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  1. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My carrier, AT&T has done away with contracts and discounted phones. Now you have to pay full price for the phone, $600 for an iPhone, but you're not locked into a contract. That's no kinda deal to me, but they say that's what the people want.
  2. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My mother used to tell me "tend to your own little red wagon".
  3. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I do this just talking to my mother on the phone. I'll say something to my wife and she'll say "you've been talking to your mother, haven't you?" Yes, how'd you know? "You sound like Jed Clampett."
  4. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Academically it's called "Virginia Piedmont", and is distinct from the "Virginia Tidewater" spoken in the eastern part of Virginia. It's a heavily non-rhotic accent, which means the "R" is not pronounced unless it's followed by a vowel, and vowels are elongated with an "aww" sound . So words...
  5. HudsonHawk

    did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?

    This is why I'd never sit at a swim-up bar. People sit there for hours drinking, and no one leaves their seat. You're basically sitting a pool of other peoples' urine.
  7. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And most non-Southerners can't tell the difference. And they almost always get it wrong in the movies. Forrest Gump, a rural kid from southern Alabama speaking with a thick aristocratic northern Virginia accent, for example.
  8. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Attagirl! Now yer chunkin' it in there!
  9. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It offends me when a Southern accent is used for comedic effect, especially when it's used to indicate a character is not particularly bright or literate, and even more so when it's spoken by a non-Southerner. Larry the Cable Guy is the biggest perpetrator of this offense. To me, it's akin to...
  10. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    This irritates me to no end. Here is an exhaustive list of songs for which I am obligated to stand and remove my hat in respect: The Star Spangled Banner That's it. The complete list. Now here is a partial list of songs for which I'm not obligated to stand an salute: America The Beautiful...
  11. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    My mother played the piano, and she tried as best she could to get me to play. I wasn't interested, was more interested in fishing and playing baseball every waking second. Now, I wish I'd have learned to play. I picked up the guitar later in life, and have tried. In fact, I want my epitaph...
  13. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    That could be said of any topic. I remember a while back, some pinhead Yankees fans were making up their all-time Yankees team by position, and it came down to right field. After much discussion, they finally agreed that Paul O'Neill was the man. So many great pickers, so little space on the...
  14. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I think you're greatly underestimating the "modern" guitar picker and the respect they have for his/her influences. Every single player on any of those "best" lists rom the rock and roll era, guys like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck...all the way to Van Halen and the recently departed Prince, would...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There's definitely a celebrity that comes with drivers. I think the thing with hard core racing fans is that they know it's more than the driver that puts the car in victory lane. There's a whole team, and they seemed to appreciate and celebrate the efforts of everyone.
  16. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh certainly to all those things. An Earnhardt man would never root for Jeff Gordon, and by golly if your grand daddy was a Chevy man, so are you. But you could tell those that were more serious about it. They spoke about "the 3 car" or "the #2 Ford", knowing there was a collective there...
  17. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    While living in North Carolina, I learned quite a bit about NASCAR fans. One of the biggest was that true fans root for the car, not the driver. Sure, there are those who talk about being fans of particular drivers, but when talking serious about the race, they talk about the "48 car" or the...
  19. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the UK, standing in line is the national pastime, isn't it?
  20. HudsonHawk

    Music in the air

    I pick my guitar on the back porch all the time. If I had a front porch, I'd do it there. Which reminds me of The Front Porch Song, written by Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen when they were students together at Texas A&M University. It's about all the guys who used to pick on the front porch...
  21. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    The "moonwalk" has been around for decades before Jackson. Cab Calloway did something similar back in the 30s, and it was performed in mime and comedy routines by the likes of Dick Van Dyke and Marcel Marceau. James Brown and Jackie Wilson did it in the 60s, and it was first called "the...
  22. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Party lines and circuit preachers. I remember the latter, but the former had gone by the time I came around. You did only have to dial four digits though.
  23. HudsonHawk

    Why did we make ourselves into walking advertisements?

    I also hate the chest thumping and pointing to the sky to give a shoutout to the Big Guy. 1) God doesn't need you pimping for him, 2) He probably has more important things to attend, and 3) it's just laughable to think He's a Cubs fan.
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