A little holiday travelin’ dance number
A lot of families have their own holiday traditions, the little “inside jokes” that family members enjoy but that outsiders aren’t likely to comprehend. Unless you share family memories and relationships, you just can’t appreciate why it’s significant.
For example, one of the annual highlights of the Bookman family holiday reunion involves slipping good ol’ Uncle Nat a little too much eggnog (his favorite), to the point that he finally agrees to perform his famous Bookman Bounce.
It kills the room, every time. So I’d thought I’d share:
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Jackie
December 18th, 2010
5:59 pm
@Pogo
Wonder how you make the determination that blacks and leftists are mindless?
I do believe many of us that fit into that category that you made for us realize the so-called conservatives do not have a mind, eyes or ears. They do not have the ability to think, see or hear anything that is factual, or, did not come from the Repubs talking points. Care to refute?
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:15 pm
Well, according to jay’s left-wingers, all the conservatives here watch FOX News so therefore, we’re all a bunch of homophobes…says AmVet.
What would I do if not for all those who need to define me?
Go on about my life as though their opinions don’t matter?
Sounds like a plan. Sounds like THE PERFECT PLAN!!!
schnirt
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
6:16 pm
AmVet
“What a capricious and duplicitous lot…”
You sound like Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”!!
AmVet
December 18th, 2010
6:17 pm
…all the conservatives here watch FOX News…says AmVet.
No, but most of the lying idiots here say stupid sh*t like that…
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
6:19 pm
josef,
The Washington Post has a pretty good story on how this will work. It’s certainly more informative than the misleading headline here at the AJC that last time I checked the link to you to internet oblivion.
However it has about 57 shades of gray.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121801729.html?hpid=topnews
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:20 pm
I’ll keep my eye open for those lying idiots. They’re most definitely left-wingers. Why would a conservative accuse another conservative of watching FOX News?
Talk about the stupid…
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
6:24 pm
to you to ?
takes you to…that’s better.
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:28 pm
Enter your comments here
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:30 pm
Whoops! No comment except to say:
The WaPo piece makes it sound like they’ve put a layered-up mannequin in the window for public viewing. The nekkid truth is yet to be revealed.
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:32 pm
For those concerned about my eating habits, I just had a bowl of vegetable soup. No cornbread. I prefer Tabasco and lots of it.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
6:39 pm
Well, according to jay’s left-wingers, all the conservatives here watch FOX News so therefore, we’re all a bunch of homophobes…says AmVet.
Well, shame on all jay’s left-wingers for saying such a thing and especially shame on AmVet! How could you, Dude. I’m aghast, I tell you. Shocked. Awed. I might have to go back through the posts and find those statements and save them for posterity’s sake. Then again, perhaps @@ would save the trouble and just provide me the links.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
6:41 pm
RW
From the article linked….
“The White House and Pentagon will not set a specific timetable on ending the ban, and stress it will occur only after Gates and Mullen believe the military is ready to end enforcement. ”
Which is why I’m still not breaking out the bubbly…
And you’re right, 57 shades of gray…one for each of the states?
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
6:47 pm
one for each of the states?
Now, now, josef
There was no stopping him at 57. He had been to 57 with one to go and two that his staff wouldn’t let him go to. That’s 60 and the two were Alaska and Hawaii so if they really were boycotting Michigan and Florida we may have gotten up to 62 states at his high water mark.
I think we’re down to 51 now. The commonly recognized 50 and Afghanistan.
@@
December 18th, 2010
6:50 pm
Taxpayer:
You’d have to be blind to have missed the numerous declarations. Either that or willfully ignorant.
I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt and assume you’re posting with software for the blind.
If I’m wrong, that leaves only one other option.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
6:55 pm
@@,
Where were those posts that you described.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
6:57 pm
So, with the repeal of DADT, will the military be asking questions regarding sexual orientation of potential recruits and will there be a grandfather clause.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
6:59 pm
RW
The commonly accepted 50 and Afghanistan…did Israel seceed?
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:01 pm
RW
my @ :59
ooops…make that “secede…” you’d think I’d've got that one right!
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
7:02 pm
did Israel seceed
They did from Obama’s America, but they’ll be rejoining in a couple years.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
7:03 pm
josef,
You had all the right letters. Who cares about the order?
@@
December 18th, 2010
7:04 pm
Taxpayer:
I’m not gonna play your silly little game.
