How bout "I double dog dare ya"? Now just what is a double dog? Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Black" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Red River Dialect > He warnt no bigger than a washin' of soap. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "worley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:34 PM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Red River Dialect > > > How about...'plumb tuckered out'? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John at Cox" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:50 AM > Subject: [TXREDRIV] Red River Dialect > > > > Enjoyed reading about tow sacks, bar ditches, poke, et cetera. > I > wonder if list members can't supply a lot of other good examples of our > parents' "folk language" that we genealogists should preserve. such as > "go > butt a stump" for "go to H___," "fine as frog hair," "useless as > hip-pockets > on a hog," "mama-sow mean," "sucking on hind teat," and such. > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > > ============================== > > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and > the > > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >