Cooter Brown

Interesting Fact: Folklore has it that Cooter Brown had family on both sides during the Civil War and he didn't want to fight for either side. So he got drunk, stayed drunk throughout the war years, and was not drafted. Now a person's intoxication is measured to his.

If you have read the previous blogs, you know I have a friend named Mary Sue. Mary Sue is a good ole' gal, born and raised here in Georgia. In fact she tells me when she is gone she want us to say at her funeral, and I quote.."She was a good ole'gal and we are gonna miss her." She and I are probably the two most unlikely people to ever become such great friends. I was born in New Jersey, and raised in South Florida, which is pretty much the same thing as being raised in New Jersey. But my mom always says, Yankee by birth, Southerner by choice.

Mary Sue is one of my most treasured friends, turns out we have a lot in common...go figure. She has taught me everything I know about quilting...(also in a previous blog) . She claims I am afraid of color when it comes to quilting, but she is helping with with that disorder. She gets a little upset when I fire up her facebook pages with my Mafia wars successes...Again..I am from New Jersey, and Italian...(enough said)

Okay, back to the story..one day we were at a Farm exhibit at the Eatonton Plaza Arts Center, (also mentioned in a preious blog)...we happened to be meandering through the exhibit, and Mary Sue was pointing out people she knew in pictures. Some of these people I think dated back to the early 1900's...Mary Sue is not that old, but OMG...she remembers everything, and knows everyone I think in a hundred mile radius...Well, she was talking about this one person and compared him to being crazier than Cooter Brown... I being from South Florida, was not familiar with this Cooter Brown person and Asked her..."Who is Cooter Brown?" and "Who would name their kid Cooter Brown?"...Mary Sue has this way of looking at you real funny when you ask something really stupid...(I knew in about a nano second from the look on her face, this was one of those questions)...She says..."You never heard of Cooter Brown?" ...Heck no, I have no clue who he is I am not from here...Then she explained that he was a fictious person, and haven't I ever heard the saying..."Drunker than Cooter Brown"? No, I hadn't or I wouldn't be asking about who he was...

Turns out these southerners have a saying for everything, and a language all their own. I am proud to say, I have never been as drunk as Cooter Brown, nor have I ever been drunk or planned to be. Nor has Mary Sue, something else we have in common!