cooking roadkill for tea

[Charles Doyle]

Lynne, any proper Arkansawer would take his roadkill home and have his mum cook it for SUPPER!

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:57:08 +0000
>From: Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
>Subject: cooking roadkill for tea
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>I came across this one, "spoken" by a member of the Gossip.  It's a Portland, OR band, but 2/3 of them (including the quotee) are from rural Arkansas.  The quotation goes:
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>"If my dad hit a deer in his car, he'd just say 'sweet!'" grins Brace. "Then he'd drive home with it on the hood and we'd cook it for tea."  [The Guide (The Guardian), Oct 28-Nov 3 2006]
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>Do people from Arkansas use 'tea' as a name for an early evening meal?  I have the suspicion that he said 'dinner', but that that was deemed by the writer to sound too formal for the picture of hickdom that he was trying to paint.  (I've been told here how 'charming' it is that we colonials say we have dinner every day.)
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>Lynne
>
>Dr M Lynne Murphy
>Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
>Linguistics and English Language
>Arts B135
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9QN
>

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