Your welcome. The use of metaphor is probably a Tennessee cultural trait from Thompson’s childhood. I don’t think kids in the south speak this way much anymore. TV is killing regional accents, dialects and speech patterns, and replacing them with a Los Angeles drab. He is from a dying era.
not in my family...we speak Dixie, same as Fred.
I detest Southerners who put on airs and try to talk like they are from Colorado.
Would someone from Jooisey or Baastan be ashamed?
No, and I sure ain't giving in to the MTV droll generation..
You do have a point. I worked for a number of years for a Fortune 100 company. Southern workers who were deemed fit for promotion were sent to class to undo their southern accents and speech patterns. The company's point of view was that they couldn't be promoted unless they had very vanilla speech.
My father, a Louisiana river rat, had a metaphor, a song, a poem, story or tale for every occasion. The southern states have a very rich history of colorful colloquial speech. I'm sorry to see it lost. I wish I had taped the things my father used to say and sing. In eastern TN chicken and dumplings is "chicken and slippery bisquits". Could you find a more perfect description of the dish?