533
Since Franklin Roosevelt in my opinion.
{NS}
{NW}
No
I'm I'm a Gerald Ford
I'd vote for Richard Nixon if he'd run again.
I think he was
as far as being
straightforward and and helping the American people
I think he was the best.
{D: He got called by}
being too easy with the people that work for him.
You know.
But anyway I s- I like him.
Trying to drain it.
Yeah.
Drainage ditch.
What now?
Your spring?
You know.
Um creek.
Yeah you know.
Sure every one of 'em.
Even the smallest and the largest.
Tell you a funny one.
{X}
Uh Chickasaw County
has got two county seats
which is weird.
Uh Houston is a county seat
Oklahoma's a county seat.
There's twenty-five thirty miles separated.
There's a couple other counties that's got that Tallahatchie has for one.
Uh but the reason being basically the same.
{NW}
This
{X}
Creek
separates the county you might say.
It's cuts the county in half.
It's not a giant creek it's just a creek you know.
But back in the old old old old
old days
the creek would get out.
{C: warped speech}
You know.
In other words
stay flooded
and you couldn't cross it with your wagon or with your horse
you know for like two three months out of the year.
And so they had to build a courthouse in
Oklahoma
in order to you know
carry on business over there too.
So uh
{X}
I have my own
definition of
where the name I mean my own idea where the name came from.
The word
{X}
is a Chickasaw Indian word that
means hog
corn.
And I just got a mental
picture of
Hernando de Soto
and this man coming along you know and there's a
Chief Thunder Cloud or whoever down there you know
{X}
which means red breasted bird
or robin.
Uh but anyway
Standing down there you know when he stops the
Spaniards and they go
{X}
you know
what is that?
And a chief looks down
there and there's his hogs down there eating corn
in the creek bed you know he says
Eh
{X}
And they you know
from that day forward call it
{X}
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Uh because
{X}
means hog corn you know.
So I just kind of figure that's where he got its name
and there's a lot of dumb things like that around here you know.
Like uh
but anyway.
Uh yeah Mud Creek Four Mile Creek
uh you know
{X}
Creek.
{D: Uh Golver}
Uh Long Creek
Cane Creek
Gordan Creek
Red Sand Creek
Uh
{X}
Creek right up here.
And uh
Pettigrew Creek right
you know
hundred yards
north of where we're sitting.
Uh
Let's see
how about some famous creeks?
Well I don't know you know just all kind of names.
Well
Not a lot what you'd call rivers uh.
They all start out as creeks.
Um
they're all named though.
Tombigbee.
Uh Pearl River
you know.
Just a slew of 'em.
You know.
{X}
River
A gully.
Ravine.
A lot of 'em you know.
But
No.
Well it'd be the same thing.
I think of a ravine though as being at the edge.
You know.
A ravine is what you might see that your car would run off.
of you know besides a road whereas a gully
is what you might find out in a pasture you know.
Yeah.
{NW}
Huh I don't know I don't understand.
No.
Nah not really.
I mean you know if it just
hung around in a- in a low lying area you know like say
in grass and frogs and stuff like that.
It's slew.
You know.
Back water.
Something
{X}
Go ahead.
Grade.
Rise.
Knoll.
Hill.
There's a difference in all of those.
Well a grade
would be just a just a slight inclination.
You know.
Just a grade.
Uh a knoll
is when you're standing back here looking at a little
knob of a hill over there that's a knoll.
You know right over there on top of that knoll.
A hill
uh would be something that you have to gradually go up and it's a pretty good size.
You know and uh
that's
Uh well a knob is you know what you see sticking up you know like
if you're over here and and you look out
across there and there's trees and stuff you know but there's a little
knob of a hill sticking up you know it look like a a bald head or something you know.
A knob of a hill.
A crest.
You know.
Point.
Cliff.
Yeah.
Cliffs.
With an F-S.
Like a cliffhanger of a ballgame you know.
A notch.
Mm-hmm.
That's a dock.
Uh-huh
yeah.
Well
Uh the dock is where you tie the boat the wharf is what you walk on right?
Going to the boat.
Or going away from the boat.
I don't know anyway that's the way I saw it.
I can have
{D: bass ackards}
You know
Who knows.
Waterfall.
What do you mean? Blacktop?
Yeah.
The highway.
It's just a highway.
The surface is you know asphalt.
It's a blacktop road.
{NS}
Uh tar really.
Yeah.
Path.
Cow path.
Like a right of way?
Is that what you mean?
Or
Eh not especially no.
I know what you're talking about
we don't have a lot of that around here because
You know it's concrete
roads and all and they just
the sidewalk the street to side with side.
What do they call that?
Nah.
Uh-uh
Stick.
Rock.
Chunk it at him.
Throw it at him
Mm-hmm.
Well actually it probably should be chuck.
You know.
You upchuck.
Right
{NW}
Me I vomit.
But uh chunk
Actually a chunk is- is a
is a description of
you know how big it is like a chunk of wood.
But you can also chunk it at him you know.
Or throw it at him.
A lot of people say throw it.
{C: pronunciation}
T-H
O
Throw it at him.
{C: pronunciation}
So
Well
There's different classes of the word actually.
{D: Uh I don't know if there's any claim to what it say you know.}
I have an upset stomach well I don't know if that means you know.
Uh have diarrhea or if they're throwing up.
You know.
Throwing up is probably the uh
the clean
slick way of saying
but uh
puke
uh has a connotation of being putrid
I think of
Pepto-Bismol
and you know yuck.
You know when I think of puke.
Uh something totally
totally unacceptable
you know I say ah I puke.
You know.
Uh
vomit.
Um
Well I've heard that but you know.
