Freakzilla wrote:Tleszer wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:They call me squirrelly 'cause I'm always tryin' to get a nut!
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon/razz.gif)
I didn't think you swung that way.
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Maybe that means something different to you.
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Za-ZING!
re: "squirrely"
I can't prove this, but I think it's a Southern Colloquialism ... it's certainly a part of the Modern Redneck Vocabulary ....
during the Depression, the term to "squirrel away" something came into use in the South, meaning to horde up stuff
for the Hard Times, the way a squirrel does nuts for the winter .... I know this from looking for examples of that
use of the word in the 1860's period when I was writing "personal diaries" of Confederate soldiers ... for some reason,
that word didn't seem right for the context I was wanting to use it .... I was right ....
I think there was a reference to "squirrely" in the Roaring Twenties period ... I know that when I was young,
we used it to describe a situation or object that had gone wrong, as opposed to an adjective for a person,
i.e.
"I went to haul up that hay, Daddy, but the damned ol' tractor went squirrely on me and I ended up in the ditch ..."
I know my boys were using the term when they were kids in relation to BMX bicycles and dirt bikes ... when the
bike "went squirrely", they usually meant the front end came loose and dumped them ... and now that I think
about it, I think I've always heard the word used in that context : something "went squirrely", so maybe that's
the Redneck Usage .... also, I've typed "squirrely" too many times, and the word looks
real funny now ...
anyway:
SandChigger wrote:
Why all the hush-hush cloak-and-dagger silliness?
Merritt (and the Lesser Living Herbert Parasites) are waiting for Spanky McDune to tell them what the next book
will be, and Spanky is waiting for the TOR money-men to tell him what the next book will be, and the TOR money-men
are waiting on the manatees who write the scripts for "Family Guy" to push the Dune PlotBalls around .....