What's going on with guys who sound like "Boomhauer" (character from King of the Hill show)?

I searched up some Boomhauer clips. This one was especially informative to me …

He’s got three things going on:

  • uninhibited stream of consciousness
  • fast speech
  • country / southern accent & idioms

It’s pretty rare to find all three of those in one person. In particular country / southern and “fast” don’t often occur together in the wild. I’ll suggest that accent fits better in e.g. OK or northern TX than the more syrupy molasses in January pace of MS, AL, or rural FL.

I used to work with a guy who was a no-kidding cracker from smalltown rural FL. I swear he was the laziest human I’d ever met. He’d only pronounce the first syllable of any word, and stop before he got to that syllable’s trailing consonant. Anything more was more work than he was willing to put in.

Sorta the polar opposite of Boomhauer who actually has decent enunciation of many, but not all, of his words.


As to the stream of consciousness…
For me at least, that’s goes totally with excess substance abuse. As can do fast as well. I have a friend with fast stream of consciousness due to massive drugs past and present. But he’s Latin American and everything is filtered through a thick Spanish-as-first-language filter. He’s a right bitch to follow once he gets going.