Hillbilly Mom's Greatest Hits

This week is going to be dedicated to ME. I am bring you my greatest hits from the last four blogs. Don't get all excited. Greatest hits from Hillbilly Mom ain't nothin' to write home about. The Hammster's comments yesterday mentioned 'The Shootist', which is also a John Wayne movie, and in a roundabout way, it reminded me of THIS post from 2005:

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Saturday, August 27, 2005

The Famous Author

Hillbilly Husband is in Connecticut to fix a machine and visit with his company's big boss. He called tonight to check in. It went a little something like this:

I'm at the bottom of Connecticut. You know, that little part that sticks out? I am overlooking the New England Sound. I can see across to the lights of New York, and what's that island just off
of New York?

You mean Manhattan?

Yeah, I guess. The place where everybody goes for the summer.

No, that would be the Hamptons. Long Island.

Yeah, whatever. My boss lives two doors down from some famous author lady. Betty something. I can't think of it now.

Hmm...you mean like famous for her writing now? Or did she write classic literature? Or poetry? How old is she? Does she live by him, or just her house is by his?

She just died. I think she was born in the 1930s.

You're not giving me much to go on.

I know. I don't know that kind of stuff. I'll have to ask him again.

Thirty minutes later #2 son answered the phone. Hey, Dad is back at his motel.

Ask him about that author lady.

Oh. Mom, it was Katherine Hepburn.

Only at my house, people, is Katherine Hepburn best known for her writing. And her nickname, "Betty." Nice of HH to shave 30 years off her age, because she was born in 1903. And only at my house does "just died" mean 2 years ago she died.

We won't even get into our geography issues.

8 Comments:

• At 10:40 PM, deadpanann said…

  I find myself saying that something "just" happened when it's been a while. But I guess I'd like to think that when I die it will take more than 2 years before it's exactly as if I had never existed.
  
  God I'm depressed.

• At 12:07 PM, Hillbilly Mom said…

  I waited until today to tell HH that he was looking out across "Long Island Sound," not "New England Sound."
  
  I am geographically challenged, but not to his extent.

• At 3:27 PM, Babs said…

  LOL!!! Katherine Hepburn as an author! Too many funnies in one post to even mention; but that one threw me for an unexpected loop!

  
  

• At 3:59 PM, KarbonKountyMoos said…

  HH isn't doing bad geographically. I "grew up" (to a point) on Longuyland. Well, in Astoria, Queens. It always amazed me that folks in Queens & Brooklyn would say, "We're going out to the island."
  You're already on "the island" - knuckleheads - you're going east...
  
  And here I thought that Katherine Hepburn was a famous dancer. Oh, maybe that was Audrey.

• At 4:15 PM, Redneck Diva said…

  Good ol' Betty...those were some great books she wrote just awhile back.

• At 6:53 PM, Rebecca said…

  Hi Hillbilly Mom,
  I've just discovered your site, looks great. I found it by googling "Unknown famous authors who don't know where they lived."
  HooRoo
  Bec

• At 7:06 PM, Hillbilly Mom said…

  Babs,
  He got back today, and told me that he drove out onto the causeway, which is "just like a big low-water bridge." I guess you can take the redneck out of Missouri, but you can't take the Missouri out of the redneck.
  
  
  Karen,
  But have you been to "New England Sound?"
  
  Diva,
  HH is not book-friendly. He wouldn't read a book on a$$-biting if it bit him in the a$$. OK, so maybe that's not a very good example.

• At 7:09 PM, Hillbilly Mom said…

  Bec,
  I guess you think you're clever, sneaking in while I was busy responding to others. There's one of you in every crowd. Me me me! Stop talking to them and talk to me!
  
  Are you sure you weren't googling "world class car-singers?"

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There. That should satisfy you until tomorrow.