May 20, 2025 • 34 mins
Step into the Rabbit Hole Studio where mother-daughter duo Jane and Bobbi Joy unravel the strange, confusing, and often hilariously misunderstood world of common sayings and phrases. Their generational perspectives create a perfect backdrop for exploring how language evolves, confuses, and connects us.
The conversation weaves through regional peculiarities (like Midwesterners giving directions based on restaurant locations), commonly butchered expressions ("for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes"), and generation-specific slang that leaves the other bewildered. Jane and Bobbi's natural rapport shines as they playfully tease each other while sharing linguistic pet peeves and favorite expressions.
Whether you're a language lover, someone who appreciates intergenerational perspectives, or simply enjoy authentic, entertaining conversation, this episode delivers thoughtful insights wrapped in humor and warmth. Listen now to discover the surprising origins behind everyday phrases and maybe pick up some new expressions to confuse your friends and family!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
welcome everyone to today's show.
A boomer and a gen x arewalking to a bar, coming to you
from the rabbit hole studio,where you, as our listener, will
experience some wit and wisdom,some smart assery and a mother
and daughter questioning.
Are we even related?
My name is bobbi Joy and myco-host is my mom, jane, and we
(00:26):
are here to entertain for alittle while.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, bobbi.
Hello, how's it going downthere at the other end of the
studio?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's going good, other than I have a feeling my
back's going to hurt fromcarrying this show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh, Well, at least you'll know what it feels like.
You know Buck up put that braceon here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a give and take.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, since you think you're going to be carrying it,
what is our topic today, bobby?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So our topic?
Well, I guess I don't reallyknow what the topic is, but the
content is going to be sayingsand phrases.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Sayings and phrases.
Okay.
So weird ones, strange, strangeones, ones that we use commonly
that ones that we kind ofmisuse.
Why are we using?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
that, yeah, and ones that people misuse, because
there's a lot of that goingaround lately and that just
grinds my gears that they do notknow what that means, nor do
they know what the word thatthey just used means.
Well, not only that, they'rejust, they're saying it wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
They're saying it wrong Like come on Well let's
talk about what we're talkingabout, then I'll let you start.
You got one that you had inmind.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'll start out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I've said some pretty weird stuff in my lifetime, so
let's see what you got.
Well, you know the dementia.
See if it shows up on my list.
Yeah, dementia's coming.
Okay, easy there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Buckwheat.
So I'm going to start out hardand fast right here.
I'm going to start out with mywildest one and I'm going to see
if you know what it means.
Okay, oh gosh, this ought to.
That'd be interesting.
Do you know what it means whensomeone is pushing someone to
the store?
Pushing someone to the store DrDomain might know this, sorry,
(02:09):
he's been a Southerner for alittle while now.
But do you know what it meansto push someone to the store?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Does that mean to push someone to their limit?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
No, cover your ears, kids.
It means having sex withsomebody.
What?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Pushing someone to the store?
Yeah, he's pushing her to thestore.
Did you know that?
You did he did.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
yes, oh my goodness.
I've never heard it before.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I've never heard that before.
You've never heard that no.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's crazy.
I'm polite around you.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You're polite around me he's polite around you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're polite around me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I've heard his jokes Otherwise on the street.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Trash mouth.
That's so great.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And there's a couple.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You know that we, you and I, had talked about in text
Because I had made A post onour Facebook page and I said
what the heck does that mean?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't even get it.
You did.
Do you remember what it said?
I thought you used the wrong,the wrong word.
Do you remember what it said?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Like something about pushing your chest or no saying
something with your whole chestwith your whole chest, yeah, yep
, okay, and that means, and thatmeans saying something you're a
hundred percent behind, likeyou're going to say it with 100%
confidence, you're going tobelt it out there and you're not
going to apologize for it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You got your chest pumped up, you're all out there
and you're going to go with it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, I get that.
I, you know, mine are reallyold though.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, like she's the bee's knees, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
How did you know that ?
Are you looking at my computer?
How did you know that?
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It means that she's just great.
Oh my gosh, she's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
She's the greatest.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I like her.
I like her and one that youknow your mother and father Used
to use was the old Knee high toa grasshopper.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't even know what that one means.
It just means a little Littlething.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Usually referring to kids and not, you know, just
little people.
Oh see, I went with dwarves,you went with grasshoppers.
We're not the same.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So what about it's like herding kittens.
Oh yeah, see, I went withdwarves, you went with
grasshoppers.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
We're not the same, so what?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
about.
It's like herding kittens.
Oh yeah, yeah, I use that a lot.
It's like herding kittens, youknow.
That's when it's a tough job todo because everybody's going
every which way, or the squeakywheel gets the grease.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, what's that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That means that the one that's the loudest and the
one is the most obnoxioususually gets the most attention
I've tried this one on you andyou just this goes in one ear
and out the other, or else itgoes right over your head and
shaves it sometimes that's why Iwear, that's why I wear a hat
with my bill up, so I can catchthose you'll catch more flies
with honey than vinegar sister.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah and, and my twist on that is you catch more
flies with honey than with shit.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So is that really true?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't know, yeah, I mean they, they really like the
poop, but they really love thathoney, yeah okay, yeah, so, um,
I you know we should havelooked up where these actually
came from well originated thembecause some of them are super,
super old but, honestly, youreally think that they're going
to be honest about where theycame from?
(05:36):
I mean, these phrases have beenpassed around for generations
and I mean, who really, whoknows where these things?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
unless it's a biblical phrase, you're not
really gonna get where, whereit's coming from so I remember
using this one and, of course,you know you've already inferred
that I beat you kids, which youknow inferred.
You know it's like okay well,that's out in the open.
But you know a beat.
Every single one of you GenXers think that you were beat to
(06:08):
death, so go with that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I mean, you killed me once, but you woke me back up.
It's fine, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
die, but did you die?
But did you die, but did youdie?
One that I always used with youkids was I brought you into
this world, I will take you out.
I will have another one andname it the same.
No one will ever know, yep.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So, yeah, I did use that one quite a bit, oh, like
daily with me and my sister.
But I mean, honestly, what areyou to do?
What are you going to do withus?
How about as the crow flies?
That's an old one.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That is an old one, or up around the bend.
You know I I still use those.
I mean, I say up around thebend, or I say up up the road a
piece.
And you know, dr domain knows Iuse that because every time I
do he's like, oh my gosh, she issuch a hillbilly redneck.
I think that's what he thinksbecause he looks at me like but
(07:07):
I do Because we used to use itas kids.
We're going up the road a piece, or we're going around the bend
.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and that's a big Midwest thing and I actually
did look that up.
It is a Midwestern thing.
We measure distance in timerather than in actual distance.
So we're talking down the roadlittle ways away, few hours away
.
We don't say, oh, it's 400miles away.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We say I take you a few hours, but that's like in,
and I don't know how everybodyelse is, but here in the midwest
we give our directions based onour food location, so it isn't
go two miles down the road andturn north or anything like no,
we don't use go down the roaduntil you see the mcdonald's.
