Appalachia Through My Eyes - Puddin Tame

I've told you before-I was backwards as a child. Actually, sometimes I still am.

The other day I remembered an old saying I heard often when I was little-but haven't heard in years. When I was hiding behind Granny's dress or hanging on one of Pap's britchey legs, someone would say to me: "Whats your name? Puddin Tame ask me again and I'll tell you the same." I believe I was supposed to answer the reply to the question-but I guess the asker took one look at my big brown eyes and knew I wasn't going to say anything.

Have you ever heard the old saying?

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Tonight-August 9th at 7:00pm a very special presentation will be held at the Jackson County Genealogical Society, which is housed in the Old Jackson County Courthouse in Sylva, NC. Don Casada and Wendy Myers will be hosting the program: Hiking to and examining old home places in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You can check out the Jackson County Genealogical Society for more details about the presentation-and you can go here to read about one of the wonderful individuals Don and Wendy met through their on going project. If you make it out to see them-tell them I sent you!

Tipper

Appalachia Through My Eyes - A series of photographs from my life in Southern Appalachia.

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Comments

[Miss Cindy]

Tipper, I can see you being a shy little girl. You are a quiet person, but never backward. I guess backward brings to mind Deliverance to me.
You have such a rich inner life. You are quiet but with a keen intellect that is ever vigilant and thinking. This is abundantly obvious from the things you write. There could not ever be a better champion for Appalachia!

[Laura @ Laura Williams' Musings]

Heard it and still say it 'cept it was "Puddin-tang" what I heard and still say.

[Pat in east TN]

I have never heard that before ... cute picture.

[Bill Dotson]

I have heard that saying all my life but it has been a while now since I have heard it also.

[Bill Burnett]

I've heard and used this expression as long as I can remember but used as a kind of smart aleck response when someone asks your name. Tipper I don't think you were backward, I think you were waiting until you had something worth while to say unlike me and some of your other guests on "The Blind Pig".

[Ed Ammons]

My name is also Puddin. Puddinhead Jones. Glad to meet you. Reckon we are related?
When he was younger my grandson, when asked what he had learned in school that day, would always reply "apparently not enough, they're making me go back tomorrow."

[Jane Bolden]

I remember it well. I came home from school saying it,and my mother said it wasn't nice. I never heard an adult say it. By the length of your bangs, I think you are younger. You look like my daughter. You sure were cute!

[kathryn Magendie]

I do remember that --- and you were, and are still, adorable! *smiling warmly at you!*