pickinchik - Posted - 07/07/2011:  07:56:52

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Check 'em out people!

 

youtube.com/watch?v=YPLcMdxvc-E

 

Mandy

paulaschumm - Posted - 07/07/2011:  09:20:44

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Love it! Thanks for sharing, Mandy!

Paula

pickinchik - Posted - 07/07/2011:  11:31:38

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Yeah and they come from around where I used to live so it was neat to find them on youtube.  thanks

Snowbird - Posted - 07/07/2011:  13:24:13

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No. no no no. I think he spit on his leg. A guy spitting and a guy trying to sing with a cigar stuffed in his mouth just isn't gonna do it for me. The whole thing right down to the ageing effect on the video was too contrived for my tastes and I quit before the song finished. Maybe Im too Canadian to appreciate it.

pickinchik - Posted - 07/07/2011:  15:39:00

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Originally posted by Snowbird

No. no no no. I think he spit on his leg. A guy spitting and a guy trying to sing with a cigar stuffed in his mouth just isn't gonna do it for me. The whole thing right down to the ageing effect on the video was too contrived for my tastes and I quit before the song finished. Maybe Im too Canadian to appreciate it.

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Too bad you don't like them.  They are from right here in North Georgia.  Don't know how much more mountain you can get.  Maybe it was a joke.  Give em a shot.  

Mandy

R.D. Lunceford - Posted - 07/08/2011:  12:07:21

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...Don't know how much more mountain you can get...   

Mandy

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 Is that what mountain folks are like?  I'm guessing they were just fooling around. 

paulaschumm - Posted - 07/08/2011:  12:21:02

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Oh, yeah. Lighten up! The video was totally lighthearted and fun.

Paula

michael6 - Posted - 07/08/2011:  13:03:49

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Mtngoat - Posted - 07/08/2011:  19:15:25

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I come from the same area as David Akeman.  For years one of my stage gags has been that the home folks called him Stringbean and me Butterbean in order to differentiate us based on appearance.   It's probably an old joke but I had it to myself for years.  Now I see someone else has appropriated it.  The folk tradition continues.  And the video kinda does make me homesick ol buddy. 

pickinchik - Posted - 07/09/2011:  06:34:35

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...Don't know how much more mountain you can get...   

Mandy

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 Is that what mountain folks are like?  I'm guessing they were just fooling around. 

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More mountain than living in the N. Georgia mountains is what I was referring to from the previous sentence.  

 

Everything doesn't have to be all serious all the time, or maybe to some it does.  Anyway I thought they were pretty cool.  

Mandy

R.D. Lunceford - Posted - 07/09/2011:  11:48:15

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Everything doesn't have to be all serious all the time, or maybe to some it does.  Anyway I thought they were pretty cool.  

Mandy

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 Of course it doesn't.  That was my point. 

"Is that what mountain folks are like?" (a rhetorical question)....... Of course they aren't.

"I'm guessing they were were just fooling around."

 Chill.......we're in agreement here. 

bluemule_77 - Posted - 07/09/2011:  16:41:38

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Originally posted by Mtngoat

I come from the same area as David Akeman.  For years one of my stage gags has been that the home folks called him Stringbean and me Butterbean in order to differentiate us based on appearance.   It's probably an old joke but I had it to myself for years.  Now I see someone else has appropriated it.  The folk tradition continues.  And the video kinda does make me homesick ol buddy. 

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I think it likely that their moniker is a play on the name of the song "Cornbread & Butterbeans" recorded by the Carolina Sunshine Trio some decades ago more than an appropriation of your nickname. I think you should continue using it as you see fit!

As for the video: kinda catchy and they appear to have had fun. Stereotypes are what they are: often unfair but kinda funny.

Regarding the song (which I've heard before): I never could understand how you "grow it by the pound." Sell it, sure. Consume it, yes. Package it, okay. But grow?

Brian