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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:29 AM Original message |
Is "Howdy" really english? |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. Before the telephone was invented? n/t |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. Want to see how to enrage your average John Wayne fan? |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:35 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Does he still beat his wife? n/t |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:44 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. John Wayne's real name: Marion Robert Morrison |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 12:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. And he was a draft dodger. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. Howdy is vernacular |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 12:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. So it is English, then. |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 12:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I doubt it. |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 01:49 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. It's pure southern |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
4. A cowboy wearing a toupee? n/t |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
5. The answer would seem self-evident |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. Oh comeon. It's not that bad. |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. You're from the South, aren't you? |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Actually no. I was born in Pa, and lived there for 45 yrs. |
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Bluzmann57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. Howdy from a lifelong Midwesterner |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:00 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Why does everybody have to sound like Minnie Pearl? |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 12:43 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. In the trashier parts of Oregon, |
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checkmate1947 (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. If you find that hard to understand, try this |
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niccolos_smile (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
12. Actually it's Texan speak... |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. hmmmmf... What is a TSL class? |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 04:12 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Toad Salamander Larvae? -Sort of a reverse progression. |
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niccolos_smile (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-12-06 02:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. Like ESL, Texan as a Second Language... |
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TlalocW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
13. We-ell... I'll tell you whut |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
15. "Son of a gun" cracks me up |
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niccolos_smile (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:04 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Probably because you couldn't say sum' b!tch... |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 11:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
23. If you want some unintelligible expressions |
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niccolos_smile (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 12:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Cool. Thanks. n/t |
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patricia92243 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
16. Is Howdy Doody ok? I loved him as a kid. Just kidding :) |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:14 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. INteresting you say that. |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:49 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. and on a contemporary note, "Larry the Cable Guy" is a Hollywood |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
21. That's such an inconvenience, and its so difficult, to press "1" |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
22. How do ye do? Howdy? |
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OxQQme (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 02:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Yup! Comin' to set y'all straight |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
31. A lot of English isn't English. American english is a combination of |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
32. I am in AZ and occassionally say Howdy, but John Fucking |
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Touchdown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Do you walk funny? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:21 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Judge of what? My walk? Can you go to jail for that? |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:46 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Perhaps. We'll take it up with the Ministry of Silly Walks. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. OMG |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-11-06 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
36. yup |
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