hillbillies
March 24, 2006 5:23 PM   Subscribe

H I L L B I L L I E S.
posted by snsranch (38 comments total)
 
(not meant to represent REAL hillbillies!)
posted by snsranch at 5:25 PM on March 24, 2006


I L L W I L L I E S
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:28 PM on March 24, 2006


Bunch of silly willies. ;)
posted by bim at 5:31 PM on March 24, 2006


Please don't use the H word.
posted by buzzman at 5:54 PM on March 24, 2006


Oh, and, Dude, Hillbilly is not the preferred nominclature. Appalacian-American, if you please.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:16 PM on March 24, 2006


In Australia the instructors teach both the steps and the routines, but you do not need to remember the routines.

All you need to know about clogging.
posted by gsteff at 6:20 PM on March 24, 2006


O R L Y S
posted by brain_drain at 6:27 PM on March 24, 2006


ORLY
posted by soiled cowboy at 6:36 PM on March 24, 2006


Oh, and, Dude, Hillbilly is not the preferred nominclature. Appalacian-American, if you please.

That's spelled Appalachian, dude. Nomenclature too.

Damn hillbillies can't even spell!
posted by bim at 6:48 PM on March 24, 2006


I'm bonafide. And I took clogging lessons, too.
posted by kimdog at 7:05 PM on March 24, 2006


LOL. Break out the dulcimers.
posted by bim at 7:13 PM on March 24, 2006


You really let us down here, snsranch. When you post seperate letters like that, you've got to post a different link a letter. Everything was going well until the two "L L"s and that last "I E S".
posted by graventy at 7:24 PM on March 24, 2006


Please stop. And hillbillies are less likely to clog than urban folkdancers.
posted by kozad at 7:38 PM on March 24, 2006


graventy, I ran out of hillbillies. In order to post more would have been a self-link to pics of my granny's double-wide with me pickin' banjo on the porch. No shit.

kimdog, me too, though I don't live there now!
posted by snsranch at 7:46 PM on March 24, 2006


Well, I lived in Kentucky for a number of years. That ought to count for something?
posted by bim at 7:51 PM on March 24, 2006


The thing about hillbillies is that they might think you are going to hell or that you are a pretentious piece of shit, but they will spend their Sunday helping you fix your busted lawnmower if you ask.
posted by Falconetti at 7:54 PM on March 24, 2006


Clogging is for fancy people.

Buck Dancing is for common folk.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:09 PM on March 24, 2006


Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy, oh, where have you been, charming Billy?

Lots of 'billies' in my (Scots/English, now 'American' via North Carolina (though mostly low-country: not the 'hills')) family. Thanks for the links!
posted by trip and a half at 8:14 PM on March 24, 2006


Them buck dancin' fancy-tancies can go to their fancy saw-n' bow n' washtub-bass club. We's doin' some down-home style shit kickin.

"She's a young girl who cannot leave her mother"
She can bake a cherry pie
quick's a cat can wink her eye
posted by longsleeves at 8:22 PM on March 24, 2006


longsleeves: Did she offer you a chair? And was the bottom there?
posted by trip and a half at 8:40 PM on March 24, 2006


These here posts be fittin' words...
posted by Atreides at 8:49 PM on March 24, 2006


Jethro's been trying to get that Beverly Hillbillies casino off the ground for years, first in Reno, where problems with the mall owner killed the deal, and now in Carson City, where he's getting a cold reception from the city council, which is apparently trying to annex the property and develop it as something other than Jethro's House O' Luck.

I don't know why I care, but there ya go. Actually, I do know why I care; it's kind of fun to watch a former star acquire the rights to his old character and push a semi-loony pet project against long odds. Guy's got a head full of ideas for making money off his moment in the spotlight, that's for sure.
posted by mediareport at 8:50 PM on March 24, 2006


Since we're a doing stream-of-consciousness thread (LOL) and have sort of shifted into TV shows, I saw today that AOL is showing "Classic" TV shows for free. I'm not telling how many of these I remember. :)

Check the full list out. Sorry...no Beverly Hillbillies, though.

