Monday, October 31, 2005
Oklahoma Mountain Haint
This is a rare photo of the elusive Oklahoma Mountain Haint (redneck ghost), spotted near Long, Okla., awhile back. They are attracted by the aroma of burnin' Oklahoma Ozarks hardwood, Tennessee whiskey and Arkansas coldbeer.
This is a better image. Haints have to hang around some to get relaxed enough to let their ghostly visage be caught on film. An interesting sidenote: Oklahoma Mountain Haints cannot be captured by digital cameras. It takes film, shot with a 23-year-old Pentax K1000. With a little tickle to yer gizzard. This haint was attracted by the burnin' hardwood, the smell of beer and sweet aroma of George Dickel whiskey. However it was the generous store of cracklin's and pork rinds that got him to linger long enough for me to get this remarkble photo. Somebody call the Enquirer.
--ER
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Explain the word "haint." I even looked it up just to see how it came about, but it's not in the online dictionary. (I'm too lazy just now to go get the printed one.)
I love how specific the haint is to what kind of camera, right down to the make and model, with which his picture can be taken. :)
I love how specific the haint is to what kind of camera, right down to the make and model, with which his picture can be taken. :)
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: 1:23 PM
: 1:23 PM
It's a dialect pronunciation and spelling of "haunt," which is usually a verb, less usually a noun (as in a place frequently visited) and even less a noun that means "a ghost." (Webster's New World, 2d ed., 1984)
No, no. We sit around drinkin' Welch's grape, then sing Kum Ba Ya -- then go on witnessin' activities. That or go register senior citizens to vote -- right, early and often.
-ER
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