To: thecodont
4 posted on
01/28/2023 9:57:54 AM PST by
TexasGator
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To: TexasGator
Now you wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute there, TG! You’re making sense and that’s not allowed.
20 posted on
01/28/2023 10:20:14 AM PST by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
To: TexasGator
MY mom and uncles did that. The machines would harvest first, and then people walked the rows with bags getting all that you can see was missed. They got paid by the bag.
The lingo is still around. “Fair to middling” as a synonym for just ok. That was a grade of quality for cotton.
23 posted on
01/28/2023 10:20:36 AM PST by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: TexasGator
My very white mom, who grew up poor, picked cotton as a kid in South Texas (Beeville)
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