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Title: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 21, 2022, 07:51:16 AM
Complete strangers wave and/or say hello in public.

Fast, processed, fried and sugary are the main food groups.

The counter lady at Big-O calls you sweetie.

The pharmacist calls you buddy.

There is no recycling.

There is still a guy riding on the back of the garbage truck that empties your trash can.

You sweat before, during and after a shower.

It cools down very little or not at all in the evening.

You are familiar with the term swamp ass.

You know what a chigger is and how to treat the bites.

It is greener than you ever imagined.

People don't cower at thunder.

The bourbon is the best in the world.

A drive in the country still means something.

Rarely an hour goes by when you don't hear a lawn mower (except winter).

You don't see a single Tesla in the neighborhood (I haven't seen a Prius either).


Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on May 21, 2022, 10:26:47 AM
Tricia is now headed back from the national rowing meet which was held in Nashville Tennessee. Nashville isn't Kentucky, but looking east from California (or Oregon in her case), it looks a lot like it.

Other than the crappy service at the first night's motel (one bed for four team members!?) she commented most about how the people there used the word "fixin'."

Fixin' to go get dinner.

Fixin' to watch the competition.

Fixin' to go climbing and get some poison oak.


Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 21, 2022, 10:30:55 AM

If you reckon - then I'm a fixin'
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 21, 2022, 10:35:53 AM

P.S. Kentucky sports fans and many just plain old Kentuckians would throttle you within an inch of your life - or maybe just end you for comparing anything about Kentucky to Tennessee.

And those Tennessee breeders are used to sleepin' 4 to a bed. Specially if they're cousins  :yesnod: :lol:
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on May 21, 2022, 10:38:30 AM

P.S. Kentucky sports fans and many just plain old Kentuckians would throttle you within an inch of your life - or maybe just end you for comparing anything about Kentucky to Tennessee.


I suspected that this would be true.

But in order to thrash me, they'd have to come to California. And since "they" are irrationally terrified of earthquakes, I'm very, very safe.

P.S. I'd rather be in an earthquake than a tornado any day.


Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 21, 2022, 10:41:58 AM
Fixin' to go climbing and get some poison oak.

We ain't got no poison oak in Kentucky or Tennessee boy.

Poison Ivy is the evil creeper here.

Chiggers are pert near as good.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 21, 2022, 10:45:01 AM
P.S. I'd rather be in an earthquake than a tornado any day.

There was tennis ball-size hail near here yesterday.
Missed us by "that much".
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on May 21, 2022, 08:07:45 PM

 Is “swamp ass” a noun, adjective or verb? Pronoun?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on May 21, 2022, 09:06:23 PM
^^^

My guess is it is all of the above. And can probably be more than one at a time.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 22, 2022, 05:16:52 AM
Is “swamp ass” a noun, adjective or verb? Pronoun?

If you have to assk or I have to explain it - it's no fun.

It has to be experienced to be appreciated.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 22, 2022, 06:33:41 AM
An old friend of mine from Kentucky who has lived in Idaho the last 30 years (also a former guidebook author for the Red River Gorge) posted this and reminded me how much I miss watching Bill.

For you clink

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on May 22, 2022, 07:02:59 AM

 All my many gender fluid feelings, the feelings especially stirred up when hanging around with my peers on this forum, went out the window at the mention of the “Dick Saw”.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 22, 2022, 11:35:20 AM
^^^
I'm just sad that you probably won't live long enough to show up on that chart at the beginning.

Love the comparison between Ohio and LaLa Land.

Also love the comments on nut allergy, marriage and fluidity of children.

We need more cowboys, princesses and pirates  :yesnod: :thumbup: :lol: :ciappa:
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: mynameismud on May 22, 2022, 12:59:37 PM
Whiskey is better
What is wrong with sleeping 4 to a bed
That was a good clip and I hate that guy
It's still raining but the sun did come out
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 22, 2022, 02:42:15 PM
^^^
 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 22, 2022, 02:44:34 PM

You can broil and get chilled in the same day.

