re: Well, Doggies! Way Doggies! Hoo, Doggies! page 4

Way down yonder in New Orleans

Turn you loose in Nawlins, and there'd be be no doggone "Whoa!" about it, [email protected]'.

Fo shizzle my nizzle?

John Dean
Oxford

Fo shizzle my nizzle?

LOL!!! Ghetto!!

"The name of the Clampetts' hometown was Bugtussle, Tennessee." Not that "Bugtussle" is spelled as one word. The author of ... the movie's placing them in Arkansas, would work against my idea that "Well, doggies!" was the product of Scots-Irish immigrants.

TBHs was one of my favourite programmes of the period, and, IMHO, just about the best USA sit-com ever.
It was no "Fawlty Towers", but still damned good.
I am certain that I heard more than one character refer to "back home" as being in Tennessee.

From the trivia page for the program The Beverly Hillbillies in the Internet Movie Database: From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/trivia "The name of the Clampetts' hometown was Bugtussle, Tennessee." Not that "Bugtussle" is spelled as one word. The author of the Web page at

Make that "Note that 'Bugtussle' is spelled as one word."

http://www.jerryosborne.com/3-23-98.htm is making an argument for Bugtussle (spelling it "Bug Tussle), Kentucky, it would seem, but www.placesnamed.com and Yahoo! Maps ... the movie's placing them in Arkansas, would work against my idea that "Well, doggies!" was the product of Scots-Irish immigrants.

Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com