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...note issued in Alabama in 1861 can fetch up to $1,000, and a $5 bill from Richmond may bring up to $900. Particularly in demand are $100 notes depicting slaves hoeing cotton. Proving that more than one peanut farmer knows how to exploit his roots, a goober grower from Virginia enticed a collector into shelling out $10,000 for an 1861 Virginia $500 note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Funny Money? Hah! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Lightheartedness permeates the good ole boy's lifestyle. He goes by nicknames like "Goober" or "Goat." He disdains neckties as a form of snobbery; when he dresses up, it is to wear a decorated T shirt with newish jeans or, for state occasions, a leisure suit with a colored shirt. If discussions veer beyond football toward substance, he cuts them off with funny stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS: Those Good Ole Boys | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...where the program parodies merely fail, Tunnelvision's lampoons of TV commercials are real garbage, working in every crotch/ass joke and toilet gag available. Does an ad for "Columbia School of Proctology" tickle you? How about a "National Faggot Shoot"? (There's that word again; another goober please...

Author: By H.l. Griggs, M.a. Hamburg, and Peter Kaplan, S | Title: Film | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

...Crimson roared back in the second stanza and slammed in two goals early in the period--one an unassisted goal by Tim "Goober" McBride with 5:15 gone, and the other by John Cochran a minute later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third-Period Budweiser Goals Pin Loss on Freshman Icemen | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

Black English retained some African words that later entered into Standard English (examples: goober, jazz and banjo). More important, Dillard found that Black English arranged English words according to a syntax resembling that of West African languages. Black English does not require a distinction between present and past tenses, for example, but it does require a differentiation between continuous and momentary action. Thus, Dillard notes, if a black says of a laborer, "He workin' when de boss come in," he means that the man worked only when the boss was present. On the other hand, if he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Black English | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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