That's
what people say after they've had college for two years you know.
I thought I'd barf.
You know
like a barf being a dog
{NW}.
You know.
Well no I heard that.
You know.
Time or two you know.
Thought I'd upchuck.
But I basically- I vomit.
You know I throw up.
Flash?
No.
If I had too much to drink and went to flash
that means I showed my
genitals to some lady in the hall you know what I mean.
Yeah I flashed 'em
{NW}
you know.
{X}
You know.
Yeah no.
No or get your cookies but that was what a woman was talking about one time you know.
She's in the house.
Nah, she's cooking.
Uh
she's in the kitchen.
I like it black.
I don't
Cream and sugar you mean?
With milk?
Yeah.
Yeah mm-hmm
Without milk.
Yeah
without.
No uh-uh we haven't
Black coffee.
Mm-hmm.
Uh straight.
Plain.
Just coffee.
No uh-uh.
Towards you.
T-O-R-J
Towards.
{C: pronunciation}
Coming at me.
You know.
I run into him.
Mm-hmm.
Run across him maybe.
Named 'em after
you know.
Uh sic him on him.
Sic him.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
I'd whistle at him I guess.
{X}
Bastard
{NW}
I mean you know just
to get his attention you know.
Yeah.
Mongrel.
What you're looking for we call 'em sooners.
Yeah.
{D: Russian sockers.}
{D: A Russian socker.}
It's kind of like a sooner you know or a
see more.
Well
{X}
rush up to something and sock her nose in it
before she look
you know and she didn't have sense to know you know.
{D: A Russian socker.}
A sooner
eh just sooner
you know sooner eat than hunt.
And um
you know see more you can see more of his tail
and ears than anything.
You know.
Uh just a mutt.
Really a mutt.
Mm-hmm.
Half breed you know.
Oh
{NW}
Yeah
That's kind of like sooner I guess.
What you mean a
derogatory term?
You mean like a chihuahua feist?
Yeah you know like a
feist he's feisty.
Yeah you know
My- my I used to be
feisty and still am I
guess it's part of the you know.
He might bite you.
He bit a man.
{NW}
Bitten a bunch of them before.
Bull.
The bull?
Well
if you were talking about a
you know a farm animal
uh you could see some of the
{NW}
ladies you know
turn their head a little bit.
Uh
but I don't know why.
They wouldn't- it shouldn't bother them.
unless they been out of the barn and looked at his nuts hanging down you know.
Uh
I mean he's a bull.
I mean a bull yeah.
Shouldn't bother them if I talk about it unless they look
at mine hanging down.
{NW}
You know.
I don't believe in all this
you know
uh
uh what do you call it
acquired innocence.
I mean if you are you are.
If you're not you're not.
If you're black you're black.
You're white your white.
There's a few shades of gray but
you know not many.
But yeah I- I can remember that.
Now bull
when you said aw bull
you know.
Um
Yeah baloney
crap.
You know.
Ox?
Mm-hmm.
Mm
we call 'em oxes but
you know oxen I think is
Team.
Mm-hmm.
But you had a team of mules.
Team of horses.
You know team of dogs.
She's springing.
She's going to freshen in a few days.
Is that what you mean?
You know a horse you would say she's going to fold.
Springing.
Yeah I mean you know
like we run an ad sometime for
you know um
uh eight hundred pure bred cows some
springing some with calves inside
When they're springing
in others words uh
you know
put- put these three fingers in their ribs
you know you tell if they're springers.
You know it the
the
the calves inside springing up and down you know I don't know.
She's fixing to freshen in a few days so.
Yeah.
Uh well no just freshen
Fixing to have a
{D: calf I mean now}
Uh stud.
Well if it is a stud.
Actually horse
Well is it a horse or is a mare?
You know.
Right.
You know.
{D: Like a bull or a cow horse or a mare?}
Uh stallion would have the
you know
Like uh
my friend that drug a stone some stallions you know
he gives eight thousand and nine thousand dollars a piece
for 'em
gets a seven hundred fifty dollar stud fee.
You know that's a stallion.
Now a stud is just like me and you you know.
He just hangs around a pasture and takes what he can get you know.
{NW}
You ride it.
He rode him.
You have ridden him you have rode him you know.
You fell off.
He bucked you off.
Golly I fell off the bed.
Not off from or off of.
One of they- a lot of people say I fell off of the bed.
You know.
Double prepositions.
Shoes.
Sure horseshoes.
That's the hoof.
Well hooves.
Hooves.
Should be hoof
really I guess.
Horse hoof.
Like a
house roof.
Babe Ruth
You know
Yeah.
Well ram.
You know.
{NW}
Third grade teacher might call him an
ewe
{C: pronunciation}
one time.
{NW}
Yeah.
{NW}
I said and of course we don't have sheep around here you know.
I said boy
you
are a dummy.
Heard about the sheep herder that went to take his driving test
and the man and the patrol man ask him if he can take a U turn.
You know.
{NW}
I guess just for the hell of it I really never saw much use in it.
No no kidding you know they got the wool.
Uh
you know of course it's
I guess it's good meat I've never had a
leg of lamb.
You know.
I had a little leg in my time.
But no.
Really I- I never had I- I wouldn't know.
You know if it's any good.
Yeah.
Yeah I've heard about that they
saw the meat.
Yeah.
And
{X}
But anyway.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well you know the
you know the
you seen the old movies the sheep herder
come into town and the cowboys wouldn't sit close to him you know.
{NW}
{NW}
Oh man
yeah.
That's a boar.
That's just a hog.
You know they had it's a hog and a sow.
You know.
Well shoat
I mean you know.
Yeah.
Guilt
Farrows barrows and guilts you know right.
