No offense intended for those people who live in non-English-speaking countries, who are probably used to hearing the dubs of the voices, but I can't even fathom ANY voice other than those silky-smooth, slightly "Geechee"-accented tones of the Wilt I'M used to hearing.
On a somewhat Wilt-related theme, this past Wednesday and Friday, I actually got the speak with the great-grandson of the guy whom HE says started the whole "Charleston Pineapple" motif, a man named J.W. Carrigg, a son of freed slaves. His protege', Phillip Simmons, got credit for building the first "Pineapple Gate" in Charleston, even though Mr. Carrigg's name is actually on the gate itself. If any of you are wondering what the heck that has to do with Wilt, if you look closely at the backgrounds in Good Wilt Hunting, of the court where both games against Foul Larry took place, there are these stylized pineapples up over the doors of the buildings, which have become more or less symbolic for Charleston, South Carolina, though I never really knew why. I just know that those things are EVERYWHERE down there, along with the wrought-iron railings and window covers that are also seen in the movie, and the ubiquitous "earthquake bolts"*, one of which actually appears in one of Sparky's screencaps. Talking to this guy on the phone(about our fight against breed-specific legistlation in our state), I couldn't help but think of the movie; although HE is a native of Charleston and lives there now, his accent isn't as noticeable as Wilt's is! He kept telling me that if I couldn't understand his "Geechee-speak", as he called it, to remind him to stop and repeat himself or explain what he meant, so I had to laugh and tell him not to worry, that I watched a character on tv who was way more "Geechee" than he was, and I could understand HIM(meaning Wilt, of course)just fine! I forgot just how the pineapple thing came up in a conversation about dogs, mostly, but it was pretty neat knowing I was talking to a decendant of the person who started it all.
*Earthquake bolts are huge steel rods inserted through the outer wall of buildings built in Charleston after 1886, when a massive earthquake probably around a 8.0 on the Richter Scale devastated the city. These are supposed to give strength to the building, though they haven't been "tested" by a really strong quake since. On the outside of the buildings, they appear as metal discs of various shapes, many round or square, often engraved with the names of the building's architechts, or Bible verses, or memorials to those who died in the quake. According to some geologists, South Carolina ranks below only Alaska and California as the most seismically-active state and the most likely to experience a horrendous "Big One" quake within this century. We typically experience over 200 small-moderate quakes per year, many originating near Charleston's Middleton Fault.
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