Sunday, November 21, 2010

All about "Big-busted" women! (So sue me)!

It's funny to me how some of the old "sayings" that were tossed around at an alarming rate by the older folks when we were children no longer have any real value in today's society, because our children and grandchildren most likely wouldn't have a clue as to whatever message we were trying to convey anyway. I think that this is largely due to the advanced technology in the washing machine industry, who, by modern designs and engineering, have made it nearly impossible for young housewives to "get your tit in a wringer", which was an extremely important cliche to the generation that my particular grandparent's belonged to, yet is out of date today. In the interest of "investigative reporting", I have talked about this issue with many of the local fire department volunteers, all of which assured me that they have very few calls requesting their assistance in removing a tit from a wringer. Also, in the interest of honesty and fairness, I should probably admit that I just made that last part up. This is only the "tip of the iceberg" though, when it comes to cliche's! What about "being caught between a rock and a hard place"? Try THAT one on any of today's modern, "sophisticated" youth, and they will likely immediately produce a "concerned look" (as well as an aerosol can of "pepper" spray, if they're of the female gender)! A hard rain was always a good way to get a cliche or two out of the older generation, even though some of them apparently took at least two people to say, such as grandpa Guy would always tell me that "it's raining like a tall Indian pissing on a flat rock", which would inevitably be followed by a quick and rather loud ( "Guy"!), from my grandma Irma, who preferred to refer to it as "raining cat's and dogs". Grandma Irma would also preach to us kid's that "you can't have your cake and eat it too", but that particular theory never seemed to hold up in her kitchen, largely due to the fact that she would just make us another cake. My late and "great" uncle LaVerne used basically the same technique as grandpa Guy did, though he substituted the word "Indian" with the word "cow", but probably only because he was a dairy farmer. My dad (Joe), to this day doesn't really use cliches or metaphors, but probably coined such phrases as: "don't come crying to me if you need money if you ain't working", and when at a buffet table, "take what you want, but eat what you take"! ( Dad grew up in the thirties, and internet connections were "spotty" at best, same as buffet tables)! I'm thinking that maybe there is some kind of "lesson" in what the older generation is preaching to us about, and that maybe we really SHOULD pass this type of information on down to our future generations, even if they HAVE long since taken the wringers off of washing machines. Maybe there really is a huge number of people who will only learn lessons from getting their tit in a wringer or being caught between a rock and a hard place! Is it possible that the metaphor's for a hard rain can be likened to the troubles of people who refuse to make their own lives better through their own will rather than relying on the government to do it for them? Was my grandma Irma right when she said that you can't have your cake and eat it too? Worse yet, is there really nobody to come crying to if we need money and are too lazy to work? When dad says "crazy" things, such as "take what you want, but eat what you take", is there a "hidden" message there? Who knows? Even the Holy Bible leaves a somewhat "vague" impression of this concept, stating something or other about how "we reap what we sow". Who could ever know? But just in case I would like to say a HUGE Thank you to all the people in my life (relatives or not), who have helped me to understand "life" in the way I do today! I would also especially like to thank my dad Joe, Gene Chapin, "Poss" Lorence, Pete Princ, Roy White sr., and a whole slew of resident's who took time out of their busy schedules to help raise me! Also, I would like to thank all the friend's who actually read my blog, even though it's quite clear to many of you that I "don't have all of my dog's barking"! Have a Great day, Friends!

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