AmVet
December 18th, 2010
7:05 pm
TP, I think the humper’s been drinking again.
josef, I’ll have to give that film another try. While younger, I found it laboriously long and over-wrought. Perhaps now, I’ll have the patience for that particular cup of southern melodrama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8oGyGo1q-k
T
December 18th, 2010
7:12 pm
“grandfather clause” That was funny!!!
Great day for me and a lot of others. I love this uniform!!! Now when other people talk about relationships, I dont have to play the pronoun game.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
7:15 pm
Taxpayer:
I’m not gonna play your silly little game.
Sooooooo. I take it that’s a no to providing those links. Okay.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:18 pm
RW
Well, maybe…but that’s going to require us to admit we need them more than they need us in certain arenas…and I’m with you on that spelling thingie…
AmVet
Heretic that I am, I have never been much of a Williams fan. There’s just too much angst there and the self-censorship that went into his writing bespeaks a not very happy time in the gay reality…
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 18th, 2010
7:19 pm
TaxPayer@6:57 pm
So, with the repeal of DADT, will the military be asking questions regarding sexual orientation of potential recruits and will there be a grandfather clause
——
Now ya dun it. I’m a grandfather and I say let em in. IS that good enuff fur ya?
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:22 pm
T
Was waiting to hear from you…just don’t go popping the bubbly cork yet…discretion is still the greater part of valor…
common sense..
Grandfathers of the world, unite! Fight back and smash the puerile oppressors!
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:24 pm
T
You make the most salient point yet on what it is to be gay in America… “play the pronoun game.”
AmVet
December 18th, 2010
7:25 pm
“Heretic that I am, I have never been much of a Williams fan.”
Like several other southern writers for me. Though there are numerous ones that I love…
A good op-ed that speaks to a topic I am interested in – how the quality of education varies widely in this country due to economic injustice…
These facets of inequity in America’s public schools have robbed students of their right to an equal, quality education. As a result, there is a disparity in academic performance that falls along economic and racial lines. For too many students in America, education is not the great equalizer, as it is purported to be.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/17/honda.education/index.html?hpt=T2
Normal
December 18th, 2010
7:25 pm
Lest we forget…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXm1KYxUzQs
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
7:32 pm
Point. Did I make a point. Nah. I was merely asking questions, though possibly of a rhetorical nature.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 18th, 2010
7:35 pm
AmVet@7:25 pm
I also hate that even with an education southerners are discriminated against because of an accent.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
7:39 pm
Would it be better of me to ask, with the pending repeal of DADT, will the military be asking potential recruits if they are heterosexual.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
7:41 pm
I also hate that even with an education southerners are discriminated against because of an accent.
And then act as though it is our fault or that we can do something about it. The logistics of shipping in that much bottled water is just mind boggling.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:41 pm
AmVet
Southerners, Jews and the Irish…without them, what would modern English literature be? And each has its angst riddled gay greats just to make sure you want to slit your wrists after plodding through!
But, like you say…then there are those others amongst them!
I saw a quote the other day that went something like “the Jews and the Irish are not ethnics so much as a psychosis.” I think we could probably add Southerners to that club…
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
7:42 pm
And all this time, I thought Confusion was the 51st state.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:45 pm
the Southern accent…
Yep. That’s why I hold onto and cultivate mine with a vengence…
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
7:46 pm
Hillbilly
Granddaddy used to claim that I was the Prime Minister of the State of Oblivion…
@@
December 18th, 2010
7:50 pm
Dagnabbit! Post got thrown into moderation. I’ll try again.
Taxpayer:
Alright, have it your way.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
9:03 am
Fortunately, I cannot become tainted by Rupert’s opinion shows since I do not watch them. Apparently, there are many right-wingers here that worship at Beck’s (Rupert’s) feet though. Good for them
Many right-wingers here that worship Rupert’s feet!!??!!
Rupert Murdoch, media mogul. Among his outlets? FOX Network.
How does THAT shoe fit? A bit tight is it?
@@
December 18th, 2010
7:54 pm
Taxpayer:
And out of the kindness of my heart, I’ll belabor this point no further.
Smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile
@@
December 18th, 2010
7:55 pm
Testing.
If the foo sh*ts?
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
7:55 pm
the Southern accent…
All 14 of them and their many variations..
@@
December 18th, 2010
7:56 pm
Oh!!!! Asterisks are my friend.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
8:02 pm
Hillbilly
“All 14 of them and their many variations..”
