Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Camp/Campfield
This blog, by a Tennessee legislator, has been bouncing around the blogosphere...
http://lastcar.blogspot.com/
Apparently it's genuine. Reminds me of a former representative from my old hometown of Enid, a banker named Happy Camp III. I knew a professor at the local college who served as Happy's speechwriter; the prof, though agreeing with Happy's political views, couldn't resist throwing in words that he knew to be beyond Happy's rather limited literacy.
Result was speeches that sounded like this:
"I know that you all are tard of the Walnut River flooding. I too am tard of the dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, DEE! VAST! ATION! that it causes whenever it leaves its banks." ¶ 10:32 AM
http://lastcar.blogspot.com/
Apparently it's genuine. Reminds me of a former representative from my old hometown of Enid, a banker named Happy Camp III. I knew a professor at the local college who served as Happy's speechwriter; the prof, though agreeing with Happy's political views, couldn't resist throwing in words that he knew to be beyond Happy's rather limited literacy.
Result was speeches that sounded like this:
"I know that you all are tard of the Walnut River flooding. I too am tard of the dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, DEE! VAST! ATION! that it causes whenever it leaves its banks." ¶ 10:32 AM
