In my small hometown (Nowata, OK) as a child, we could still pick-up the
receiver to speak to the operator. But, as dial phones came around, there was
a payphone on the outside wall of the phone company. It had a dial, a
change-slot, everything. When you picked up the receiver, before you
Sunday morning on Turner Classic Movies, they showed the 1948 movie "Sitting
Pretty".It was the movie that introduced Mr. Belvedere into our culture.
Clifton Webb played a male baby sitter.Anyway, in the beginning of the
movie, there was Thelma Lou doing some baby sitting for the
For Aunt Bee and all others not used to 'southernisms', listen to Jeff
Foxworthy's explanation of the way we say things. They may not be exactly
what Andy says, but it is a lesson in southern speech. There is a town near
where I live called Armuchee. Now you would think it is pronounced
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