My aunts call me “Sug”, “Sugar”, “Sweet Pea”, “Sweetheart”, and “Honey”. Sometimes “Darlin’.” I don’t think they ever, ever call me by my given name.
Maybe they’ve forgotten it?
I remember noticing one of the killers from “In Cold Blood” saying it to his partner in crime. While I remember that the crime took place in KS (about an hour from my hometown, though a few years before I was born), I don’t recall where the perps hailed from.
My grandmother calls me “Sugar Booger”
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Dick Hickock was from Kansas City, KS. Perry Smith was born in Nevada, but bounced around so much during his youth that it would be difficult to really call any state his home.
As for King of the Hill, I think this is the first thread about the show since the twelfth season started, so I guess it’s as good a place as any to mention how thoroughly impressed I am. The show really just gets better and better. I’ve noticed a marked improvement over the eleventh season, which was better than the tenth, which was much better than the ninth!
What has been interesting for me is the growth and development of Arlen over the 12 years (good lord) it is been on the air. It has gone from an essentially rural town in central Texas to an exurban area somewhere between Dallas and Austin (this is a general consensus I have reached with the help of a great Dope thread from a few years back.)
Over the course of the show, the characters really have adapted to this change and I think it reflects a lot of people in rural areas that wake up one morning and realize that civilization has reached their front doors.
Great show.