We always used to say that if you didn't like the weather - wait 5 minutes.

Yesterday it was in the 90's and super humid - then in the afternoon it rained huge, cold drops and hailed a little bit.

Today it didn't even reach 70, was overcast and drizzling slightly all day - felt just like home!
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 26, 2022, 09:13:03 AM

When you say goodnight and the response is "Yep...see ya in the morning...God willing and the creek don't rise."
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 27, 2022, 09:14:52 AM
You work all week and the weather is nice - then the weekend comes and it turns to shit.

People at local "mom and pop" businesses treat you like family.

Smokers aren't ostracized.

People think Budweiser is good beer.

Fruity wines, Mountain Dew and sweet tea are drink staples.

You can make a decent living mowing lawns.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on May 27, 2022, 10:18:47 AM
^^^

This mostly sounds like California 30 years ago.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 27, 2022, 10:30:41 AM
^^^

Maybe where you live.

Not in L.A. 40 years ago when I was there and certainly not in Santa Cruz where I have been the last 22 years.

Too many micro cultures in California to make any general, state-wide statements.

Kentucky basically has four - western, central and eastern (and northern to a lesser degree) - all with some variations in flavor.

The one thing they all share is feeling like a time warp when stepping in from California.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 28, 2022, 05:28:29 AM

Poor Julius came here to climb for a few days.
It rained two of the three days and now when it is time for him to leave the weather is perfect.

Murphy's Law...
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: russ p on May 28, 2022, 12:47:05 PM
I suspected that this would be true.

But in order to thrash me, they'd have to come to California. And since "they" are irrationally terrified of earthquakes, I'm very, very safe.

P.S. I'd rather be in an earthquake than a tornado any day.

I don't know about that Brad.  I grew up in the midwest and the thing about a tornado vs an earthquake is you usually get a little bit of a warning.  Either conditions are ripe for a possible tornado (think a hot day that suddenly gets very cool, with ominous black/purple clouds in the vicinity) or there is a general "tornado watch" or tornado warning" posted.  With an earthquake they just happen out of the blue, like a jump-scare in a horror movie.

Having experienced both I'd say the earthquake is seconds of sheer terror, (though the big one I think would be days of terror with the after shocks and general break down of society), while the twister is a lingering building fear. 

Having actually seen a couple tornados on the ground I will admit they have a fear and almost monster like quality that you can see with your own eyes.  Being outside with the nearest shelter hundreds of yards away and seeing a twister bearing down on you does induce a severe "oh shit" moment.  Ironically that incident was in Boulder, CO where tornados are very very rare.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 29, 2022, 08:48:36 AM

You get White Castle instead of In-N-Out

Gas is $4.20 dude
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on May 30, 2022, 05:20:14 AM
 When somebody shows y’all what they’re talk’g ‘bout by jist draw’g it for y’all with a stick, in the dirt.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 30, 2022, 07:14:44 AM

When you comment about how soft a piece of your clothing feels and someone says "Let me feel of it".
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 30, 2022, 08:59:22 AM
An old friend of mine from Kentucky who has lived in Idaho the last 30 years (also a former guidebook author for the Red River Gorge) posted this and reminded me how much I miss watching Bill.

For you clink



Along these same lines

I feel bad for parents nowadays.
You have to be able to explain The Birds and The Bees…the bees and the bees…the birds and the birds…the birds that used to be bees…the bees that used to be birds…the birds that look like bees…plus bees that look like birds but still have a stinger…
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on May 30, 2022, 10:25:54 AM
 Watch out for those stingers

 I advised my daughter Ruth yesterday that when she is working her night job and there is a man in the house, to print up business cards for a supposed side business eradicating snakes from properties.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 31, 2022, 08:11:11 AM

Sweating does nothing to cool you off.

