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Well, I understood it also. From the New Yorker again? One of my favorite irony cartoons from there is a man at a piano in an extremely large mansion clearly extremely wealthy, and his wife, dressed in clearly expensive clothes says to him "Play some Blues". Do you have that one, Congruous?
Wiggle - if you want to understand "redneck" humor - look up Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck" jokes. Like "if your momma stares at an orange juice carton because it says "concentrate", you might be a redneck."
Wiggle - if you want to understand "redneck" humor - look up Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck" jokes. Like "if your momma stares at an orange juice carton because it says "concentrate", you might be a redneck."
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lol. to be quite honest I dont know what it means, I think it has something to do with food and deer but not sure. My friend was just wearing the shirt that said that. sorry for giving you false hope to converse with a fellow southerner.52FM wrote:"jeet yet?
Yeah - joo?
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lol. jeet yet? = did you eat yetThe Shoegazer wrote:lol. to be quite honest I dont know what it means, I think it has something to do with food and deer but not sure. My friend was just wearing the shirt that said that. sorry for giving you false hope to converse with a fellow southerner.52FM wrote:"jeet yet?
Yeah - joo?
yeah, joo? = yeah, did you
I'd rather be a gear in a big, deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving.
"sorry for giving you false hope to converse with a fellow southerner. "
I'm not even from the south side of Chicago! But I do find Jeff Foxworthy pretty funny.
Now Chicago blue colar dialect - that is unique. I could never quite get it down pat. It's a lot more than just "Da Bearsss" My father in law was a classic -
Shuddup! Da boat uh yuhs!
(shut up; the both of you)
I say it, my wife says it, my kids say it - all for laughs and I'm sure my father in law laughs along somewhere!
I'm not even from the south side of Chicago! But I do find Jeff Foxworthy pretty funny.
Now Chicago blue colar dialect - that is unique. I could never quite get it down pat. It's a lot more than just "Da Bearsss" My father in law was a classic -
Shuddup! Da boat uh yuhs!
(shut up; the both of you)
I say it, my wife says it, my kids say it - all for laughs and I'm sure my father in law laughs along somewhere!
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"I just thought that Wiggle, being from the UK, might not know what a still is, and how a person who operates a still might be perceived to be a person who would not own a Mercedes. Call it subtle southern irony, if a southerner is really capable of irony."
OK - I think the meaning of the joke got lost in all the banter about who is or isn't a readneck and why etc.
A still is an apparatus for making homemade whiskey. It is sterotypically thought of to be a common appliance for realtively simple living folks in the southern US. The type of people who would own a still are usually not very well off economically - and therefore would certainly not be considered the type of people who would own a Mercedes. So here is this southerner talking about his divorce settlement - and he lost all these prized possessions in the process - but to add insult to injury she came back and smashed the still (which being illegal to own could not have been part of the settlement.)
Johnny Carson once said the least heard sentence in the English language is "that's the banjo player's Porsche". Kind of the same irony.
I hope you get it now. Other than that - it's just regional humor. Certain sections of the country are almost like foreign lands to people in other sections of the country. For example, as we approach winter - there will be people who cannot understand why anyone would live in an area of below zero temperatures and blizzards. And even though I'm from Chicago - I'll be one of them!
OK - I think the meaning of the joke got lost in all the banter about who is or isn't a readneck and why etc.
A still is an apparatus for making homemade whiskey. It is sterotypically thought of to be a common appliance for realtively simple living folks in the southern US. The type of people who would own a still are usually not very well off economically - and therefore would certainly not be considered the type of people who would own a Mercedes. So here is this southerner talking about his divorce settlement - and he lost all these prized possessions in the process - but to add insult to injury she came back and smashed the still (which being illegal to own could not have been part of the settlement.)
Johnny Carson once said the least heard sentence in the English language is "that's the banjo player's Porsche". Kind of the same irony.
I hope you get it now. Other than that - it's just regional humor. Certain sections of the country are almost like foreign lands to people in other sections of the country. For example, as we approach winter - there will be people who cannot understand why anyone would live in an area of below zero temperatures and blizzards. And even though I'm from Chicago - I'll be one of them!
Yes, I agree. As it hit a blustery 49 here last night I wondered that myself52FM wrote:I hope you get it now. Other than that - it's just regional humor. Certain sections of the country are almost like foreign lands to people in other sections of the country. For example, as we approach winter - there will be people who cannot understand why anyone would live in an area of below zero temperatures and blizzards. And even though I'm from Chicago - I'll be one of them!
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