Well
uh a barrow would be the
boar hog that has been
{D: castracized.}
Yeah he's a boar.
I mean you know.
and a barrow.
That's a pig.
Piggy.
Uh still a pig.
Well you know shoat.
Yeah shoat would be kind of the size you know.
Piglet you know if you're
got on your white shoes and your gloves.
You know that'd be piglets.
But a litter
they come in litters you know.
Bristles.
Like the brush the boar bristle brush?
Tusks.
Tusks
{C: pronunciation}
you know.
Whatever
tusks.
Tusks
{C: pronunciation}
big teeth.
Yeah.
{NW}
yeah.
Trough.
Yeah troughs.
Hog trough.
That's a wild hog.
No that's Arkansas.
Yeah.
They take a lot of pride in that.
Not many of 'em either you know.
It's kind of like rebels.
There ain't many of them.
Ain't have a lot of bulldogs either.
{NW}
Or Bengal tigers for that matter.
She's bawling
Huh she bawling too.
You know.
A mule brays.
A horse neighs
or sn- or nickers
or snickers.
{NW}
You know.
But um
What- what do you call it that- that the donkey does?
{NW}
You know.
Snort yeah.
I guess yeah.
No but you know have you ever heard 'em?
You know a jack ass?
{NW}
A lot of practice.
Had to entertain yourself somehow you know.
Well you know a lot of livestock.
Huh
farm animals.
Fowl.
Well they're fowls but it's just you know
{NW}
Birds.
{NW}
Um
setting hen.
Yeah.
Chicken house.
And they stand on a
you know uh
we used to have 'em.
The thing had a like
poles you know like a tree you know
a little bitty light tree and he bent it over and went up this way
and he tacked it to the
top of the chicken house.
And then you tack these things on top.
I think it's a roost you know.
Chicken roost.
A coop.
A coop.
Uh that's something that you
know put two or three in usually to put two and you give up
one at one end and one at the other you know and it was
built you know from the middle out
the little straps
That's something you gotta take 'em over to grandma's house
and yank their heads off and cook 'em for Sunday dinner you know
chicken coop you know.
Pulley bone?
Uh
let me see now
you put it under the table and make a wish
and then you
jerk it and the guy that gets the shortest
part you know gets the wish.
You know.
There's variations on that.
Some people say it's the longest part.
I say hell eat the chicken and shut up.
I don't care. I
{NW}
Chitterlings?
I mean you know.
Chitterlings that's
hog intestines yeah.
And it
Yeah
but you know.
Guts
No.
Uh-uh
Around here see
especially
well a lot of people then eat they eat the brains.
They eat the ears.
They eat pickled pigs feet.
They eat pig tails.
They eat chitterlings.
Yeah you know knuckles man
damn.
{NS}
Sausage about all I can handle and a little ham now and then.
{NW}
But uh
but here we go yeah.
Whole hog sausage you know what that means?
They even got the
feet in there man.
You know whole hog sausage ears eyes.
Well you
{NS}
like that a lot
when you're eating it too you know.
{NW}
And then the heart spots out you know.
Sundown.
Right.
Feeding time?
Yeah.
{NW}
Mm-hmm
That's the cow.
The hogs it's a
{NW}
Don't know why
but it is.
Yeah.
{NW}
You know like that.
They have a hog calling
contest.
Had a uncle
a great uncle who one time won.
I believe it's held in Missouri.
They also have a bear calling contest.
Uh
I don't know just
bare necessity I guess.
But you call a horse like this
{NW}
That little
soft whistle
{NW}
That way.
You know.
And uh you know.
S- calf.
You know just a bit lighter.
You know you you call the word calf.
Well I don't know I guess it's just what they get used to
like teaching a kid language.
A girl like said you said
you- you whistle like a dog.
{NW}
But a horse
{NW}.
I don't know.
But uh
You try to go to the
pasture and get one of my horses
just come out there going
{NW}.
And they'll look at you like
Hey
fool I'm eating you know.
They just won't do it.
It's what they get used to.
Well if you want to go right you say gee.
If you want to go left you say ha.
If you want to stop you say whoa.
And uh
your mule
especially any of that you know
you didn't have to
Gee.
{C: prolonged}
{NW}
gee
you know.
And they just eased to the right.
Just a little bit you know to get off the top of the road.
And uh you know.
{NW}
Get up.
You know.
Or come up.
Get up was when he was on and
come up was when he was buying him driving him you know.
Come up
Sooey.
Sooey pig.
You know.
Why I don't know?
That's weird.
Sure.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Pigs are smart.
Bullshit
{X}
Here piggy piggy piggy what's going on you know and just you know.
Uh no you can get 'em
to come to you that way you know.
Here piggy piggy piggy piggy.
You know.
And uh
Uh
What do you mean how to call 'em?
You can just cluck.
You know.
Cluck 'em.
{NW}
chick chick chick chick
Course you know we
we can do all of the sounds you know.
{NW}
{NW}.
You know and uh
you know.
{NW}
And you can call snakes.
Yeah
call snakes many of them.
You can call a snake.
Different ways.
No there's a different way.
{NW}
I don't know.
Snakes you know like chicken snakes and all you know they eat
rats
and they eat you know rabbits and all you gotta do is
you know just
{NW}
Like that you got to be where you know the snakes
are you know you gotta be in the barn down in the slew or
out there where you used to throw the old rubber tires you know they're there anyway.
It takes a while because snakes are pretty slick man.
Well there are more ways than one.
And you you know
you can smell
you can smell 'em.
Yeah uh-huh.
For a guy with no ears they're
pretty slick do you know what I mean.
You're saddling him up.
Mm-hmm.
