A REMEMBERAMBLE FOR WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2026

HEY Y'ALL

Welcome my friends. Let's sit and talk about some things. For some reason saying that brought to mind one of my favorite bluegrass tunes, "Hot Corn, Cold Corn." Many recorded it over the years including Flatt and Scruggs, but my hands-down favorite was "Ole Strang," Stringbean's version. The line I thought of was, "come along boys, make less noise while the old folks is sleeping, come on down to the barnyard and have us a little banjer pickin'." In that song, the corn being referred to was liquid corn, so-to-speak. The words "hot corn, cold corn, bring along a demijohn," refer to a five gallon glass jug to hold "shine."

Years ago I had a cassette tape with my favorite bluegrass tunes including String's version of the song. A friend was riding with me and he was singing along with the song, but had misunderstood the lyrics a bit, and instead of "bring along a demijohn," he was singing, "bring along a debutant." I asked, "did you say, "bring along a debutant?" He replied, shaking his had up and down in the affirmative, uhuh, yeah." It was one of those moments that set me to laughing like I did last week when Steven referred to the pileated woodpecker, as a "woodpecker with the perforated edges." To me it was hilarious to think that he thought Stringbean wanted them to bring along a debutant to a corn liquor drinking, barnyard "banjer pickin'." Please tell me you find that as funny as I did. Alright let us shift over here and mention a couple of words from our region's colloquial "library." Have you ever heard the word, "sommerset," used in lieu of, "somersault?" Doing a sommerset meant a backflip, or other such gymnastic feat. How about this one, "cutting a dado/dido?" Cutting a dido meant performing antics or showing off. There are two very funny slang terms that I must admit that I had never heard before they were used here on the group by others. Y'all say you learn new things here, well, now and then, so do I. The two I have in mind are "wedding tackle," which is my favorite slang term of all time, and the other is, "bank walker." I am not going to define them here, but wedding tackle is really obvious, but bank walker is not, but it too is hilarious. I will close with that, and thank you for coming by. As daddy used to say, "y'all come back when ya can't stay so long."

Numbers 6: 24-26, KJV

we boyz three, babee conway, lil merle, & me