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Writer's Block: You Wouldn't Understand
Jan. 29th, 2009 09:55 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
When it's raining and the sun is out, my mother, grandmother, and other family members always said, "The Devil is beating his wife against the kitchen door." I have since learned this is apparently a "Southernism" depending on where you grew up...or maybe my family was weird. The first time I said it in front of Tofu (who is from Maine), he thought I was making it up myself.
Another one is, "I'd give up my milk crate seat in hell." My maternal grandfather apparently used to say this when he expressed a desire for something that is impossible to attain (world peace, things like that). I've never heard anyone else say this, and I only know of it because my mother said it was one of her favorite silly things her father said. I never knew the man as he died before I was born, so I can't really say much else.
When it's raining and the sun is out, my mother, grandmother, and other family members always said, "The Devil is beating his wife against the kitchen door." I have since learned this is apparently a "Southernism" depending on where you grew up...or maybe my family was weird. The first time I said it in front of Tofu (who is from Maine), he thought I was making it up myself.
Another one is, "I'd give up my milk crate seat in hell." My maternal grandfather apparently used to say this when he expressed a desire for something that is impossible to attain (world peace, things like that). I've never heard anyone else say this, and I only know of it because my mother said it was one of her favorite silly things her father said. I never knew the man as he died before I was born, so I can't really say much else.
