To: arjay
"A southerner knows that "fair to middlin" comes from grades of cotton."Did yer Grandeddy tell you that, or are you just that dang old?
114 posted on
08/24/2003 8:47:38 PM PDT by
eloy
To: eloy
I grew up in Lubbock, Tx and my uncle was a cotton farmer. I am getting old, 61, but not dang old yet.
I have always assumed that is where the expression fair to middlin' comes from because that is the way cotton is graded.
405 posted on
08/25/2003 2:05:36 AM PDT by
arjay
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