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Nancy of Mesquite Country:
August 25, 2010
All in a Name
Does every family have names to call those characters who did something memorably zany or whose habits needed a name rather than an explanation? As long as I can remember, someone who lied about something was a J.Y.---a term named for a man whose wife didn’t want him to drink. They would go to town on a Saturday and he would buy two pints of whiskey. He would drain the one and take a few sips from the other and put it in his pocket. When he would meet up with Melba, she would swear he had been drinking. He would pull out the partially full bottle and show her that he had had just a few sips. Her response: “J.Y.! You lyin’ ….”
Then there was the uncle whose feet were invariably the first under the table at every meal and whose next destination was the royal throne as soon as dinner was over. Most of the family would claim that they had pulled a Leonard if they ate a big meal and immediately needed to go to the outdoor facilities. Apparently, other families notice these things too as one of Fang’s neighbors always managed to get out of helping the girls do the dishes by getting up before the meal was ended to use the facilities and never returning to the kitchen until the dishes were done. To this day, anyone who gets up from a family meal before it is over is pulling a ‘Jackie Lloyd.’
Almost anyone recognizes a reference to ‘the squeaky wheel.’ That comes from a saying that the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the most grease. This applies to everyone from hurricane victims to automobile makers, perhaps, but it is considered an insult to be ‘as poor as Job’s turkey.’ Now Job was a rich man in the beginning and lost it all, including his children. Somehow it is not likely he ever saw a turkey, but if he had, it would have been a mighty poor one since he had lost everything else worth taking. I am not sure exactly how poor a person has to be so that no one else would think he or she had anything worth taking, but that is the point of the saying.
Perhaps younger folks would not recognize how lucky one would have been to be Mrs. Astor’s pet horse, but it is possible that they might have heard ‘let them eat cake’ in reference to Marie Antoinette’s supposed suggestion for those who needed bread in France. No, the younger generation would be more likely to grin upon discovering that your rooster was named Rambo or the slider turtle in your fish tank was named Terminator. And the really young set will recognize the name of I-anything from I-pod to I-pal or something of that nature.
At our age, Fang and I will sit back and wait for a new computer to come out that will fit our need for versatile, cool efficiency---something named .007. That’s a name we can appreciate.
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