Well are you still hooking him up?
Well
you harnessing him up.
You know.
Yeah you know
mm-hmm.
Sure.
Get him ready to plow you know.
That kind of.
The reigns.
Mm-hmm
bridle reigns.
And of course if you're
plowing it's
plow lines.
Stirrups.
Which rhymes with syrup.
You know
which means you better stick to it you know?
Mm.
Oh man
You know there's uh this uh this old
city lady
went out to the farm one time and uh
and this
farmer asked her said you want a
saddle with a horn without a horn?
She said well hell
it don't seem to be much traffic out
here I'm guessing I can do without one.
You know.
{NW}
Oh wow.
Sorry about that I know you didn't come here for fun
and games.
Call 'em you know like lead horse?
I mean if if
well but that would
if you had like four horses you know.
You know something like that you know your lead side.
Well usually you have your pick.
Yeah he is
where most people put them because right's the strong side.
Right I mean it's the old
genealogical
theory of
{X}
ego I don't know.
Crap on
Freud
I don't think he knew what he was doing.
Sat around and played with hisself all the time.
But um
Uh
You know you had
old red or old Jim
or old Nig
Nig was the black one.
You know.
You got that yeah.
Uh
Mm-hmm.
It's a little far over.
What do you mean?
Yeah just a little ways over.
Over yonder.
Yonder is a big word.
If I was going to Nashville I'd stop in
Jackson I went the wrong way you know.
Yeah.
But any way yeah I know what you mean uh.
You know say I got a little piece to go you know.
It's the old joke of the guys.
Wife hollers where you going
say I'm going down the road for a little peace.
She didn't know right yeah.
{NW}
Pulled a gun and said you
{D: said I bet you do you ain't going nowhere.}
Just about anywhere?
Or anywheres.
{NW}
Frontwards.
{C: pronunciation}
Forward.
Backwards.
{C: pronunciation}
Or
backwards.
Fell back.
They used to now they say you know uh
were y'all going summers?
{C: pronunciation}
Which was short for somewheres.
You know.
Summers.
Not too good.
Had a bad day.
Yeah mm-hmm.
Nary a one.
Mm-hmm.
Well a lot of times now we use that
kind of stuff kind of a joking like manner.
You know what I mean.
I say man I ain't seen
{X}
Well
you know I would say that around
anybody you know.
But uh
they know
exactly what I mean.
This is the funny thing about
like I was talking about with my Spanish friend a while ago.
We started talking about that
uh to give you an idea of how
many how we Americans use
words you know we got
forty nine dozen words that mean the same thing.
And uh
{D: Benny Peacock}
came up in uh
{X}
who was from Honduras.
And I wish I could see him he was a great guy.
Um
had a crush on Marsha
she was cute.
Man she was cute.
Well Benny Peacock was the
kind with his hair three inches over his ears
that glasses looked like the bottom of a Coke bottle.
You know I mean it would've looked alright is he had
combed his hair different and wore a different
kind of glasses I mean you know
no shame he just needed a
you know look at hisself and saw ah
I'm going to turn this around a little bit.
His pants were up
to high over his ankles
you know high waters and white socks
and the funky shoes you know.
{D: Clodhoppers}
And he
said
you know
they played cards they played
spades and setback
and all that crap.
I never did have time for that you know.
and chase abroad chase abroad
going to work go to work you know.
Hmm.
But um
So he asked Marsha.
He said hey uh
play a little cards do you have a deck?
And
{X}
come
unglued.
And he started to jump on Benny Peacock and I grabbed him.
{NW}
And I pulled him back over and say what's wrong?
He said but Rick
that son of a bitch know I don't have no woman have no deck.
You know.
Woman don't have no deck.
{X}
No deck.
And uh
So oh you know and he
he missed it just a little bit.
But I mean you know around here
you know like I said we we have our words.
You know and if I say I ain't seen high in hair that booger
well you know
uh they know that
they
that means
I hadn't seen him.
And they you know if the
question is have you seen Bill man
he said high in hair that booger.
That means
tan him out to
uh-uh.
No.
Kind of like David
{X}
and Johnny Carson
you know in- in Philadelphia they say
Uh gee no Jew
you know.
Did you eat?
No did you?
No.
Gee
no Jew.
Uh we do that kind of
kind of stuff.
You know and they do everywhere.
And I guess that's what makes it
caused difficulties right?
{NW}
Row.
Some people call 'em furrows.
Huh.
Good crop.
You gotta clear it.
You know push it off it depends
um
what it is you actually gotta do you know.
What do you mean it comes back to do what?
Oh he's just gonna clip it.
You know.
Cut it.
{NW}
Oh it's a second cutting.
Yeah mm-hmm.
You mean like wild grass?
Well.
It's- it's still considered a wild
just came up wild
you know.
Yeah.
Volunteer tomatoes and stuff like that yeah.
But you know volunteer is like
you had a whole row or something.
You know I mean
Uh
wild would be just an occasional you know
and a forty acre patch you had one stalk of corn
and counted three soybeans you know.
That would mean some idiot down at the feed mill
you know {NW}
messed up on the shipment you know right.
No.
Uh a stack I guess.
I think they call it something else when it's wheat.
like a
a sh- not a shook.
Shank?
Shack?
Shock okay shock yeah.
Shock around here reminds you of pancakes.
{D: You know Shockleys.}
Well
I don't know like I said didn't have much wheat around here.
A good yield?
Well
depends uh you can get to seventy-five
hundred bushel something like that.
If you're sharp.
I
what do you mean?
Kind of like thinning out
you know chopping cotton?
I don't know.
Yeah you- you could trash it you can thrash wheat
thrash oats yeah.
