Oddbean new post about login | logout @e68d8ac4 I'm lucky that I grew up in the south, and got to hear a lot of sayings that I remember to this day. And both sides of my family have a great sense of humor
@0349076e Daddy, was a physicist, I always say, mama was a 5'2 Sicilian Jew, Daddy was 6'4 and scared. Ain't no Sicilians in the world scarier than a coastal Carolina Redneck Jew.
@e68d8ac4 I have visited Sicily way back in the day, and I totally believe you. Italian mamas don't play! And you throw in the rest of it, I can see it being a day wrecker if you crossed her!
@0349076e once that lip is bit it is all over. And all but 1% of the Jews in Sicily were genocided when the pope put a moratorium on them. Our people survived living on the side of Mount Rosa, where the Derosa's are from. They survived, by pouring boiling oil down the side of the Hill on any of the raiders that tried to siege them. And as soon as their sailors could get off the island, they came to the New World, you got pockets of Sicilians, in places like Tabor City, North Carolina.
@e68d8ac4 So she comes from a long line of badasses. Didn't no sissies survive that
@0349076e @e68d8ac4 one of my favorites was my great Aunt's. "Hauntie" we called her. "You use it up. You wear it out. You make do, or you do without.". She was shocked I had never heard it before. It was common in WW2.
@f1866aef @0349076e one of my favorites was I'll give you something to cry about.
@e68d8ac4 @f1866aef I heard that a LOT when I was young. F'ed around and found out! Learned to not to talk back real quick!
@0349076e @f1866aef you best be seen and not heard.
@e68d8ac4 @f1866aef Amen! At least until you got bigger than her! And could out run her! That didn't last too long when my dad showed me that I could fly, but for only short distances
@0349076e @f1866aef it is impossible to outrun a shoe that can be thrown around the corner, with deadly accuracy. And do you think I'm some kind of fool? Do you think in any way I would have challenged her? You were sadly mistaken sir!