The Banjo

[Donuthole]

The idiot savant playing the banjo should have had a longer movie career. No one has ever portrayed inbreeding better.

To borrow from a thread on the TCU message board a few years back, Banjo Boy does not look unlike John Beck.

[RobinFinderson]

I missed out on this thread. With one reference to Deliverance, Colly Wolly hijacks the thread. Even 37 years or so after the fact, Deliverance still packs a punch. It's still probably the most shocking movie I've ever seen.

The idiot savant playing the banjo should have had a longer movie career. No one has ever portrayed inbreeding better.

The hijack is fine by me. I'm not exactly sure what kind of conversation could follow from sharing a personal experience like that, other than the 'cool!' and 'thanks for sharing!' pats on the back that I have appreciated thus far. If discussions about inbreeding and rape keep the thread high enough on the pile so that folks like yourself who would have otherwise missed out on the thread get to see the cool experience, then that is fine by me.

I guess one subject that I could reflect on after the fact is how the internets are changing the way experience is shared. I sure hope that everything is being logged and saved some place, for the benefit of future anthropologists to sift through. When you think of the value of pioneer journals, and how they served in the formation of our common understanding of our cultural heritage, it is kind of cool when we realize that sites like CUF (for better or worse) will serve a similar purpose for future generations.

I also appreciate how sites like YouTube, Flickr, CUF, etc. allow for the encapsulation of experiences in ways that can be simply linked to, for the purpose of sharing. If I want to share this experience with a relative, I can simply link to the post (without the comments, of course). When I want to show family video and photos, it is easy. This information age is pretty awesome, and to think we are players at the very dawn of its existence. Fun times to be alive.

[TripletDaddy]

To borrow from a thread on the TCU message board a few years back, Banjo Boy does not look unlike John Beck.

when they filmed the movie, the banjo player slipped his arms into a specially designed jacket to make it look like the inbred was playing. In reality, the actor playing the inbred just sat there while a guy sat behind him with arms outstretched, playing the banjo.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

To borrow from a thread on the TCU message board a few years back, Banjo Boy does not look unlike John Beck.

That's pretty funny.

I was on a Chargers board one time and they made a similar comparison between Jay Cutler and "Blaster" from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

[wuapinmon]

I grew up in the South, wuap is lucky he didn't get challenged to a duel for what he was implying. Lebowski is still ready to stand as my second.

http://www.cougaruteforum.com/showth...pon#post102521

Last time I checked, Tallulah Gorge was in Rabun County, Georgia...near a town, Dillard, to be precise, where I lived until I was 10. Mountain folk and rednecks are all Southerners......just because you're from Appalachia, doesn't mean that you're not Southern. If you ask them to self-identify, they will call themselves Southern. As my kin on my mom's side is from Buncombe and Yancey counties in Western North Carolina, and there are towns there named after my kin (e.g. Buckner Creek), I am quite capable of distinguishing between the two. You may remember a post I made awhile back about a story of a man getting shot by his brother over him shooting his brother's dog....them was mountain folk. Mountain people are not like those from the Piedmont or Low Country, but we're all Southerners.

My aim is true; I need no second, and I like to do my killing before breakfast.

[Colly Wolly]

Robin,

I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Sorry.

[RobinFinderson]

Robin,

I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Sorry.

That is all right CW. Clearly all of this pent up deliverance chatter had been on people's minds for some time, and the people needed to air it out.