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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 15, 2009 20:25:17 GMT -5
When I would tell Daddy that Carlene was mean to me, he would say, "You tell Carlene I'm fixin to git on her "like a hen on a June bug!"
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Post by loislee on Jun 16, 2009 16:33:25 GMT -5
My uncles use to scare all of us kids by telling us that rawhead and bloody bones was going to get us. Does anyone know if this is just a Tennessee saying?
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Post by hazard999 on Jun 16, 2009 16:59:55 GMT -5
My uncles use to scare all of us kids by telling us that rawhead and bloody bones was going to get us. Does anyone know if this is just a Tennessee saying? It's not just a TN saying. I was raised right here in Hazard and Bloody Bones lived in the big drain pipe right in front of my house. He came out at night and got the mean little kids and put them in a big sack he carried on his back and took them back to his big drain pipe and ate them! |
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Post by displacedwoman on Jun 16, 2009 22:23:23 GMT -5
My uncles use to scare all of us kids by telling us that rawhead and bloody bones was going to get us. Does anyone know if this is just a Tennessee saying? It's not just a TN saying. I was raised right here in Hazard and Bloody Bones lived in the big drain pipe right in front of my house. He came out at night and got the mean little kids and put them in a big sack he carried on his back and took them back to his big drain pipe and ate them!  !!!!.... Very interesting!!!!! |
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Post by loislee on Jun 17, 2009 8:41:34 GMT -5
lol. hazard999, I enjoyed your post. We were told he was hiding in the pipes in the sink and even under the stairs. They never told us what he would do if he ever nabbed us. Thanks!
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Post by indigoblue on Jun 18, 2009 5:20:56 GMT -5
Dad would tell us ol red eye was sneakin around looking at us to see if we were being good. Ha! didn't have to tell me twice...only thing that scared me more than ol red eye was ol horn-uh-ca-browser that lived under the walk bridge just down the garden path. Where that name came from I don't know. Had to be someone with an over abundance of complicated imagination to think up a name like ol horn-uh-ca-browser.
My Uncle Mark would always count to ten like this..one-zo, two-zo, zika-zo-zan, holler-bone, cracker-bone, wilson, tilson, toxin, tan. Dunno where that came from neither, but whoever thought to count to ten like that didnt IMO have a lick uh sense lol
lawdy be...used to be one of granny's favorite expressions. Kinda like this "Lawdy be, u'ins! Its hot enough to bile the hide right clean offn'uh body!
hippo'ed N broke down lol! im supposin that means u'r down in your git-works lol
I love this one..."I went 'n seed the doc yesterday...he ck'ed me to good...why he ck'ed me plumb up'ta'muh forks! LOL!!
or this one...."Lookie comin yander at thet Wylie Ford..he thinks hes somethin since he got him a city job. Why he don't make no more'ern me!! and he thinks hes rich'er somethin...only thang thet there boys got in his back pocket is his a** and his elbows and both of them are fightin fer squaters rights!! lol!!! in other words he's so broke he cant even spell M-O-N-E-Y lol...ohhh that reminds me of another one...."I'm so broke I'm force-put to call a penny "Mister" and uh nickel "Sir"...
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Post by loislee on Jun 18, 2009 7:22:09 GMT -5
My grandmother jumped rope to this rhyme:
My mother, your mother, lives across the way
Every night they have a fight and this is what they say
Icka backa soda cracker, icka backa boo
Icka backa soda cracker, out goes you!
And here's one. I'm plumb tuckered out.
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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 20, 2009 21:30:59 GMT -5
Thank you, loislee,
I like Icka backa soda cracker.
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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 20, 2009 21:34:32 GMT -5
Have you ever heard of puncheon floors? Evidently it is a flooring made from logs split down the center. They would be rather expensive in this day of veneer flooring.
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Post by loislee on Jun 21, 2009 7:28:52 GMT -5
Yes, when I was a little girl, I remember my great-grandmother, who was born in the 1800's telling me of the time when she was a little girl and her father raised the puncheon and a snake was lying there. She said she had nightmares for a long time when she saw the snake. They were I believe made of rough cut logs or planks.
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Post by Annielou on Jun 23, 2009 13:35:08 GMT -5
Remember people saying "plime blank?" As in, "He looks plime blank like his daddy."
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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 23, 2009 17:15:53 GMT -5
and "He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer."
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Post by loislee on Jun 24, 2009 7:48:37 GMT -5
How about pitch a fit and she threw a hissy fit. Have you ever noticed when we say something negative about someone, we always bless them lol, as in, "She can't sing a lick, bless her heart." Or, " He's almost bald, bless his heart."
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Post by Annielou on Jun 24, 2009 13:05:23 GMT -5
How about "I double dog dare you."
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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 24, 2009 19:46:10 GMT -5
How about pitch a fit and she threw a hissy fit. Have you ever noticed when we say something negative about someone, we always bless them lol, as in, "She can't sing a lick, bless her heart." Or, " He's almost bald, bless his heart." Yeah, Lois Lee, Mother always blessed the little hearts at the appropriate times like you mentioned. (I think I do it too.) |
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Post by displacedwoman on Jun 24, 2009 21:48:15 GMT -5
" he is drunk as a skunk"..........................
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Post by loislee on Jun 25, 2009 7:31:38 GMT -5
You're getting too big for your britches. He's running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
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Post by TXXXXX on Jun 25, 2009 8:37:26 GMT -5
ive heard all these sayings and still use them sometimes myself and ive lived in texas almost 40 years.
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Post by sisterofcarlene on Jun 26, 2009 14:52:44 GMT -5
Back to the scary stuff, we were frightened by the "Buger Man" and were haunted by "the Haints".
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Post by happyhippy on Jun 26, 2009 15:44:40 GMT -5
when we would get in trouble,we would always run from mom.
She would say oh wait til i get aholts of ye!!
lol
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