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Jeff Wrangler:
I mean, my folks was from Pennsylvania, so what exactly is Randall talking about?

He tells Jack that his boss, Roy Taylor, has a little cabin down on Lake Kemp (on the Wichita River in Baylor County, Texas, southeast of Childress--I looked it up in my atlas). Randall says he's got "a croppie house ... a little boat. Says I can use it whenever I want." Randall says they should "fish some."

We know what he really wants to get Jack down there for, but what exactly is a "croppie house"?

I have heard my father and other relatives who are fisherman talk about fishing for "crappies," which in central Pennsylvania refers to a type of bass. Anybody know whether this is what Randall is talking about, bass fishing? Is a "croppie house" a little cabin Texans stay in when they go bass fishing?

littleguitar:
Well the word crappie is pronounced croppie, so most likely they are talking about the same thing.  A crappie is a type of fish, a very usual type of fish to catch and eat.  What exactly a crappie house is, I'm not sure... I think it's probably where they keep the crappie after catching them, or maybe where they keep fishing equipment... I'm not really a fisher, so I'm not positive. Maybe someone else can help you with that...

I once had a waiter tell me the special of the night was crappie, he pronounced it literally CRAP-PIE, LOL It killed me!

Front-Ranger:
My father really loved crappie, and so I was mercilessly teased in elementary school because I pronounced it just like it was spelled!

newyearsday:

--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 25, 2006, 10:34:58 pm ---I mean, my folks was from Pennsylvania, so what exactly is Randall talking about?

--- Quote from: littleguitar on April 25, 2006, 10:42:02 pm ---Well the word crappie is pronounced croppie, so most likely they are talking about the same thing.  A crappie is a type of fish, a very usual type of fish to catch and eat.  What exactly a crappie house is, I'm not sure... I think it's probably where they keep the crappie after catching them, or maybe where they keep fishing equipment... I'm not really a fisher, so I'm not positive. Maybe someone else can help you with that...

I once had a waiter tell me the special of the night was crappie, he pronounced it literally CRAP-PIE, LOL It killed me!

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Ohmygod. Thank you both for providing me with a really good laugh! The laughs here used to come easy, now it's like seein the Pope! (I think that has as much to do with my level of stress the past three weeks as my withdrawal from seeing Brokeback in the theaters..(which probably contributes a lot to my level of stress the past three weeks)...it's just not the same anymore.)

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote ---Well the word crappie is pronounced croppie,
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Not in Central Pennsylvania it isn't, which was sort of part of my point. Up here it's pronounced CRAP-PEE, with the first syllable pronounced, well, like crap.

But thanks for the input!

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