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Field & Stream! ^ | David E. Petzal and Philip Bourjaily

[djone]

"One of the small things I like about hunting is that it takes you into the countryside where people say things you thought no one actually says anymore. Bits of old-fashioned speech hang on outside of town. Hearing them opens a little window into the past.--"Just remembered what the old folks would say if they hadn't seen you in awhile :Man I thought you fell in....'He's so tight, he squeaks when he walks.'..."He couldn't cut his way out of a wet paper bag with two butcher knives".....remembered another I always liked: my old landlord, a German farmer, used "young" for "small" so that when the neighbors touched off their initial volley on the opening morning of deer season, Seth commented "They've got a young war going on over there "

[Ax]

“He was on that like Holy on the Pope.”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"Who licked all the red off your candy?"

My grandma when we were grumpy.

[married21]

My dad said:

*Run to the roundhouse, Nellie! He can’t corner you there!
*Hold your horses and keep your shirt on!
*Referring to doing something a little ways away: “I’ll be over in the South 40”

[misanthrope]

Harder than the hinges of hell.
Hotter’n a depot stove.

[Tax-chick]

That’s vivid!

[Tax-chick]

Travis Tritt had a hit song with “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares,” but even that is meaningless to those who grew up with universal cell-phone ownership.

[SunkenCiv]

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