Odd game show parody in local commercial

[Matt Ottinger]

I think it's clear that my numbers were not meant literally.

I think it's been proven pretty consistently that what you think is clear and what the rest of us think is clear are two entirely different things.

[JayDLewis]

Should they see the Special Man?

/Leherhavit

[vtown7]

Brown Squirrel Furniture. That wouldn't happen to be next door to Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium, would it?
(That's right, Edna!)

My goodness, I had forgotten that series of sketches.  Thanks for the refresher.

OT: Had a major life thrill last year when I got to share a stage with Andrea Martin.  If her one woman show is coming to your town, go see her, she's wonderful in it.

R.

[pacdude]

I'm disgusted that people still bash the genre with such gross "hick" stereotypes.

Then the genre should stop reinforcing them.

[Twentington]

I'm disgusted that people still bash the genre with such gross "hick" stereotypes.

Then the genre should stop reinforcing them.

I think "Hillbilly Bone" goes the other way, since it says that you don't have to follow any of the Southern stereotypes to like country music.

Granted, there are a buttload of "I'm country because I x, y and Z", and maybe trucks and/or dogs are sometimes the Z. Perhaps that's where my argument came apart — I didn't make it clear enough that I was trying to say "there are very few country songs explicitly and non-ironically about dogs and/or trucks". I'll grant that Modor's list does have a few I'd never heard of since they're not mainstream, but on the other hand, at least a couple of those sound like they were done tongue-in-cheek (particularly Rodney Carrington — "I'm getting married to my pickup truck"). Also, some of them aren't truly "truck songs": "Redneck Woman" is basically an "I'm country because I x, y, z" song, "What Was I Thinkin'" is about running away with a girl, "That Ain't My Truck" is about seeing his girl with some other guy, and "Passenger Seat" doesn't specify the vehicle.

Also, "Jeep Jeep" and "Rockin' the Beer Gut" weren't even close to hits, so they're probably not the best representation here. I still consider the latter a guilty pleasure.

[JepMasta]

Brown Squirrel Furniture. That wouldn't happen to be next door to Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium, would it?

While "Brown Squirrel Furniture" probably sounds weird to outsiders, if you're from East Tennessee, it's something you don't even think twice about.

See also: "French Broad River"

Thanks for defending us East Tennesseans Matt, we have some strange names for stuff here in Tennessee though.  For example, we have towns called Bucksnort, Stinking Creek, and my personal favorite, Devil's Breakfast Table.

B~

[MikeK]

Thanks for defending us East Tennesseans Matt, we have some strange names for stuff here in Tennessee though.  For example, we have a towns called Bucksnort, Stinking Creek, and my personal favorite, Devil's Breakfast Table.

On a trip to visit relatives in Mississippi 25 years ago, we went through Bucksnort.  Sis and I, both in grade school at the time, got quite a chuckle out of its name.  We were immature little buggers back then.  Not much has changed.

[BrandonFG]

Thanks for defending us East Tennesseans Matt, we have some strange names for stuff here in Tennessee though.  For example, we have a towns called Bucksnort, Stinking Creek, and my personal favorite, Devil's Breakfast Table.

On a trip to visit relatives in Mississippi 25 years ago, we went through Bucksnort.  Sis and I, both in grade school at the time, got quite a chuckle out of its name.  We were immature little buggers back then.  Not much has changed.

When I interned in New York, we (as interns) went to Long Island and passed a town called Shinnecock. We lol'd...did I mention we were all college students?

/"Shin-uh-cock"
//Or was it "Shin-knee-cock"

[MikeK]

When I interned in New York, we (as interns) went to Long Island and passed a town called Shinnecock. We lol'd...did I mention we were all college students?

/"Shin-uh-cock"
//Or was it "Shin-knee-cock"

It wasn't "shiny cock", right?

/not bragging

[PYLdude]

So Bucksnort is an actual place. I swore it was a made up place.

[BrandonFG]

/"Shin-uh-cock"
//Or was it "Shin-knee-cock"

It wasn't "shiny cock", right?

/not bragging

Correct, as much as we wanted to convince ourselves otherwise. ;-)

[chrisholland03]

So Bucksnort is an actual place. I swore it was a made up place.

It is real.  Below is a comprehensive listing of 'things in Bucksnort':

2 Cemeteries
A KOA
An Arby's
2 Family-Owned Restaurants
A porn store
A hotel (across the street from the porn store)
A trout fishing ranch

[Fedya]

In Austria, not too far north from Salzburg, there's a town named Fucking (rhymes with "cooking").  What the Snopes article doesn't point out is that in Austria, the signs with the town names also denote the beginning of things like reduced speed limits for built-up areas, so you need to know when you're leaving the town, which is indicated by a sign on the other side with the name of the town -- and a slash through it.

I've been to that town, and someplace have a picture of myself next to the sign with the slash through it.  (But it was in the days before digital photography, and I don't have a good way to scan it.  And I'm not even quite certain where the photo is.)

[toddyo]

So Bucksnort is an actual place. I swore it was a made up place.

It is real.  Below is a comprehensive listing of 'things in Bucksnort':

2 Cemeteries
A KOA
An Arby's
2 Family-Owned Restaurants
A porn store
A hotel (across the street from the porn store)
A trout fishing ranch

Did they list a double yellow line?  The comprehensive list looks like a bad parody or a category on a future Pyramid pilot.

[knagl]

A hotel (across the street from the porn store)

The comprehensive list looks like a bad parody or a category on a future Pyramid pilot.

I'd have to buzz chrisholland03 for the use of a prepositional phrase.