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In reply to the discussion: Phrases you don't hear anymore: [View all]jmowreader
(51,589 posts)145. That was one of my dad's favorites too
He also liked "shit in one hand and wish in the other, and see which one fills up first."
Also "I'm so hungry I'd eat a skunk's ass."
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Holy cow. Never understood it but but always thought cows somehow deserved a phrase like that.
dgauss
Yesterday
#8
I sold my Grand Baroque patterned sterling silver set I inherited from my mother. Nodody polishes silver any more.
CTyankee
Yesterday
#81
Tons of ranching and agriculture in CA, so it would make sense they'd use it too,
lark
9 hrs ago
#140
Some I wish I never heard again like "My Bad", calling a movie a "Flick", "Dude"
doc03
Yesterday
#32
Land o' Goshen! ... and "Republicans are the party of fiscal reasonability"
JohnnyRingo
Yesterday
#36
In college in the late sixties we actually made fun of ourselves by saying "farm out" and "out of state".....
EarnestPutz
22 hrs ago
#122
There's one I wish would go away, well a few, but " threw up in my mouth a little" takes the cake, so to speak.
yorkster
Yesterday
#63
I have a neighbor that had a previous dog before it succumbed to an age related illness
Niagara
6 hrs ago
#146