Re: OT Sayings from Times Past

Posted by JerryS on January 08, 2013 at 12:19:26 from (98.80.102.132):

In Reply to: OT Sayings from Times Past posted by John B. on January 08, 2013 at 09:14:29:

"Hungry (or irritable) as a b***h wolf with nine suckin' pups."

Now here's one you've never heard before:

"That boy's got more sense than a runaway n****r."

Before anyone gets offended and starts pounding me with the PC stick, let me explain. When I was a young boy in the late 40s I was attending a funeral at our little country church. An old black man in his late 70s or early 80s drove up in his wagon and team to pay respect to the deceased. Louis Alexander was his name; everybody called him "Louis Alec", for short.

I, my dad and a couple of other men went out to the wagon to chat with the old man. My dad was recounting a tale about something clever I had done; Louis Alec reared back in his wagon seat and gave a hearty guffaw and responded with the line above. I've never heard it since (and don't expect to). It obviously had common use with him and his people, and its origins were obvious and authentic, as the old man was either born a slave himself or was the son of slave parents.

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