Posted: January 09, 1999 at 01:28:29: by Michael Martinez
: : "I say, I say, I say there boah! I'm a RANGER, d'y'see? A
: : R-A-N-G-E-R! [spit!] Now, y'all git along and pack yore
: : thangs. We'll be movin' into them woods there yonder jist as
: : soon as I down these grits and hominy for mah breakfast!": I'm American and I have never heard anybody(especially actors)
: talk like that, and I live in florida which is as far south as
: you can get. I grew up in Florida and Georgia and we talked like that all the time -- whenever we were imitating Foghorn Leghorn, the famous Warner Brothers cartoon rooster whose voice was given its character by Mel Blanc, man of a thousand voices.
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