Live Tweets from the Tasse de Cafe

Tweets from my Prairie des Femmes Twitter Feed on La Tasse de Cafe #kvpi #tassedecafe #villeplatte


  The contributors to the #tassedecafe is like my daddy's uncle's bunch of ducks, every night the bunch come back there was one missing, one night the bunch come back there was no more...

C'est un app ici et un app là bas.

Ca va full blast!


 We want to quantify how much cost is associated with feral hog activity [in Louisiana]. 

 Was it a camisole à molleton? Mais non cher, c'était une camisole à  coton! 

 Community crime cameras in Ville Platte!! 

 There's some Balfas from Mamou and there's some Balfas that come from Ville Platte.


 You ever been to Hawaii? It don't interest me at all. I like to go to Arkansas. 

 They collecting money at the Y tomorrow.

 Kinda like kissin' a duck's ass!

 Les Creoles de la Paroisse Evangeline.

 Remember Good Rockin Bob playin at the Rendez-vous Saturday nights in VP? The whole  Rendez-vous would shake! Dat was good Rockin! 

 The eight year old lil sha babies... Tite' filles!! 

 Une danseuse dessus les tables.

 I wanna give out more flowers to Floyd Soileau.

 Ils sont après donner d'la gloire à la Ville Platte!

 It was beautiful at the Evangeline Club! 

 I danced to the music of #lilbob at the #Evangelineclub 

 Floyd après brasse tout le temps.

 On va avoir de l'agreement. Uh-oh!! 

 Ils ont un convenient drive-thru chassis!

 Pichouette vs. pichnock  

 I'm callin on the Chicot Melons.

 What happened to the Chicot watermelons!? They were just as good as the Sugatowns!!! 

                                                     

 Gerald R Fontenot if you are listening you are challenged to call in and tell the story about Nonc  Jules and the Chicot melons.

 Hawk Leroy Rollins still plants Chicot melons, the yellow ones and the red ones!! 

 Tell the boys there the row on the end is theirs!

 Stuffed Ponce: stuffed with sweet potatoes. Mayor Vidrine: Whuuuut!!?

 Boudin Sweet Potato Pie at Paul's Meat Market

 T-rob is gonna be there with the music and then there's the pyrotechnic team!!

 Mock Strawberry jam: figs preserved with a box of strawberry jello

 C'est chock-a-block!

 J'suis pare pour sample!

 Like how you say moaning wind en Francais?

 Come to the Northside Park to have a bon temps with a movie and some fireworks.

 Je pense ils ont give up.

 Quitte-moi charrer pour le Doug Ashy Building Materials icitte à la Ville Platte!

 Le Cajun Kitchen Deli: c'est la place ayou les femmes après cuire le diner pour vous-autres.

 Jigsaw? Un scie qui gig!!

 According to Mark, it smells like rotten Viande Boucanée because someone left smoked meat festival food wrapped in a tablecloth at the station.

 Anona: Lamenter: Mais that's what I been doin all morning for that smell.

 They need to use "Cianara" poison on the punezes.

 How does one get cayenne pepper to dissolve in water to spray on the stink bug tomatoes?

 Caller: We're losing our French language! Mr. Jim: and your point is?

 I sure appreciate it, baby. #Kvpi

 During Careme, things are kinda slow in Mamou.

 On the large number of calls: L'école après renter à ce matin, le lundi matin!!

 Hey! Becky après passer le café! Merci Becky!

 Dans le temp des murs!!

 Mais nobody hardly picks figs anymore!

 He was tickled to death with that Pigstand lighter! It was like them gave him the medal of honor!

 I know some of you women out there mulch your own flowerbeds!

 I wanna congratulate the class of 65'. That's ma classe!!!!! We were the best class ever!! Class of 65

 That's where we went, at Belair Cove.

 Caillou Pitre live on La Tasse de Café Radio Program!!

 My wife has the original ho that her daddy gave her.

 And she will not get rid of that ho, I got a better one, but she won't use it.

 Un radotteur de la Ville Platte! 

 Et moi, j'avais un wee ti guime nain. Le nain et le gros dinde, ça se battait tout le temps, ouais!

 You have to plant it on the full moon of the moon!!!

 Les scomenteurs? Magicians 

Tasse De Café Ducks

Pas de Ethanol Dedans

Bois Croche

Tasse Expressions

Bonjour qui ti parles?

Ce café est rechauffée avec du bois croche, pas du bois grave.

Merci Miss Becky (le café est après se faire passer)

Becky après passer le café!

Tu m'attrappeé offguard là!

Arroser l'linge avant repasser!

Pour arroser les chemins pour la poussière.

Le soleil brille icitte a Mamou.. tu peux pas t'imaginer...

Apres deal avec...

Comme dit l'bougre...

Ils ont du gaz qu'a pas ethanol dedans!

Je suis assez bête de crois ça...

T'es comme un homme j'connais, c'est comme une lavette trempe, il flip-flop tout partout!

C'est Valmon, bord icitte!

L'affaire est bonne, hein?

Meilleur que ça moi j'connais pas qui je ferais avec.

