- stump jumper: hick, one who lives '"up the line" (other side of the tracks). interestingly, my grandfather worked for decades in the coal mines, and called my father a stump jumper, although he was the son of a dentist.
- "20 miles of bad road": some one with a bad complexion, with pimples, pock marks etc.
- "going to New York": getting pregnant. one of the challenges of these sayings is finding out where the hell they came from, their derivation. guess that's a further project
- "fell off the roof"; getting your period (women obviously).
- "map of Ireland written all over his face": very Irish looking.
- do your "job": to crap. when i was young, my mother used to ask if i had a job to do. so when i got older and heard people desperate for jobs, wanting jobs, looking for jobs etc i thought it was hilarious. . i thought a job was a piece of shit, literally
as was said before, as you can see some of the above seem to be Irish in flavor, some more local/folk i suppose. again really want them to be captured before they're gone--no one seem to use them anywhere.
The jobs thing is hilarious. Well, I guess America needs an enema...as constipated as we are. She's going to NY is great.
ReplyDeletethanks man appreciate it again. note i wrote about otb recently. miss it already
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