Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 01, 2024

Foghorn Leghorn accent.

“I’ll bet you a dollar to doughnuts”

I inadvertently have uttered discouraging words in front of my grandkids. One of my tasks when our ten year old granddaughter was in grammar school was to pick her up and bring her to our house after school. While driving home a car suddenly drove on the wrong side and passed us on the right just missing us. I yelled, “What a jack*ss” very loudly. Granddaughter was shocked and told me not to swear. I explained that the word means a boy donkey, nothing more. Next week I was on a business trip returning from another state on a Friday night and I was very tired and beat waiting for my flight home. I got a cell phone call and I heard on the phone, “Hello jack*ss!”. It was my granddaughter telling me that she and grandma will pick me up at airport. That greeting immediately cheered me up.

Each generation has it’s own slang ;-)

“‘Ah tell yew whut…!!!’ – that’s a complete sentence in Texas.” – Bill Engvall

Plugger’s have a lot of sayings the younger generation have no clue as to their meaning. And I keep reading these articles by some whipper-snapper telling me I need to stop saying them. Well, I say “Take a long walk on a shiort pier!”

""At dog won’t hunt" has been heard a lot around Pittsburgh.

Some parts of Central Texas and Southern Louisiana, the locals DO speak their own language – Texas German and Louisiana Cajun French.

If that raccoon won’t fly, the spring won’t flow and the deer won’t hie. So’s your old man.

Discussions like this always remind me of a joke from the 20’s:

Grandmother to grandson: “There are two words I don’t want to hear you saying, one is lousy and the other is swell.”

Grandson: " Sure grams, what are the two words?"

I had to have it explained to me.

Back in the 60s you could get a large glazed donut at a real bakery for $.07, of course that would be about $.70 in 2024 $.

Pluggers have been known to babble incoherently.

oh, malarkey… ☺

Sock it to me!

My best friend told me one…" The cheese slid off his cracker." Loved it!

There are 2 I remember, from being stationed in Louisiana…“Shore as the world,” and “Ah guar-on-tee (thank you, Justin Wilson!).”