Well it depends on if I was using the prepositional type
you know subject
uh you and me.
You and I.
Him and I
him and me.
Me and her.
Us and y'all.
You know.
Both of us.
My daddy would say both.
Hey it's me.
Yeah.
Who is it it's me right.
Hate that don't you?
That's about as hello who is this?
Who the hell you wanna talk to?
You know you called my number you tell me who I am.
I'd say
Who him?
Yeah.
Yeah that's him.
Well actually that is he.
That is she.
But uh I'd say yeah that's her.
Yeah that's them.
That's the Hatfields.
You know.
He not as tall as me.
I'm not as tall as him.
I realize that's improper
but in casual conversation
you know yeah that's yeah.
Me and one of my
asshole buddies that's how we talk.
It's yours.
Yeah
it's ours.
And some people say
{X}
That's
{X}
There's an old man in the hospital one time
he's about eighty.
His old nurse come bouncing in you know
and he'd been laying there three days just
barely knew he was in the world.
She come in
good morning Mr. Jones.
He said
how you doing?
She said I came in today I want some urine.
He said man damn I been kind of wanting some of urine too but I scared to ask for it.
You know
{NW}
{NW}
So you know it's uh
different generations say different things you know what I mean?
{NW}
We're not getting much anywhere are we?
Y'all's.
That's y'all's house.
That's y'all's car.
Uh not so much.
That's y'all's
We don't say that any much.
That's kind of like
{X}
You know.
{NW}
You know who was there?
Was they there?
You know.
Bill and Tom was they there?
Yeah.
You know how'd he do?
You know.
Or what did he have to say?
Was he okay?
What about him?
Yeah uh-huh right.
Right.
Yeah who all was there?
You know.
What all did he talk about?
Was that wrong?
{NW}
Oh okay.
Nothing is wrong.
There's no wrongs and no right, right?
It's just like I said if- if
people know what you're talking about it's right
you know.
Hisself.
Uh by himself.
Alone.
You know.
I despise the use of the word myself.
You know when people say uh
uh
you know
myself and Bob.
That ain't right.
That ain't right.
That's just like saying me and you.
That's shit I don't like that.
You know I mean this is people like people Walter Cronkite and
Tom Snyder you know it's a
Well as for myself.
Well sure it's for yourself.
Idiot.
I mean you know
as for me
for
me.
Myself uh
It does it just
{D: gull tail}
out if me I
You know I mean I think people in that position
uh
there's some words that I don't like
and like I said home
you know hey he sold his home.
How can you do that?
You know you sell your wife and kids and.
You know as
for myself.
Well
what other self
do you ask for?
You know.
Uh as for me
I mean that's a
proper use of the word
it's prepositional.
It's the object of the preposition.
It joins the phrase ah you know.
As for me
I just don't like when you say that.
What do you mean?
Oh yeah what it is T city.
Yeah well you know that's just crap.
You know that's just talk.
Hey brother
you know.
You know and I you know
I carry on with 'em
I put up with it.
But if they get serious and say
uh listen brother
I say look motherf-
you ain't my brother.
And don't be coming and giving me that shit.
Uh yeah
yeah what it is
you know how y'all you know and
hey
I don't- I don't know.
you know you see that stuff I think they just see that stuff on TV and they just all accept it right quick.
I don't
you know.
It's alright.
It's ignorance.
Hmm loaf bread.
Which a lot of people call light bread or white bread.
Sliced bread.
There's cornbread and loaf bread.
Rolls buns
biscuits
and a roll and a biscuit's different.
And you know and uh
And a canned biscuit is different from a biscuit biscuit.
My mother made
cat head biscuits.
who which you know we just call biscuits but you know she just
mixes out flour passes it out of her hand
{NW}.
Throws it in a bucket I mean throws it in the little flat thing you know.
And you know and cooks it and whenever it
finishes cooking it's got little knots on it
you know little
places where the flour overlapped you know.
Looks like a cat's head you know
it got little eyes there some shut some open some dark.
Uh never had a green eye but anyway.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm store bought bread I guess.
Bought bread
{NW}
But then there's day old bread.
I don't know.
Uh hush puppies.
They're not necessarily round.
They can be oblong
square flat.
Ugly
yeah right.
Hush puppies.
Hoe cake?
I tea cake is what
I think of.
We used to call 'em tea cakes.
Uh
It's just a
sometimes
you know made with a peanut butter and flour base.
Sometimes it's just milk sugar
flour.
No well that's a fritter.
Oh that kind of hoe cake.
Oh I know what you're talking about now.
You're talking about a muffin.
You talking
Yeah uh
{NW}
Alright the cornbread muffin.
Looks like a blueberry muffin but it's
made out of cornbread.
Okay?
No that's a corn that's a muffin.
Alright
now
fritter
is cornbread like you might fry
on the grill you know you
you know you
uh you can
you fry fritters.
You know it's just a little bitty
thin- it's like a pancake but it's
made out of cornbread.
Okay?
Uh
hoe cake
That could go under the same thing
I always thought of a tea cake.
Which is a sweet you know
something for a kid you know.
Tea cake uh
cookie.
You know.
Homemade cookie.
No that's what
Yankees call 'em when
Do you have any corn pone?
You know it's corn bread.
Yeah.
No.
No.
That sound like a
a drunk baseball player.
A corn dodger.
{NW}
Right. Yeah.
{NS}
Well
A Johnny cake I thought of
you know tea cakes too.
You know just like I said a little cookie
homemade cookie.
Actually the raw yellow dough
is much better than the finished product.
{NW}
{NW}
Flap jacks.
Mm
pancakes a lot of people call 'em waffles which they ain't.
