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From the SPAR Newsletter with permission...
Told It Like It Iz
By: Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine
Well, dey don't uzuly let Cajuns near dem smart tings like writin fuh newsledders, so I wunt to tank them SPARs fuh lettin' me do dis. Ah been recover from dat Katrina storm down hear in Luzianne. Man dat ting did sum damage to mah house and my boat. We dun took us a vote down hear and we figur if we rename da Gulf of Mexico to da Persian Gulf, maybe dem politican in Washington will send us sum money. Me I'm having Clotille, mah ol lady, read me all the argue about takin away de CW tes so I kin keep up wit dat. I figur nobody heard about the female type feminine womens in dat French Quarter who was sendin CW code message to dat Coast Guard helicopter after Katrina. Yeah, dey was dropping they tube top sending SOS. I guess dem Coast Guards mus not kno dat code cuz dey kep makin dem womens repeat dat message. Dat hole ting was hush-hush up by the govment ah guess.
Well nah the code tes is gone. Ol Pierre tink das a good ting. Ah ain't used da code in so long I been usin mah strait key to turn off and on dat cable winch on da back deck of mah boat da M/V "Go-Go". Yeah, apparranly dat winch make a spark when it be runnin, and I got me 3 QSL card from some dem QRSS guys in France. Dem cards was pretty. Won had two French guys waving a white flag in Worl War Once, anudder had fo or five Frenchmans waving a white flag in Worl War twice. The third one was from a department sto in Parris sayin dat they annul white sale was cancel cuz dey all sold out of white sheets. Gess dey gittin reddy fo da nex war!
Deez days mah favrat digital mode is Heckschriber. Das de same as Hellschriber but it waz writen by one dem Catlick Church priestes. Yeah, if you say one dem curse words, the message on de other end sez, "Say 5 Hail Marys and an Act of Contrition and don do dat no moe!" Ah sent me a pictur of onna dem girly girls usin dat SSTV to mah frien Father Placid at Our Lady of the Swap Church who a ham too. Ah figure since he don got no wife dat would be funny, yeah. Den he send me back onna dem SSTVs of Michael Jackson. Ah don't unerstan dat some atall!
Well, me I done thougt of sometin dat ah can share wit ya'll dat I lernd about dem ham radio. I been wonder what dat "RIT" control on mah Yahzoo radio was fo and ah finally figure dat out. Das where de name Dye-pole come from. Ah guess you can twiss dat knob and change da color of you antanna. Mine don't work cause mah duplex attach don't got no RIT Dye in it. I been pressin dat "EASY" button ah got frum Staples to get me some ink, but all dat happens is dat Clotille's sister Cher come into mah shack every tim I press dat button wearin hot pants and a tube top. She been winkin at me so much I done tought she got onna dem face ticks like ah get when I get crosswise dah hi volt surkit in mah Swan tree-fifty. Ah found out dat when you sniff one dem plate caps on dat final tube real close, it smell jus like chicken!
Well ah guess ah bettr get goin. Clotille callin me dat someone want me on the statue. You know wat a "statue" is right? Yeah dat ting rings and you pick up de receiver and say, "Hello, statue?" We even got a statue in da outhouse! Clotille also got some candles out dere she lite when she in the maison petite. She say dat is fo atmosfere. Hoo boy das rite! Las time I lit dem candle out dere was in 1947 and de explosion was so big dat I beat Chuck Yeager tru da sound barrier by tree days an I lef da atmosphere fo 5 or 4 minute.
Anyway, until nex time mon amis, 73s and au revoir!
Y'alls Turly,
Doodie LaTrine
Sorry, but while I think it's well intentioned, I think this would have been better in plain English.
As it is, it's unreadable.
kn4ds
03-30-2007, 05:44 PM
Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ Mar. 30 2007,12:28)]Sorry, but while I think it's well intentioned, I think this would have been better in plain English.
As it is, it's unreadable.
Perfectly readable for those of us raised on Justin Wilson http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
K7JEM
03-30-2007, 05:48 PM
Like Ryan, I can't make heads or tails out of it. Hurts my brain to try and decipher it.
It's hard enough when people occasionally misspell or use bad grammar. A whole post is just over the top.
Joe
W3MIV
03-30-2007, 05:55 PM
Quote[/b] (AB2MH @ Mar. 30 2007,12:28)]Sorry, but while I think it's well intentioned, I think this would have been better in plain English.
As it is, it's unreadable.
An dint haf no problum. Ah gots kin tharaboats.
