What are some of the craziest sayings you heard as a child and maybe even an adult, which you now may or may not quite understand?
For example, when we used to get into trouble with my granny she would say stuff like:
"I'm gonna whip your ass `til it ropes like okra." I still don't know how okra ropes….do you??
Or, "I'm gonna be on you like white on rice." This one I understood & knew it was ass whipping time.
One of my grandpa's favorites was, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." Did he not know the vision of a cat being skinned could be quite traumatic for a young child???
My mama used to say she would beat the "cowboy shit or the dogsled shit" outta us. 
My mama and uncle used to also say, "it's colder than whore's heart" or "it's colder than a well-diggers ass in Montana" when the weather dropped below freezing. I don't where my mama got the Montana thing from since she only set foot in Missouri & Illinois......
My mama would say somebody who is dressed nice was "sharper than a manicured RT". Later in life I found out that "RT" was short for "rat turd". I still have absolutely no idea how that translated into fashion.
ReplyDeleteMy mom used to tell us, "You don't believe sh** stank. I guess I have to show you".
ReplyDeleteUmmm...we know good and well it stinks!
I just thought of another - there was the guy, who wasn't so easy on the eyes that was always after my mother. She was friends with him but didn't like him like that. I overheard (ya'll know I was the queen of eavesdropping) him ask her why she didn't take him seriously. Her reply was, "Ed, you are ugly as homemade sin, that's why."
ReplyDeleteInsert my lil nosey ass blank stare here, thinking, what the heck is homemade sin?? LOL I still don't know.
Dang you took my granny's "I'mma whip your ass till it rope like okra" LMAO I'd ask her where she was going and she would reply "I'm goin to see a man about a cat, with any luck I'll bring you a kitten" *blank stare*(was granny goin to get busy?)or she'd tell you "to hell if I don't pray" but my favorite was when she and this women got into it a supermarket and the woman told her to go to hell....she told her "gimme a white gunny sack so I can bring your mammy back" WHEW LAWD THE COLOR WENT OUT OF THAT WOMAN'S FACE LMAO(and she was "Black as French Street's Ass")thats some other ish my granny used to say.
ReplyDeleteLawd I miss that woman.......cuz when she cussed you out you were PROPERLY CUSSED!
oh lawd... my mom used to say crazy stuff to us girls when she was trying to do our hair (pre -perms)
ReplyDeleteher favorite saying was " your hair is nappier than sheep sh*t in shallow water" ... made me wonder if maybe she was a shepherdess in a former life... and what does sheep sh*t in water have to do with nappy hair? LOL
Huh? LOL
ReplyDeleteMy mom loved to say I'm gonna smack you cross eyed!!!
ReplyDeleteMomma used to say, "I guess you don't believe fat meat greasy!"
ReplyDeleteROFL!!!
ReplyDeleteThe most outlandish one I heard was when my mom used to tell someone who's hair needed combing(mainly us lol) that our hair looked like rabbits had been playing football in it. The first time I heard that I bought cried LOL.
ReplyDeleteLOL. ncognegra.......my mother used to say the same thing!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the stories about your granny! I think Granny was getting her groove on too! LMAO
ReplyDeleteI'm still lost....LOL I guess I need to find an old black person to find out what it means.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA! Never heard that one.
ReplyDeleteMy granny would say our heads "looked like rats had been sucking in it". Yuck! LMAO .....even tho I still say it.
What's with all the rat/gerbil/rabbit euphemisms?! Our momma and grannies were countreeeeeeee!
ReplyDeleteMy mom is from Chicago so I have no idea how she came up with some of the ish she says!
You grandma or great grandma was probably from the country LOL
ReplyDeleteMy guess is - rodents equal nasty.
ReplyDeleteWhoomp! There it is!
ReplyDeleteI'm familiar with that one!
ReplyDeleteWait!!!
ReplyDeleteI remembered one more my granny used to say.
"I'mma beat you till you shit hickory and fart the hulls" That one used to scare the hell out of me cuz it sounded painful
Wait!!!
ReplyDeleteI remembered one more my granny used to say.
"I'mma beat you till you shit hickory and fart the hulls" That one used to scare the hell out of me cuz it sounded painful
Never heard that one.
ReplyDeleteI just thought of something else weird my grandpa used to say & I wanna see how many of y'all country folks know exactly what he was talking about.
On Saturdays, he'd say, "Dorothy, I want some of dem catheads this morning." Who knows what catheads are? *tickled just thinking about what y'all are thinking*