But you know
flap jacks
pancakes.
Yeah hot cakes.
Short stack.
You know the stack.
Mm
{NW}
five pounds.
The yolk and the white.
I mean the yolk and the yellow.
Or the white and the yellow.
Uh you can fry 'em.
Basically I eat 'em
scrambled on my lap
but you can fry 'em over easy
soft
hard
you can boil 'em poach 'em.
You know.
Streak of lean
{D: Sow Billy}
Fat back.
Well
yeah you know.
It's just a term you know it's the
fat part under the sow
you know with within the sow's belly where there's a lot of fat you know.
Fat back.
Bacon.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah
butcher.
You know basically.
You mean a slab?
Yeah that's good too man.
Most time though that's
coming to the
term of streak lean
because it's got one of those
streak lean down the middle of it you know.
Streak lean.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah roughly.
You know you would
not uh not that much difference in 'em
you know.
Uh
What middling?
Yeah it's kind of like streak of lean.
Yeah.
Skin.
Yeah rind.
{NS}
The hair in 'em
{NS}
Got old.
I mean
{NS}
old meat.
{NS}
And depends on what it is.
Some of it can sour.
Some of it can turn green.
I mean I have a
Yeah.
Rank.
You know it's rank.
{D: Asphalt burnt}
You know.
{X}
ruins.
It ain't no good if it don't
ruin.
Buttermilk has to ruin before it's buttermilk see.
Hmm well uh
butter you would just say you know
uh ruined.
Now milk that gets that way
is blinky.
Right blinky milk is the
kind you had when you milk
the old one cow and she ate bitter weeds.
Or wild onions.
The milk tasted blinky.
I mean it's like having bad breath from
eating lasagna right?
{NW}
Yeah funky but that's
that's a new term.
Just anything that's away from the norm.
Tastes funky.
Uh
My pipe has a funky smell.
You know.
So I guess I'm fixing to get funky
because I'm fixing to fire that heifer up.
Yeah.
Hmm I don't know.
Oh well we don't
fool with that kind of stuff.
Yeah sow's I've heard of it.
Sow's meat
never knew what it was.
Is that was it is?
Hog brains?
Ears eyes?
The inlets and outlets.
Cooking and grinding up hog liver?
Yeah hash I guess I mean you know.
Mix it up in with your turnip greens.
You know what I mean.
No liver cheese.
Yeah
No.
We wasn't that fancy.
His liver hell is liver you know.
No.
I mean I've heard it but
I mean you know just in talking
but I've never known anyone to really do it.
Knew a guy one time that drank duck's blood.
Supposed to have some type of super effect and
you know he still weighs about a hundred and four.
Ugly.
Yeah.
Uh then well his brain is what needed it.
If he had poured it between his ears
it would have been alright.
Fill up that hole you know.
Yeah it's a
game you play on a table.
You know and you make up words.
Oh.
Scrapple nah.
No.
Buttermilk?
Clabbered milk?
Yeah clabbered milk.
Uh clabbered milk's good.
Lot of times what we used to call buttermilk
which is clabbered milk you know.
There's a difference in the buttermilk and clabbered milk.
Slightly but
{NW}
You know.
Cottage cheese?
Yeah.
Oh you could pasteurize it.
Or you know boil it really.
You could strain it oh like we used to.
Yeah we used to strain it through an old shirt.
{NW}
strain it.
The guy that came in and
and uh wanted to take a milk bath
and he said make sure it's
pasteurized.
You know.
Damn that's a lot of milk.
That's your eyes
but anyway.
You mean like a pie?
Apple pie?
Maybe not a
pudding?
Uh
you talking about a
you know like
It's
It's more or less fried and real sugary
like a cobbler?
Yeah a cobbler okay.
Grub.
Yeah.
Yeah vittles uh
Vittles is
you know kind of like terms grazing fat back.
Grub is just a
anything that goes under
{X}
crosses
table you know what I mean.
Right.
{NW}
Sauce.
You know.
Sweet sauce.
Snack.
Nibbling.
Ate.
We don't say ate.
I have eaten.
I'll eat again.
By golly.
Glass of tea.
From the pitcher.
Uh it'd break.
And it broke.
Busted the sucker all over the floor right.
{NW}
Uh yeah you've broken it
right uh-huh.
Drink.
I drank a lot.
Drinking all my life.
Drank.
Uh I have drunk.
Which I never did like yeah
{NW}
you know.
Y'all have a seat.
Yeah sit down.
And they sat down.
They have
sat there all day.
The food ain't ready.
{NW}
Y'all just reach and get it.
Make yourself at home.
You know.
You know I'll pass it to you.
You know.
What you mean?
Go ahead and help yourself yeah.
Right.
And they helped theirselves you know.
They've been helping themselves all day.
Right?
Helped themselves.
Mm-hmm.
No thank you or don't believe I do.
Pass it on.
If it's at a formal or something like that I would go ahead and eat it.
Yeah.
You know.
There are very few things that I just simply can't stand.
Uh
but but then there's
also an equal number of
very few that I totally despise.
Among which would be dumplings and boiled okra.
Yeah totally
totally just can live without if
they never make any more.
Boiled okra have you ever eaten boiled okra?
You know I have to cross my legs man I start
{NW}
Right down you know.
Uh it's alright I ain't crazy about it.
You know.
Suits me.
Warmed up.
Warm up the peas.
Yeah supper dinner
I mean
whatever the meal is
you mean peas butter beans?
Oh yeah leftovers yeah you're right.
Mm-hmm.
Chew it up.
No like dumplings?
Course that would dough it wouldn't be meal.
Nah.
Mm-mm. Mm.
That's goulash.
