J (singing) – ‘Davy, Davy Crockett…’
N (interrupting) – ‘Is he the fastest gun in the West?’
J – ‘No, he was a frontier dude in a coonskin cap*‘
N – ‘Is that a Raa-coon?’
J – ‘You’re so f*cking British sometimes.’
* All these years I thought the guy wore a coonskin cap, turns out he didn’t. According to Wikipedia:
“Popular belief is that he wore a coonskin cap, but this is a myth propagated by the actor who played him in a play he commissioned to raise his flagging popularity. The actor, chosen to play the role of the “great frontiersman”, picked a coon skin hat quite by chance.”
Well, how about that. Does that mean Johnny Appleseed didn’t wear a saucepan for a hat either?
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Maybe he thought the coonskin hat didn’t go with his shoes.
“What happened to next door’s cat? You didn’t buy that Davy Crockett did you?”