Was interviewed yesterday

[Sandy G]

There WAS a "Dogpatch, USA" tourist trap up in Kentucky offa I-75 years ago, I never did get to stop there. Think its long since gone. L'il Abner's been gone nearly what, 40 years now, not many people remember it/him..Down here, we have a Bean Station-It was in Ripley's once as the "Human Vegetable Capital of the USA"- There was a family of Beets lived there, several families of Beans, & a Mr. Cabbage. We don't have a Bugtussle, but we DO have a Sneedville, a Surgoinsville, Ducktown-A "Quackin' good place" according to its boosters, & a Turtletown.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

There WAS a "Dogpatch, USA" tourist trap up in Kentucky offa I-75 years ago, I never did get to stop there. Think its long since gone. L'il Abner's been gone nearly what, 40 years now, not many people remember it/him..Down here, we have a Bean Station-It was in Ripley's once as the "Human Vegetable Capital of the USA"- There was a family of Beets lived there, several families of Beans, & a Mr. Cabbage. We don't have a Bugtussle, but we DO have a Sneedville, a Surgoinsville, Ducktown-A "Quackin' good place" according to its boosters, & a Turtletown.

Our Dogpatch was a tourist trap too, down at the Lake of the Ozarks. Pretty seedy joint, sold all of the Hillbilly crapola...little whiskey bottles, post cards, ash trays, cigars nobody over the age of 13 would have been stupid enough to try to smoke.

Now they did have a piano playing chicken, which amounted to a moth eaten leghorn in a cage with a fake piano. You'd drop a nickle in a slot and this chicken was supposed to act like it was playing the fake piano. Folks generally dropped a dime before they figured out that all this chicken was going to do was stand there with a stupid look on it's face. But the lake was kinda cool back then.

Now it's a hellhole. Kinda like going to New York City, traffic's horrible, condos and malls everywhere, and if you get on the water in anything under a 30 footer you'll probably be killed. Even makes Branson look good.

Chas

[Sandy G]

Ain't no Shmoon in DC-They're all Schmucks up there...Well, maybe a Putz or 2 as well...

[Sandy G]

Posers...We got Gatlinburg & Pigeon Forge, where separating tourists from their money has been honed to a fine art for at least 50 years...This blight is located adjacent to Great Smoky Mtns Nat'l Park, where you can ride thru & if you're lucky, see an asthmatic, sodden bear or 2..That and some ho-hum mountains-But they ARE pretty nice in October. Otherwise, the traffic, the heat, the traffic, the cops, the people & the traffic keep most sane LOCAL people away...