Yeah but I mean I never eat that.
They're vegetables.
Mm what do you mean?
Uh
Oh like oats?
I mean oatmeal oh
Grits.
Yeah.
I was thinking
quite ground up corn
{NW}
Hominy.
Yeah.
Don't like it.
{NW}
Tastes like
chewing Styrofoam you know?
Oh rice.
Yeah.
{NS}
Hmm that's
Out of the sugar barrel.
Mm-hmm. yeah.
Bulk
yeah.
Bulk.
My daddy would call it
he said bulk.
Uh yeah mm-hmm.
But I think of bulk
to mean uh
you know like
giant containers.
You know.
Which I guess uh
{NS}
you know that would be
but I thinking of like a whole bin full you know.
Mm salt pepper.
Mm-hmm.
Give me an apple.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Poor.
Orchard.
Uh the pit?
Yeah.
Kind of like an olive.
Oh that's a seed.
Just snap it open.
Nah.
{NW}
Nah.
Well around here
peach is just a peach you know what I mean?
It's a
{NW}
just a
no uh-uh.
They all come from somewhere else
except for the few that's grown on the
delta you know?
So a peach is a peach.
You can have little peaches you know the
dwarf looking things but
good peach and a bad peach but it's a peach.
{NW}
It's a core.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's just
you know just dried apples.
Well
uh
you can use 'em for a lot of different things uh
some people you know make
pies out of 'em you know and
jellies and they squash 'em up.
You know after they've dried a while.
{NW}
But um
And some people
uh not in large quantities but
they just uh
{NS}
you know
cut 'em up in a
like that for
perfuming reasons you know.
You know you can
put 'em in like a
pantry or something like that you know.
If you're gonna let 'em dry you know make the place smell good.
Also draw flies and
neighborhood kids.
{NW}
Mm-mm.
No.
I thought you were talking about a disease
like diarrhea.
You know
It's got a little
{X}
Yeah.
Well
A hicker nut
is a nut that grows on a hickory tree.
and you know us Southerners
a hicker nut.
We had to shorten it a little bit.
People kept talking about a hickory nut.
Uh yeah you have chestnuts
uh
also acorns.
Course scaly bark
uh really they call them scaly barks but it's
a type of tree.
It's a
some breed of a
the hickory and the bark is scaly.
It's a scaly barked tree.
And it has a nut on it just like a hickory nut
but we call 'em scaly barks.
Them suckers man they got a hard shell.
You can take a sack of 'em and run over them with a car
and they won't break
and you just have to beat the devil out of them.
But they're good you know.
Just make scaly bark pies and all that stuff.
Oh you mean peanuts?
Oh goobers yeah.
Mm-hmm.
No.
Ground peas?
Man.
Peanuts and goobers.
You know?
Uh well yeah yeah if you want it's not your English type
you have the still black hard walnuts you know black walnuts and uh they're pretty good.
If you can get all of the pieces of the whole out of them.
Which you usually can't but uh you know.
That kind of stuff.
Acorns?
Oh you mean pecans?
Yeah well
squirrels and pecans
around here it it mostly you know it- it's acorns you know.
It's not- not really enough pecan trees.
It just took me a while to figure out what you're talking about.
Uh
hmm.
And uh
I was trying to think of another kind of nut.
But anyway.
Almond?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Orange.
Why can't blacks say that?
They say orange.
Notice OJ Simpson doing this advertisement for
{D: Real Sweet}
They only use the word orange one time.
because it's you know
a black just can't say they say orange.
But it orange.
drive that orange car.
You know and they can say other words perfectly but
orange
they cannot say orange.
Oranges.
Yeah.
Radish?
Yeah
radish.
Radish.
No
Radishes.
{NW}
Well around here you can grow just
about anything like that you know but uh
I don't
it don't ring a bell other than
Yeah.
Cherry tomatoes you know.
Mm
And cherry tomatoes yeah
you know you can see 'em in a place in like Bonanza
You know when you get a salad you know they got a bucket of them .
Don't really like 'em you know.
Well there's sweet
potatoes mashed
potatoes
you know.
Yeah spuds yams
you know.
Poot roots.
Yeah.
{NW}
Poot roots.
Uh
Yeah I mean you know this
this that old saying an apple a day
keeps a doctor away but a
potato a day keeps everybody away you know.
Uh
I don't know why it's supposed to
I guess uh
probably not medically but uh
a lot of
raw sweet potatoes are you know
supposedly gaseous to some extent I don't know.
Yeah.
Fart fruit.
Uh you know the same thing.
{NW}
Uh
But anyway sweet potatoes you know the sweet
potato capital of the world is only
ten miles down the road from here.
Vardaman Mississippi.
Population five six hundred maybe.
Mm-hmm.
And uh they grow more there
than anywhere else.
You know of a course a guy can plant
forty acres of sweet potatoes you know.
Have a good crop get two hundred two hundred fifty bushels for the acre.
Damn I mean you know.
And they whole sale them for
three dollars and half a bushel you know.
Grocery stores get seven.
And uh so the
{X}
But most of 'em got more than forty acres you know.
Couple hundred acres and a couple hundred acres of soy beans.
Couple hundred head of cows and
you know twelve kids.
Can't beat that.
Three percent government loans
damn.
{NW}
Oh that's an onion.
Oh you know that's just a green onion.
You know.
Yeah.
Wither
I guess uh.
{NW}
Oh
shrivel up?
Yeah.
You know lettuce cabbage
yeah
things like that.
I guess cauliflower.
I don't know.
Cauliflower's is foreign to me.
