I was twelve years old before I realized my great uncle was not a war veteran, everytime we went to his house he was talking about his "Bobbed War".
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Over There by the Airport
Years ago, lost in communication on a road job...
Foreman: "Oer der, by da airbort.
Survey Crew Chief: "By the airport? What did you say?"
Foreman: Oer der, by...da...airbord.
Survey Crew Chief: "Billy, what airport? I can't understand you."
Foreman: "OVR DER. BY...THA...ERROWBORD!!!"
Survey Crew Chief: "Oh. By the arrowboard. OK."
Over There by the Airport
If I spend more then a week on Bayou La Fourche I get so bad that I don't even understand myself.
That's fine, no worries here. I got scrubbed for saying someone was acting like a whore, but I was right as well! Cheers.
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WOW, if I just get a 10% cut for the suggestion I would still be a trillionaire.
A local survey was recently awarded a finders fee of 10 Trillion Zimbawe Dollars..Sounds too good to be true.
I have lived in California my entire life.
We have a lot of emmigrants so naturally I have heard a lot of different accents but never knew their origin.
It is funny to go somewhere like NYC (or anywhere back east) and start to realize, hey all these people talk like Bob, LOL.
My hometown of Bakersfield had a lot of people who came from Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl. I have a co-worker who has ancestors from Oklahoma. He likes to repeat some of the colloquialisms like, "I done seen on to it."
If I take that internet exam which determines if your speech is Dixie or Yankee I will get Dixie because of, for example, I say Aunt like the insect not like Awnt. And for heaven's sakes, it is Nevada not Nevawda and Oregon hasn't gone anywhere. I don't think anyone would mistake me for a southerner by hearing me speak. A lady we met at the hotel in Boston told us they come up there because of the cool weather (it was a 85 degree, very humid summer day). She said we really had to come on down and visit Chawlston which is way better than anything in the northeast LOL. She also told us that she moved down there 30 years ago and people still say, "You're not from around here, are you?" She sounded plenty southern to me.
When is NEXT Thursday
Is it 5 days from today or a week and 5 days. When I say OK we will do that next thursday my daughter seems to think that is the thursday after next. According to her it should be THIS thursday not next thursday.
Accents
We were lost in the middle of Tennessee trying to get back to Tullahoma and I stopped to ask for directions. The helpful man at the store I stopped at told me to go this certain road a few miles till I got to "Shovel". I thanked him and went on my way but when I got there I realized he had said "Shelbyville".
Accents
I hired a local kid to work on the survey crew on a job in the swamp outside of Lake Charles La.. He didn't have a car but told me I could pick him up at the Iway exit off of I-10. I said OK and drove up and down I-10 looking for Iway, that night he called and asked why I didn't pick him up and I said I-10 does not have and Iway exit. He said yes it does just before Jennings, I said spell Iway he said no problem Iowa.
We're thinking about putting on an anger management webinar for you guys.
Maybe another one for conflict resolution. Stay tuned.
Yeah, that will likely start a big fight.
ANGER SEMINAR....THERE AIN'T NO ANGER HERE....AIN'T NO NAME CALLIN EITHER....WHAT ARE YOU SOME KIND A *&^%*&^%*&^ SHRINK....AND FOR THAT MATTER YOU ACT LIKE YOU OWN THE PLACE.
HOLD ON PLEASE..........
SORRY 'BOUT THE YELP (THAT WAS THE DOG...NOT THE WIFE)....NOW BACK TO THIS MESS ABOUT FRICKIN STUPID ANGER MANAGEMENT....
HOLD ON AGAIN (SOMEONE AT THE DOOR)........BANG
SORRY 'BOUT THAT ONE ....(DANG DOOR TO DOOR SALESMAN) IT WASN'T AIMED AT HIS CHEST...JUST HIS KNEE....HE'LL BE OK IN A FEW MONTHS...
NOW WHERE THE HELL WAS I.......
Hell Dan, I heard ya just fine
It was jimbo that was hard to get a few times. 🙂
I love going to south LA. The dialect is awesome, you just have to listen a bit differently.
I don't need subtitles for Troy! 🙂
Hell Dan, I heard ya just fine
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The Edict of the Shrimp Fatwa
All I ever did was point out that some folks put shrimp in their Jambalaya.
That's all I did.
Some add shrimp, some don't, and I'm fine with it either way.
But just the same, for that mere suggestion, I was yelled at for "mumbling nonsense" and otherwise beaten up repeatedly for days, whether I was even posting or not, and now it's down to deleting posts.
I never before encountered anyone whose irrational rage was so deep that one wasn't even allowed to talk about food without it turning into an instant battle.
Apparently I blasphemed and the Cult of Jambalaya put a fatwa out on me.
Apparently we are not allowed to discuss personal preferences in recipe ingredients and must keep our Jambalaya choices to ourselves.
What a world we live in.
The Edict of the Shrimp Fatwa
> All I ever did was point out that some folks put shrimp in their Jambalaya.
For the record, that post was not removed. It was all the garbage afterward that I removed.
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The Edict of the Shrimp Fatwa
My response to you was harsh, and for that I apologize, but you saying "All I ever did" is, in my opinion, disingenuous.
The Edict of the Shrimp Fatwa
I graciously accept your apology, and will bite my tongue on any further commentary on the matter.
