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Michael Todd
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 QUOTE:

CM DUCKS
MNO DUCKS
OSMR DUCKS
CM FEET
MNO FEET
OSMR FEET
LIB
MR DUCKS

I'm starting to feel stupid as I cannot make heads or tails of what Wallace posted.
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Emery Calame
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It's a joke called the hick, hillbilly, or redneck literacy test and it's based on using letters to represent the phonetics of two people with extreme dialects discussing some topic, usually where one objects to the assertion of another and must be shown convincing evidence.

Part of it requires one to hear either isn't or ain't pronounces as id-n't or int shortened to "n"

A: C(See) (the)m ducks?

B: (The)m (ai)n('t) (n)o ducks.   (dismissive)

A: O(h) (ye)s (th)em (a)r(e) ducks!   (reinforcing)

A: See (th)em feet(?)        (offers evidence)

B: (Th)em (ai)n('t) (n)o feet!   (dismisses evidence)

A: O(h) (ye)s (th)em (a)r(e) feet!     (reinforces)

B: (Wel)l I('ll) B(e) !    (finally agrees with evidence )

B: (Th)em (A)R(E) ducks!  (reinforces original assertion)

CDEDBD feet? = see dee eedy-beedy feet? = see their itty bitty feet?  



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Michael Todd
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Oh.
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Well, now I don't feel so bad about not getting Wallace's post! I understand the principle, but some of those "spellings" are a real stretch. Unlike, say,

CDB? ESABZB!

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Got it, chief!
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Wallace Sellars
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I'm surprised that people found what I posted difficult to decode. I guess it
was easy for me to figure out when I first saw it as a kid since I'd heard
people talk that way.
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Dan Avenell
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Similar, the Cockney Alphabet (with variants)

A for 'orses - A for Gardner

          B for mutton

          C for thighlanders - C for miles

          D for dumb - D for mation

          E for brick - E for Peron

          F for vescence - F for been had

          G for police

          H for retirement

          I for Novello - I for lutin’ - I for the girls

          J for oranges

          K for teria - K for restaurant

          L for leather

          M for sis

          N for a penny - N for lope - N for a dig

          O for the garden wall - O for the rainbow - O for the wings of a dove

          P for whistle - P for a penny - P for ming fleas

          Q for a bus - Q for a song

          R for mo - R for Askey

          S for you - S for Williams

          T for two - T for gums

          U for instance

          V for la France - V for la différence

          W for a bob

          X for breakfast

          Y for husband - Y for mistress - Y for crying out loud

          Z for breezes
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 QUOTE:
I guess it
was easy for me to figure out when I first saw it as a kid since I'd heard
people talk that way.

I'm from the deep South Wallace, but I still didn't get it.
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Brian Hague
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When I was a kid, it was told to me as:

CM DUCKS
MNO DUCKS
OSAR MR2 DUCKS
CDEDBD FEET
LIB
MR DUCKS

We had some fun riffing on this at work today.
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"CM Account Numbers? MNO Account Numbers..."
Maybe you had to be there...

 
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Emery Calame
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It's been a pretty long time since Hee Haw was on the air.
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Brian Hague
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Too long, Emery. Too long...

 
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Michael Todd
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Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?
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