My Grampaw (Kentucky spellin') went to see an elderly friend of his,and my Mom asked how old Cecil was doing. Grampaw said "Well,he looked like Death Eatin' a Cracker." I'm not sure where that one came from but you've got to give it high marks for pictorial description.

moonjen,my Dad liked the expression "couldn't pour water out of a boot with the directions on the heel" too,but he was fond of substituting piss for water. He also loved to say so-and-so "is as useless as the tits on a boor hog."

My Mom used to get mad because Dad would stop at Tom's Tavern on Fridays,partly due to the fact that she figured he was chasing women there."But Honey," he'd say "Tom's is a stag bar." If he went out to play cards,it was a "stag party." Even when I was in High School,you could go to the Prom "stag",meaning without a date. To me,that term has the feel of antiquity to it,a connection made by the males in the tribe or village to the solitary nature of the Male Deer. Sad to think that in one generation it has become archaic.A teenager who works for me told me about a dance he was going to, and I said "do you have a date,or are you going stag?"He didn't have a clue what I meant.