Tupee and Tuoui

Cajun culture is a wonderful thing. My mother was born in the heart of Evangeline Parish in Bayou Chico, and most all of her relatives spoke fluent Acadian French. Cajun humor is a way of life along with Church, helping neighbors, good eating, moderate drinking, fabulous music and plenty of dancing.

It is written pretty much how old Cajun story telling sounds, so be aware.

Yeah, the sex is minor, really nothing to note, but I found my old entry and wanted to share the Cajun Humor.

Tupee and Tuoui

Once long ago when dem Acadians were kicked out of Canada a brave man, Alfonse, and his wife, Safile, after a year of travel, finally made it to dat place Louisiana.

Dey wandered all down south Louisiana until dey found a nice high piece of land between two small Coolies. Alfonse and Safile worked dat land and soon had a big vegetable garden, some of dem chickens, pigs and cows.

One night Alfonse tole Safile "I tink it's time to start havin some of dem babies"

So dey started da process by taking a bath and climbing in dere bed and doin da deed.

9 monts past and low and behold dat first child was born a girl.

Safile after all dat labor needed to go to da bathroom real bad when dat Dr. was finishing da delivery. She tole Alfonse dat she needed to pee. Well, dat Doctor. not listening to dem, thought dat was what she said da girls name would be and wrote out on dat dere birth certificate da name as Tupee.

After one year Alfonse and Safile started da process again, take a bath, climb in da bed, do dat deed, and 9 monts past, Safile delivered a new baby boy. Again, she needed to use da bathroom and not to get dat Doctor. confused, tole Alfonse she needed to wee.

Again, dat Doctor., not listening, thought dat was da new son's name and put dat name Tuoui on dat dere birth certificate.

Well, can you imaginate what it was like to grow up with a name like Tupee and Tuoui?

When Tupee and Tuoui finally started dat school, dem kids would make fun of deir names, so dey did de honorable ting and would fight 'em.

When dat principle found out he got on that voice box ting at dat school and said he needed Tupee and Tuoui in da office rat now.

Dis caused much laugh amongst dem students and teachers. Sure 'nough, da next morning a sign was put over dat office door, "Bathroom"

Tupee and Tuoui could not stand all dat fun over deir names so dey quit going to school and would hide during da day so moma and pappa would tink dey was at dat school.

Tuoui was a bit couillon, (idiot) and Tupee wasn't much better.

I tell you, a friend, Jolie, skipped dat school and did some hunting wit Tuoui, and Jolie got bit by one of dem big ole snakes.

Tuoui ran to da Doctor. and tole him Jolie was dead from a snake dat bit 'em.

Dat Doctorr. asked if he was sure Jolie was dead. Tuoui ran back, clubbed Jolie real hard in the head wit a stick, ran back to dat Doctor. and tole him Jolie was dead for sure, what should he do next.

Tupee was running one morning and fell down. After a while she got up and found Tuoui,

"Tuoui" she says, "I fell and I hurt every place I touch.".

So Tuoui takes her to da Doctor. and he asked Tupee where she hurts. Tupee, placed her finger on her am and says, "it hurts here", den she touched her leg and says "It hurts here", den she touched her head and says "It hurts here".

So, dat Doctor. checks out Tupee real good and says she is okay, she just has a broke finger.

Well not so long goes past and Alfonse and Safile find out the chillin had quit dat school. Dey demanded to know why, so Tupee and Tuoui tole them dey got tired of being made fun of because of deir names.

Alfonse and Safile said for some reason God choose dem names and dey were not going to change 'em.

Tupee and Tuoui just had to get deir names changed, but dey could not figure out how to do it.

Finally, dey was a sittin in deir room one night and could hear dis new radio box thing Alfonse had bought and could hear da man in da box talk about something called Holy Spirits dat could talk to people. After some tinking dey came up with a plan to get deir names changed. Have dem spirits talk to Alfonse and Safile.

Deir first idea was to talk to da Priest man and hope he could use some of dat Devine invention stuff. Dat didn't work.

Dey had to make dem spirits talk to Alfonse and Safile because dey always believed dem spirits knew best.

Dey found dem-selves another plan.

Dey would use dem old graves they found to make dem spirits talk. Dis took some work to make one of dem coffin boxes, put some of dem bones in it and make an escape hole so if Alfonse and Safile looked inside dey could only see some of dem bones and not see Tuoui hiding.

I wanna tell ya, Everyting was working good, and after a few tries Tupee decided some smoke would look like dem real spirits were inside. So dey found some dry moss and placed it in de box so when dem hot coals were placed in da moss, smoke would appear.

Dat first test wit dat moss about killed Tuoui, all dat smoke. After some more tries, da day had come to make dem spirits talk to Alfonse and Safile.

Tupee runs into da house and tells Alfonse and Safile da grave is smoking and dere is a voice coming from it. So, dey all run to dat grave and sure enough dere is smoke and a voice coming from it saying," I need to speak at Alfonse and Safile".

Alfonse says to da smoke "Who are you?"

Dat smoke tells him, "I am your spirit and I want you to change your chillin's names so dey can grow up and be famous".

Well, dis is all dat Alfonse and Safile need to hear, dat spirit has spoken. Da next morning, dey go to da Judge and explain dat da spirit spoke at dem and wants deir chillin's names changed so they can be famous.

Da Judge agrees and wants to know what dem new names will be.

Alfonse and Safile tink about names deir chillin 's should have. Dey had to be famous names. Finally, after some discussions Alfonse tells dat Judge,

Tupee will now be named Marie and Tuoui will now be named Boudreaux.

And da rest is history.