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 01, 2022, 03:47:23 PM
 So, when using the outhouse, after last years corn husks and cobs, and vegetation within easy reach of the door is gone, what do you use? I would of thought newspapers, but you don’t read.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 02, 2022, 12:40:27 PM
^^^
Newspaper would result in inky ass (nothing like swamp ass).

I read when I need to.

P.S. You can't make fun of KY unless you are equally hillbilly...oh wait...you are! :yesnod: :out: :prrr: :ciappa:

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 02, 2022, 12:44:19 PM

They fry apples.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 02, 2022, 01:49:44 PM

The local weatherman says it's going to be "plum comfortable"
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 02, 2022, 05:58:52 PM
KY. The Lube State?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 02, 2022, 06:03:06 PM

 If your super sweaty, no lube needed. So what months is a Kentuckian not super sweaty?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 02, 2022, 06:45:10 PM
 Did you know that Kentucky doesn’t have a “State Nut”?

 You really should campaign to be elected as the State Nut while you are there. A visor could then be the State Shell. Hillbilly to hillbilly advice.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on June 02, 2022, 07:25:58 PM

 Did you know that Kentucky doesn’t have a “State Nut”?

 You really should campaign to be elected as the State Nut while you are there. A visor could then be the State Shell. Hillbilly to hillbilly advice.


I think we are already dealing with the state nuts. Or maybe the peas. Two in a pod.

Nuts.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 03, 2022, 04:12:32 AM
Did you know that Kentucky doesn’t have a “State Nut”?
 You really should campaign to be elected as the State Nut while you are there. A visor could then be the State Shell. Hillbilly to hillbilly advice.

 :lol: :lol: :lol:

They would never let a buckeye be the state nut.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 03, 2022, 04:15:02 AM
KY. The Lube State?

Reminds me of the time I first gave kyqueener a hard time on here.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 03, 2022, 04:18:36 AM
If your super sweaty, no lube needed. So what months is a Kentuckian not super sweaty?

That is debatable - especially when you consider the average weight of folks round here.

Maybe you can come up with another meanderthalic formula for computing that one.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 06, 2022, 01:57:14 PM
The newsperson reports the death of Bon Jovi's bass player and pronounces bass like the fish - then proceeds to another story and says something happened on accident.

We need a pistol to the head emoji.


Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 06, 2022, 02:37:06 PM
Quote
We need a pistol to the head emoji.

 Who put the head emoji in charge anyway?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 07, 2022, 04:25:25 AM

A "hangin' myself" emoji would be nice too.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 07, 2022, 04:29:05 AM

Mama made sticky buns yesterday and I just had to have some.

Then when I was sitting outside yesterday afternoon I felt sticky.

Could the two things be related?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 07, 2022, 04:34:35 AM

 Are you giving clues as to what “swamp ass” means?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 07, 2022, 07:26:10 AM
Are you giving clues as to what “swamp ass” means?

Nope. Swamp Ass is way beyond sticky buns.

That one just has to be experienced.

Here is a recipe for you.

https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a38772939/sticky-buns-recipe/
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 12, 2022, 07:35:26 AM

There are lightnin' bugs after dusk
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 12, 2022, 07:43:14 AM

A big squirrel tried to get in Porky yesterday while we were working on installing the new AC unit.

This thing was nuts!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52139807122_39818ca950_z.jpg)



Local talent showing off the new low-profile cooling unit. Dig the hillbilly patio at the front?

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52140828026_c270f27d9f_z.jpg)
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 13, 2022, 07:51:43 AM
You come in from outside dripping sweat and mama is sitting in her easy chair with the AC on and covered in a blanket  :yesnod:
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 11, 2022, 02:19:21 PM

It's a prefect day outside and no one has the windows in their house open.

The leaves are multi-colored.

The grass is starting to enter it's dormant phase.

