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School me on Tennessee

This thread makes me rue the time I started driving to Tennessee from GA but ran into intense rain so much so that I couldn't see the road in front of me and said f' it. TN is one of the few states I have not been to.
 
Jammer said:
Good to know. That'll come in handy for the California migrants.
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Kaiser does not have a presence there, so we will have to find something else - I've got the VA to fall back on, but my better half needs something that she can rely on.

m_asim said:
This thread makes me rue the time I started driving to Tennessee from GA but ran into intense rain so much so that I couldn't see the road in front of me and said f' it. TN is one of the few states I have not been to.
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We spent almost 2 years at Ft Bragg, NC (it will ALWAYS be Ft Bragg to me!) and you could almost set your watch by the afternoon rain storm!
 
have nothing to add, except to say that have been to tennessee a few times (eastern mountain area). thought it was phenomenally beautiful, and got a feeling that’s hard to express - almost heaven. felt like home even though it wasn’t mine.
 
A buddy of mine rode the area recently and loved the roads.

Otherwise, this is all I have.
[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5KEQ-sC6vg[/YOUTUBE]
 
dravnx said:
Stuckey's pecan logs and $.99 coffee, 2 eggs and toast.
Boyeld paynuts
pickled pigs ears and pickled hard boyeld eggs with ritz crahkers at every bar.
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I believe “hell” is pronounced with 3 syllables in Tennessee, yes?
 
littlebeast said:
have nothing to add, except to say that have been to tennessee a few times (eastern mountain area). thought it was phenomenally beautiful, and got a feeling that’s hard to express - almost heaven. felt like home even though it wasn’t mine.
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That's what convinced me that this would be my home the first time I experienced. Riding motorcycles through the eastern part of the state for one day and I was hooked. The sites, the smells, the beauty...I was absolutely in love with it. :love

lizard said:
I believe “hell” is pronounced with 3 syllables in Tennessee, yes?
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Locally, we say it like 'hay-ell'...so two syllables. :nerd
 
Speaking of pronunciations, my folks just spent a weekend here visiting and couldn't stop laughing about my accent. When you're living here full time, it doesn't take long before everything you say just starts coming out that way. Especially in groups. :laughing
 
DrSwade said:
You live very close to my ancestral lands and I’d to see it not morph like every other place overrun by Californians.
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The definition of "Californian" in Tennessee is "Anybody who moved here after I did".
 
Karbon said:
Tennessee doing things, apparently.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/slavery-banned-tennessee-constitutional-amendment-inmate-punishment/
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Ok, so step back and look at it a minute.

79.54% voted to Ban All Forms of Slavery.

79.54%

200w.webp
 
Why wouldn't they just say it's prohibited. The old version and the new version seems to leave the same loophole for abuse.
 
That's the troll percentage. Probably not "real", or, you know...maybe not.
 
Kornholio said:
Speaking of pronunciations, my folks just spent a weekend here visiting and couldn't stop laughing about my accent. When you're living here full time, it doesn't take long before everything you say just starts coming out that way. Especially in groups. :laughing
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We were there five days and when we dropped off my cousin my wife said “Bye”. But it came out (poor attempt at spelling phonetically) “Baaaa-aye”.
She then looked at me and said “WTF?” She still has a noticable South African accent…but not in Tennessee apparently.
I always speak in a sort of local way when I am there simply because I grew up around that accent. I also know the local vernacular. I was pointing out a “crick” to my wife and my cousin corrected me as it was a “branch” not a “crick”.
 
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