Keep on going another shortdistance and then you're gonna
(07:57):
see the taco bell and you'regonna turn left at the taco bell
now once you turn left at thetaco bell, keep, keep going
until you get to the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Casey's store, the third Casey's in town.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Everything for us in the Midwest is directional based
on the food location.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Or the sideshows as I call them, like hey, you go
down the road, you see this bigwhite cow on a post, you're
going to take a right, and then,when you get, down to the horse
with only three post, you'regoing to take a right and then,
when you get down to the horsewith only three legs, you want
to take a left, and then you'regoing to go down to where old ed
used to live.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now that house torn down now, but that's where he
used to live and, uh, you'regoing to turn, turn right there
and then go down to his cousin'splace.
The tractor's parked out in thefront yard, so you'll be sure
to see that.
Um, you know, I got to tell youthis story, though, because we
were kind of city folk right.
(08:51):
Um, until I was country you, me, your sister, oh yeah yeah, so
for a little bit until I wascountryfied.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right I grew up out in the country so to doctor
domain cityfain, Countryfied,then cityfied and then
countryfied again.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We did work for some farmers when we used to walk
beans or we would do tassel cornor we'd throw hay, or sometimes
we had to muck barns, thingslike that.
But I remember that when I wasliving on the farm and I moved
to the farm, initially being acity girl for quite some time
(09:27):
during that, you know, beforethat I was told to you know, go
to this location to picksomebody up because they were
done farming for the day, andyou move from farm to farm right
throughout the day.
And I said, well, what's theaddress?
And he said you know, go downhere to the second road, you
know the second gravel road, andthen you're going to go two and
(09:49):
a half miles and then you'regoing to turn left or turn north
and then you're going to end.
Everything was in miles.
And I said just tell me theaddress.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There is no address.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now I got to tell you I truly thought everything had
a like an address.
Right now they have locationnumbers, which is your range, um
, township, right range, section, that sort of thing.
Everyone but who's gonna lookthat up did.
I said, well, just give me theaddress.
And it was like are you anidiot?
(10:26):
There is no address.
And one thing that people wouldrealize about Iowa, which is
different down in Georgiaespecially, or down in some of
the southern states, is ourmiles are pretty straight and
everything is sectioned off bymiles.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes, and so that's kind of you got a country mile
and you got a city mile and theyare different, they're
different, but they they'retypically kind of a straight
shot.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, now you go a mile in georgia and that's going
to be a windy road that, youknow, goes back in the hills and
down the hills and that sort ofthing, and it's a lot different
.
You know, it's a lot differentthan a straight shot.
But anyway, I just had to tellyou that story because I thought
it was funny so here's one.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Here's one that can actually be traced back.
Bite the bullet?
Oh, that must be for pain.
It is.
Yeah, it is because they wouldhave them bite on a bullet for
pain because, you know, backduring the civil war and things
like that, they didn't haveenough pain medication to go
around, they didn't have theproper pain medication and a lot
of times, if they got hit by,say, cannon fire, they had very
(11:29):
little time to get that limbtaken off in order to save a
life, and so they would havethem bite a bullet you know what
I had.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So I had seen a documentary about that and you
know, of course, they use a lotof alcohol.
You know, give it to people andsay, take this drink, and you
know, of course, they use a lotof alcohol.
You know, give it to people andsay, take this drink, and you
know, shut up right um, but oneof the things that actually
killed people wasn't the injuryitself, it was the infection.
It was the infection from thefact that they didn't wash their
you know their, their- theirtools, their tools, whatever
(12:02):
they were their hands, theirtools they didn't have time for
that, and so those, thosehospitals that did that did have
the water supplies available.
They weren't using fresh waterfor every patient.
No, we're just bringing bowlsof water, big bowl.
They'd swish it around a littlebit and then they would go back
, and so a lot of people werereally just dying from gangrene,
(12:24):
they were dying from infections, they were seps, and so a lot
of people were really just dyingfrom gangrene.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They were dying from infections, sepsis, things like
that.
Yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And so it was quite interesting how that happened.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So was there a saying coming to this Like wash your
hands or get gangrene?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, that was the bite , the bullet thing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, it was just a lesson in hygiene.
You might want to try to keepup.
She wandered.
It was just a lesson in hygiene.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You might want to try to keep up.
She wandered.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She wandered, George.
I tried to pull her in.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, get back on topic.
Okay, okay, give her so muchrope.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So, here's one.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You guys are what?
Here's one, and this is goingto lead to something else.
Quit poking around and hurry up.
Or have you ever heard someonesaying you're?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
rooting around down there.
You know, I thought after thesex worker one that we were not
going to be like broaching thistopic here and here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
They're just rooting around down there, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Why does all of these sound like an ambulance at this
point?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I can't help it.
I can't help it, okay, okay,okay.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Let's bring it back to a more pure nature here.
Okay, let's bring it back to amore pure nature here, and so I
have a few that are actuallyaimed more towards you.
Oh my gosh, they're more ofscripture, sayings or sayings
that came out of scripture.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Are you ready?
I'm ready, sister.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All right.
So let me see if you know thisone Speak of the devil and he
shall come.
Psalms See, I can't play thisgame with you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is it Dr Domain I?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
can't play this Dr Domain, he ain't in this.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, he knows the Bible better than anybody.
I know, I know, I think that'sin Psalms.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, it sounds like it's in Psalms, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yep, and another one is better the devil that you
know than the devil that youdon't.
You know that almost soundslike it's in um joe maybe.
Oh, that could be, I don't havethat one written down?
I didn't actually go into that.
But you know these are justones that came from from
scripture readings and thingslike that around with you get
(14:38):
what you're asking for well, andit is.
It's the you know better thedevil that you know than the one
.
You don't.
Better to be in a shittysituation that you already know
about than to.
You don't better to be in ashitty situation that you
already know about than to takethat step, or?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
to be dealing with someone that you know exactly
perfect stranger that you don'tknow they're exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You don't know their intentions, yeah, or the here's
one that people often just stopat.
So I've got a few that peoplestop at and they don't actually
know the entire phrase, so theyuse it wrong.
Okay, curiosity killed the cat.
Do you know the rest of thatone?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Let me think this could take a while.
We don't have all that time.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Go ahead then.
Curiosity killed the cat, butsatisfaction brought it back.
Oh, Now these are ones thatpeople I mean they stop before
they really get to it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's one that made me go.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Hmm, yeah, yep and people say, you know, curiosity
killed the cat as a way to getyou to, to not be curious, to
not take that step forward, tonot, you know, dig into
something if you don't have but,satisfaction brought it back.
they keep cutting that outbecause they don't want you to
know that.
Yeah, how about this one?
I know you know this one.
Blood is thicker than water.
(15:52):
Yeah, that's one that's usedwrong all the time.
