Word: lak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...
...Lak Religion. As a consequence, there are few definitive Southern cookbooks. Most of the classic recipes (or receipts, as they are sometimes called in the South) are passed down in the spidery handwriting of ancestresses or in the slim, prim, printed compendiums that are still put out by local ladies to raise funds for church or charity. They are worth their weight in saffron. Sarah Rutledge's The Carolina Housewife, published in 1874, is an incomparable guide to Southern cuisine that is available today only in underground Xerox print...
...Cause cookin' lak religion...
...among the more or less emasculated brothers. So Monkey Business from the tacky Paramount days comes as blessed relief, reaffirmation and so on. It is wonderful. This is the one where Groucho, Chico and most importantly Harpo all do imitations of Maurice Chevalier singing "Eef a Nightengale Cood Sin Lak You" and where Grouch announces that "love goes out the door when money comes innuendo". The script was by S.J. Pereiman and it doesn't really matter who directed since it is hardly a film anyway Pereiman apparently won't talk about his Mark experiences anymore--he's quite right...
When he is annoyed by being asked the same questions ("Who is your hero?" "What's your biggest thrill?" "Will you win 30 games?"), Blue tends to go into his shufflin', put-on routine: "It sholy is nice to have you fellas come an' talk to a po' boy lak me. Now some of you may not be aware of what sholy means. That's something we say down home. It's almost the same as surely." Hounded as he is, Blue is still very conscious of what he calls "Bogartin'." The way he tells it, "Bogartin' is when...