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Mozart’s “Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman” might well be his most popular melody — it’s the tune used in both “The Alphabet Song” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”

…I never knowed Mozart wrote that there. Course, I ain’t no authority on that kinda hoity toity music what he usually wrote, neither, so I be guessin it jes never came up. I steers clear a all that highfalutin stuff. Like that there salesman what come round here t’other day sellin… what were it now? Toshiba Satellite setups? Yeah, somethin like that. He were sayin how it would connect us t’ th’ world. I ask him how, when we ain’t even got no TV set. He didden have no answer fer that, an got hisself on outa here right quick after.

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The US, Burma and Liberia are the only countries in the world that have not officially adopted the metric system as the standard of measurement.

…an why should we, I be wonderin? Ta old way be good enuff fer our ancestors, it be good enuff fer us. I be wishin they would apply that reasonin ta other thangs. Cousinb Maisy be all up inna air about makin sure her an her girls got all these newfangled self defense products. Well, I don’ know nothin bout that, but iffen I were ta think on it< I be purty sure I’d jes stick wi’ m’ dog, m’ fryin pan an m’ ole shotgun. They allus worked afore, no need ta change what ain’t broke, now is they.

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The purpose of gasoline rationing during the Second World War was not to conserve gas, but to conserve TIRES. The primary source for natural rubber at the time was Southeast Asia, much of which was under Japanese control.

…well, don’t that beat all. I never knowed it. I be wishin they would start rationin these here weight loss pill thangs. Er at leastaways t’ ads fer em. I heard a woman down valley way piched em inna slops fer t’ pigs by accident, an they all wasted away ta nothin, but ya cain’t never put no stock in rumors, can ya.

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Babies have more bones in their bodies than adults. As the babies grow older, some bones eventually fuse together (like in the skull), resulting in fewer bones as an adult.

…now, what in tarnation differnce do that make? Babies grows up, more bones or not. Leastaways, ya hopes they do. An ya hopes they git some sense. Some folks never does. Like Cousin Maisy’s boy. He were up here a week ago Tuesday tryin ta git me ta buy one a them there new spring plungers he was sellin. Full a big talk, till I ask him how he figgers I was sposed ta use it inna outhouse holes. He didden seem ta have no answer fer THAT, lemme tell ya.

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Time magazine’s first female “Man of the Year” was Wallis Warfield Simpson, in 1936. The American divorcee made headlines when Edward VIII abdicated the British throne in order to marry her.

…ain’t no wonder they done made sech a mistake at t’ magazine, wi’ her havin a name like that there. Iffen folks gonna give boy names ta girls, they should be expectin it. I don’ hardly recollect t’ prince leavin his throne fer no one, but then, I were a bit busy back then. Y’know, ya hear a name like hers, ya sees someone inna shop in town sellin office supplies an sech, not hobnobbin wi’ t’ royals. Then agin, most Americans like t’ democratic way, an we ain’t had nothin ta do wi’ royalty since we tole England where ta go.

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You won’t find pincers at the Egremont Crab Fair held in Cumbria, England. That’s because the Fall event actually celebrates apples.

…well why don’ they jes say what they mean, then? Figgers, they be ferrin folks. Cain’t trust ferriners fer nothin. But American ads be jes as bad sometime. Take ads fer diet pill boxes an sech. They all be a bit differntt, but ya try an figger out how they be differnt, ya be up ta creek wi’out a paddle, fer sher. Jes wish folks would say what they means an be done wi’ it.

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mn all of Shakespeare’s works, only one word starts with an “X” - Xanthippe, Socrates wife. He uses her name in The Taming of the Shrew.

…never did understan’ that there Shakespeare fella, noway. All them highfalutin words wi’ no meanin I kin make out. Makes me recollect that there feller down valley way what be mindin that there jewelry shop wi’ t’ big ad fer Oceanus watches inna winder. Allus quotin Shakespeare an some other feller name of Longfeller. No one I know kin tell what he be sayin, ya jes smile an nod an hope he shets his piehole.

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Tennessee was originally known as Franklin; West Virginia was nearly named Kanawha, and Utah almost became the state of Deseret.

…funny, I don’ recollect that happenin. But, jes goes ta show ya, folks cain’t make up they mind no matter what ya do. Take Cousin Mable, fer example. Iffen ya take t’ vacation ads all laid out purty on her coffee table ya kin see she cain’t make up her mind whether ta go ta Nashville, take one a them European cruises, er jes go gamblin in Reno. Bah, she cain’t afford none a that noway. It jes be fer show, an cause the purty colors innna ads catches t’ eyes, ta hear her tell it. Some folks has t’ strangest idears.

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Don’t let the name fool you: Joyce Hall, who made millions developing the Hallmark brand name, was a man.

…well, don’t that jes beat all. Why in tarnation folks be namin they boy what they oughter be namin’ they girls, an t’other way round, ain’t never made no sense ta me. Like, I knowed this man down valley way, what was named Marion. He were a insurance seller, an he allus seemed a bit teched inna head… he tried ta tell me oncet why I needed ta buy his California car insurance, an I didden think he were right, what wi’ livin in t’ Ozark Mountains an all. But he were a real nice man, all t’ same.

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In contrast to her rather morbid nickname, “Typhoid Mary” Mallon didn’t cause all that much havoc. Only three of the people that she infected perished from her disease.

…ain’t it jes awful how rumors kin make thangs sound so much worse’n they is. Although, I be bettin t’ three what died from her think it were that bad, don’cha reckon? Right now I be seein somethin else like that there. Cousin Maudie, she done been brayin all over t’ county bout t’ new, what she call it, home theater seating be jes t’ cat’s meow. Well, I done seen it. It be a couch an a easy chair, that’s what. I guess some folks jes gots ta be braggin bout somethin, er they don’ feel ta home.

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