Just wanted to let you know, that if you read their bio, everything they said about Sparta, TN is TRUE!!! Never go here, never!!

Yert... *ashley*

it DOES exist!

Sacry isn't it.

I'm from a town near Sparta and sometimes the people from there would be talking and then say "Yert" for no good reason. It's like a cultural tic from there.

I'm not a good one to explain what it means or how to use it correctly in a sentence, but I think it may be an affirmative answer or something like "True dat" from the gangster rap vacabulary.

This would probably make a good doctorate thesis for anybody studying Anthropology in the South.

However, it's really real and alive today, and the only reason to go to Sparta is for the drive in theater and all you can eat KFC buffet. Yert.

Freddy

...and to see Roger!
Roger told me about "yert" sometime back, and I thought he was teasing me, like when people go "snipe hunting"...He told me to go around saying "yert" while moving my hand in a gesture like that of jerking off someone (sorry to be so crude, but that is what it looks like!) I wasn't going to be fooled, so I asked his mom if it really existed and she told Roger she had never heard of that. This drove him crazy because he said she used to do it all the time. The best was the other day when his Sparta roots came out and he randomly "yerted" at some people in a truck while making a turn. I almost lost it.

A drive by Yerting?

I'm not sure if it counts as Sparta proper, but there are some awesome caves and waterfalls in the area. That's the only time I've passed through the illustrious little town.

You are absolutely right. The whole Upper Cumberland area is like that. Very beautiful scenery.

Of course you have to go through Sparta to get to some of these places. And if you're going through Sparta might as well get some KFC.

Amen, brother!

Only the rural KFCs have the buffet. Here in the city, we have to order off of a menu. I would be in bad (worse) shape if there was a KFC buffet in Nashville, though.

Also, drive-in movie theaters are awesome. But only if you don't really care about seeing the movie.

Can someone please tell me what "yert" is? Or is it a secret?

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 11:28 pm on Apr. 11, 2005)

Maybe I should leave this for a Spartan to explain, but here is what I know about it...
It is the Spartan greeting, like "hello" or "what's up?"
You put your hand in the air, like you are yanking on a chain, kind of like getting a truck driver to honk, and you go up and down (like I previously stated: similar to giving a hand job) and yell "yert!"

hehe.

That is so interesting. I would love to know the history behind that.

When you find out then let me know.

Cool Springs.

Hah! Yes, it really does exist. It started way back....don't know exactly how far back, but it was a staple in Sparta conversation. I know many older folks that still use it today! Quite hilarious! I never really learned the history though. Mindylieu is correct about it all. (The hand job motion and the meaning ) Roger has taught her well.

With this fresh on my brain, on my way to band practice today, I looked at the marquee (or whatever you call the fast food version of a "marquee") of the KFC on 8th and Jefferson (west of downtown) and they were advertising their buffet. Sorry/Congrats, jamiecarroll.

8th and Jefferson, huh? Well that sounds like a part of town that I'm in all the time.

Perhaps KFC is changing their ways, and all will be buffet-style eventually.

I hate to admit it, but those billboards with Pamela Anderson have made me not really want to eat at KFC anymore. In fact, I haven't eaten at one in quite some time. Every time I drive past one, the phrase, "painful de-beaking" keeps ringing in my head.

Mindylieu,
you made me laugh explaining the yert. it brought back alot of memories.and it is all to true about it, just another hillbilly way of saying hi or should i say spartaian way. anyhow it's so funny freddy brought up kfc because the other day and it might still be up, but yert way on their board outside how funny is that. i might need to take my digitial camera and take a picture of it and post it if it's still up. also i know some people that work at the local newspaper, i think i'll get her to ask around to see what she can find out. anyhow YERT!!!!!! Have a good day

A tad off the subject, but when I lived in Little Rock, errr LOTTA ROCK!!!, I had a friend that was a district sales manager for Tyson Chicken. He said the highest paid, non salary employee was a guy on each shift called the Angel of Death. This poor bastard's job was to stand behind the beheader and collect the chickens that ducked out of the way of the blades and manually cut their heads off. He made roughly double what the other line employees made and had mandatory therapy and bi-monthly psyche evaluations. Good times.

staring at chickens being beheaded all day sounds bad enough, but then grabbing and killing the ones who missed it just sounds sadistic....

that's bound to mess somebody up.

(Edited by dontstaylong at 2:15 pm on Apr. 13, 2005)

I cut the heads off of mice daily and I'm completely normal. At least, that's what the voices tell me...