If we can use outside material as sources for our “neck of the woods” I’d have to go digging through Justified for what’s been colorful for me the past few years. Those Mean Girls and True Blood things are fun, and potentially useful in the right circimstances, but I’m not familiar with either show.
Just curious, does anybody have warm memories of Brother Dave Gardner? That boy was a beacon of Southern Bullshit.
He was moderately successful in the 50’s (was a fairly regular guest on Jack Paar for instance) and had roughly a dozen LP albums. YouTube has a few clips and I have found audio at various places on the web, but BROTHER DAVE GARDNER - “The Motorcycle Story” . will serve as an example of what I mean.
(So Cowtown is not just a nickname for Chitown, like Music City is for Nashvegas?)
Imported to Southern California from South Dakota, by my grandmother, making a plan for future actions “God willin’, and the creek don’t rise”. Always liked that one. She accidentally swallowed a fly in my presence as we were walking. “Was worse for him that it was for me!”
I had a big extended family on my stepmother’s side in deep MO. She used to tell us at the dinner table, “Grab a root n growl!” (translation: dont be shy, help yerself!)
If BDG doesn’t put you off with his sound effects and his Butterfly McQueen voice at times, he has some comedy gold that still holds up – at least for me.
One of his bits involves Little David (of Goliath fame) in which I have always enjoyed the double entendre where David goes to join his brothers as they are preparing to engage the Philadelphians and one of them asks: Little David, why ain’t you with the sheep?
David: Cause I’d rather fight.
(Tareyton cigarettes had an ad campaign at roughly that time that went “Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch” complete with a black smudge under one eye. And of course there’s that Urban Legend regarding farm animals.)
Good mornin’ troopers!
Noticed some posts on music. Anyone watching the Grammy Awards tonight? I just saw that NPR was going to televise it. When I lived in the land of milk and honey, I never missed it. Haven’t seen it in many years. And have lost touch with current non-Latino music. But I think I will view it tonight thanks to NPR (I don’t have a tele). And as Eric Burdon once said, “If ya want to know the truth in life, don’t leave music out.”
Mornin’, Amigo. Mind sharing which section of your “old country” you were from? Your English is too good for you to have spent all your life with Spanish to contend with.
Since you asked, I will probably skip the Grammys.
Mostly hung out in the West. CA, NV and Utah. Been south for 8 years now. Thanks for the English remark. I don’t speak it much here, and find myself translating Spanish to English to write on this MB.
and one of them asks: Little David, why ain’t you with the sheep?