Reply #131: "Not worth the powder it would take to blow him to Hell"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

My good ole gal East Texas mom. Had four years of college. Her parents came from Mississippi.

"Couldn't find his ass with both hands and a Ouija Board" :rofl:

"The world's in a melluva hess" --my grandmother who would not say hell or damn, and said "I suwanee" instead of "I swear". Stupid.

My dad, being a Damnyankee, from NE Ohio, taught me the term "Marble orchard" (cemetery) :rofl:
And "he got euchred" which meant swindled. I take it that euchre is a card game.

"Many a mickle makes a muckle" --never figured that one out. Irish maybe??

"some things are like makin' love to a widow -- you can't overdo it". (He must have had experience in that department)
"That preacher was dumb - had a toilet seat cut in half" :rofl:

"If they ever gave the world an enema, they'd insert it in Indiana Harbor" He said this after living there during Prohibition, and there were fresh bodies in the ditches from the gun battles between the bootleggers every morning.

Mom's advice: Men are like buses, there's always another one coming down the road.
Anybody can get a boyfriend. Any woman. There are lots of things worse than not having a boyfriend.