Posted on 11/26/2004 7:06:57 PM PST by Boiler Plate
Ebaum,
"My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled). When she moved to Chicago with my brother, one of the cats fur got all tangled up during the move so she took it in for a line cut. She was quite surprised when she heard the price as it was twice as much as it was down south. She confirmed with the groomer that he understood what a line cut was and he said "yes, I know what a LION cut is." It seems her accent came out sounding like LION not LINE and this is how her cat was returned to her. She cried for a week...but not as much as the cat.
LMAO, Our new groomer now wants our baby tranked before she will cut her nails. I said for what we pay YOU.............you TRY to muzzle her and get to work. I'm not drugging my dog to make things easier.
Unfortunately, no.
OH
MY
GOSH!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You must have a lot of nice sweaters!
Should have used the universal translater: "The Dialectizer"
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
We need pictures of this.
Here in North Florida, we call them dingleberries. I would hate to see what the barber would have done with THAT one.
To me it's just another case of blue staters trying to prove how superior they are to red-staters whom they think are a bunch of dumb watermelon-seed-spitting hicks who can't speak right like blue-staters do.
Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world.~ Ted Rall, Nov 9th, 2004
A friend of ours did that with his wifes cat while she was gone visiting her Mom in Florida. You ever see the butter lambs they have at Easter? She was the butter cat for a long time. Never did it again while drinking JD.
Not necessary for an indoor kitty.
I should have known better than to try to slide one by y'all.
Me too - LOL!
You know I live in Maryland and no matter where I go the folks say I'm from the other. When I head south I'm a damnyankee and when I head north I'm a redneck. So the harder I try the worse off I am. Anymore when I head south I just remind them who won. When I go north, I tell them south has risen again and Kerry can back to eating PBJ's on Mama T's lap.
I had an Old English Sheepdog once and his hair got so matted one time we had to take him to the vet to get him sheared. When we got him back he looked about one fourth as large as he had before. The first thing he did when he got home was head for his dog house. He did not come back out of it for almost a week.
That's Hilarious!
Even if it is an urban legend it has enough truth to it to make it really funny. As a southerner who once pronounced all one syllable words as two syllables and who has now lived from NJ to MN and many states in between, I have been just as misunderstood and it can take a while to unravel the translation.
I asked one new friend, "Where do you bank?" and she replied, "Bike?" That was a pretty funny conversation before we figured it out.
That is fantastic! Isn't the internet a thing of beauty!
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