Actually, I don't remember ever going to the Ozarks, although I've been close
on the way to Oklahoma a time or two visiting long-ago ex-in-laws. I grew up in
the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, on the banks of the Little Tennesse
River, about a stone's throw and a half from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. My
grandaddy was a part-time moonshiner, besides being a retired tobacco
auctioneer, hardware store owner, and cattle and tobacco farmer. I get my
weirdness by inheritance and experience. He was a small man, about 5'7", but
nobody would mess with him, because he had a reputation. He would tell anybody
who got in his face, "You don't halfway know who you're foolin' with." And they
didn't "fool" with him. I've still got his Colt pistol and his double-barrel
Parker shotgun.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If that one was any older, it'd have hair on it.
> Which part of the Ozarks are you in then?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 04/03/2007, at 10:05 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> > Something came up a few days ago about the meaning of the word
> > "acute," and I meant to include this in some response I made, but
> > forgot to.
> >
> > Hillbilly joke (which I can tell with total impunity, since "I are
> > one."):
> >
> > Young fellow takes wife to the doctor. After examining her, the
> > doctor comes out to the waiting room and the following conversation
> > ensues:
> >
> > Doctor: Young man, your wife has acute angina.
> > Young man: Yeah, I know that, but what's wrong with her?
> >
> > Walt
> >
>
>
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