For your joy and entertainment
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I grew up in the south. Took me damn near ten years to get rid of my hillbilly accent.
Now when I speak I sound sohesticated, sphofusticated, sofistycatted, sphoohisticated.
I sound smart.
Now when I speak I sound sohesticated, sphofusticated, sofistycatted, sphoohisticated.
I sound smart.
I love it. I remember, way back in the '60s, doing 'agitation and obedience' training with the guard dogs in the launching area of our Nike Hercules missile site. One dog in particular, "Useless" was his name, tried to chew through a chain link fence to get to me. He definitely wanted me for a 'chew toy'.
Why do so many "country" songs deliberately (I assume) sound beyond uneducated, and clearly illiterate, in their seeming intent to satisfy their audience? Sounded moronic to me.
We have had so many people make fun of us over the years, it's kind of a poke in their eye to do it on purpose.
Its the old 'You can take the boy out of the country , but you can't take the country out of the boy'.
I always laugh at the "country" singers born in places like NYC talking like they grew up in a holler in Tennessee.
^^^You mean like CCR?
A good friend of mine who makes the best blackjacks you could ever want was a K9 officer in his department. I supply him with processed lead ingots to make the heads of the blackjacks.
I delivered a load of over 500lbs of ingots and we spent the day together. He introduced me to his K9 and told the dog in the language that the dog is spoken to that the dog should watch me. We got to visiting and he put the dog in the kennel. We were looking at a .22 revolver and decided to shoot it. It's a good thing that he was shooting at the time and not me. He fired 3 shots and all of a sudden the dog was headed for me at top speed after going over a 12 foot fence!!
He had forgotten to tell the dog that I was OK and the dog was protecting him. He had to tell the dog to stand down while I stood totally still. I knew enough not to move while he was advancing on me and the dog ran into me with his head twice to test me.
I stayed frozen in position until he got the dog put back safely in the kennel. I asked if it was OK to move and that I needed to check my shorts from the recent adventure.
Afterwards we were able to laugh about it but it could have turned out badly if I panicked and he didn't have perfect control of his K9 partner.
The crazy thing about the video is the guy in the overalls looks a lot like me... just not as old and fat.
model70man
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I was at HM-69 (Everglades Nat'l Park) in the late 60s. One particular dog handler had to spray his dog in the face with a water hose until he got the dog leashed. Once leashed, the dog was great. Good to hear from a fellow Cold War black boot soldier.