Do you know the entire sayingno, go ahead.
The blood of the covenant isthicker than the water of the
womb?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yes, I, I just had a lot of people, a lot of people
use this.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
As you know, blood is thicker than water.
Saying that you know you shouldalways have family, you should
always back your family, yourfamily's, everything they don't
know the full saying, becausethat is not what it's saying
that is not what it's saying atall.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
no, that's a.
That's a good one, bobby, yeah,I, I didn't know the rest.
I mean I remember that one nowthat you say it, yeah, but the
other ones I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
What do you got Dr Domain?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Well, I don't think that's too far off, though.
What do you mean?
I mean the way that it's usedbiblically and the to touch that
switch over there.
What would you tell me to do tomake the lights come on?
What would you say go?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
flip that switch or hey google shut off the light
what you would say turn it onright yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, what I typically heardown south is cut that on or cut
it off.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, that's a big one, or
maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
could.
Maybe could they use, maybecould a lot, maybe should.
Yeah, we're going to go down.
Maybe, could come on over latertonight.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I should Honestly I should have spent more time
thinking about it, because wedid live in the South and we
lived right along the Louisianaand Arkansas border.
Yeah, now let me tell you what.
Those are two totally differentworlds when it comes to people
and how they speak and what theysay, because Louisiana is a
(17:42):
huge Creole community andArkansas is more just basic
southern.
I don't know what else to sayin texas is just texas.
Yeah, so I mean it was.
It was a blend of things downthere and and yeah, there was a
lot of stuff to learn about howpeople were talking sometimes
somebody will say something.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have to stand there for a minute and go.
What did that just mean?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
what were you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
yeah, what were you gonna say dr domain?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I was just saying I mean, there's a lot of phrases
down south that probably don'tmake their way up north, but uh,
like you're, you're in talk,like we're in tall cotton yeah,
yeah that's.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's a popular one, yeah it'd be, tall corn here, I
guess, yeah, it's tall weedsand my dad.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
My dad was a master of slaughtering the english
language.
I had a 78 um pinto.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, it was a fine automobile it was a station
wagon, it was even rare.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was rare and the station wagon had a luggage rack
on it.
It's pretty that was.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It was a chick magnet .
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh yeah, and I came home and it was smoking and the
belt was off it and I was alltore up and dad looked at it and
he always said this whensomething didn't look right.
And he goes and I never hearanyone else say this but my dad
and he says hmm, that doesn'tturn queer and ate itself.
I've heard that, unfortunately,have.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I don't hear it too much, but that was his, that was
his way of saying I thinkthat's a that's a time thing too
, because they're they're not soapt to say things like that up
here anymore, because you know,you know well, because they dig
it too literally yes instead oflaughing at yourself and
laughing at what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But your dad.
I think we butchered thelanguage too oh yeah,
misconstrued things, but yourdad used to.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Your dad had a saying too, that that you shared with
me and I now use on a regularbasis, and that is like when
we're talking about parts of thebody, like I've had a new hip.
My knee hurts, you know, I playpickleball still I'm.
I'm as active as I can be, andso is dr domain and people have
(19:58):
is that the phrase he uses?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
no, oh nice suitors.
Is that the one?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
nice he ain't talking about the owls oh yeah no no um
, if you got it no, that's notno
Speaker 2 (20:12):
your dad never said that to me no, you say that
stuff to me all the time, thatthose are dr domain's sayings,
that he says to me all the time.
But no, I you know.
People have said to me when areyou going to slow down?
I mean, you know you're gettingup there in age and I have said
I'd rather wear it out thanrust it out.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I want to keep moving .
I want it to wear out.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So you know one that really annoys me, and I had an
ex that used it all the time andit was just.
It was basically his monikerfor bad behavior.
It all the time and it was just, it was basically his moniker
for bad behavior and it was theit's better to ask forgiveness
than permission.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, that drives me nuts.
Oh man, it works.
It works well, especially inbusiness.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It might work, I mean it might work but, oh man, I
just wanted to elbow drop himevery time he said that well
there's, I think, the where theworst phrases come from are in
the corporate world.
The stupidest, dumbest thingscome out of boardrooms yes, and
it were like well, this isn'tnecessarily at work, but I hear
(21:18):
this a lot.
To be honest with you, what thehell?
So you weren't honest with mebefore?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
yeah, so you're suggesting that yeah I shouldn't
have trusted anything you saidyeah up to that point.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh, to be honest with you, okay, you know that's the
thing that um law enforcementuses in order to suss out when
they're doing interviews withpeople.
If they say well, honestly,well, truthfully, well, I'm
gonna be honest with you.
Yeah, they know they're full ofshit, right there, immediately,
immediately.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
One of the other corporate things is we'll take
this offline.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, we'll put that in the parking lot.
Yeah, we'll put that in theparking lot.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And it's like you brought it up and now, all of a
sudden, we're going to take thisoffline.
No, what's in here?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They don't want the confrontation.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
See, my favorite corporate one is when I look at
them and say in a meeting, Ilook at them and say this could
have been an email.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, this could have been a text message to me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Or it is what it is.
What kind of stupid ass doubletalk is that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I say it all the time it is what it is.
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's meaningless.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's kind of a moniker.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I.
If you think about it, it'smeaningless.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, no, it's kind of a moniker.
I am who I am.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
People have given up.
I am who I am.
It is what it is.
It's like take it or leave it,you know.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It basically means you can't do nothing about it.
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There's another one strike while the iron's hot,
which I do, like that, yeah.
Or along those same lines is,if you're going to eat crow, eat
it while it's hot, yeah.
So you know, if you made amistake and you have to eat crow
, Own up to it.
Right away.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Eat it while it's hot , right away.
What are?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
the best times to eat pie.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is when pie is served when it's served.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I'd rather have pie than crow.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's like a double entendre.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Have you ever heard a double entendre?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
bobby, you know the fact that you even said that
phrase.
Do you even know what thatmeans?
I do.
It means a phrase that has twomeanings.
So it could mean one thing andthen, but it could also have,
like a, an undertone of ameaning did you look that up
before?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I did not actually, I went to college for something
there's a saying out there thatsays don't buy a pig and a poke.
What's that mean?
Don't buy a pig in a poke?
What's that mean?
Don't buy a?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
pig in a poke don't buy a pig in a poke.
Pig in a poke is a pig in a cow, ain't it?
Pig in a poke, oh, in a pokenot.
And a poke, no.
Pig in a poke, oh, don't buy apig.
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's really foolishly accepting something or buying
something without examining itand doing your due diligence
first.
Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Oh like like without, without,without seeing it without seeing
it, without investigating, youknow, and sometimes you know
it's if you know it sounds toogood to be true, right?
So like?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
like these people who do the online dating and have
never met in real life, and thenall of a sudden they want to
fly them in from overseas andsay I want to marry you the
first day you get here.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I've been online with them for three years and I've
sent them $30,000.