With all that to choose from, and Hollywood/television still can’t get it right! Nothing grates on my last nerve so much as somebody faking it…and it’s not as though it can’t be captured by outlanders…Jean Smart and Paul Newman come to mind…
T
December 18th, 2010
8:11 pm
Josef,
I know. A battle was won, but the war might not be over.
A fun fact!!! My entire command in Afghanistan knew I am gay. Along with other soldiers. No one really cares. We are good at our jobs. Can’t wait till this is not an issue.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
8:12 pm
@@,
Here’s your statement that I inquired about regarding this thread:
Well, according to jay’s left-wingers, all the conservatives here watch FOX News so therefore, we’re all a bunch of homophobes…says AmVet.
So, how exactly does a comment by me from October regarding Glenn Beck’s show and my statement regarding many right-wingers posting on that thread on that day answer my inquiry. Wait a minute. I get it. If I use the letter k as in okay then that can be found in Glenn Beck’s name and Glenn Beck has a show on FOX or something like that. As for the link to homophobes, that one must have been why you brought up Rupert. Besides, why are you getting your thong in a bunch over this University of Maryland study now. After all, myself and other posters are just the messengers and we just thought that viewers of those FOX shows needed someone to tell them about it since it’s not very likely that FOX would see any need in sharing that study with its viewers on their own.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
8:14 pm
With all that to choose from, and Hollywood/television still can’t get it right!
Ain’t that the truth? I’d just as soon they speak in their normal accent, as to try it and screw it up. I have several pet peeves. One is that the word y’all is ALWAYS plural, never singular. Another is when they are doing a story in an upcountry location and the actors are trying to use lowcountry accents. If you’re going to mangle it, at least mangle the right one.
I actually thought Ralph Waite on the Waltons did a pretty good job. He didn’t try to copy everything but he did get the spirit of it right, I thought. I think maybe he understood that it’s better to do it that way. Even though he didn’t really sound like somebody from the mountains of Virginia, he did get the rhythm and the feel of it fairly well.
On the bright side though, friends in other parts of the country tell me that Hollywood never gets their area right, either. That even includes New York City. Could it be that Hollywood is so self absorbed it never listens to any of the rest of us?
@@
December 18th, 2010
8:14 pm
Some have said that “Lost’s” Josh Holloway (born in California) nailed the southern accent. As it turns out, Holloway grew up in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.
Hillbilly, did you know him? Please tell me you knew him. He’s HOT!!!! But more importantly, is he a nice fella?
Lie to me, Hillbilly! Tell me some whoppers!
(IW&SH)
@@
December 18th, 2010
8:16 pm
Taxpayer:
I didn’t bother to read your 8:12. Go pester someone else.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
8:18 pm
@@,
I didn’t bother to read your 8:16 either.
AmVet
December 18th, 2010
8:21 pm
Sense, @7:35, yes, but in my lifetime, I’ve seen that change a lot. I’ve spent much of my adult life in Dixie and I know, that like everywhere else, the stereotypes aren’t usually accurate.
Do you remember that girl character in Saturday Night Fever who hated her accent and felt like the “better” people in Manhattan thought less of her?
It’s not unique to here and to some extent or another, it probably won’t ever go away.
jonix, alas, I’ve not yet made it to the Emerald Isle. But I drank my share of Guinness in the day!
I understand about indecision…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY
@@
December 18th, 2010
8:22 pm
Good.
Common Sense isn't very Common
December 18th, 2010
8:24 pm
TaxPayer@8:12 pm
My Gawd – Taxpayer is one of them.
I have found a way to make the southern accent work fo rme.
In any of the interviews I get (since I am up against cheap H1b workers not as plentiful as they once were)
If I am in the south and the intervieweris from the south I start with a soft southernese. Then after I find out their interests I might drop a few harder southernism’s on them.
More interest in good ol boys in the south than the rednecks from up north. LOL
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
8:30 pm
So even though he’s a card carrying Marxist, the ever stuck on stupid neo-cons here in the Moron Belt voted for Suxby for one reason and one reason alone.
Wonder who that could have been?
A trip down memory lane, from just after the 2008 elections
Given all that, it’s going to take more than a widely predicted runoff victory in Georgia to “sen(d) a message that any rhetoric about a liberal mandate is nothing but hot air.”
