Posted on 08/02/2014 7:32:12 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
I was born in Tennessee.
And even though I’ve lived in New York City for the past decade, I still take my tea sweet, my chicken fried and my biscuits buttered. I’m proud to call myself a gun-toting, Bible-clinging Tennessee Volunteer.
So you can imagine my befuddlement when I learned the Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to crack down on workers who have Southern accents by holding a “Southern Accent Reduction” course.
In other words, them government folks want to learn us rednecks how to talk right. Bless their hearts.
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I used to have to travel up North on Business and it was a real eye opener. They looked at me like I was from Pluto for smiling and saying How are y’all doing today? I guess its just not done. Fortunately I have not been above the Mason Dixon line in about 20 years. :-)
OK a little Hillbilly quiz here. Which one of the following four was not from Tennessee? Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, or Roy Acuff? To make it easier two mentioned were born in the same county :>}
I think this is coming from appeasing some workers there who put extra “R’s” in their words and have a real foreign accent. :>} Tennesseans ain’t the only ones a working thar is a what I’m a sayun.
Some years back, two colleagues and I had to travel to San Diego on business. I and one other have masters degrees in electrical engineering; the third had a PhD in structural engineering. At dinner one evening, after a little chit-chat with the waitress revealed that we were from “L.A.” (a local joke here on the Gulf Coast that means “Lower Alabama”), she proceeded to point to words on the menu and say them slowly to us, convinced that we were unable to read. And they call us bigots.
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That Cosby clip was the funniest thing I've ever heard...
it puts ‘Who's on first’ to shame.......
I knew a guy who was in the Navy, from Southern New Jersey, spoke with an accent from South of the Mason-Dixon line. He played clawhammer old timey banjo, (My Wife Died in Tennessee, sent my banjar back to me, hung my banjar up on the fence & I ain’t seen nothin’ of my banjar since, My name is Banjar Sam, Hello Banjar Sam), their ship was in port at the same time a Limey ship came in, Navy fellow started playing “The Battle of New Orleans” on banjo, he said a banjo makes a good club for bar fighting.
You are welcome. It is one of my favorite Cosby moments, and he has a lot of ‘em.
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