Gas is three dollars a gallon less.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: waldo on October 12, 2022, 06:38:44 PM
Grits
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 13, 2022, 04:14:25 AM
^^^
Corn pone.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on October 13, 2022, 09:29:03 AM

 Isn’t that a yoga position?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: waldo on October 14, 2022, 03:41:03 PM
Isn’t that a yoga position?
  Only for advanced students, Clink.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 15, 2022, 06:09:14 AM

Windy days, cool nights
Brilliant colors of Autumn
Leaves swirling in surreal spirals on the road during my rides
Birds have gone south for the winter

 
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 23, 2022, 06:40:05 AM
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52448553133_8af566479b_z.jpg)

Governor's mansion. We said hello to him minutes later (he was out walking his dog).
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: F4? on October 27, 2022, 11:29:34 AM
You guys are staying there?

Maybe Klink can visit?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 27, 2022, 11:35:16 AM
You guys are staying there?

Maybe Klink can visit?

He's rumored to be in Shit Kicker County.
Don't think he is coming this far east.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on October 28, 2022, 03:44:54 PM

 Steak in Texas is good. My Dad is recovering quite well from a quadruple bypass.

 Is that an oxen-moron?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 29, 2022, 04:10:22 AM
^^^
Saw one ranch just off the highway in Oklahoma with grazing Texas Longhorn and buffalo. Didn't have my camera out.
Can't imagine trying to herd those suckers.  :yikes:
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on October 29, 2022, 04:00:35 PM
 Concealed and Scary
 Like the Invisible Man, who probably moved to Texas, took up ranching and continued experimenting.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: F4? on October 29, 2022, 07:41:42 PM
Klink you might like KY


Nah!
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on October 29, 2022, 10:28:29 PM

 KY is for rookies
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on October 30, 2022, 04:16:23 AM
KY is for rookies

Try publicly announcing that in the hills and hollers of eastern Kentucky
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on October 30, 2022, 12:44:05 PM

 Gimme three steps
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: Brad Young on November 01, 2022, 12:44:41 PM
You get no trick or treaters this year, again.

Oh, wait. That's for rural California, outside of a closely-built subdivision.

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on November 03, 2022, 04:08:00 AM

People park on the lawn when there is plenty of room in the driveway.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on November 12, 2022, 12:36:00 PM

One day it is summer-like and the next it's snowing.

Time for some chili and a bourbon barrel brewsky  :yesnod: :thumbup: :ihih:
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 25, 2023, 10:50:27 AM

When it's hot and humid with an excellent chance of thunderstorms and bourbon barrel aged beer.
 
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on June 26, 2023, 12:08:24 PM
Great thunderstorms came through last night.
Swirling winds with heat and bolt lightning, thunder, rolling thunder and just a touch of hail with the downpour.
We stood in the doorway and watched the deluge.
Reminded me of childhood (in Akron) when I watched the clouds - waited for a storm to blow up and then just sat and watched it. I'd climb to the top of a tree in our backyard and get a wind ride in the crow's nest/crook of branches at the top and then scamper back down just ahead of the storm.
Sometimes I would grab the golf umbrella and sit on a big Dutch elm tree stump in the back yard while it poured all around me.
Good times.
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: clink on June 26, 2023, 03:44:04 PM

 I hear if you try flying to Cincinnati, you’ll end up in Kentucky. Are pilots attracted to better bourbon?
Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 01, 2024, 08:12:07 AM

Yesterday was 502uesday at Churchill Downs - ramping up for the 150th run for the roses.
If you don't get it - the area code is 502 - this could go on the not so clever jokes and sayings thread.

At the rate I'm sweating during my workouts it's more like run for the noses (or hoses).

Title: Re: You know you are in Kentucky when...
Post by: JC w KC redux on May 04, 2024, 06:47:56 AM
In your retirement you might contemplate starting your own clothing line. Gender Reveal Outfitters or possibly The Walking Wardrobe Malfunctions Co., WWM?

Watching the 150th Kentucky Derby coverage today - it scares the hell out of me to think about what kind of "Fascinator" Brad might design to go with his new fashion line.