No wonder the AJC makes their archives nearly impossible to search.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
8:34 pm
@@
I know some people in Free Home but that’s the first I’ve ever heard of that guy. There used to be a mule barn over that way. Not sure if it’s still there or not. Ain’t been down that way in years.
Del
December 18th, 2010
8:41 pm
Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but repealing article 125 will take an act of congress. Until such time as that’s accomplished, the protections for gay’s in the military will be gone with the repeal of DADT. Unintended consequence for ramming through a bill in a lame duck congress? I don’t think so, rather this was Democrat vote pandering politics on display with Obama, Reid, Pelosi and company knowing full well that the complete job would be an incomplete. It will be interesting to see how many in their base got fooled.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
8:45 pm
I think the one that truly sends me into orbit is the use of that ersatz Southern accent to establish the evil and or ignorant nature of the character….
I may have said it before, but Sissy Spacek won me for good when she played her character in the film “Missing” using her native accent and at no point in the film was being Southern even mentioned…
and then there’s this… Mel Blanc…a genius!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptXEVbBLPDM&feature=related
@@
December 18th, 2010
8:47 pm
Hillbilly:
That’s the best you can do!!??!! A mule barn?
(ISH)
RW:
It took me a minute to find out who said that. After looking…..low & behold?
By AmVet
December 5, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this
Goldie,
He’s a gutless disgrace of a man, veterans despise him and he’s one of the biggest suckup corporate wh0res in a town full of them.
So even though he’s a card carrying Marxist, the ever stuck on stupid neo-cons here in the Moron Belt voted for Suxby for one reason and one reason alone.
He had an R after his name.
But then these are the ring-through-their-noses dipsticks who voted for the worst president in American history twice…
Typical of AmVet, and in stereo no less.
Too funny!
@@
December 18th, 2010
8:49 pm
I don’t like slanties. They’re persistent little buggers.
TaxPayer
December 18th, 2010
8:50 pm
My Gawd – Taxpayer is one of them
shhhhhh! Don’t tale no one. Hit’s a seekret.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
8:52 pm
I like the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons………but they did use y’all in the singular.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
8:52 pm
@@,
Finding him using that particular disparagement of the south is an easy search which makes that bit of revisionism at 8:21 hysterical.
Here’s another
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
8:55 pm
And the heroes of the Moron Belt’s American Talibaptists.
And you dolts wonder why you keep getting humiliated every other November
That one was from March ‘09.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
8:56 pm
That’s the best you can do!!??!! A mule barn?
It wasn’t my mule barn. If you were in the market for a mule, though, that’s one place where they had sales.
And I do know somebody who is well known enough, that when I was talking to him at a funeral once, somebody came up and asked for his autograph. He was a whole lot more gracious about it than I would have been. I’ll never tell who it is, though. (IW&SH)
Del
December 18th, 2010
8:58 pm
The lefts fear of Fox News is always humorous. Let’s see…you have Shlepturd Smith with two hour slots in the pm. Geraldo Riveria (who makes me almost vomit), Greta VanSustren, Bob Bechle, Ratner and several other left wing guests and contributors. So the far-left lemmings who’ve been indoctrinated by their teachers continue this stupid rant against a news organization that doesn’t spin their party line.
AmVet
December 18th, 2010
8:58 pm
Oh yeah, like I don’t make fun of everybody?!
Geez, pathetic…(See, I did it again!)
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
8:59 pm
Hillbilly
Yeah, they did and it grated on my nerves…
RW
So, what ya got against a little revisionism?
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:01 pm
O.K., AmVet’s “moron belt” again coupled with “backwater locales”.
Why not just say backwater yokels.
AmVet will say and do anything to gain his much sought after respect.
U R GOOD, RW!
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:03 pm
josef
How ’bout Mama’s Family on Carol Burnett? I felt like I was watching my kin folks on that one.
The way they could turn any little thing into a knock down drag out. That was us, growing up.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:04 pm
josef,
I almost insertes a caveat just for you after the word revisionism.
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:06 pm
My ex brother-in-law says “you-uns” and “we-uns”…no y’all. He’s from Sylva, N.C..
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:06 pm
This one seems to go back the luckovich days.
ITN, Lindsey Graham’s response for not supporting the new GI Bill was about as mealy-mouthed an excuse for not doing the right thing as even a seasoned political crook can use.
I always thought he was kinda useless.
This doesn’t help.
But as he is firmly entrenched in the Moron Belt, sadly he’s probably going back to “support the troops” some more…
Everybody remember who ITN was?
