[Zeke]

"Well, no, yes." How many do you know that can start a sentence with that?

Almost all sayings have an interesting beginning. The slang of the beat and hip out of the 30's and 40's can be the most obscure, but eventually figured out.

Here's one from "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peepin' in a sea-food store" I can tell you that if the censors from the AM radio days had that one nailed, it would never have been played. When Bill Haley and The Comets recorded Big Joe Turner's song after "Rock Around the Clock," it segued right into the mainstream completely under the radar!

I have a collection of Southern sayings that I wrote down as I heard them fist hand. Here's one, "My head feels like it's full of stump water and wiggletails." Another, "If the mule's in the ditch, you better get him out."