So is broccoli and
a lot of other things but
Mm
Butter beans
peas course there's
forty different varieties of both there's uh
long stem limas and the
climbing butter beans and the
bunch butter beans and
Uh
peas you got purple hulls and
purple hull crowders and
six week peas and
English peas which
I hate.
And uh
Course then you get snap beans or string beans
and a lot of people just call them green beans.
Call 'em strap
uh snap beans uh because you snap 'em.
You know
{NS}
you know throw 'em in a pan.
{NW}
String beans because they usually look stringy
you know when you cook 'em.
But in- in fact are green too so you know
they go by several names.
Oh you shell 'em
yeah.
Shell peas also.
And some people have the audacity to shell snap beans.
{NW}
Yeah.
Go get a
couple of heads of lettuce.
You know.
No.
Not really no.
We raise our kids like we raise our crops you know.
Should be rearing 'em I guess.
And usually rear is where they get the most
attention but uh
I don't know no.
Never had five head of kids.
No.
Um that's a shuck.
Or a husk.
Tassel.
Tassel we used to when it
dried and got real black
we'd roll a little piece of white paper and smoke it you know.
Ah well
Kind of like smoking a grape vine you know it's just
do it for the hell of it.
I guess if we'd went
{NW}
like that
we'd probably would have blowed our brains out you know what I mean uh
you see these people okay you know uh I
I dare anybody to take a Camel cigarette and do that.
You know?
I've never done it you know
with anything I don't
dope ain't my bag but uh
{NW}
I had a friend one time uh
he was always talking about
You know man do you have any
You know he knew all this stuff.
And so uh
this other friend
pinched the uh
filter off a Salem
and you know
crushed it up and made it look like a
you know a homemade
roll or whatever
and uh Sean
{X}
And David handed to him and said here man here's here's you some
you know
marijuana.
{C: pronunciation}
And he took about two drags off that Salem and
{NW}
like that and fell back into the closet.
{NW}
Flung back into the closet and we laughed
you know and I thought aw come on man
he's just faking
but then I got to thinking
you know you take a long hard drag of a Salem
or something like that or
cigarette when you're not used to it any way
because this guy didn't smoke
{NW}
And it will make you kind of eh eh in the head for a second you know.
Just kind of make you a little wiggly.
Or you can do it with a pipe or a cigar or anything.
And he took a couple of long hard drags and it sucked it out of his anus you know.
Hit the wall man he just
{NW}
As Bob Dylan says could not find the door.
{NW}
Couldn't even see the floor but
anyway
Yeah corn tassels are good to smoke.
{NW}
I know what you're talking about yeah just
you know.
Yeah it's the corn silk.
Corn hair you know.
Hmm.
You mean like a roasting ear?
Yeah okay.
Roasting ear
Roasting ear.
Oh that's a pumpkin.
Which turns a nickname for a lot of people pumpkin.
You know.
A squash?
Yeah.
Uh there's watermelon mush melon.
Uh
Well
some people would debate
whether or not a
cantaloupe and a mush melon were the same thing.
Other people would say a mush melon is actually the uh
What is the sweeter variety what do they call that?
The uh
Not a cantaloupe but a
Aw hell
yeah honeydew melon.
Yeah right.
But anyway
to me they all smell like
{NW}
yeah you know I just don't like 'em.
My mother used to
bring 'em home from a grocery store in the car
and I used to say mom please stop let me walk.
God I can't stand it.
I don't why I just
you know just the smell of a cantaloupe
just irks my essence you know
{NS}
That's about it you know watermelon
mush melon.
You know mushrooms?
Yeah mm-hmm.
I always heard those things were poison.
Yeah and a few
years year or two ago I heard about some guys
{NW}
making uh
mushroom wine or something.
You know out of these things I don't know this
this was the same guys that'll try angel dust and you know
all of this stuff you know.
Uh but mushroom wine I don't know.
I always
Yeah that's what I
there used to be something that grew in the yard
Uh it was just a little- like a little puff on the ground.
It looked like a mushroom with no legs or something.
You know and they called it devil's snuff.
And you stomped it you know
{NW}
blow junk all over the place.
But uh you know
they always said that's poison you know.
Hmm not right away I don't think.
Yeah or a toad stool mm-hmm.
Sure.
Well I don't really know.
Like I said uh
you see 'em in some areas around here.
I figured a toad stool's a little bit bigger.
You know stronger so a toad can
stool on it or whatever
I don't know but
yeah you know it was a toad stool.
Toad frog.
Obligated.
Mm-hmm.
Or obliged.
Mm-hmm?
bet you're chicken?
Is that what you mean?
I bet you'll chicken out?
In other words I'll bet you can't?
Bet you won't?
Yeah yeah yeah
No don't you dare do it.
You know.
Uh
None of this
{X}
stuff
Yeah.
What you ought to do.
he hadn't oughta done.
Or shouldn't oughta done.
I just ain't gonna do it.
What the bat?
A bat can't see anyway
can they they fly in the dark hell they're blind.
A bird that can see in the dark.
Probably a hoot owl I guess yeah.
Well you know different colorings.
But I mean an owl a hoot owl
uh there's a hoot owl and a screech owl.
And a hoot owl
{NW}
but a screech owl's got a
{NW}
to him I don't know sound like a
you know sort of a panther like almost
Used to have a lot of fun when we'd
quote camp out
Actually what we'd do is get a quilt and go out in the back of the woods you know and sleep
you know it's just
no air conditioning nothing was no big deal.
And uh you hear a
screech owl we often
in distance
{NW}
you know.
I don't know why.
That's a pecker wood.
Or a woodpecker.
Um yeah.
Red headed
{C: voice distortion}
well if he's
a red-headed pecker wood
You know.
But if it's just an old black woodpecker I don't know why.