Originally Posted by
ButIsItArt
Also, Kettles are often portrayed as timorously and uncritically accepting any new air travel security procedure.
I doubt that Ma Kettle would have. She was one
feisty woman in her day.
The appropriation of
Kettles as a descriptor is a stroke of genius though. ^ A lot of their movies (No, I haven't sat through any of them

) are based on travel, and the Kettles were the Beverly Hillbillies of their time.