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Default OT: Happy Groundhog Day

BryanGSimmons wrote:
> On 2/2/2021 5:18 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
>> BryanGSimmons wrote:
>>> On 2/2/2021 2:14 PM, Roy Rogers wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:31:03 -0600, BryanGSimmons
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Happy Groundhog Day to those of you what celebrates it.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffD8sZEQ69w
>>>>>
>>>>> Some years ago, my nephew took a vacation to Cancun.Â* When he
>>>>> got back,
>>>>> I told him that if anyone asks, "How was Cancun?" then he
>>>>> should, in his
>>>>> best affected hillbilly accent, answer something like, "Well,
>>>>> ain't
>>>>> nothin' beats fresh coon, but it was purty tasty."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> God, that is lame on so many levels.
>>>>
>>> Y'ain't from the Ozarks, are ya?Â* Them Dillards, they's my
>>> kinfolk.
>>> My great-great-great grandmother was a Dillard.
>>> (Mary Wesley *Dillard* Cage 1780€€œ1827)
>>> Y'ever skinned a squirrel?
>>>
>>>

>>
>> Yoose may be related to Popeye! It would explain much. He took a
>> trip back in them days to yoose neck of the woods. Yoose should
>> get a DNA test.
>>
>>
>>
>>

> Interestingly (or maybe not), the Dillard boys used to hang out at
> my great-grandmother's house when they were kids.* I think she was
> a second or third cousin, once or twice removed.* You know, Hank, I
> still got some hillbilly in me.* I know how to skin a squirrel.* My
> hillbilly step-mother explained it.* After you cut off the head,
> you also chop off the feet, and then you just "pull their little
> jammies off."* That's an exact quote.* She was an Arkansas
> hillbilly who married my Missouri hillbilly father after he
> divorced my mother.* Her given name was Armilda, but she went by
> Sammy.
>
> I told a guy at work about all that, and he couldn't stop teasing
> me about the "little jammies" thing, even though I pointed out the
> fact that, "some of us had a hillbilly step-mother, and some of us
> didn't."
>
> While the Missouri Ozarks is full of backward hillbillies, it is
> beautiful.
>


Some of those hillbillies are beautiful too.


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