They said what?
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I'll start you out with two from here in rural Indy...still here a few say those on occasion around here.
"That is finer than frog hair"
"That is slippery as owl sh!t"
"That is finer than frog hair"
"That is slippery as owl sh!t"
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My Kentucky grandfather frequently used the expression "no account" to describe something that was useless or worthless. I once asked an Appalachian folklorist about the expression. He claimed it came from the coal mining industry where miners had no option but to buy necessities on credit from the "company store." Thus, if one had "no account" at the store, they couldn't survive.
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I'd use that! I haven't, but will drag it out again...
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A school one. 'Chin'.
Chin (schoolyard slang) - A word of great great derogatory power only to be uttered (and then loudly while laughing) upon the occasion of somebody saying something clearly untrue, such as 'I have a girlfriend, but she lives in Kent.'
'My completly real girlfriend is called Teresa Green'
or the classic, 'It wasn't me!'
Synonym: 'Reck-ON!' in an exaggerratedly disbelieving voice.
For added power it was accompanied by stroking an imaginary chin beard and looking thoughtful. To be cooly nasty, nodding without words while stroking the chin. Unless it's really bad, in which case it's 'chinny reckon!'.
Chin (schoolyard slang) - A word of great great derogatory power only to be uttered (and then loudly while laughing) upon the occasion of somebody saying something clearly untrue, such as 'I have a girlfriend, but she lives in Kent.'
'My completly real girlfriend is called Teresa Green'
or the classic, 'It wasn't me!'
Synonym: 'Reck-ON!' in an exaggerratedly disbelieving voice.
For added power it was accompanied by stroking an imaginary chin beard and looking thoughtful. To be cooly nasty, nodding without words while stroking the chin. Unless it's really bad, in which case it's 'chinny reckon!'.
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"I'm fixin' to pitch a fit" Every once in a while I still hear it from someone from the rural deep south.
"So's your old man"
"Dig it" Man this expression sure dates a person, and I'm guilty of still using it.
"Keep the change" I haven't used cash in over two years, lol.
"Fill it up. Ethyl." No, Ethyl wasn't the gas station attendant. Along the same lines, "Check your oil, sir/ma'am?"
"Rewind the tape"
"So's your old man"
"Dig it" Man this expression sure dates a person, and I'm guilty of still using it.
"Keep the change" I haven't used cash in over two years, lol.
"Fill it up. Ethyl." No, Ethyl wasn't the gas station attendant. Along the same lines, "Check your oil, sir/ma'am?"
"Rewind the tape"
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"Can I borrow a cup of sugar?" I remember neighbors doing this all the time as a kid, but not since the 70's. Did people stop baking?
i think ppl born from the 80's and since have the habit of going to the nearest "supercenter" multiple times per week. they have never had the understanding or experience of what it was like to go to the grocery store just once per week and having to stick to a budget. prosperous times for the last 35 to 40 years with the introduction of imported goods. they also never will know what it was like to have to walk everywhere you went..and it was all uphill.....lol