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Where did "piss poor" come from ?
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Posted on 11/20/2011 5:11:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: ThomasThomas
Ya'll laugh all you want. We still do thangs like that down here. It's i'urn hertige!
We
piss poor and ain't fixin' ta change.
Good stuff Jim!
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posted on
11/20/2011 8:51:40 PM PST
by
bksanders
(Spewing Forth Vitriol at the Speed of Spit)
To: momtothree
Now I know where that saying, Im so poor that I dont have a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of... comes from. Thanks!Then there was the snake named Mrs. Pott who was so poor, she didn't have a pit to hiss in! :-)
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posted on
11/20/2011 9:06:39 PM PST
by
Nea Wood
(Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
To: JoshuaLawrenceChamberlain
I never even knew there was a beer called Pliny the Elder.
Which reminds me...the other day Bill O'Reilly was talking about Pliny for some reason, and kept mispronouncing his name by making the I long. So much for Mr. Know-it-all.
To: Jim Robinson
I had to quit 1/2 way down, the tears from laughing were dripping on my keyboard...but did finish without shorting out my computer..
To: Inyo-Mono
I thought “flash in the pan” had to do with panning for gold.
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posted on
11/20/2011 11:20:02 PM PST
by
Tramonto
(9 9 9)
To: PieterCasparzen
I remember as a kid using chamber pots at grandma’s farm..each bed had one under it. You learn real quick that in the middle of the night if you had to go, don’t tip the pot when you take it out from under the bed. Beds slept 3 kids each. Thank goodness we only visited the farm didn’t live on it..
To: M Kehoe
“Man who screw around in blueberry patch get ass in jam.”
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posted on
11/21/2011 4:46:21 AM PST
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: Tramonto
I thought flash in the pan had to do with panning for gold.No, it came from the use of flintlock rifles and was a common expression in the 18th Century long before the era of the gold rush in America.
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posted on
11/21/2011 6:28:15 AM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: PieterCasparzen; Jim Robinson
I read recently, here I feel certain, that at some point in England urine was collected and the people would actually sell their piss.
Someone reduced to selling piss was “piss poor”. A much worse condition was being so poor there was no pot to piss in. Such desperate souls “had no pot to piss in”
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posted on
11/21/2011 6:39:42 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: Jim Robinson; All
***When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.
So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.***
Another method...
To: Inyo-Mono
You posted;When you pulled the trigger on your flintlock rifle and only the powder in the pan went off without igniting the main charge, it was called flash in the pan.
No, I believe it originated during the Gold Rush. A flash of gold in the pan looked promising but in the end the claim didn’t pan out.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:38:13 AM PST
by
eastforker
(I'll pick Rick but I still root for Newt.)
To: Inyo-Mono
Technically you are correct but it was used extensively during the gold rush and had a different meaning.
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posted on
11/21/2011 9:51:45 AM PST
by
eastforker
(I'll pick Rick but I still root for Newt.)
To: Inyo-Mono
Speaking of flintlocks, I think you “went off half cocked” not to mention “hang fires”.
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posted on
11/21/2011 2:50:05 PM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Jim Robinson
“I need to see a man about a horse” is a common rural expression. When I was in Mongoia, they knew what I meant but there they went to see the horse instead.
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posted on
11/21/2011 3:02:41 PM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
( getting closer to the truth.................)
To: TexasRepublic
Speaking of flintlocks, I think you went off half cocked not to mention hang fires.You're right! I forgot about those.
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posted on
11/21/2011 3:05:05 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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