taylor Swift's for every man who she has ever talked to since her 15th birthday.
But functional product differentiation is exactly what the rivalry between the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is all about: Two companies with fundamentally different products, based on diametrically opposite visions of the future, engaged in a Hatfields versus McCoys battle with billions of dollars at stake.
The question over the next four years is not whether the U.S. will survive the fiscal cliff or go the way of Greece, it is whether Democrats and Republicans will play their role of Hatfields and McCoys for television cameras, or go together up the hill and through the valley to get this country moving.
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