And 14 times they were supposedto buy a plane ticket with it,
but their mother died twice.
Their grandmother had kneesurgery 14 times, and their dad
made by five cars.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, like get over it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
My car broke down.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, so let's move into uh phrases like people use
wrong versus what they actuallyare.
Now I know I kind of touched onthat.
So people will say for allintensive purposes.
I know Now these are phraseswhere I just look at them for a
second because my mind is goingdid I just hear what I think I
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heard?
And then at the same time it'sgoing they can't be this dumb.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I've heard it was really intensive.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was intensive, yeah, it was a purpose it's for
all intents and purposes, say itwith me, folks, come on.
Another one is I could careless, I couldn't care less.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yes, I couldn't care less.
Thank you I hate that.
Why can't you care less, thoughI could.
But that's not the intent.
That's what you're inferringyeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But no, that's not what they're inferring, that's
not what they're trying to say.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Irregardless.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think Irregardless drives me nuts.
Oh my goodness, I'll use it onpurpose.
Just piss people off, youeither mean irrespective or
something regardless.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Because if it's irregardless, regardless is to
the contrary, Irregardless,Correct.
Because if it's irregardless,regardless is to the contrary.
And now you're back 360, youknow 380.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now this one's used in the opposite way and it's
used on the news every night.
I swear to God and I just wantto come through the TV and smack
somebody.
Near miss versus near hit.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, you know, that's an old industry term.
We used it too and I used tosay you know, let me explain
what a near miss is.
It's a near hit.
They almost got you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, but they're like oh
well, it was a near hit andthey're not meaning exactly what
they think they're saying.
Or oh, it was a near miss onthis and you know okay.
Well then, that means that theyhit it Right.
That does not mean that theymissed it Right, and it's
constantly used incorrectly itis.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's been used in the industry occupational.
You know incidents for yearsand years, and years and I
always tried to fight that.
Let me tell you what a nearmiss actually is.
It's a near hit.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, drives me nuts.
Yeah, how about nip it in thebutt?
I got my butt nipped.
Nip it in the butt.
It's nipping in the bud.
Bud, bud, not butt.
How about this one Doggy dogworld?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh my gosh Folks, it's dog eat dog world yeah.
Isn't that the?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
saying it's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk
bone underwear or something likethat.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
God, I've never heard that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But thank you for sharing Now we're going to be
thinking about.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Now, if anybody ever says that again, we're going to
be thinking of dog boneunderwear Forever.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's seared into my mind, thank you.
I would like some unsee eyedrops, thank you.
How about beck and call beckand call yeah, yeah, yeah.
How about taking something forgranite?
Where are we on rock world?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
no, we want quartz, instead we want quartz.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We're, we're on, we're on granite world.
It's taking something forgranted and enunciate please,
yes, or this one's my favoritebutt naked, butt naked, it's
buck naked, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Actually Dr Domain.
You could do an advertisementhere.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
We don't have video, I can't do that Don't say
advertisement.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I can't say advertisement.
So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The kids drive me nuts because there are certain
words that I say differentlythan people here say One of
them's advertisement, I don'tsay advertisement, I say
advertisement.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I do too.
You got that from me I sayaluminum foil.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't say that, I do Dr Domain.
Does Aluminum?
No, it's aluminum.
Sound it out Aluminum.
No, it's aluminium.
Sound it out.
It's zebra.
It is not a zebra, it is ZedZebra.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So you say W-X-Y, zed , zed, that's what they say in
New Zealand, is it tomato ortomato?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I say tomato.
I really don't eat it, so Idon't care.
I say tomato.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Potato or potato I say potato.
Is it aunt or aunt?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I say potato, I say aunt, aunt, I say aunt.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Aunt Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Is it Neither or either?
Oh very good, or neither orneither.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's like saying Is it Anionize or unionize?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I say but what do you say that's not?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
even close, do you?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
say either or either, either.
See, I say either and neitherneither, neither is it I say
neither, but I say either is itcouch or davenport?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
okay, no, let me tell you a story about this.
My grandmother, god rest hersoul my mother's.
That was her word Davenport.
It was a Davenport and for thefirst 10 years of my life I
didn't know what the hell aDavenport was or where she was
telling me to sit.
I was confused.
I was standing and living.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
She's like sit on the Davenport.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm like I don't know what that is.
She was afraid to ask, I wasafraid to ask, so I just stand
there Like what am I supposed todo?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I'm okay, grandma, I'll just stand.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Is it a radiator or a radiator?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Radiator.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Is it a water fountain or a bubbler?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
A water fountain.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is it an eraser or a rubber?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
A racer or a rubber.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
talking about a condom.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, like an eraser on your.
Oh, I would say eraser.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
No one would say rubber out here.
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That has a whole different connotation now.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, that's why I was confused.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No one says prophylactic, they say rubbers.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I say condom.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh, yeah, or condom.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay, so let's finish this.
Did you say myom?
Oh yeah, I wear condoms, jeez.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Okay, so let's finish this.
Do you say my darling, or?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
yo get over here no.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
answer that one I didn't.
Do you say baby or boo?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I say daddy, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, my God Looking for a daddy for me, not my kids
you started this, oh, okay solet's let's end it with.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I'm gonna give you four words that are now used,
and I want to know if you knowhow to use them all.
All right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So number one no cap that would be no hat, no, no,
what is it?
No cap.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Okay, you're going to have to ask your grandson about
these ones, because I'm notallowed to say what they are.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No cap.
Is it dirty?
No, it's not dirty.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
This is stuff the kids are using nowadays, short
for capacity.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
No cap capacity?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no limit,no, comprende, no, yeah, you
know, comprende.
All right, excuse me, gusta,por favor.
Are you calling me a porkywhore?
What did you just say?
Okay, here's the next one riz.
What's it mean?
No, what's no cap means like nolie.
No, you know no joke type ofthing.
How about riz?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I, I heard this the other day and I thought about it
and it made sense um no, no, no, no, just riz, yeah, no, yeah
riz.
Uh, like you gotta show themthe riz you gotta show them or,
as cory does it, riz them withthe tism you gotta show them, or
, as cory does it, rhythm withthe tism.
You gotta show them the bling,bling you gotta show them the
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money charisma, the whatcharisma.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh okay, show them, there is, yeah okay, like rhythm
, like rhythm up, you know, showthem okay yeah, okay, I'm I, so
far, I'm, I'm zero.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh for, oh or okay, how about flex?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I use this one, you should know this one like wow,
that's, you know, nice flex orso that's okay.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Is that muscle, or is it not flexing your?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
like flexing your word power, flexing what you're
trying to say.
That's kind of the same thing,kind of being boisterous not
really it's like.
It's like showing them that youknow what you're talking about
Like I would say weird flex dudeif he was coming up like oh
well, I have, you know, a 95pinto, or I guess.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I'd be like wow, weird flex.
I think she just called you out.