Tasse Expressions: You got ya whistle in Basile

When my daddy would hear someone whistling, he would say, he got his whistle in Basile. Il a eu son siffler à Basile. I told that to my children my whole life, "you got ya whistle in Basile!"

C'est fraiche, ça refraiche.

Mais ça c'est Dot à nous-autres, ça?
Hein!? 
Ça c'est Dot à nous-autres?
Ouais!

Le vent de Basile... le gros Vents d' grand Basile!
(the wind comes from Basile in March, April... from the southwest...a dry wild, with dust, a pleasant wind...also called les vents de carême?)

Daddy and all his friends would gather at daddy's every afternoon and drink coffee under the pecan tree, and exchange lil expressions:

Cher! Ça c'est trop de sucre pour dix sous! 

Fais-attention, lâche pas la poule parce que tu va peut-être attrappé le guime.  

Tu peux pas montrer les nouveaux trick à un vieux mulet.

Pareille comme tu dis, tu peux amener le cheval à l'eau pour boire mais tu peux pas le faire boire. Ça c'est pour sûr!

Things I learned on la Tasse

On Swings:

In Ville Platte we say balance, mais...galance... Galance? I don't recall ever hearing that. I don't know where this French comes from... so I guess that comes from that Thibodeaux French. Just a-swangin... Oh serait joli d'être après se balançer, avec une bonne tasse café avec un tit vent nord t'après souffler.. Hot dog! Ça serait la vie!


From the French News:

The Louisiana Swine Festival,  va avoir, jusqu'à à minuit, la musique par un D. J., Lucky Lady, Bad Weather et High Roller. Tout ca va prendre place en gym à Basile.

...Le police des Opelousas dit que vingt-trois ans d'âge Marcus DeJean avait ménacé quelqu'un avec un pistolet mercredi au soir avant il avait lead l'officier d'un course à pied. 

Random Stuff:


le premier qu'a éné -first born
le nichoix- last born 

Moi j'suis maître et major, et je me berce moi-même, ouais.

 Les jeunes persones ils ont oublié la politesse. C'est vrai. Et c'est le parti de notre faut aussi! Pareil comme pour apprendre le fraiçais c'est notre faute.

Pour ce-là de vous qui sont après planner d'aller à la chasse aux chevreuils, vous-autres peux trouver le maïs de chevreuil, la mélasse, de des food plot mix et tout ça là-là. Ils ont aussi les ATV spreaders au Evangeline Feed and Seed!

Le forecast à Dave et le forecast à Liz...

Daddy and all his friends would gather at daddy's every afternoon and drink coffee under the pecan tree, and exchange lil expressions:

Cher! Ça c'est trop de sucre pour dix sous! 

Fais-attention, lâche pas la poule parce que tu va peut-être attrappé le guime.  


Tu peux pas montrer les nouveaux trick à un vieux mulet.

Pareille comme tu dis, tu peux amener le cheval à l'eau pour boire mais tu peux pas le faire boire. Ça c'est pour sûr! 

Small Talk about the Vent Nord

Mista Charlie-

Hey! 

This is John Pitre from Plaisance.

Allo Mista Pitre!

Comment les affaires à ce matin?
Haaw, 'coute! Les tit' zydecos après profiter dans l'vent nord!
Tit' vent nord, là, il chiffone la robe de Nananne des fois!

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Mista Charlie-
Hey!
This is John Pitre from Plaisance.
Hello Mister Pitre!
How are things this morning?
Aw, listen! The little snap beans are growing in the north wind!
The north wind there, it blows Nananne's skirt up sometimes!

Old Saying about Easter and Weather

The old saying I always heard: wait 'til Easter finishes, the weather will straighten out. That's right, I remember my mom said  

Quand jour de pâques va passer le temps va se nettoyer. 

Alright, well, that's... on dirait je me rapelle d'ça aussi.

Un goût de cafe pour fumer!

Et des fois le café té assez fort tu pourrais mettre une cullière dans la tasse et la cullière restait debout. 

Kaw!!!That's strong! 

And sometimes, like ma dad, he'd make a pot of coffee in the morning and là ça rechauffé quand il buvait une 'tite tasse, une 'tite tasse café, demie 'tite tasse, demie tasse, une demie-demie tasse, et là ça c'était juste assez pour fumer, tu connais? 
Hahahahahaa! 
Un goût de café pour fumer!


Sounds like someone I know!

Rob Perillo is the Balm

Rob touches the comet Pan-Starrs without getting burned.

Rob Perillo is our Chief Weatherman on KATC TV 3 in Lafayette, Louisiana. People around here really love to know about the weather. They live close to the land, and Rob is always a reliable, even jovial source of weather news and lore. Not only that, Rob always has some trivia or something creative to say and tells you about comets, meteors, blue moons, hurricanes, local folklore, as well as the exact time and direction of the passing of the space shuttle at night. Sometimes I hear these little quips and put them out on my Prairie Femme Twitter account...and I usually tag +Rob Perillo, too, or otherwise troll him on his social media... so he knows how much we appreciate his wordsmithing and weathermaning! 

