Posted on 02/01/2019 9:26:57 PM PST by vannrox
I wonder now if that was some kind of "egads" modification.
Quite possible - some sayings came because someone misheard someone else using an older phrase...knew a guy who used the term “penny cash” because he thought that’s what someone said years before when saying “petty cash”. Done it myself a number of times - especially with the words to songs on old car AM radios....”Reach out in the darkness” became “Freak lout in the garden”...of course it may have been the pot of the time.....
My grandmother, born in the 1890s, used to comment on things and situations being “thoroughly modern.”
In the 80s when her eyesight was failing, she bought me what she thought was a smiley pin. The face was grimacing and said “oh sh**” spelled out underneath. After dying laughing I explained it to her, she said “no wonder the clerk was so confused.” Hilarious.
My commander calls the funeral home’s casket limo a “hurst.” Cracks me up every time.
Yeah - I always get a kick when folks say such things.
Thanks for your service.
Thanks so much! God bless you.
No problem....Swabie (said in the best possible way...)
Worked with Navy folks during my 24 year AF career and 15 year DOD Civilian career - wish all the services were as in touch with their history/heritage/traditions.
When I retired, I had some Navy and Army folks working for me and they incorporated some of their own ceremonies into my AF one...I still feel honored.
While they worked for me, I managed to get them AF Achievement Medals which really thrilled them - not a lot of folks get sister service medals.
“bangs like the outhouse door in a gale.”
“clean as the preachers sheets.”
“enough mouth for 10 rows of teeth.”
“nuttier than squirrel turds.”
I used to have a word doc to catalog these sayings. Lost it in the cloud.
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