Dr, Domain on your pinto, butit is.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It's to like flex something at somebody to try to
impress them.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Like weird flex bro, Okay you know All right.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
How about Delulu?
I have no idea.
I've never even heard thatDelusional Like that girl be
Delulu, yeah, it's delusional,because nobody can actually say
or spell delusional these days.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Okay, well, I think that's probably all we have for
today.
Bobby, we appreciate everybodyjoining us here at the Rabbit
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Peace out later.
welcome everyone to today's show.
A boomer and a gen x arewalking to a bar, coming to you
from the rabbit hole studio,where you, as our listener, will
experience some wit and wisdom,some smart assery and a mother
and daughter questioning.
Are we even related?
My name is bobbi Joy and myco-host is my mom, jane, and we
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are here to entertain for alittle while.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, bobbi.
Hello, how's it going downthere at the other end of the
studio?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's going good, other than I have a feeling my
back's going to hurt fromcarrying this show.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh, Well, at least you'll know what it feels like.
You know Buck up put that braceon here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a give and take.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, since you think you're going to be carrying it,
what is our topic today, bobby?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So our topic?
Well, I guess I don't reallyknow what the topic is, but the
content is going to be sayingsand phrases.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Sayings and phrases.
Okay.
So weird ones, strange, strangeones, ones that we use commonly
that ones that we kind ofmisuse.
Why are we using?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
that, yeah, and ones that people misuse, because
there's a lot of that goingaround lately and that just
grinds my gears that they do notknow what that means, nor do
they know what the word thatthey just used means.
Well, not only that, they'rejust, they're saying it wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
They're saying it wrong Like come on Well let's
talk about what we're talkingabout, then I'll let you start.
You got one that you had inmind.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I'll start out.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I've said some pretty weird stuff in my lifetime, so
let's see what you got.
Well, you know the dementia.
See if it shows up on my list.
Yeah, dementia's coming.
Okay, easy there.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Buckwheat.
So I'm going to start out hardand fast right here.
I'm going to start out with mywildest one and I'm going to see
if you know what it means.
Okay, oh gosh, this ought to.
That'd be interesting.
Do you know what it means whensomeone is pushing someone to
the store?
Pushing someone to the store DrDomain might know this, sorry,
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he's been a Southerner for alittle while now.
But do you know what it meansto push someone to the store?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Does that mean to push someone to their limit?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
No, cover your ears, kids.
It means having sex withsomebody.
What?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Pushing someone to the store?
Yeah, he's pushing her to thestore.
Did you know that?
You did he did.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
yes, oh my goodness.
I've never heard it before.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I've never heard that before.
You've never heard that no.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's crazy.
I'm polite around you.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You're polite around me he's polite around you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're polite around me.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I've heard his jokes Otherwise on the street.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Trash mouth.
That's so great.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
And there's a couple.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You know that we, you and I, had talked about in text
Because I had made A post onour Facebook page and I said
what the heck does that mean?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't even get it.
You did.
Do you remember what it said?
I thought you used the wrong,the wrong word.
Do you remember what it said?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Like something about pushing your chest or no saying
something with your whole chestwith your whole chest, yeah, yep
, okay, and that means, and thatmeans saying something you're a
hundred percent behind, likeyou're going to say it with 100%
confidence, you're going tobelt it out there and you're not
going to apologize for it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You got your chest pumped up, you're all out there
and you're going to go with it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, I get that.
I, you know, mine are reallyold though.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Okay, like she's the bee's knees, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
How did you know that ?
Are you looking at my computer?
How did you know that?
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It means that she's just great.
Oh my gosh, she's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
She's the greatest.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I like her.
I like her and one that youknow your mother and father Used
to use was the old Knee high toa grasshopper.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I don't even know what that one means.
It just means a little Littlething.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Usually referring to kids and not, you know, just
little people.
Oh see, I went with dwarves,you went with grasshoppers.
We're not the same.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
So what about it's like herding kittens.
Oh yeah, see, I went withdwarves, you went with
grasshoppers.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
We're not the same, so what?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
about.
It's like herding kittens.
Oh yeah, yeah, I use that a lot.
It's like herding kittens, youknow.
That's when it's a tough job todo because everybody's going
every which way, or the squeakywheel gets the grease.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh yeah, what's that mean?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That means that the one that's the loudest and the
one is the most obnoxioususually gets the most attention
I've tried this one on you andyou just this goes in one ear
and out the other, or else itgoes right over your head and
shaves it sometimes that's why Iwear, that's why I wear a hat
with my bill up, so I can catchthose you'll catch more flies
with honey than vinegar sister.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah and, and my twist on that is you catch more
flies with honey than with shit.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So is that really true?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't know, yeah, I mean they, they really like the
poop, but they really love thathoney, yeah okay, yeah, so, um,
I you know we should havelooked up where these actually
came from well originated thembecause some of them are super,
super old but, honestly, youreally think that they're going
to be honest about where theycame from?
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I mean, these phrases have beenpassed around for generations
and I mean, who really, whoknows where these things?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
unless it's a biblical phrase, you're not
really gonna get where, whereit's coming from so I remember
using this one and, of course,you know you've already inferred
that I beat you kids, which youknow inferred.
You know it's like okay well,that's out in the open.
But you know a beat.
Every single one of you GenXers think that you were beat to
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death, so go with that.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I mean, you killed me once, but you woke me back up.
It's fine, did you?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
die, but did you die?
But did you die, but did youdie?
One that I always used with youkids was I brought you into
this world, I will take you out.
I will have another one andname it the same.
No one will ever know, yep.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So, yeah, I did use that one quite a bit, oh, like
daily with me and my sister.
But I mean, honestly, what areyou to do?
What are you going to do withus?
How about as the crow flies?
That's an old one.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That is an old one, or up around the bend.
You know I I still use those.
I mean, I say up around thebend, or I say up up the road a
piece.
And you know, dr domain knows Iuse that because every time I
do he's like, oh my gosh, she issuch a hillbilly redneck.
I think that's what he thinksbecause he looks at me like but
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I do Because we used to use itas kids.
We're going up the road a piece, or we're going around the bend
.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, and that's a big Midwest thing and I actually
did look that up.
It is a Midwestern thing.
We measure distance in timerather than in actual distance.
So we're talking down the roadlittle ways away, few hours away
.
We don't say, oh, it's 400miles away.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
We say I take you a few hours, but that's like in,
and I don't know how everybodyelse is, but here in the midwest
we give our directions based onour food location, so it isn't
go two miles down the road andturn north or anything like no,
we don't use go down the roaduntil you see the mcdonald's.
Keep on going another shortdistance and then you're gonna
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see the taco bell and you'regonna turn left at the taco bell
now once you turn left at thetaco bell, keep, keep going
until you get to the.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Casey's store, the third Casey's in town.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Everything for us in the Midwest is directional based
on the food location.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Or the sideshows as I call them, like hey, you go
down the road, you see this bigwhite cow on a post, you're
going to take a right, and then,when you get, down to the horse
with only three post, you'regoing to take a right and then,
when you get down to the horsewith only three legs, you want
to take a left, and then you'regoing to go down to where old ed
used to live.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now that house torn down now, but that's where he
used to live and, uh, you'regoing to turn, turn right there
and then go down to his cousin'splace.