Like this one time I commented on his status update about his use of the word "balmy", he "liked" it on Facebook (!!), then later on the news, I heard him emphasize the word- "Ladies and Gentlemen it's going to be a BALMY evening..." Just sayin.


I love when it rains and Rob says that it's "good sleeping weather". 

"A smokey haze tonight. You can smell the sugarcane burning."
  
"The fragrance of ligustrum in the air..."

Rob says he's not just going to "overtly forecast fog for tonight." That's why we love you Rob!

Rob says that tonight's lows will be in the "sultry low mid-70s"


I love when Rob says "Let's kick it upstairs and put the radar-satellite composite in motion, baby" (I added the baby, but hey! He might have said it/might say it if he reads this.) (Bonjour Rob!!)

OR he might just say: 

"Let's kick it upstairs and look at the radar satellite composite! "

"Moisture lurks in the Gulf"  yes it does.

"Nice looking cumulonimbus canopy shrouding Acadiana this afternoon. System already raining itself out...slowly..."

"It's gonna be rough out in the Gulf of Mexico so batten down the hatches!" 

"No pipe issues tonight."

"The air IS juicy."

"Cirrus clouds painting pretty pastels..."
  
Rob Perillo just sang, "The sun'll come out, tomorrow." Details at 10.

Rob Perillo is talking about the crescent moon and Venus in the western sky. #swoon.

@robperillo recommends that you recline on a chaise lounge chair a few minutes before 8 pm in order to see the space shuttle in the western sky.

"Do expect a sultry one tonight."

"A steamy one tonight!"

"A sultry summer night and the mosquitos are certainly in play."

"Don't say Perillo didn't warn you!"




Follow Rob on Twitter

People Love Rob! Street Art, Downtown Lafayette

(Warning: This is where the CajunNet and the Internet collide with results as accurate as Rob's eight day forecast.)

(D)Wayne Ecards

When I taught at the local high school, I had a love/hate relationship with the old school janitor, Dwayne Wayne. He taught me a lot of dirty French, because that's just how he talked. Here are a few of the insults/expressions he hurled at me daily, which I then scribbled down and collected in my "Livre de (D)Wayne"

You need a good slap salad!

I don't want to hear you screaming in the woods, no!

Force your nose in my ass and then fight for air.

Well look at Miss Smith with that little nest of hair on her head! She-devil!

Your brain is just like a little marble.

Here Daddy, It's a little new nothing in a bottomless box! Just like you always wanted.

You can just put your head in the toilet and do like you're swimmin' in the bayou.

Things heard on the Tasse de Cafe Radio Program

KVPI RADIO

The following are snippets of conversations, expressions, and local commercials in Evangeline Parish French as heard on the Tasse de Cafe Radio Program on KVPI, Wednesday and Friday mornings, 8-9 am. The program can be heard online, by phone or through phone app.search kvpi.
KVPI RADIO

Bonjour! Qui que parles?!
Hello, Who's talking!?

Ain autre call, Charlie!
Another call, Charlie!

Bonjour, you're on the air!
Hello, you're on the air!

Q: Comment va les affaires?
How are things?

A: -Oh, on après brasser une bonne sabotière de la crème...
Oh, we're stirring a good ice cream maker of ice cream.

-Oh, on après faire le balai avec une balai tout neuf! T'as jamais fait la balais avec une balai tout neuf?
Oh, we're sweeping with a brand new broom! You ever swept with a brand new broom?

-Oh! Ca fait la grande course!
Oh! It makes the big race!

-Oh! ca va pic-à-poc!
It goes pick a pock.

...On était perdu dans le grand bois, apres attendu le cris d'hibou...et tout mes cheveux se dressait comme ça...ça fait peur!!
...We were lost in the big woods, hearing the cry of the owl...and all of my hairs stood on end like that, that was scary!!

Oh! Le pain perdu! On l'as trouvé à ce matin, c'est pu perdu.
Oh! French Toast (lost bread)! We found it this morning. It's no longer lost.

On va vous parler garçon à garçon, figure à figure, en anglais ou en français, il vont vous servir comme vous-autres veux.
 We are going to talk to you boy to boy, face to face, in English or in French, they are going to server you like you want.

Ca va vous fournir tout la viande fraiche, du tasso, la viande salé, viande boucannée que t'as besoin. c'après boucanner la viande tout la journée que pour vous.
They are going to furnish you with all the fresh meat, tasso, salted meat, smoked meat that you need. They are smoking meat all day long just for you.

Some women take offense to you callin' them cher, they think you hittin' on them. I love to call people cher. I call men cher. I hope they dont take it as a compliment...

Comment ti crois, hein!?
How you think!

Tu conais ils appelent les 'love bugs' les bêtes d'amour...ou les petits carencros! Ou.. des bessons...
You know they call love bugs the bugs of love, or the little buzzards, or the little "kissers"

 Rapelle-toi de White Rose Petroleum Jelly?
You remember White Rose Petroleum Jelly?

After Hurricane Issac: Et comment les Pecanières chez toi? C'était socoue'?
And how are the pecan trees at your place? They were swayin?