Good start but not enough.

Maybe. But if others follow suit, like a ton of the smaller stores...

The smaller stores are suing the RIAA for the reverse reason. They can't compete because the RIAA gives advance release and price breaks to Tower Records, Virgin Records, etc. It is just that WalMart doesn't need the music business. That's what makes them so uniquely powerful in this case.

i am sorry even if wal-mart does one good thing, bullets next to the baby seection in some stores in the USA, i resfuse to enter there stores

you've got to love Texan Wal-Marts (or not)

"'y'all know way've gaht .357 Magnum on spayshul offair terday, y'all have a great day now!" ffs.

Pretty good Taw but your ear is just a smidge off.

Offer doesn't sound like "offair." It'd be more like "offr" or "offuh" depending upon the part of Texas.

And today wouldn't be "terday." More of a "t'day" or "tuhday."

*shakes head* Taw, they hardly ever talk that way anymore in Texas. Visited in houston 2 years ago and there was little difference in the accents there and here in the atlanta area. The close as you will get with that accent, is rual areas of Ga or Alabama.

Edited by - Finalday on 10/16/2004 7:26:45 PM

I dunno Fd. As I do have to travel.......

There are parts of East Texas along the Louisiana border that's pretty thick with an East Texas accent .... slow drawl.

Also, out west, if you head toward Amarillo, there is still a West Texas spoken.

Houston, Dallas, Ft. Worth.... those parts of the State are closer approximations of broadcast english but you'll still hear "y'all" 'n such.

I've had to visit some businesses in Tifton, GA, Fd..... They're pretty much Southern to my ear.

I've gotten so use to Atlantanese, that I hardly hear a Drawl anymore. Even where I work at, you only here one or two true souther drawls, like you would imagine Scarlet O'Hare speaking in. Then its only a few country girls. the red neck guys have about lost the true accent. Kin folk on my dad's side have accused me of being born up north. I tell you, it takes too much effort in getting the drawl going again.

Actually, if you go up to Lynchburg or Richmond and most of the Carolinas, they all have that soft southern speech. But it is different from Atlantanese.

Northern Mississippi and Alabama....well...... you already know if you've been through North Georgia

"Kin folk on my dad's side have accused me of being born up north"

the way you expressed that is remarkably close to classic good ol' boy; sure you dont drive a Dodge Charger with a Confederate flag on it, y'all?

I'm just teasing you FD; I love the Southern accent I've never been to the South, I'd love to visit, but I hang around with those dam yankee New York carpetbaggers usually.

oh btw Ed, can you show me the way to Amarillo? Sweet Marie is waiting for me and I don't want to keep letting her down.

Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/17/2004 2:32:06 AM

Taw, if you listened to me talk, not write, I don't have any southern accent, unless I try and fake it or do a british one too. Never really had one, which is why I said that about family. The older ones never could figure out why I didn't pick it up as a child. Never tried to.

are you sort of q muffled when you speak?

No, just tend to talk fast. Bad habit.