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That one makes a little sense. Shinola looks vaguely like shit.
An old hobo once told me the way to know the difference between the two when in doubt, was to take a dab and put it on the toe of your shoe, and rub it around real good with a damp bit of rag. If it shines then it's shineola, if not well.....WildFingers said:"you don't know Shit from shineola."
Shineola?
Those have spread well beyond the bread basket. But I can't recall "panther piss."I_Am_Iris said:My family is from Kansas, so our sayings are extremely country... and if any of you have heard these, I'll be surprised.
"He went to shit and the hogs ate him." = When you ask why someone's been gone so long. Apparently, the outhouses used to be in/near pigpens, and if you ever slipped and fell unconscious out there, the pigs would eat your flesh?!?!
"Fuckin' A" = means "damn right"
"Panther Piss" = means WD40.
I_Am_Iris said:My family is from Kansas, so our sayings are extremely country... and if any of you have heard these, I'll be surprised.
"He went to shit and the hogs ate him." = When you ask why someone's been gone so long. Apparently, the outhouses used to be in/near pigpens, and if you ever slipped and fell unconscious out there, the pigs would eat your flesh?!?!
"Fuckin' A" = means "damn right"
"Panther Piss" = means WD40.
In the same vain my mother said when she was a young girl the saying, "Going like 60" was very popular and meant, 'really fast' bc no one but rich ppl with sports cars could go 60 MPH. Also my grandfather would say "We're off in a cloud of horse manure" :lol:Nordling said:My father frequently used the phrase "...faster than Snyder's hound." I've spent more than a few hours using google trying to find an origin to this...it simply means REALLY fast, but who the hell was Snyder and why was his dog so fast?
lordmagellan said:Does anyone know what "as all get out" fucking means?
I_Am_Iris said:My family is from Kansas, so our sayings are extremely country... and if any of you have heard these, I'll be surprised.
"He went to shit and the hogs ate him." = When you ask why someone's been gone so long. Apparently, the outhouses used to be in/near pigpens, and if you ever slipped and fell unconscious out there, the pigs would eat your flesh?!?!
"Fuckin' A" = means "damn right"
"Panther Piss" = means WD40.
bob said:"Get out!!" used to be a phrase said when you were told something unbelievable. (Maybe a shortened version of "get outta here"?)
The_Brown_Fox said:That "Fucking A!" thing is brand new to me. I've seen people on this forum say it, and I was like Huh?
bob said:heh..interesting...it was so common in the LA area when i was kid that unless you were a "goody two shoes", it was just a part of your vocubulary
The_Brown_Fox said:bob said:heh..interesting...it was so common in the LA area when i was kid that unless you were a "goody two shoes", it was just a part of your vocubulary
Yup, just call me the spelling bee champion/A student 'goody two shoes' then...lol.
Also, when I was growing up, the adults I was around usually had enough sense to not use language like 'fucking' around a kid. And the kids I was around most likely would've gotten their butts smacked if they cussed (went to a private school up until like 5th grade). In fact, I think the whole 'kids cussing at their parents' thing was pretty much unheard of when I was growing up...lol. And now? Not so much...
It probably wasn't until middle school and high school (which were public schools) that I actually heard kids using language like 'fuck', 'shit', etc. regularly, but even then I've never heard any of them say 'Fucking A'.
One of the phrases I remember my mom saying - when I was a kid - was "Aw man, that was DECENT!" after witnessing something awesome (like a Janet Jackson 'Rhythm Nation' performance, for example). But the way she said it, it was like 'decent' was supposed to mean 'awesome'. LOL.
bob said:and i'll bet they were white kids too....i've worked with black kids enough to know that their parents usually don't take a lot of
"guff"
The_Brown_Fox said:bob said:and i'll bet they were white kids too....i've worked with black kids enough to know that their parents usually don't take a lot of
"guff"
guff
1. Nonsense; baloney.
2. Insolent talk; back talk.
Urban Dictionary has several definitions for it, and the first one says:
A cloud of foul gas left hovering in the air after some bastard just farted. :lol:
You guys are gonna get sick of me telling this story, but I HAVE to! One of the saddest child/parent displays I'd ever seen (where the child is clearly the one "in charge") was after I had moved to Maryland and became friends with a red-haired girl named Cassie. We had been playing outside for a while, and then when it was time for her to come in, her mom called her:
The mom: Okay, Cassie, it's time to come in.
Cassie: NO! I DON'T WANT TO!!!
Mom: Cassie, PLEASE???
Cassie: NO!!! I DON'T WANNA COME IN!!!"
The mom: PLEASE, Cassie???
CASSIE: NO, MOM!!!
Her mom had this hurt look on her face, and walked back into the house while Cassie remained outside. I had never seen anything like that before, so I sat there stunned, thinking Um...what just happened here???
Ha! I come from two farm families too. And yeah, I heard the first phrase from my father's family. My mom's family were kind of "goody two shoes." North Dakota Norwegian Lutherans. lolI_Am_Iris said:My family is from Kansas, so our sayings are extremely country... and if any of you have heard these, I'll be surprised.
"He went to shit and the hogs ate him." = When you ask why someone's been gone so long. Apparently, the outhouses used to be in/near pigpens, and if you ever slipped and fell unconscious out there, the pigs would eat your flesh?!?!
"Fuckin' A" = means "damn right"
"Panther Piss" = means WD40.
Interesting how some phrases take on opposite meanings depending on the locale or group that uses it. "Fuckin' A" in my circles was always used like an "amen." Like someone says, "I finally got my tax return--fuckin' A!"LadyLuna said:Yeah, I always heard "Fuckin' A" being said under the person's breath right after something just went wrong, usually after a string of small things had just gone wrong.
like, bad thing happens, fix it, another bad thing, fix that, another bad thing... "Fucking A".