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Old 09-16-2011, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Where there is smoke sometimes you can find good BBQ.
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Old 09-16-2011, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Altar meat. Food of the Levites. The original BBQ.
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Old 09-16-2011, 06:29 PM
bjh
 
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Just don't call me late to dinner.
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Old 09-16-2011, 06:40 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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A man with no mistakes in his life has never achieved anything. ........... A paraphrase of a quote from a supervisor a long time ago when I was a machinist. He told me that rather than chewing my butt out for an expensive mistake I had make.
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Old 09-16-2011, 07:03 PM
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Before you can know right you must see wrong.
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Old 09-16-2011, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Why in the tarnation did you do that? ............. I don't know what tarnation means but I heard enough of it from my mom in my younger years.
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Old 09-16-2011, 07:34 PM
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A euphemism for damnation.

Which brings us to:
gadzooks - God's hooks - nails
egads - ye gods
by gum - by God
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Old 09-16-2011, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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A euphemism for damnation.

Which brings us to:
gadzooks - God's hooks - nails
egads - ye gods
by gum - by God
Zounds - God's wounds
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Old 09-17-2011, 02:46 AM
 
Location: South Central Texas
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like the trembling heart of a captive bird..
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Old 09-17-2011, 07:49 AM
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Easy doesn't do it.
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