The tractor's parked out in thefront yard, so you'll be sure
to see that.
Um, you know, I got to tell youthis story, though, because we
were kind of city folk right.
(08:51):
Um, until I was country you, me, your sister, oh yeah yeah, so
for a little bit until I wascountryfied.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Right I grew up out in the country so to doctor
domain cityfain, Countryfied,then cityfied and then
countryfied again.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
We did work for some farmers when we used to walk
beans or we would do tassel cornor we'd throw hay, or sometimes
we had to muck barns, thingslike that.
But I remember that when I wasliving on the farm and I moved
to the farm, initially being acity girl for quite some time
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during that, you know, beforethat I was told to you know, go
to this location to picksomebody up because they were
done farming for the day, andyou move from farm to farm right
throughout the day.
And I said, well, what's theaddress?
And he said you know, go downhere to the second road, you
know the second gravel road, andthen you're going to go two and
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a half miles and then you'regoing to turn left or turn north
and then you're going to end.
Everything was in miles.
And I said just tell me theaddress.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There is no address.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Now I got to tell you I truly thought everything had
a like an address.
Right now they have locationnumbers, which is your range, um
, township, right range, section, that sort of thing.
Everyone but who's gonna lookthat up did.
I said, well, just give me theaddress.
And it was like are you anidiot?
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There is no address.
And one thing that people wouldrealize about Iowa, which is
different down in Georgiaespecially, or down in some of
the southern states, is ourmiles are pretty straight and
everything is sectioned off bymiles.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yes, and so that's kind of you got a country mile
and you got a city mile and theyare different, they're
different, but they they'retypically kind of a straight
shot.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yeah, now you go a mile in georgia and that's going
to be a windy road that, youknow, goes back in the hills and
down the hills and that sort ofthing, and it's a lot different
.
You know, it's a lot differentthan a straight shot.
But anyway, I just had to tellyou that story because I thought
it was funny so here's one.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Here's one that can actually be traced back.
Bite the bullet?
Oh, that must be for pain.
It is.
Yeah, it is because they wouldhave them bite on a bullet for
pain because, you know, backduring the civil war and things
like that, they didn't haveenough pain medication to go
around, they didn't have theproper pain medication and a lot
of times, if they got hit by,say, cannon fire, they had very
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little time to get that limbtaken off in order to save a
life, and so they would havethem bite a bullet you know what
I had.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So I had seen a documentary about that and you
know, of course, they use a lotof alcohol.
You know, give it to people andsay, take this drink, and you
know, of course, they use a lotof alcohol.
You know, give it to people andsay, take this drink, and you
know, shut up right um, but oneof the things that actually
killed people wasn't the injuryitself, it was the infection.
It was the infection from thefact that they didn't wash their
you know their, their- theirtools, their tools, whatever
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they were their hands, theirtools they didn't have time for
that, and so those, thosehospitals that did that did have
the water supplies available.
They weren't using fresh waterfor every patient.
No, we're just bringing bowlsof water, big bowl.
They'd swish it around a littlebit and then they would go back
, and so a lot of people werereally just dying from gangrene,
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they were dying from infections, they were seps, and so a lot
of people were really just dyingfrom gangrene.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They were dying from infections, sepsis, things like
that.
Yeah, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And so it was quite interesting how that happened.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So was there a saying coming to this Like wash your
hands or get gangrene?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, that was the bite , the bullet thing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
No, it was just a lesson in hygiene.
You might want to try to keepup.
She wandered.
It was just a lesson in hygiene.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You might want to try to keep up.
She wandered.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
She wandered, George.
I tried to pull her in.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I know, get back on topic.
Okay, okay, give her so muchrope.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So, here's one.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You guys are what?
Here's one, and this is goingto lead to something else.
Quit poking around and hurry up.
Or have you ever heard someonesaying you're?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
rooting around down there.
You know, I thought after thesex worker one that we were not
going to be like broaching thistopic here and here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
They're just rooting around down there, oh my God.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Why does all of these sound like an ambulance at this
point?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I can't help it.
I can't help it, okay, okay,okay.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Let's bring it back to a more pure nature here.
Okay, let's bring it back to amore pure nature here, and so I
have a few that are actuallyaimed more towards you.
Oh my gosh, they're more ofscripture, sayings or sayings
that came out of scripture.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Are you ready?
I'm ready, sister.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All right.
So let me see if you know thisone Speak of the devil and he
shall come.
Psalms See, I can't play thisgame with you.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Is it Dr Domain I?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
can't play this Dr Domain, he ain't in this.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, he knows the Bible better than anybody.
I know, I know, I think that'sin Psalms.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, it sounds like it's in Psalms, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yep, and another one is better the devil that you
know than the devil that youdon't.
You know that almost soundslike it's in um joe maybe.
Oh, that could be, I don't havethat one written down?
I didn't actually go into that.
But you know these are justones that came from from
scripture readings and thingslike that around with you get
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what you're asking for well, andit is.
It's the you know better thedevil that you know than the one
.
You don't.
Better to be in a shittysituation that you already know
about than to.
You don't better to be in ashitty situation that you
already know about than to takethat step, or?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
to be dealing with someone that you know exactly
perfect stranger that you don'tknow they're exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
You don't know their intentions, yeah, or the here's
one that people often just stopat.
So I've got a few that peoplestop at and they don't actually
know the entire phrase, so theyuse it wrong.
Okay, curiosity killed the cat.
Do you know the rest of thatone?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Let me think this could take a while.
We don't have all that time.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Go ahead then.
Curiosity killed the cat, butsatisfaction brought it back.
Oh, Now these are ones thatpeople I mean they stop before
they really get to it.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's one that made me go.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Hmm, yeah, yep and people say, you know, curiosity
killed the cat as a way to getyou to, to not be curious, to
not take that step forward, tonot, you know, dig into
something if you don't have but,satisfaction brought it back.
they keep cutting that outbecause they don't want you to
know that.
Yeah, how about this one?
I know you know this one.
Blood is thicker than water.
(15:52):
Yeah, that's one that's usedwrong all the time.
Do you know the entire sayingno, go ahead.
The blood of the covenant isthicker than the water of the
womb?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yes, I, I just had a lot of people, a lot of people
use this.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
As you know, blood is thicker than water.
Saying that you know you shouldalways have family, you should
always back your family, yourfamily's, everything they don't
know the full saying, becausethat is not what it's saying
that is not what it's saying atall.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
no, that's a.
That's a good one, bobby, yeah,I, I didn't know the rest.
I mean I remember that one nowthat you say it, yeah, but the
other ones I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, it's kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
What do you got Dr Domain?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Well, I don't think that's too far off, though.