For the link obsessed
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRTSAG2LTQ
Kamchak
December 18th, 2010
9:09 pm
Oh dear.
Brother AmVet has said some disparaging things about us folks born in the south.
Good thing there are outsiders here that are smart enough to point that out, cause I sure is hate being dumb.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
9:10 pm
Hillbilly
That was one of the funniest things ever put on tee-vee and it operated at so many different levels…Carol Burnett was born in Texas and based those characters on her real family…
Did you ever happen to catch any of “Sordid Lives…” either the movies or the series? Talk about having us down pat!
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:12 pm
Everybody remember who ITN was?
In The News was Mrs. Godzilla, now known as Granny Godzilla.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:13 pm
My ex brother-in-law says “you-uns” and “we-uns”…no y’all. He’s from Sylva, N.C..
I don’t say we-uns but I say you’ns (it’s pronounced like all one word, comes out more like yuns) a whole lot more than I say y’all. That goes back to Scotland, you know.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:15 pm
In The News was Mrs. Godzilla, now known as Granny Godzilla
DING DING DING
And while “they” would spend the day talking to each other she would constantly accuse people of posting under multiple names.
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:17 pm
like all one word
Probably didn’t pick up on that. I still say “you guys”. Not to be confused with “yous guys”.
If California has a dialect, it’s undetected. Kinda bland really.
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:20 pm
RW:
When I get bored here, I’ll drop in at Cynthia Tuckers. Mrs. G still accuses people of posting under multiple names. It seems to be when she’s losing ground over there.
A victim of multiples!!!
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:23 pm
josef
I never saw Sordid Lives but looking at a couple of clips, it looks like it was pretty funny.
I liked one exchange, where one character, tells another that she’s in therapy and he says, “Well, it ain’t a-working”. Delivered perfectly dry, just like it would be in the real world.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7isIyhFHvA
Del
December 18th, 2010
9:28 pm
Y’all have a great evening…watch a movie with my Mrs. and then Taps.
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
9:29 pm
Hillbilly
You’d like it…
“Sissy: [smoking and talking to her dead sister's corpse] Hey. Guess you don’t mind if I smoke. It has not been a good day sister. And I blame YOU… You turn on a LIGHT when you go to the bathroom… If you are going to have affairs you have GOT to be more careful! Of course, this is all useless information for you now. ”
And that Burnett clip
“…collect $200. 1936 Parker Brothers, Ink…what the hell does that mean?”
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
9:33 pm
Hillbilly
That GPS! One of my favorite things to do when I get one of those voice reading recording type thingies is to make sure I do my best drawl and then “hold on and an operator…” Some of the operators get plumb snippy when I ask them if anybody there speaks English!
@@
December 18th, 2010
9:34 pm
Southern Dialect survey:
1. If you want to offer somebody a non-alcoholic carbonated drink, you might say, “Do you want some ?”
a. coke
b. pepsi
c. pop
d. soda
e. sody
f. sody water
g. tab
h. sprite
i. other (specify )
2. If the informant answered #1 with a brand name (e.g. coke, pepsi, tab, etc.), ask the following question:
Does that refer only to a particular kind of drink or can it refer to non-alcoholic beverages in general?
a. to a particular brand
b. to non-alcoholic bottled drinks in general
3. What do you call a foldable brown paper container that they put your groceries in at the grocery store?
a. bag
b. sack
c. poke
d. other (specify )
4. What do you call a heavy pan used for frying?
a. skillet
b. frying pan
c. fry pan
d. spider
e. other (specify )
5. What is the difference between a skillet and a frying pan?
a. skillet is made out of cast iron
b. skillet is heavier (or frying pan is lighter)
c. skillet is bigger (or frying pan is smaller)
d. skillet is electric (or frying pan is not electric)
e. other (specify )
6. If chicken isn’t fried like it’s supposed to be because the cook’s not very good or the oil wasn’t hot enough, it’ll leave spots on a paper towel. When it does, you’d probably say the chicken’s pretty .
a. greasy [z]
b. greasy [s]
7. How would you say the following words?
Marry, merry, and Mary
a. all three the same way
b. all three differently
c. these two differently: ________, ________
d. these two the same way: _________, ________
8. How would you say the following words?
Pen and pin
a. both the same way
c. both differently
9. If you were to refer to a group of your friends, you would say:
a. You all
b. Y’all
c. Youse guys
d. You guys
e. Other _____________ (specify)
10. How would you say the word “caramel”?
a. with 2 syllables (”car-ml”)
b. with 3 syllables (”carra-mel”)
c. I use both interchangeably
d. I have both forms, but the two have different meanings.
