Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Stupid Statements Message-ID: <908@burl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 13:47:34 EST Article-I.D.: burl.908 Posted: Sun Oct 27 13:47:34 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 00:16:21 EST References: <1308@daemen.UUCP> <600@im4u.UUCP> Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC Lines: 27 Summary: Not really stupid statements; but I visited my new stepfather in MA recently and he reminded me of some 'stupid' ways people say things because he would occasionally lapse into a Cajun-style rap for a joke: Some things sound really stupid if you don't know the dialect. I speak of the Cajun folks in South Louisianna (near my homeland) and also of the French people in South Central Massachusetts, to name only two. These folks come up with some real gems; here are a couple I have really heard used: "T'row me out the window my sweater!" (Throw my sweater out the window to me.) "Ah done tolt you fo' t'ree time, an' ah ain' gon' tolt you some mo' already!" (I've already told you three or four times, and I'm not going to tell you again!) "Ah lif' up de bed an' dere she is -- gone!" (I lifted up the bed and saw that it was gone!) Dem is some mo' crahzy Cajun, no? -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj