Crappie, Tuttle, Indy, wings, Coke & colloquialisms

I have heard them called this, but it's been a while. I used to say "crappie" when young as those around here did, however, after moving away I found that the most common pronunciation was "croppie", so as to not appear unsophisticated, I began using it myself.

So, you can have people suspect you to be a backwoods Melungeon or say "croppie."

 

Or you could give not the first crap what folks think and say crappie. Fishing folk aren't reknown for their urbane sophistication and panache anyway... Except those snotty fly fishing types.

 

I still haven't figured out how to put a floater on the line or drink a beer while fly fishing. I guess I'm not snotty enough to fly fish.

 

I used to fly fish, although never with snotty flies.

Perhaps my sarcasm in the prior post was too subtle.

 

Leader on and there ya go. The beer goes in the creel. You ain't catching nothing anyway.

 

I'm aridin' with Savage Orange an 'em on 'is.

 

And I bet they say Appalayshuns instead of the correct Appalachuns. Ch as in chair.

 

It's all fun and games until a Vandy educated lawyer gets involved. Then it gets srs.

 

I'll take this as a compliment.

 

You need to come walleye trolling with me.

 

People that say "crappie" probably also say "chimley" and "punkin".

Not to mention when we first moved here we were shocked at people calling "Massachusetts" as "massatoosets".

 

Punkin, yes.

The rest, no.

I bet you say al-u-min-ium don't you?

 

Hell no. I ain't no limey.

 

Backwoods Melungeon hick.....

 

More and more restaurants I go into are serving Mexican Coke in a bottle.

 

Makes me wonder why Atlanta doesn't make all Coke distributors go to sugar. I guess corn syrup is just too cheap?

 

The corn lobby is strong with the Force.

 

I'd like to take you dolphin trolling.

 

I liked it when my mom would say worsh.

Another funny one was when I was hunting with a guy in a small town west of Knoxville, he was telling me his buddy musta shot a buck last night, I saw cotton balls by the river. I was like, what the hell do you guys use cotton balls for? He said, no dummy, c-o-c-k and balls.

 

Because the US sugar producers use quotas and tariffs to inflate the price of sugar here.

Basically we pay 40 and 30 percent higher cost of sugar due to government policies.