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Merci, Shar-lee. Kin?
kf5er
03-30-2007, 05:59 PM
très bon mon ami!
kn4ds
03-30-2007, 06:03 PM
Ah Garonteee
K6UEY
03-30-2007, 06:10 PM
Go figger,a Yankee wood never unerstand !! Y'all no how them boys up nort ar !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
K0RGR
03-30-2007, 06:14 PM
Quote[/b] (W4HAY @ Mar. 30 2007,10:35)]Has Hashifisti Scratchi been reincarnated as a Coonass??
Those were my thoughts, exactly!
If you don't know Hashafisti Scratchi, you need to find a CQ magazine from the 50's.
Unfortunately, like Amos and Andy, most Asians would find Hashafisti insulting. It was written in badly spelled 'Engrish' that adopted some stereotypes about how Japanese pronounce the language. The stories usually originated in "Feenix".
Still, the stores were hilarious, and I had a ball reading them as a kid. If can find a collection of old CQ's, take the time to read some, even if you are Asian, and remember that America had just won a war with the Japanese.
Quote[/b] (K7JEM @ Mar. 30 2007,10:48)]Like Ryan, I can't make heads or tails out of it. Hurts my brain to try and decipher it.
It's hard enough when people occasionally misspell or use bad grammar. A whole post is just over the top.
Joe
LOL! Not suprised.
K9STH
03-31-2007, 12:59 AM
Scratchi actually originated in the old "Radio" magazine during the late 1930s. I have a couple examples in my collection of old radio magazines (note the difference in capitalization). The "column" was dropped during World War II and was then in CQ magazine starting in either late 1946 or early 1947 (I have that particular issue around "somewhere").
He was usually either in "beautiful downtown Feenix" or else hiding out at his brother Itchi's ranch near "Feenix".
As for Justin Wilson: In real life he didn't talk like he did when he was portraying the "ragin' cajun". He was the featured speaker at the ISHM convention in Dallas, Texas, in 1969. My then boss was the program chairman of the convention and my wife and I got to sit with Justin during the banquet and then "hob knob" with him after the banquet was ended. He was actually a graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in safety engineering. After graduation he was employed by a major oil company and he started the "ragin' cajun" character as an "example" of poor safety habits during his safety presentations at work.
Eventually persons outside of his company "discovered" his comedy talents and persuaded him to perform at functions away from his employer. Justin started making considerably more money with his comedy routines and eventually quit working for the oil company.
Many people know him from his program on The Food Network (and sometimes on PBS). However, he died several years ago although his programs are sometimes rerun on cable television.
I have several CDs of his comedy routines that I listen to every once in a while.
Glen, K9STH
Quote[/b] (K9STH @ Mar. 30 2007,17:59)]Scratchi actually originated in the old "Radio" magazine during the late 1930s. I have a couple examples in my collection of old radio magazines (note the difference in capitalization). The "column" was dropped during World War II and was then in CQ magazine starting in either late 1946 or early 1947 (I have that particular issue around "somewhere").
He was usually either in "beautiful downtown Feenix" or else hiding out at his brother Itchi's ranch near "Feenix".
As for Justin Wilson: In real life he didn't talk like he did when he was portraying the "ragin' cajun". He was the featured speaker at the ISHM convention in Dallas, Texas, in 1969. My then boss was the program chairman of the convention and my wife and I got to sit with Justin during the banquet and then "hob knob" with him after the banquet was ended. He was actually a graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in safety engineering. After graduation he was employed by a major oil company and he started the "ragin' cajun" character as an "example" of poor safety habits during his safety presentations at work.
Eventually persons outside of his company "discovered" his comedy talents and persuaded him to perform at functions away from his employer. Justin started making considerably more money with his comedy routines and eventually quit working for the oil company.
Many people know him from his program on The Food Network (and sometimes on PBS). However, he died several years ago although his programs are sometimes rerun on cable television.
I have several CDs of his comedy routines that I listen to every once in a while.
Glen, K9STH
Met him about 30 years ago. He's actually from Texas.
k4kyv
03-31-2007, 02:49 AM
Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ Mar. 30 2007,17:12)]From the SPAR Newsletter with permission...
Told It Like It Iz
By: Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine
Well, dey don't uzuly let Cajuns near dem smart tings like writin fuh newsledders, so I wunt to tank them SPARs fuh lettin' me do dis. Ah been recover from dat Katrina storm down hear in Luzianne. Man dat ting did sum damage to mah house and my boat...
