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13 Jul 2018, 3:11 pm

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I remember one time during my childhood, my mother, (a horribly impatient woman,) had to give me a ride to school. Despite being like 6-7 years old, I wasn't the fastest moving child. In a frustrated and sarcastic tone said to me "Whenever you're ready." and without a second thought, I stopped in my tracks. She yelled from the car "What the f**k are you waiting on?" and I responded "I'm not ready." She wasn't very pleased with that.

yes i was always taking sarcastic adults literally and they always thought i was being cheeky to them when i wasn't

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13 Jul 2018, 6:09 pm

A book author I read related how his mom would go to church as a child and listen to the grown ups all join in on a hymn about a certain bear. A bear named "Gladly" who happened to cross eyed.

"Gladly, the cross eyed bear!".

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13 Jul 2018, 6:33 pm

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And then there's Andy - Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me...

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13 Jul 2018, 6:40 pm

And there are secular songs.

"The ants are my friends.

The ants are blowing in the wind."

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13 Jul 2018, 10:27 pm

We usually went to the Golden Host cafeteria for Sunday dinner,I loaded my tray down but was over ambitious.I couldn’t eat it all, so a relative said,”Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.”I thought they were nuts.
When I’d whine I couldn’t do something,they would say,” Can’t never could.” Then I asked who Can’t was.

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14 Jul 2018, 5:22 am

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Probably Immanuel.

He can't.

But both James, and Genghis, can!

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14 Jul 2018, 5:48 am

I wish I could think of witty things to say.

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14 Jul 2018, 12:26 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

Probably Immanuel.

He can't.

But both James, and Genghis, can!

LOL
When they brushed my hair they told me they had to get the rats out of it,meaning tangles.Not a pleasant visual.Some of the rural expressions made sense,like,”worthless as the tits on a boar hog.”That I could grasp,what good could those tits do.
Once they told me if I sprinkled salt on a bird’s tail I could catch it.I was out in the yard all day trying to salt a bird.

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15 Jul 2018, 12:32 am

^^^I wonder if birds like salt? :scratch:

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15 Jul 2018, 7:49 am

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^^^I wonder if birds like salt? :scratch:

I believe the joke was that if you were close enough to sprinkle salt on its tail,you could just grab it.Or an ingenious way to keep kids busy outside chasing birds.

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15 Jul 2018, 8:46 am

Salt on a bird's tail reminds me of a song I played on the piano. There was a song in one of my books called "Salt on a Bird's Tail." (Or, "How Not to Catch a Bird.")

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15 Jul 2018, 8:57 am

^ you just reminded of something that confused me when I was younger , when the score in tennis is Love - all ( I imagined it was a rule for everyone in the crowd to hug each other :twisted: )

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15 Jul 2018, 3:33 pm

Misslizard wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

^^^I wonder if birds like salt? :scratch:

I believe the joke was that if you were close enough to sprinkle salt on its tail,you could just grab it.Or an ingenious way to keep kids busy outside chasing birds.

ah so

I shoulda thought of it :study:

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15 Jul 2018, 4:10 pm

“Eat your heart out”

I still don’t understand that, does anyone know what it means?? It used to frighten me as a child when I heard people say it because of the image it created!!

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15 Jul 2018, 4:28 pm

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“Eat your heart out” I still don’t understand that, does anyone know what it means?? It used to frighten me as a child when I heard people say it because of the image it created!!

From the 16th century "to eat one's own heart" (to suffer in silence from anguish or grief), possibly from the Bible "to eat one's own flesh" (to be lazy) The phrase "to eat one's heart out" appears as a formulaic phrase in the Iliad, meaning to experience extreme grief. So in the modern era, to tell somebody that means a declaration, often exaggerated, joking and boastful, of being better than another person, the aforementioned often being a celebrity or historical figure, one is telling another or referring to another who is deemed inferior, to suffer, or in a more modern way, to "watch my smoke."

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15 Jul 2018, 4:45 pm

auntblabby wrote:

Thanks, I think I understand it now!! Though I can’t imagine wanting to eat my heart if I was deeply grieving, how would I reach it anyway?

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