Peter Butter??
- January 13th, 2009 11:02 pm
As a resident of the South and an area layered with southern drawl, hearing the drawl used on the radio is never surprising. However, young children seem to have an extra drawl. They drag the words out longer than adults, and it is always funny to hear.
It seems to be a regular thing to use the voices of children on the radio when discussing a charitable event or an organization trying to help people out down here. I’m not sure where they round up the kids to do it. But it is always amusing.
For instance, this morning while driving, I heard a little girl on the radio advertising for help for families with children under the age of five. It was offering vouchers for milk, cheese, eggs and peanut butter..
However, her voice made it sound like this:
‘Eef you’uv got a chald under the age of fav, come to the health department to see eef you qualify for meeyulk (milk), chaaayse (cheese), aygs (eggs) and Peter Butter.’
PETER BUTTER?? PETER BUTTER?? I thought to myself. Were they really offering Peter Butter? Because that sounds way more like an ad for male lube than for helpful program.
Woot! Free Peter Butter for the masses. Get your PETER BUTTER! GET IT TODAY! Butter it up for free!
Foolishness aside, I can only imagine what would’ve happened if people had heard those ads when I was in high school. I had enough friends that regularly raided the Health Department’s free condoms, and I’m sure they would have been pumped as hell to find out that the Health Department was down there giving away free Peter Butter.
I hope the doors of the local health department aren’t being stormed by those in search of free Peter Butter. After all, it is usually already full of young teens trying to sneak birth control without their parents knowing. The free Peter Butter would really bring in the masses.
January 13th, 2009 @ 11:34 pm
Ha, I know someone who could use some peter butter. Seriously though now I need a PB&J sandwich, thanks!
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January 13th, 2009 @ 11:36 pm
LOL I know this post is about the Peter Butter but I have to say my favorite part is the phonetic spelling of: meeyulk (milk), chaaayse (cheese), aygs (eggs)
But who knows? There’s probably someone out there rushing to buy the url to PeterButter.com after reading this post so they can start a whole new butter business
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January 14th, 2009 @ 1:30 am
Hoo, boy, that’s great! But it’s sad to think I would have sounded exactly like this kid had I been on the radio at age 3 or 4. I hay-ud quiiiiiite a draaaaaaawl!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 2:49 am
Oh dear Lord, I just about tinkled a bit when I read that. How precious!
Male lube indeed….mwahaha!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 3:09 am
I’m British and my husband is more Seattle. However, our two-year-olds are Texan-born. They say “meeyulk” and “aygs”. Jessica’s interpretation of peanut butter isn’t nearly as colourful: “Peena baya.”
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January 14th, 2009 @ 6:53 am
Aygs! I always wondered how to spell that phonetically!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 7:55 am
Oh my gosh, that is so funny.
I don’t think anyone gets this post but me. And I’m laughing sooo hard.
Wait, Mad Woman got it.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9:15 am
I know that I have an accent and I don’t like to hear my recorded voice but some of the television and radio ads with that drawl really get on my nerves. But, Peter Butter? That’s funny!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9:35 am
The funny thing is, when I saw the name of this post in the feed, that’s exactly where my mind went. For once, the name of the post and the ‘real’ subject matter of the post were the same. So many people use the post name as a draw – a play on words – and the post isn’t as playful as the title suggests. Thank you, Amanda, for restoring my faith.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9:53 am
Whatever works for keeping the warts off teen’s privates. That is the goal, right?
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January 14th, 2009 @ 10:29 am
Ha! Being from the South (Georgia) I, too, can attest to the problems that the southern drawl brings. Definitely don’t want a raid on the Health Department!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 11:15 am
I love dialects and am having some fun myself with the recent transplant to Tulsa, but I’m not sure if they have Peter Butter here. I’ll keep my eyes and ears peeled.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
Bwahahahaha! Man, this poor little girl could have been me growing up. I’m sure I ate my fair share of “Peter Butter” LOL Good thing my mom paid for 3 years of speech therapy.
I looooooooove the phonetic spelling…..you so got that right! eeeer……r-eye-te!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
Okay, I am officially 12 because I thought this was hilarious! Thank you for the much needed laugh today!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
hahaha!
You’re funny.
My sis’s family lived in Virginia for quite a while and her middle child is the only one who came away with an accent. A very think one. I think it is pretty cute though.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Hysterical!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 2:10 pm
Sorry. That is supposed to be “thick” one. Not think. Oops.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 3:46 pm
Your phonetic spelling of the food made me homesick. I sure could use a southern drawl in my ear about now.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
If you distribute Peter Butter, you’d better add some condoms to the package…or things will really get out of hand at the Health Department!!!!
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January 14th, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Peter Butter….. that, m’dear, is why they call some guys “Slick”
ROFLMAO
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January 14th, 2009 @ 6:08 pm
@morethananelectrician . . . *snort* out of hand????? Oh my. LOL
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January 14th, 2009 @ 6:12 pm
I find the southern drawl just enchanting. I love listening to it. I have a friend who was from North Carolina and it was fun to try and get him to say sentences without the drawl. The rule was if he talked without it I had to talk with it. Loads of laughs.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
Peter butter? Is that one of the toppings I can get with my free “happy ending” sundae at the ice cream place up the road?
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January 14th, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
I’m married to a Peter…so that whole phrase just sort of makes me go places.
Places I don’t want to go. E.V.E.R.
Thanks, Amanda.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
Did the commercial have “Bow Chicka Bow Wow” playing in the background. Sign me up for some free peter butter. That sounds like something me and the mister would really enjoy.
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January 14th, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
The accents down here are TERRIBLE! lol.
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January 15th, 2009 @ 11:31 am
PETER BUTTER. yes.
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January 15th, 2009 @ 11:40 am
If you fiond this “Peter” and his “butter” let me know.
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January 15th, 2009 @ 11:59 am
We tawk jus lak that down hee-er. Peter Butter is, I thank, what makes the wet spot on the sheets. Peter makes it, Peter sleeps in it.
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January 15th, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
That’s the best phonetic spelling of a Southern accent I’ve ever seen… I can literally hear it in my head
I love the idea of Peter Butter. It just sounds so… wrong. I don’t know what it is about the phrase, but it does.
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January 16th, 2009 @ 12:51 am
Lube is not what I thought of. I’ll just leave you with one word: uncut.
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