A judge, a lawyer, a cowboy and an innkeeper went into a bar. Sounds like a joke, and actually, it was.
I went on a trip with some friends to South Dakota, and we rode a week or so on horseback. It was an entertaining week, as we were a "diverse" group. The cowboy was from Maine, living in Arizona, I'm from New Mexico, living in Colorado and the lawyer and judge hailed from Loo-see-anna. At times communication was... difficult.
There was one conversation in particular that comes to mind. As we were riding along the trail, the lawyer said, "I need to get me some of those chaps like y'all have on". The judge replied "You might be able to find some at the Pone Shop". All 3 of us riding with him said "Where?". "The Pone Shop" came the reply.
The innkeeper asked "Is that a farm and ranch supply chain?"
Judge- "No no- a Pone Shop"
Cowboy- "A porn shop? I suppose they might sell leather goods..."
Lawyer- "Judge, what ARE you talking about"
We kept trying to decipher what the judge was talking about for several minutes, until finally, in great frustration, the judge hollered-
"THE PONE SHOP! P-A-U-N! PONE!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, JUDGE?"
"YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU TAKE YOUR WEDDING RINGS WHEN YOU ARE THROUGH WITH THEM! THE PONE SHOP!"
Oh, the pawn shop. Four friends separated by a common language.
Bill
Oh how I miss people who talk like me. I wouldn't quite say pone shop, but I could translate it for the rest of yall. And yeah, you can find surprisingly good tack at the paun shop - doesn't everybody look there?
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Being from Louisiana and having resided in Texas for 30 years, I can appreciate this! LOL
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LOL Made me recall some of the conversations around these parts... ;) I now have a mental translator running in my head at all times. Otherwise, I'd never be able to understand a word coming from 99% of the people we run into!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bill, you stay out of the pone shops AND the porn shops!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!
ReplyDelete(Help, I can't breathe)
Well considering, MH and I are from SD, have lived in AZ and now reside in CO...not withstanding we have oilfield hands from across the south, including one from waaayyyy up the bayou in Loo-see-anna and several from TX, including a few that speak fluent Spanglish...we have gotten pretty good at getting the 'gist' of what people are trying to say.
I'm not sure if we would have deciphered that one though. (still laughing)
This is an awesome TST! I love the entire conversation... and truly, you were born for True Story Tuesday. Does it just find you naturally? :)
ReplyDeleteNow, you can imagine this poor deaf chick trying to lipread and then my poor conservative mother trying to interpret in sign langauge... ACH, maybe not! ;)
Thanks for linking up and for the guffaws!
Being married to an Arkie and I am a Texan, I can so understand. Lol.
ReplyDeleteLanguage can be so tricky at times.
That's histerical. LOL
ReplyDeleteThis did tickle my funny bone but I figured out it must have been a pawn shop (which is how we spell it here but I have no idea anywhere else LOL) Still I didn't know you could get tack at one. I wonder if that is geographical too since people think of those areas as horse country, not so much here. Although we really are horse country because we rank in the top four for horse population.
ReplyDeleteLMAO. Sounds like an accent problem of some sorts. :) Very funny.
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