It would have been more decipherable (and funny) to actually hear to someone with an authentic Cajun accent read that aloud.
I always had the same problem with Hashifisti Srcatchi. A bit too tedious to read. I have most, if not all of those old Scratchi columns in my archive of Radio magazine - in my opinion the best amateur radio publication ever, following their 1936 merger with R-9 magazine.
I can remember Del Popwell, K4NBN "No Bad News" ( who I see is still listed on the QRZ lookup listing ) talking about his "gator farm" and his "barbed waaar fence" that he supposedly used as an antenna. #I even have a QSL card from him, showing a "typical ham shack in Dixie" that looks like one of those pictures that show the hillbilly rednecks with the caption "Our highly trained staff . . . ." #you know the kind!
Well, that old Justin Wilson was quite some character, "I guuuuaaaarennnntteeee ya !"
So was Del ! # Golly, I miss them !
73, Jim
AE6IP
03-31-2007, 04:42 AM
It is very difficult to write what appears to be regional dialect and remain funny. Mark Twain was very good at it. " Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine" is at the other end of the spectrum.
Quote[/b] (AE6IP @ Mar. 30 2007,21:42)]It is very difficult to write what appears to be regional dialect and remain funny. Mark Twain was very good at it. " Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine" is at the other end of the spectrum.
I would expect Doodie would eat the Frogs of Calavaras County with some brown rice and a bottle of Dixie Beer.
KE5FRF
03-31-2007, 05:01 AM
Quote[/b] (AG3Y @ Mar. 30 2007,22:50)]I can remember Del Popwell, K4NBN "No Bad News" ( who I see is still listed on the QRZ lookup listing ) talking about his "gator farm" and his "barbed waaar fence" that he supposedly used as an antenna. I even have a QSL card from him, showing a "typical ham shack in Dixie" that looks like one of those pictures that show the hillbilly rednecks with the caption "Our highly trained staff . . . ." you know the kind!
Well, that old Justin Wilson was quite some character, "I guuuuaaaarennnntteeee ya !"
So was Del ! Golly, I miss them !
73, Jim
I think Glen has mentioned meeting Justin Wilson's "personna" in the past. Justin owned property here in Baton Rouge, and I think might have lived here part or full time. I can confirm through second hand but still yet colaborated accounts from friends who new Justin Wilson that he was "very much" NOT a real Cajun and that his accent was a put-on. Before he became famous as a television chef, Justin Wilson was a "sort of" motivational speaker "type". I'm not certain how to explain his job...He worked in the industrial sector here (oil refineries and chemical plants) in the Gulf South teaching safety awareness. Yep, I just read through Glen's post and he obviously has the same information. This topic comes up from time to time at work from some of the older guys who knew or met Justin "before he was famous".
BTW, the Cajun character in the SPAR article is QUITE understandable. But I have an advantage as many of my friends have even worse accents. There is a sheet metal fabrication company down here that is run by a family of coon-asses, and while my friend Todd is a top-notch welder and tinsmith, he is accent is almost as sharp as his mind.
another BTW, I'm wondering if our beloved Louisianians Mr. Boudreaux or Mr. Thibodeaux are any relation to our SPAR character? (Any Gulf South/Louisianian resident will know to whom I refer)
Quote[/b] (KE5FRF @ Mar. 30 2007,22:01)]Quote[/b] (AG3Y @ Mar. 30 2007,22:50)]I can remember Del Popwell, K4NBN "No Bad News" ( who I see is still listed on the QRZ lookup listing ) talking about his "gator farm" and his "barbed waaar fence" that he supposedly used as an antenna. I even have a QSL card from him, showing a "typical ham shack in Dixie" that looks like one of those pictures that show the hillbilly rednecks with the caption "Our highly trained staff . . . ." you know the kind!
Well, that old Justin Wilson was quite some character, "I guuuuaaaarennnntteeee ya !"
So was Del ! Golly, I miss them !
73, Jim
I think Glen has mentioned meeting Justin Wilson's "personna" in the past. Justin owned property here in Baton Rouge, and I think might have lived here part or full time. I can confirm through second hand but still yet colaborated accounts from friends who new Justin Wilson that he was "very much" NOT a real Cajun and that his accent was a put-on. Before he became famous as a television chef, Justin Wilson was a "sort of" motivational speaker "type". I'm not certain how to explain his job...He worked in the industrial sector here (oil refineries and chemical plants) in the Gulf South teaching safety awareness. Yep, I just read through Glen's post and he obviously has the same information. This topic comes up from time to time at work from some of the older guys who knew or met Justin "before he was famous".
