Texas Horrors
In the tradition of the Florida Horrors thread, anyone familiar with the even odder crop of genre films from the Lone Star State? I'll start with the qualifier that I'm interested in films made in...
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bipolarber wrote:"Texas Horrors:" a redundancy?"Inbred Arkansans": a redundancy?Irritating, isn't it?By the way, I and all the Texans I know can actually spell the word "audience."
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Bill Warren wrote:Yeah, but when you say "right" it rhymes with "hat."Well, that would be "rat," so I don't think so. Don't even know of any South Carolina people that would say that.I do, however,...
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I was referring to "I and all the Texans I know." Don't know how South Carolina got dragged in here.
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You know Kerry Gammill and Sam Park. Do they say "left or RAT"? "THE RAT STUFF"?
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Bill Warren wrote:I was referring to "I and all the Texans I know." Don't know how South Carolina got dragged in here.I believe South Carolina is the state with the heaviest so-called southern...
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Southern accents vary greatly by regions; it's Georgians and Texans who sound most alike. (Louisiana is an entirely other bagt of drawls, and New Orleans has its own accent, strangely similar to...
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bipolarber wrote:"Texas Horrors:" a redundancy?Them's fightin' words, Varmint!
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I recently worked in North Carolina and heard mostly mild Southern accents. There was one lady with an almost indecipherable deep South accent, however, obviously an immigrant. But the single most...
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I've got to say that these presumptions about Texas accents is off-putting to this native Texan whose family, friends, and customers do not sound like they are using one of those jokebook "How to...
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I certainly didn't mean to suggest that the accent of the young lady at Rangers' Park was typical. It was simply the most extreme individual American accent I ever heard anywhere. In my brief...
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<< I've got to say that these presumptions about Texas accents is off-putting to this native Texan whose family, friends, and customers do not sound like they are using one of those jokebook...
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Rick wrote: I think this whole thing of identifying the regional origins of folk by their accents is seriously overblown, particularly in these latter-days, and particularly in this country. You'd...
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"In a blue house with white shutters. And three letters in the mailbox. One has postage due."
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There seems to be a presumption that a twang is something to be gotten rid of, something to despise or be ashamed of. Phooey to that.I have, I'm told, little left of my north Arkansas accent (of...
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The Drunken Severed Head wrote: There seems to be a presumption that a twang is something to be gotten rid of, something to despise or be ashamed of. Phooey to that. Exactly. If you have an accent,...
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I don't believe that Bill meant to insult Texans. And Rick especially not.This whole thing began with Bipolarber's summation "Texas Horrors:" a redundancy? I don't know the purpose of this...
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ryanbrennan wrote: I've got to say that these presumptions about Texas accents is off-putting to this native Texan whose family, friends, and customers do not sound like they are using one of those...
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No, the intention was that "If you want to get snarky, how about this?" That's what I thought. Snarky remark spawns another snarky remark and a sequel. That's fine. He seemed (once again) to be...
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