American Cornball

[Keith Davis]

"We were couuntry bumpkins to the rest of the world  - but proud of it to ourselves as long as we could make a buck. "....some things never change, eh?


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> On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
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> I don’t know if anyone is old enough to have read "American Humor: A Study of the National Character”  by Constance Rourke (1931 but a classic) which I read in college as a history major.  
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> Rourke identified the character of the "Yankee” as the first American comic and I see Cherrycoke as having some of the characteristics of this archetype.  
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> From the link below: 
> “ had grown up under the watchful eye of his fellow Puritans and had learned to hide his playfulness beneath a social mask. His speech was quirky by design. He drawled out such lines as "If you catch me there agin, you'll catch a white weasel asleep, I tell you." He typically answered one question with another, in order to prolong conversation without giving anything away.
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> But she also describes the "frontiersman ,” and the “minstrel” and their relationship to the culture as a whole.  We were couuntry bumpkins to the rest of the world  - but proud of it to ourselves as long as we could make a buck. 
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> http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/03/28/whats_so_funny_about_americans_anyway/?page=full
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> That was such a great book and it was rereleased in 2004 so I’m tempted to get it - okay,  I got it.  lol 
> 
> Bekah 
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>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://americancornball.tumblr.com
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>> http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062225177/american-cornball
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