Guatemala

[mishmish3000]

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[HansV]

Is that cat from Guatemala or from Costa Rica?

[BobH]

The sombrero looks Costa Rican to me.

[mishmish3000]

Si! Si! Muy loco gato.

[HansV]

A mad cat with a hat?

[StuartR]

"Shoot if you see a cat out there!"

best advice on cats I've heard in a long time.

Ken

Isn't that what water pistols are for?

[mishmish3000]

We used to have one cat that would occasionally run around like a demon possessed. With our rudimentary Spanish, we came up with a term for it: muy loco burrito* gato

*(since she was a big-boned girl).

Speaking of water guns... Earl and Ricky Bobby (the outdoor boys) now squint their eyes up like Clint Eastwood when I come outside with a cup in my hand... ever since I threw some water on them to stop their caterwauling.

[Rudi]

Well that's a new word! Never heard of caterwauling before!

[mishmish3000]

How about cattywampus?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cattywampus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I shall post something else Appalachian in a new thread...

[hlewton]

How about cattywampus?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cattywampus" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I shall post something else Appalachian in a new thread...

I didn't think I was Appalachian but I knew what each of those words you used meant. Gotta look more closely into my ancestors.

[stuck]

Isn't that what water pistols are for?

the big super-soaker ones

Ken

[Rudi]

Be careful not to super soak the cardboard box Stuart, else it will turn out cattywampus.

[BobH]

Anne, my grandmother used to describe a trip as "up hill a-goin' and down hill a-comin'"

She was raised in Nantahala Township in Swain County, NC. Her husband is buried there.

She would speak like the local folks when with them, but she was college educated (a very rare thing for an Appalachian woman of the 19th Century); and upon leaving the hill folk, would speak without the dialect.

[mishmish3000]

that's a really cool story, Bob!!!!
where did she go to college?

[BobH]

that's a really cool story, Bob!!!!
where did she go to college?

I'm not certain but I think it was a 'female normal institute' in Maryville, TN.

[mishmish3000]

http://www.tnvacation.com/civil-war/pla ... e-college/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

and there are OLD photos
http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/cgi/i/image/i ... e=20;c=gar" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BobH]

Thank you, Anne.

If that is the school, she would have been there in the late 1870's.

[mishmish3000]

That second link I sent you has an archive... you could contact them, maybe, and see if they have records for her. Wouldn't that be cool?
I've gotten my Dad's Navy records--still working on the Army ones--and now I have a list of every ship he ever served on, and all his Navy schools (he was Navy from 1940 to 1946, then Army from 1946 to 1960, active duty, then Army Reserves from 1960 to 1988). It's wonderful to find out things like that through archival sources.