Why do Americans pronounce the word 'pasta' in such a strange way?

@Atlotto You have pasta in Kentucky? ;)

@Thodsis Yes, we do... I'm having indoor plumbing installed this week.

@Atlotto how ya got water from the creek? 🤔

@DeWayfarer I have the new and improved "Clampett 2000" water pump.

@Atlotto Is that what JD uses to get that their erl? 😁

Er what they use fer their cement pond? 🤣

Must asking Granny I'm a reckoning.

@DeWayfarer Wouldn't that be water from the crick?

@ChipmunkErnie nah. First episode JD shoots at some criter while hunting and misses. Shot hits the ground and up goes a small gusher.

Need something to pump that thar erl! 😊

@DeWayfarer Black gold, Texas tea.

@ChipmunkErnie ... And so they moved to Beverly... Hills that is...

@DeWayfarer Ane then Ellie Mae moved to that alien planet where she was considered really ugly?

@ChipmunkErnie vaguely remember that episode. Wasn't able to watch most of those as a small kid. Was at a babysitter who watched her shows. Wasn't until the reruns that I watched more of them. Different babysitter, in the mid 60s.

@DeWayfarer Yeah, as a kid my parents were afraid to let me watch TWILIGHT ZONE. :( But I could read all the horror books I liked. LOL

@ChipmunkErnie dad expected me to be the genius that I never turned out to be.

Bought a complete, 30 volume, encyclopedia americana set. With a full range of extra books like the complete works of Shakespeare, completely, works of Edgar Allan Poe, toastmasters hand book to humor and so forth.

He bought it in 1962, I was only three years old! 🤣

@DeWayfarer Didn't get our World Book until I was 8, but we had the 24-volume encyclopedia my grandfather wrote an article for before that.

@ChipmunkErnie I'm still a little POed my half brother keeped that set. I wrote notes in it for school.