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Excellent Saturday morning story to close out 2023, JD! You're the best, friend, and Lord willing, I'll be sitting with you for every one of your stories in 2024!
I'd love that story whether it was true or not. But if I were Lyin' Amos, I'd head for the hills if I ever saw Dragon coming! Anyway, y'know the Irish love storytelling as much as anyone. I always got the impression that what made a lie a good story instead of a sin was if it were told so over the top that nobody could take it seriously. Like a Paul Bunyan story. One time when I got back from a trip as a child, the teacher invited me to tell the rest of the class about it. I started to talk about how my cousins down south had to walk across the backs of hungry alligators with great snapping jaws to reach the school bus every morning. Teacher made me shut up and go sit down, which was a shame since I was very proud of myself for that story.
@@justanotheralmaroad1923 - Only the clearly Bunyanesque kind. People today have been lied to so long on such a massive scale about serious matters, which they believe, so I don't want to risk misleading people. Good friends might get the slow roll-out version though, since they know me well enough to suspect when something's afoot. And they're not going to storm off in a snit b4 I can get to the punchline. I'm sorry to say that where I retired mostly for financial reasons in a politically incompatible region (let's NOT get too specific here) in the great rural Midwest, too many people are already full of (in my view) unreasonable doubt of my motives and the state of my immortal soul. I try not to throw too much fuel on that fire. Not good for anyone. Kindly forgive me if I've already crossed that line here. And thank you for asking, btw. I am guilty of having told my son's little preschool friends that the chicken feather I stuck in a corner of a poster of the old Arabian Nights movie had fallen to the ground one night; I was outdoors enjoying the stars when I heard a rush of mighty wings and Pegasus himself flew over. And lost one of his feathers. Which I retrieved and stuck on the corner of that movie poster featuring his likeness in case he ever flew over again. ...... But you can't get away with that story if any listener is over the age of 4 or 5 for sure. When they're around 3 though it flies well.
this reminds me of a friend i had, he died about 10 years ago. he was definitely an artistic liar! he was a short man. one of his tales was, he worked in construction one time, they were doing work on a bridge over the marsh mud. another man who was shorter than him! slipped and fell in the mud and sank to his armpits! he said they swung a backhoe bucket with a rope tied on, they told shorty to tie it under his arms. they pulled Tention on the rope, the mud had such a suction on shorty that the diesel motor on the machine bogged down! and black smoke came out the exhaust pipe! then they could hear his body snapping and joints popping! and when the mud let go with a popping suction! shorty came loose! they swung him over and stood him up by my short friend, and shorty was a foot taller than him! he told this story in about 1975 to me and i still laugh!
Hey JD. I would have been like Hiram so mad i could have bitten nails in half. Over the years i have seen jokes that hurt others. Folks really need to think it through before pulling a prank that could be harmful I enjoyed it JD thank you. Hey i found you on RU-vid tv yesterday. Watching your story telling on big screen makes it so much realistic.
Great Story as usual. Greetings from the Rhine River at the wild Southwest of Germany. I hope I can one time visit the Appalachian Mountains and hopefully there will be still some real Hillybillies over there.
Thank you JT, I really enjoyed this whopper's whopper! As long as there are Appalachian Mountains, there will be hillbillies, Melungeons, half-breeds, rednecks and other 'terms of endearment' that have been used to refer to the mountain folk! I have traveled to many places and I am very proud to be back in the Eastern Mountains Tennessee, from where my people came! 🇺🇸🙏🏼♥️
I got a new campfire story to tell. Thanks. I live in a place where they logged extensively. According to local folklore, we coined the terms "hillbilly, ridge runner and stump jumper." For ourselves. When a man couldn't get enough lumberjacks locally, he brought a bunch of guys from Kentucky here to work. When the job was finished, they took the terms back home. Those are all titles of honor here. If you didn't work the woods, you starved.
Thank you Grumpy, preciate you! And thanks for being a member, your support is what keeps this channel going and I thank you for your generosity! Here's to wishing you a Happy New Year 2024
Well that sure was funny JD. Nothing like a little rubbing to inspire a whopper That last prank was epic especially as Amos left without giving Dragon any relief of his anger. I’ll bet he would have planned a fabulous prank if he’d just had the chance. Thanks
Well hello there it's Ray again from the land down under Australia yes that was a very good story that being a ex logger myself and being in the timber industry swing Ajax at the age of eight beside my father and as I went through we had a lot of Blacks like that beanie done that where's the call Mr 80 when they realise was only 30 play master Heller past life if you know what I mean they used to get me to do the setting up because I was good at it I can say something and they go oh yeah done that so I just love that story brought back memories so thank you very much I'm Lovin It thank you Ray❤❤😂 that's about how hard I used to laugh
Ol Amos sho nuff got ol Hiram...guess you gotta be careful who you are a messin with. We were listening to the story and ol lying Amos got us! We were holding our breaths waiting for them to get to the wreck! Boy..you should have heard the laughter from us when you told the rest of the story!
Great story to end the year with JD. It reminds me of my father who was such a story teller all of his life that when he died his story telling was the center of his eulogy. Happy New Year to all 🙏
That was incredible! Great story.. I'm going to have to get a thesaurus if your ability to word Smith progresses much farther. 😂😂. Did I hear Fireball Mail, and Arkansas Traveler? Maybe?? I'm hoping for 50% right. Lol.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I'll have to re-watch it.. I was way off.. I felt sure fireball mail was right.. of course there's the possibility that I've been playing it wrong. 🤣🤣
Happy New Year Brother! I hope only the best for you and your family this upcoming year. God bless. 🙌 Our family enjoyed this great story. Thank you for all that you do. ❤️
Oh JD!! That was the best & funniest story I’ve ever heard!! Sometimes you just shouldn’t keep poking at a big sleeping lion! Haha. Oh my word…..that just makes my day! Thanks so much! Blessings always! ❤️✝️
That lie was a real waste of company time and the men's labor. Amos was leaving (and he finally got revenge). Some people just have to have the last word.
Looking at the pictures of these hard working men makes me so mad. No people worked harder than those of Appalachia and yet here they are still some of the poorest people in USA and many not living much better than they did 100 years ago. If wages had kept up with inflation minimum wage would be $23.00. But the wealthy in the country believe in "Keep them poor." In most of Europe wages are $20+ a hour along with full medical, 2-6 weeks paid vacation, free day care, mostly or free college and affordable housing. It's why the 7 of 10 happiest countries are in Europe. US workers are the most productive people on the planet and yet we receive the least compensation for our labor and it'll stay that way until labor stands up and says ENOUGH to the 21st century "Robber Barons."
The government putting it nose in wages is why no one wil have the opportunity I did. 30 years ago I started a construction job I knew nothing one of the greatest men I have ever met gave me a job for 5 bucks an hour. I learned every day and work my way up to making good money. If minimum wage would have been $20 an hour, he could have never given me that opportunity t I am grateful for every day.
@TheAppalachianStoryteller Amos is the man 👌 your story's are brilliant. I've just discovered them and look forward to listening to many more here in Scotland 🏴😁
I never know how to respond to comments like this. I mean, its the same accent ive had for 50 years here in Anderson County Tennessee. Can't please everybody all the time, mama used to say.