BTW, the Cajun character in the SPAR article is QUITE understandable. But I have an advantage as many of my friends have even worse accents. There is a sheet metal fabrication company down here that is run by a family of coon-asses, and while my friend Todd is a top-notch welder and tinsmith, he is accent is almost as sharp as his mind.
another BTW, I'm wondering if our beloved Louisianians Mr. Boudreaux or Mr. Thibodeaux are any relation to our SPAR character? (Any Gulf South/Louisianian resident will know to whom I refer)
No, but Doodie knows Thibodeaux and Boudreaux's Uncle, Poopiedoo Benoit. Years ago I knew Poopiedoo. He was Chief of the Thibodeaux Fire Department. For real.
AE6IP
03-31-2007, 05:10 AM
Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ Mar. 30 2007,20:59)]Quote[/b] (AE6IP @ Mar. 30 2007,21:42)]It is very difficult to write what appears to be regional dialect and remain funny. Mark Twain was very good at it. " Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine" is at the other end of the spectrum.
I would expect Doodie would eat the Frogs of Calavaras County with some brown rice and a bottle of Dixie Beer.
Dixie? That's tourist beer. Pierre needs to get his hands on some Abita Amber and fry those frogs up with cayenne and garlic powder.
KE5FRF
03-31-2007, 05:27 AM
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux humor (http://www.southernthoughts.com/STBoudreaux.htm)
For your enjoyment. WARNING. I didn't proofread these jokes for good taste, and knowing South Louisianians, no Boudreaux joke would be complete without a little tasteless humor. So, if you are easily offended, you might want to avoid the link.
A quick joke though, one I heard recently:
Boudreaux and his ol'lady Marie (pronounced Maah-ree) were lyin' in bed and she rolled over and aske, "Boudreaux, eef I wuz ta die, woo'd you be gettin' anotha ol'lady to replace me?"...Boudreaux says, "Why yez I recon I woo'd Marie, I still be young and I recon I needs me a companion."
"Oh, Boudreaux woo'd you be lettin her drive ma car?"
"Why I recon I woo'd, dat car be a fine car and it done be paid fo."
"Oh, Boudreaux woo'd you be lettin her sleep in our bed?"
"Why I recon I woo'd, dat bed be a fine bed and comfitable and it done be paid fo too."
"Oh, Boudreaux woo'd you be lettin her wear ma clothes?"
"No, I recon not, I think she be a bit small for dem, Marie."
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n5rfx
03-31-2007, 10:10 AM
Quote[/b] ]I would expect Doodie would eat the Frogs of Calavaras County with some brown rice and a bottle of Dixie Beer.
That is what I drank right after getting my second-class FCC license at the testing session at the VFW in Arabi. It was the only beer on tap. That bar in the VFW made a fortune on testing day.
Quote[/b] ]Dixie? That's tourist beer.
I would say that Abita is tourist beer.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
73,
Mark N5RFX
AD5LT
03-31-2007, 11:32 AM
Now that was good.
W4HAY
03-31-2007, 01:10 PM
More on Scratchi: (http://www.qsl.net/ad7db/scratchi.html)
AND
Scratchi article: (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arfernc.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/scratchi_may_tc.jpg&imgrefurl=http://arfernc.tripod.com/id17.html&h=135&w=220&sz=40&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=rsqmOmsUsevRDM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscratchi%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl% 3Den%26sa%3DG) (Scroll about 2/3 down the page.)
Justin Wilson is aired three times weekly on RFD-TV (http://www.rfdtv.com/schedule.asp?Timezone=-1), twice on Thursdays and once on Sundays. There's also a program on model/toy trains before the Thursday broadcasts.
Quote[/b] (AE6IP @ Mar. 30 2007,22:10)]Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ Mar. 30 2007,20:59)]Quote[/b] (AE6IP @ Mar. 30 2007,21:42)]It is very difficult to write what appears to be regional dialect and remain funny. Mark Twain was very good at it. " Pierre "Doodie" LaTrine" is at the other end of the spectrum.
I would expect Doodie would eat the Frogs of Calavaras County with some brown rice and a bottle of Dixie Beer.
Dixie? That's tourist beer. Pierre needs to get his hands on some Abita Amber and fry those frogs up with cayenne and garlic powder.
Dixie has been around for a hundred years, (Tulane Avenue Brewery) and Abita started in 1986. Abita is definately the "tourist" beer of the two. Other New Orleans beers were Jax, Regal, and Falstaff. When I did broadcast work, I maintained an AM transmitter in the attic of the brewery.
