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Here, have a laugh at my expense ...
Topic Started: Jan 14 2009, 02:13 PM (412 Views)
Onelanerode
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I just had the funniest thing happen. I called a guy to haul my mare to trainer's farm for me in March. He sounds like a nice good ole boy (GOB), thick Southern accent. We tentatively set a date/time and then I asked him about ballpark cost.

GOB: "Should be about sebenty fahve hunnerd dollars."

*long pause*

Me: *incredulous* "Um, OK??" :o :jaw:

I think I must have sounded somewhat shocked, because then he asked if that was too much. Thinking he's pulling my leg a little, as good ole boys are wont to do with females whose Southern accents aren't as pronounced, I said, well, it's a little more than the $1.50 to $2/mile I usually get quoted. He goes, well, "A dollah fifty times fifty mahles is sebenty-fahve dollahs, ain't it?"

And I said, I'm sorry, I thought you said $7,500. He started guffawing, "NAAAHHHWWW! Sebenty-fahve to a hunnerd dollahs! Lawd if ah charged that much ah could pay mah rig off real fast!" I said yeah, I thought you were pulling my leg, because for that much I could buy my own rig! :duh:

So we both had a good laugh over that. :teehee: He sounds nice ... hopefully everything will go OK.

I guess I need to go clean out my ears or something! :o
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GIRL, don't you speak and talk REDNECK with a SOUTHERN DRAWL????

Glad he wasn't a Cajun..., poo-yee-yi child....you ain't never gonna did ga lee

HH :psycho:
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HA!!!! GLad it was not $7500!!!

I use to waitress and I swore a fella asked me for some "Asti"

"Spumonte? Can I see some id?"

"Ewe mean aye gots to have eye dee to drink Asti?"

"Yes"


Imagine my redness when I realized he ment ICE TEA. :rolleyes: Doh!!!
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When my mom first moved to Georgia after college, she dated a guy who would go on and on about his mom's beans. So my mom asked for the recipe and was told that she needed to cook the beans with "strickaleen"

So she goes to the grocery store to find strickaleen. After searching everywhere for strickaleen, she finally asked someone who worked at the store where she could find it. The employee sent her to the butcher counter for...."streak of lean." Which apparently is a particularly fatty type of bacon that makes beans delicious.
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Swinging this thing up north a bit, I dated a guy from Long Island (Lawn Gisland, if you are familiar with the type :teehee: ).

He had a sister named "Donner." Now this was in the early 1980s, when children were named things like "David," "Nancy," or "Sarah," as opposed to Declan, Brock or IsabellaMykaylaya. And his family was not exactly what I would describe as a bastion of creativity. So, I thought it was really odd that these rather boring, staid folk had named their only daughter "Donner." But I used the name in good faith. I mean, your boyfriend tells you his sisters name is "Donner," you call her "Donner," right?

Only, they hadn't named her Donner. Her name, which I finally saw in writing was "DONNA."

Ye gods. :sigh:
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Hehe. Too funny. Good thing you didnt just say "Umm, no thanks, bye"

My work is rather interesting. We have a guy from Poland, he speaks pretty good English, but with a seriously heavy accent. We have a guy who stutters and talks fast. He refers to everything as 'she' including Aristos B :teehee: We have an Ecuadorean who speaks about 6 words of English. Put all three of them in the same room and get a conversation going and me and my boss sit back and just :o The three of them get mad at each other because they cant figure out what the other person is saying so they are all saying "what?" and they start raising their voices and trying to talk over each other. But god bless them all, they are three really great guys and we would be lost without them.
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I have a really thick Boston accent and back in the late seventies I went to visit my sister in LA. At first her friends all thought I was from Australia - and they just kept me talking and talking. We got many free drinks that week! Cause of course as the liquor loosened my tongue my accent got thicker and thicker.....
After a while they just started calling me Kennedy
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Okay....the nice man at the door telling me my "birds are out." After about 10 minutes of trying to tell him it's okay, they're birds (guineas), they can fly, and I can't catch them, I saw the donkeys sashaying down the driveway into the road. Oh, BURROS, okay, yup they're out all right. He helped me catch all of them. He was quite the cowboy! (I know I've told this story at least three times here, but maybe someone new will catch it and get a laugh...I'm not quite senile yet, but getting there fast. :) )

I used to work with a Hungarian woman who never lost her accent. Deer have a "rotting" season, she said, with a long, rolled "r" (rutting). That always made me laugh. God bless Viki, the mad Hungarian!

Hey, HH, I have NO idea what you just said in Cajun. Could you 'splain it in German perhaps? I'd stand a better chance of translating it. :rofl:
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After reading these posts I assume y'all have never eaten fatback or greens? :tomato:
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What made this so embarrassing for me was that I was born and raised in Eastern North Carolina ... I speak Southern! I say y'all and wuter and gawd and aint! :tantrum:
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