11. What is your general term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
a. sneakers
b. shoes
c. gymshoes
d. tennis shoes
e. running shoes
12. How would you say the word “mayonnaise”
a. with 2 syllables–”man-aze”
b. with 3 syllables–”may-uh-naze”
c. I use both interchangeably
d. other ____________ (specify)
I know what a spider is. My Mom wanted one for Christmas. It’s a cast iron skillet with a top for cooking/baking biscuits.
My minister, The Brit calls tennis shoes, trainers. My Alabama cousins call them tenni-pumps.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:35 pm
josef,
This may explain a little bit of it
During 1936, Parker Brothers marketed six different versions of the Monopoly game, ranging in price from $2 to $25 ($325 today!). This most expensive set came with a wood game board and a brass-handled chest lined with trays that held the game’s components, including Bakelite houses and hotels and metal coins for added money.25 When the Parker Brothers accountants closed the books on 1936, 1,810,000 copies of all editions had been sold and the firm had earned an unprecedented $1,000,000 profit
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:37 pm
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That survey doesn’t even have the proper answer to question 1. At least I don’t think so. I always thought you offered a cocola.
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December 18th, 2010
9:37 pm
Oh! When my minister first referred to “his trainers”, my response was “And here I’ve been thinking you were potty trained as a toddler.”
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:38 pm
What the guy at 2:18 calls “antigogglin”, we’d call “whomper-jawed” in my world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGuCaApR7U
josef nix
December 18th, 2010
9:39 pm
What are we gonna do about this dead goat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsA-nl6tyuw
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December 18th, 2010
9:42 pm
RW:
I always just ask if they’d like something to drink. Then I tell them what’s not available. Not too many people like Club Soda. When I tell ‘em I’ve got juice, they look at me funny. Water? Coffee? Cold tea, unsweetened? I have artificial sweetener, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It is artificial, ‘ya know. You can add sugar, but it’ll likely be gritty.
schnirt
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December 18th, 2010
9:44 pm
I AM the HOSTESS with the MOSTEST!
I fall short when it comes to southern hospitality.
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December 18th, 2010
9:50 pm
antigogglin is caddy cornered or caddy wampus as my Dad used to say.
RW-(the original)
December 18th, 2010
9:50 pm
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You being a California girl I’d think you’d start with the wine list. Course that does defeat the nonalcoholic part of the question in most cases.
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:53 pm
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1- (i) I wouldn’t say “do you want some”, I’d say, “You want a Co-Cola?”.
2- (b) If you want another brand, you better specify.
3- (b) Sack. Some sacks can be a poke but not at the grocery store.
4- (a) Skillet
5- (a) Skillet is cast iron. Never seen one that wasn’t.
6- (a) Greasy (z)
7- (d) these two the same way: _________, ________ merry and Mary
8- (a) both the same way
9- (e) other, you’ns………..or more likely something unprintable
10- (a) with 2 syllables (”car-ml”)
11- (d) tennis shoes
12- (a) with 2 syllables–”man-aze” My uncle from the swamps of south Alabama called it “my-naze”
Hillbilly Deluxe
December 18th, 2010
9:56 pm
Whomper-jawed and catty wampus are similar but not necessarily interchangeable, in our world. I can’t tell you the difference but I know it when I see it.
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December 18th, 2010
9:56 pm
RW:
I don’t drink wine, but I’ve always got nuts to offer. Fruit too. ‘Course, neither of those are beverages.
HEY! Nuts and beer! I’ve always got those. I don’t even ask The Cajun neighbor what he’d like. I just reach in the fridge and pull out a beer. No need to ask. Next time I’ll offer him nuts to go with it.
I CAN BE a gracious hostess.
(ISH)
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December 18th, 2010
9:59 pm
Hillbilly:
I always understood catty (’scuse the misspelling) wampus to be askew…off center…out of sorts.
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December 18th, 2010
10:04 pm
‘Ya know what? All this southern discussion has prompted me to go make a malted for my husband. Don’t know if they’re southern or not, but he grew up drinking ‘em at The Tastee Freeze or was it Shop? Can’t recall.
I’m out.