[Black gold...Texas tea....]
posted by bim at 9:13 PM on March 24, 2006


What kinda dumb hick is Jethro, anyway? Didn't he learn anything from the show? Oil, man, that's where it's at. Texas Tea. Black Gold. Now there's a hot market. No where to go but up.
posted by loquacious at 9:14 PM on March 24, 2006


/me sends out his hoardes of killer robot death ninjas to take care of the 'bim making me look less witty' problem.
posted by loquacious at 9:16 PM on March 24, 2006


/me sends out his hoardes of killer robot death ninjas to take care of the 'bim making me look less witty' problem.

Keep it down, pal, I'm trying to decide whether to watch "Eight is Enough" or "Chico and the Man." :>

...god I wish somebody would add Witchblade to this list....
posted by bim at 9:25 PM on March 24, 2006


True story: Years ago while visiting relatives in a very mountainous region of Virginia, WAY up in a holla, I was helping rebuild an engine for a 68 Chevelle.

An old man walked up and said, "When what gen got chyall, whon bitta breaka." Or something like that. He was seriously speaking a different language.

I was like, "what?" My super cute little neice said, "He's asking if we have any hard candy."

My uncle, while doing something on the engine, explained that he needs a piece of hard candy to drop into a glass of moonshine to "lighten it up" a little bit.

My uncle showed me later that night. It was good!
posted by snsranch at 10:07 PM on March 24, 2006


Here's another story. Having lived in both Indiana and Kentucky, phone conversations with my east coast family invariably involved a question like: So, do you have that good x in grocery stores out there (some mundane item) or do you also get such and such a show on TV? Yikes! Where do they come up with this stuff?
posted by bim at 11:00 PM on March 24, 2006


Not only were some of my ancestors "hillbillies", they were also Melungeons.
posted by candyland at 6:37 AM on March 25, 2006


I am a billy, they are billys, wouldn't you like to be a billy too?
posted by haikuku at 6:45 AM on March 25, 2006


"When what gen got chyall, whon bitta breaka."

Gautch'yins uhlit'l-bitta har-tack y'eh kin gi'ta me?

"Do you'ins have a little bit of hard-tack you can give to me?"

This is about the way it would sound in my local hollows now from one of the few old-timers left. When I was growing up, though, there were a few old-timers that I couldn't understand more than 25% of what they were saying.
posted by mrmojoflying at 6:49 AM on March 25, 2006


Eight is enough to fill our hearts with love.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:19 AM on March 25, 2006


Great link on Melungeons. I'd never heard of this. Thanks!
posted by bim at 7:44 AM on March 25, 2006


Melungeons.
posted by fish tick at 9:21 AM on March 25, 2006


I'm a hick.
posted by sciurus at 10:50 AM on March 25, 2006


we can't forget our 'famous' Appalachian...

Jesco "Jesse" White was born in the Appalachians and is an acclaimed mountain dancer. He is best-known for the two short films about him which detail his desire to follow in his famous father's footsteps, while trying to overcome depression, drug addiction, and the poverty that afflicts most of rural Appalachia.

wiki




"If you wanna live to see tomorrow, you're gonna start fryin' 'em eggs a little better'n what'chu been fryin' 'em. I'm tired of eatin' sloppy, slimy eggs!" - Jesco White to wife Norma Jean White

"I'll put you to bed alright, I'll put you to bed in a coffin!"
posted by meeshell at 12:11 PM on March 25, 2006


my friend Motto, who's wake is tomorrow was in a band called the Polish Hillbillies. All fans of Jesco, they included those lines, "...bed in a coffin" in one of they're more popular songs. Rock on Motto.
posted by firemouth at 3:04 PM on March 25, 2006


A documentary on Jesco White can be watched for free via google video. It's well worth watching (1/2 hour long). Check it out. Thanks for the tip, meeshell. :)
posted by bim at 7:17 PM on March 25, 2006


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