“Jinx! You owe me a Coke.”
I said that phrase today when I was talking on the phone with
“Son of a biscuiteater!”
That’s another one we used as an obvious replacement for “son of a bitch”. “Bitch” was, of course, a “bad” word so we substituted biscuiteater. It ends up being more funny than spiteful, but who wants to be spiteful during those tender years anyway.
Are there any other odd phrases you used as a kid that you find yourself reverting to at the oddest times? I used son of a biscuiteater just the other day and received some curious looks from my co-workers. I laughed loudly on the inside. 😉
–sam
Now That is a cute puppy.
I said jinx, as a kid, but didn’t know the ‘you owe me a coke’ bit. Can’t think of any childhood phrases that meet the rest of your requirements…
Maybe your usage of Jinx is different. We use it when two people say the same thing at the same time. How about you?
–sam
That’s when we said it, but the result was that the person who didn’t say it was mute until you said his name three times or something.
Ouch! That’s pretty rough.
–sam
That’s exactly how it worked for us too. Eastern NC.
I actually made up my own word, “scrum” which meant cool or something like that…and I had a “scrum sign” too.
Also for some reason I recall thinking it was funny to say, “I’ll buy that for a dollar!” (in a really loud obnoxious way)
Lastly, I remember that Liz and I would say the phrases” I know you are but what am I?” and then the witty, “I know I am but what are you?”
Wow…I was a strange kid ;-P
how about cool beans, which we used for everything. Why I may never know
See my other comment about “jinx”. Some kids would use the Coke line, but it was that AND the mute until someone said your name 3 times.
Son of a biscuiteater. Yup. Used that.
The other day, I cut myself pretty bad at work on an envelope. “SON OF A –…MONKEY!”
…because I like monkeys. But as a kid, yup. Biscuiteater.
I grew up in eastern NC too, so there was some 600 miles between FL and where I lived. 😉