Walkin' 'Round With Your Lip Poke Out

Memphisians….that is, Memphisites….that is the people of Memphis are bilingual.  Both languages are English but one is an English that the majority of non-Memphians can understand and the other, isn’t.  We learned this one day, during a tour of the city, when a number of non-tourists sat on the bus and proceeded to relate a story about someone that had been or was in the process of doing something upsetting or was having something (or perhaps had had something) upsetting done to them or to someone they knew.  We couldn’t understand much of what they were saying except for the last part:  it seems the person in question was “walkin’ ‘round with his lip poke out”.

Now I don’t know about you, but I thought that that was perhaps the best description of someone in the throes of upset that I have ever heard!

So we were back in Memphis and had a great time.  Lulu and I took an interesting tour of the city which showed us Graceland, the pyramid that is the Bass Pro Shop, Beale Street and a ton of other sights.

Once JJ and Deadeye arrived, we started to wander around a bit more.  The highlight for us was the Pink Palace.  It’s a great place, full of history, costumes and fossils and, arguably, the slowest cafeteria staff in the world.  How slow are they, you ask?  A slug would lap them.  We arrived one hour before an iMax show we wanted to see and we were still waiting for sandwiches long after the movie started.  And they weren’t even fancy sandwiches!  Our lips were poked out at that point, but the rest of the day made up for it.

This was made from hair!

 
We also made it to the Crystal Shrine Grotto which is located in a beautiful cemetery.  The outside of the grotto looks like an elf’s house but the inside is covered is semi-precious stones and features religious scenes.  It’s impressive as heck.

We didn’t stay in Memphis long…. But we sure had a good time!