What do you mean?
I mean the way that it's usedbiblically and the to touch that
switch over there.
What would you tell me to do tomake the lights come on?
What would you say go?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
flip that switch or hey google shut off the light
what you would say turn it onright yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, what I typically heardown south is cut that on or cut
it off.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, that's a big one, or
maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
could.
Maybe could they use, maybecould a lot, maybe should.
Yeah, we're going to go down.
Maybe, could come on over latertonight.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I should Honestly I should have spent more time
thinking about it, because wedid live in the South and we
lived right along the Louisianaand Arkansas border.
Yeah, now let me tell you what.
Those are two totally differentworlds when it comes to people
and how they speak and what theysay, because Louisiana is a
(17:42):
huge Creole community andArkansas is more just basic
southern.
I don't know what else to sayin texas is just texas.
Yeah, so I mean it was.
It was a blend of things downthere and and yeah, there was a
lot of stuff to learn about howpeople were talking sometimes
somebody will say something.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I have to stand there for a minute and go.
What did that just mean?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
what were you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
yeah, what were you gonna say dr domain?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I was just saying I mean, there's a lot of phrases
down south that probably don'tmake their way up north, but uh,
like you're, you're in talk,like we're in tall cotton yeah,
yeah that's.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's a popular one, yeah it'd be, tall corn here, I
guess, yeah, it's tall weedsand my dad.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
My dad was a master of slaughtering the english
language.
I had a 78 um pinto.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, it was a fine automobile it was a station
wagon, it was even rare.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
It was rare and the station wagon had a luggage rack
on it.
It's pretty that was.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
It was a chick magnet .
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Oh yeah, and I came home and it was smoking and the
belt was off it and I was alltore up and dad looked at it and
he always said this whensomething didn't look right.
And he goes and I never hearanyone else say this but my dad
and he says hmm, that doesn'tturn queer and ate itself.
I've heard that, unfortunately,have.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I don't hear it too much, but that was his, that was
his way of saying I thinkthat's a that's a time thing too
, because they're they're not soapt to say things like that up
here anymore, because you know,you know well, because they dig
it too literally yes instead oflaughing at yourself and
laughing at what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
But your dad.
I think we butchered thelanguage too oh yeah,
misconstrued things, but yourdad used to.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Your dad had a saying too, that that you shared with
me and I now use on a regularbasis, and that is like when
we're talking about parts of thebody, like I've had a new hip.
My knee hurts, you know, I playpickleball still I'm.
I'm as active as I can be, andso is dr domain and people have
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is that the phrase he uses?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
no, oh nice suitors.
Is that the one?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
nice he ain't talking about the owls oh yeah no no um
, if you got it no, that's notno
Speaker 2 (20:12):
your dad never said that to me no, you say that
stuff to me all the time, thatthose are dr domain's sayings,
that he says to me all the time.
But no, I you know.
People have said to me when areyou going to slow down?
I mean, you know you're gettingup there in age and I have said
I'd rather wear it out thanrust it out.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I want to keep moving .
I want it to wear out.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So you know one that really annoys me, and I had an
ex that used it all the time andit was just.
It was basically his monikerfor bad behavior.
It all the time and it was just, it was basically his moniker
for bad behavior and it was theit's better to ask forgiveness
than permission.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, that drives me nuts.
Oh man, it works.
It works well, especially inbusiness.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
It might work, I mean it might work but, oh man, I
just wanted to elbow drop himevery time he said that well
there's, I think, the where theworst phrases come from are in
the corporate world.
The stupidest, dumbest thingscome out of boardrooms yes, and
it were like well, this isn'tnecessarily at work, but I hear
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this a lot.
To be honest with you, what thehell?
So you weren't honest with mebefore?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
yeah, so you're suggesting that yeah I shouldn't
have trusted anything you saidyeah up to that point.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh, to be honest with you, okay, you know that's the
thing that um law enforcementuses in order to suss out when
they're doing interviews withpeople.
If they say well, honestly,well, truthfully, well, I'm
gonna be honest with you.
Yeah, they know they're full ofshit, right there, immediately,
immediately.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
One of the other corporate things is we'll take
this offline.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, we'll put that in the parking lot.
Yeah, we'll put that in theparking lot.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And it's like you brought it up and now, all of a
sudden, we're going to take thisoffline.
No, what's in here?
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They don't want the confrontation.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
See, my favorite corporate one is when I look at
them and say in a meeting, Ilook at them and say this could
have been an email.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yeah, this could have been a text message to me.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Or it is what it is.
What kind of stupid ass doubletalk is that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I say it all the time it is what it is.
It is what it is.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's meaningless.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's kind of a moniker.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I.
If you think about it, it'smeaningless.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Well, no, it's kind of a moniker.
I am who I am.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
People have given up.
I am who I am.
It is what it is.
It's like take it or leave it,you know.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It basically means you can't do nothing about it.
It is what it is.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
There's another one strike while the iron's hot,
which I do, like that, yeah.
Or along those same lines is,if you're going to eat crow, eat
it while it's hot, yeah.
So you know, if you made amistake and you have to eat crow
, Own up to it.
Right away.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Eat it while it's hot , right away.
What are?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
the best times to eat pie.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Is when pie is served when it's served.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
I'd rather have pie than crow.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's like a double entendre.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Have you ever heard a double entendre?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
bobby, you know the fact that you even said that
phrase.
Do you even know what thatmeans?
I do.
It means a phrase that has twomeanings.
So it could mean one thing andthen, but it could also have,
like a, an undertone of ameaning did you look that up
before?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I did not actually, I went to college for something
there's a saying out there thatsays don't buy a pig and a poke.
What's that mean?
Don't buy a pig in a poke?
What's that mean?
Don't buy a?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
pig in a poke don't buy a pig in a poke.
Pig in a poke is a pig in a cow, ain't it?
Pig in a poke, oh, in a pokenot.
And a poke, no.
Pig in a poke, oh, don't buy apig.
No, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
It's really foolishly accepting something or buying
something without examining itand doing your due diligence
first.
Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Oh like like without, without,without seeing it without seeing
it, without investigating, youknow, and sometimes you know
it's if you know it sounds toogood to be true, right?
So like?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
like these people who do the online dating and have
never met in real life, and thenall of a sudden they want to
fly them in from overseas andsay I want to marry you the
first day you get here.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I've been online with them for three years and I've
sent them $30,000.
And 14 times they were supposedto buy a plane ticket with it,
but their mother died twice.
Their grandmother had kneesurgery 14 times, and their dad
made by five cars.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, like get over it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
My car broke down.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, so let's move into uh phrases like people use
wrong versus what they actuallyare.
Now I know I kind of touched onthat.
So people will say for allintensive purposes.
I know Now these are phraseswhere I just look at them for a
second because my mind is goingdid I just hear what I think I
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heard?