PBS did a special on the cajuns several years ago and then governor Edwin Edwards (cajun from Crowley, La.) told an off color cajun joke on camera. The rednecks of Louisiana went berzerk. Most South Louisiana residents simply said, "...yeah you rite!"
The joke was about a travling salesman who's car broke down, goes to a local cajun home and asks to borrow a monkey wrench from a cajun housewife.
W5HTW
03-31-2007, 02:44 PM
It was easy enough to read. I couldn't read it as rapidly as I can good English, but then there isn't much good English anymore, so translating a lot of the posts on the internet (including here) slows down the reading quite a bit.
The only acceptable target of jokes and attempts at cultural humor remaing are WASP. Anything else is taboo. Heck I still miss the comic strip "Tumbleweeds." It went the way, I guess, of the Frito Bandito and the Taco Bell pooch.
However, I didn't find this particular article to be very 'ham radio related' and probably should have been in the Rag Chew forum. See? I gotta find *some* sort of fault with it!
Ed
K7KBN
03-31-2007, 04:02 PM
AG4YO -
Hey, Charlie - thanks for the memory jog on Falstaff beer. #My dad used to drink that in Las Vegas, and I can still hear the commercials in my head:
Falstaff Beer, the right beer anywhere.
Falstaff Beer, it's brewed with special care.
Smooth and golden
Bright and clear,
It's America's premium quality beer.
Sing out now, the time is here
For cool, refreshing Falstaff!
Never tried it myself (way too young), but some of those I've mentioned it to tell me I'm lucky for not having experienced it.
And "Regal"...was that "Regal Pale"? Sponsors of "Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiians"? With Jack Narz as their announcer? Memory overload!
K9STH
03-31-2007, 04:15 PM
The classic Justin Wilson / Cajun joke is about the Cajun teenager who went off to LSU after graduating from high school. When he come home for Christmas vacation his papa threw a humongous party and invited all of the neighbors. At the party the papa called the teenager up to the front and asked him what he was studying at them LSU.
The boy told his papa that he was studying English, Social Studies, and Algebra. His papa thought for a minute and then asked him to say something in Algebra. Thinking for a moment the boy finally said "Pi R square".
Papa flew into a rage saying, "what they teaching you at them LSU. Everybody know that pie are round, cornbread are square!"
Glen, K9STH
ve6wtf
03-31-2007, 04:19 PM
See! you dont even have to read it to make a sweet post!
Quote[/b] (k7kbn @ Mar. 31 2007,09:02)]AG4YO -
Hey, Charlie - thanks for the memory jog on Falstaff beer. My dad used to drink that in Las Vegas, and I can still hear the commercials in my head:
Falstaff Beer, the right beer anywhere.
Falstaff Beer, it's brewed with special care.
Smooth and golden
Bright and clear,
It's America's premium quality beer.
Sing out now, the time is here
For cool, refreshing Falstaff!
Never tried it myself (way too young), but some of those I've mentioned it to tell me I'm lucky for not having experienced it.
And "Regal"...was that "Regal Pale"? Sponsors of "Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiians"? With Jack Narz as their announcer? Memory overload!
You'll never know what that other beer lacks,
until you try the real beer taste,
the real beer taste of Jax,
Mellow Jax, Mello Jax, Mello Jax.
Dixie used the soft part of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in commercials with pleasant pictures as an "interlude" brought to you by Dixie Beer.
And who can forget Poppa Joe with the last name which sounded like a greasy..... well....
K7KBN
04-01-2007, 03:18 AM
Been trying to remember the Regal Pale jingle. Something like:
Take it easy, take it light,
With the beer that tastes just right.
Get the light and mellow brew,
Regal Pale, the beer for you.
Quote[/b] (KI4PEQ @ April 01 2007,14:07)]Regal spelled backwards = LAGER
Always remind my Boss the "BOSS" spelled backward is Double S OB.
K7KBN
04-01-2007, 09:42 PM
The favorite refreshment for the folks who cut down the trees here in the Pacific Northwest: a glass of cold, crisp LOGGER beer.
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay...".
ab9lz
04-01-2007, 09:54 PM
Quote[/b] (k7kbn @ April 01 2007,14:42)]The favorite refreshment for the folks who cut down the trees here in the Pacific Northwest: a glass of cold, crisp LOGGER beer.
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay...".
Never had it... as a Seattle youth I grew up with the eight ball. ; )