[TAG] [Off-topic] Cultural notes

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 14:58:41 MSK 2011


sounds a bit texas to me... is that right?:D

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 18:44, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> From a conversation I had yesterday with a man in his 80s that I met on
> the street; all this in a slow, unhurried Southern accent.
>
>  I used to work f' the Forestry Service, y'know. A man there - he must
>  be dead b'now - tole me once: "Never hire a man t'do a job o'work for
>  you who eats salt herrin' for breakfast, rolls his own cig'rettes, er
>  wears a straw hat. Reason bein', he's either chasin' his hat down th'
>  road, rollin' a cig'rette, er lookin' fer a drink o'water!"
>
> Mark Twain would have felt right at home. :)
>
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