And then at the same time it'sgoing they can't be this dumb.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I've heard it was really intensive.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was intensive, yeah, it was a purpose it's for
all intents and purposes, say itwith me, folks, come on.
Another one is I could careless, I couldn't care less.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yes, I couldn't care less.
Thank you I hate that.
Why can't you care less, thoughI could.
But that's not the intent.
That's what you're inferringyeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
But no, that's not what they're inferring, that's
not what they're trying to say.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Irregardless.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I think Irregardless drives me nuts.
Oh my goodness, I'll use it onpurpose.
Just piss people off, youeither mean irrespective or
something regardless.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Because if it's irregardless, regardless is to
the contrary, Irregardless,Correct.
Because if it's irregardless,regardless is to the contrary.
And now you're back 360, youknow 380.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Now this one's used in the opposite way and it's
used on the news every night.
I swear to God and I just wantto come through the TV and smack
somebody.
Near miss versus near hit.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, you know, that's an old industry term.
We used it too and I used tosay you know, let me explain
what a near miss is.
It's a near hit.
They almost got you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, but they're like oh
well, it was a near hit andthey're not meaning exactly what
they think they're saying.
Or oh, it was a near miss onthis and you know okay.
Well then, that means that theyhit it Right.
That does not mean that theymissed it Right, and it's
constantly used incorrectly itis.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's been used in the industry occupational.
You know incidents for yearsand years, and years and I
always tried to fight that.
Let me tell you what a nearmiss actually is.
It's a near hit.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, drives me nuts.
Yeah, how about nip it in thebutt?
I got my butt nipped.
Nip it in the butt.
It's nipping in the bud.
Bud, bud, not butt.
How about this one Doggy dogworld?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Oh my gosh Folks, it's dog eat dog world yeah.
Isn't that the?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
saying it's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milk
bone underwear or something likethat.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
God, I've never heard that.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
But thank you for sharing Now we're going to be
thinking about.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Now, if anybody ever says that again, we're going to
be thinking of dog boneunderwear Forever.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
That's seared into my mind, thank you.
I would like some unsee eyedrops, thank you.
How about beck and call beckand call yeah, yeah, yeah.
How about taking something forgranite?
Where are we on rock world?
Speaker 2 (27:49):
no, we want quartz, instead we want quartz.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
We're, we're on, we're on granite world.
It's taking something forgranted and enunciate please,
yes, or this one's my favoritebutt naked, butt naked, it's
buck naked, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Actually Dr Domain.
You could do an advertisementhere.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
We don't have video, I can't do that Don't say
advertisement.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I can't say advertisement.
So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The kids drive me nuts because there are certain
words that I say differentlythan people here say One of
them's advertisement, I don'tsay advertisement, I say
advertisement.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I do too.
You got that from me I sayaluminum foil.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't say that, I do Dr Domain.
Does Aluminum?
No, it's aluminum.
Sound it out Aluminum.
No, it's aluminium.
Sound it out.
It's zebra.
It is not a zebra, it is ZedZebra.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
So you say W-X-Y, zed , zed, that's what they say in
New Zealand, is it tomato ortomato?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I say tomato.
I really don't eat it, so Idon't care.
I say tomato.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Potato or potato I say potato.
Is it aunt or aunt?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I say potato, I say aunt, aunt, I say aunt.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Aunt Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Is it Neither or either?
Oh very good, or neither orneither.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's like saying Is it Anionize or unionize?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I say but what do you say that's not?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
even close, do you?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
say either or either, either.
See, I say either and neitherneither, neither is it I say
neither, but I say either is itcouch or davenport?
Speaker 1 (29:37):
okay, no, let me tell you a story about this.
My grandmother, god rest hersoul my mother's.
That was her word Davenport.
It was a Davenport and for thefirst 10 years of my life I
didn't know what the hell aDavenport was or where she was
telling me to sit.
I was confused.
I was standing and living.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
She's like sit on the Davenport.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm like I don't know what that is.
She was afraid to ask, I wasafraid to ask, so I just stand
there Like what am I supposed todo?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I'm okay, grandma, I'll just stand.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Is it a radiator or a radiator?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Radiator.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Is it a water fountain or a bubbler?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
A water fountain.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is it an eraser or a rubber?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
A racer or a rubber.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
talking about a condom.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
No, like an eraser on your.
Oh, I would say eraser.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
No one would say rubber out here.
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
That has a whole different connotation now.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, that's why I was confused.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
No one says prophylactic, they say rubbers.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
I say condom.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Oh, yeah, or condom.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Okay, so let's finish this.
Did you say myom?
Oh yeah, I wear condoms, jeez.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Okay, so let's finish this.
Do you say my darling, or?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
yo get over here no.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
answer that one I didn't.
Do you say baby or boo?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I say daddy, oh my God.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh, my God Looking for a daddy for me, not my kids
you started this, oh, okay solet's let's end it with.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
I'm gonna give you four words that are now used,
and I want to know if you knowhow to use them all.
All right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
So number one no cap that would be no hat, no, no,
what is it?
No cap.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Okay, you're going to have to ask your grandson about
these ones, because I'm notallowed to say what they are.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No cap.
Is it dirty?
No, it's not dirty.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
This is stuff the kids are using nowadays, short
for capacity.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
No cap capacity?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no limit,no, comprende, no, yeah, you
know, comprende.
All right, excuse me, gusta,por favor.
Are you calling me a porkywhore?
What did you just say?
Okay, here's the next one riz.
What's it mean?
No, what's no cap means like nolie.
No, you know no joke type ofthing.
How about riz?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I, I heard this the other day and I thought about it
and it made sense um no, no, no, no, just riz, yeah, no, yeah
riz.
Uh, like you gotta show themthe riz you gotta show them or,
as cory does it, riz them withthe tism you gotta show them, or
, as cory does it, rhythm withthe tism.
You gotta show them the bling,bling you gotta show them the
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money charisma, the whatcharisma.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh okay, show them, there is, yeah okay, like rhythm
, like rhythm up, you know, showthem okay yeah, okay, I'm I, so
far, I'm, I'm zero.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh for, oh or okay, how about flex?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I use this one, you should know this one like wow,
that's, you know, nice flex orso that's okay.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Is that muscle, or is it not flexing your?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
like flexing your word power, flexing what you're
trying to say.
That's kind of the same thing,kind of being boisterous not
really it's like.
It's like showing them that youknow what you're talking about
Like I would say weird flex dudeif he was coming up like oh
well, I have, you know, a 95pinto, or I guess.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I'd be like wow, weird flex.
I think she just called you out.
Dr, Domain on your pinto, butit is.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
It's to like flex something at somebody to try to
impress them.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Like weird flex bro, Okay you know All right.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
How about Delulu?
I have no idea.
I've never even heard thatDelusional Like that girl be
Delulu, yeah, it's delusional,because nobody can actually say
or spell delusional these days.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Okay, well, I think that's probably all we have for
today.
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