Was interviewed yesterday

[Charles]

Originally Posted by GWAR

You actually live in Bugtussell?

Nah, it's just a generic term. But their used to be a Dogpatch down the road a mite. Might even still be there.

Chas

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

From whom? I'm trying to draw a mental picture of which one would freak out my wife the most.

You may wish to have D-Ray on retainer before you play this trick on your wife.

What wimmen lack in humor is more than made up by vindictiveness.

Chas

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Charles

You may wish to have D-Ray on retainer before you play this trick on your wife.

What wimmen lack in humor is more than made up by vindictiveness.

Chas

I think you're right, sir. Somehow she would fail to see the humor in this trick.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Charles

Nah, it's just a generic term. But their used to be a Dogpatch down the road a mite. Might even still be there.

Chas

I hear the shmoo hunting's good around there.

John

[Charles]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I hear the shmoo hunting's good around there.

John

Naw, they all moved to DC.

My mistake, I thought you said schmoes.

Chas

[d-ray657]

Chas,

I refreshed my Oklahoma history study. Oklahoma does indeed have a town named Bugtussle. It was the hometown of Oklahoma's highest ranking federal official, Carl Albert, former Speaker of the House. When he served as house majority leader, he shepherded through most of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation. He was not your typical Oklahoma redneck, having been named a Rhodes Scholar. I hope that doesn't ruin your vision of Bugtussle. If you want, though, you can just think of Lil' Abner, or Jethro and Ellie Mae.

Regards,

D-Ray

[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.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Charles

Naw, they all moved to DC.

My mistake, I thought you said schmoes.

Chas

For those of you too young to remember, a Shmoo:



John

[Sandy G]

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

[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