A big time at the [picture] show

[Janis Vizier Nihart]

We didn't have a good time ---we PASSED a good time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: A big time at the [picture] show


> ---------------------- Information from the mail
header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET>
> Subject:      Re: A big time at the [picture] show
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
>
> On Jul 22, 2004, at 8:59 PM, Janis Vizier Nihart wrote:
>
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       Janis Vizier Nihart <tarheel at MOBILETEL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re  The show
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------
> >
> > Yes, we used it here in South Louisiana.  I gradually stopped using
> > the =
> > term when I moved away for several years.  Our last theater closed
> > down =
> > about 4 years ago.  I t was officially named The Show.  The older
> > people =
> >  who speak mostly French still use the term as a French word.
>
> I'm a native of Marshall, TX, about 35 mi. W of Shreveport in North
> Louisiana and yes, ma'am, we sure enough did used to go to the
> "[picture] show" After we came back from the [picture] show, folk would
> ask us whether we'd had a "big" time at the show and not whether we'd
> had a "good" time, the way that folk do up North. What kind of time did
> y'all have at the show, a "big" time or a "good" time?
>
> -Wilson Gray
>