Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 If someone says to you, "Just wait a Cotton Pickin Minute or be with you in a Cotton Pickin Minute".. How long is a "Cotton Pickin Minute"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 A cotton pickin' minute is about 1/2 as long as a New York minute and about 1/3 as long as a hot minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Simple. A "Cotton-Pickin' Minute" is a fat moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 I have never heard anyone suggest I (or anyone else) wait "a cotton-pickin' minute". It's usually said, "wait JUST ONE cotton-pickin' minute". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Cotton pickers worked long hot days and were paid by the pounds they picked. A cotton pickin' minute is prolly shorter than a New York Minute, as Okie Sawbones has noted I'm thinkin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Sounds pretty racist to me. Here comes MSNBC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Having experienced both cotton pickin’ and New York minutes, I’m going with New York being faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 A New York Minute is shorter. A Cotton Picking Minute is an expression of irritation and a demand to not be rushed. A Cotton Picking Minute is the amount of time needed to sort through and absorb some unexpected fact or observation. A New York Minute is the amount of time between when the light changes to green at one end of a city block, and the last car in line at the other end of the block honks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 12 minutes ago, John Kloehr said: A New York Minute is shorter. A Cotton Picking Minute is an expression of irritation and a demand to not be rushed. A Cotton Picking Minute is the amount of time needed to sort through and absorb some unexpected fact or observation. A New York Minute is the amount of time between when the light changes to green at one end of a city block, and the last car in line at the other end of the block honks. Nailed it!! You must have spent some time in NY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Creek,5759 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Haven't heard that in a ling time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 4 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Nailed it!! You must have spent some time in NY? Friends from both places, though I do now live in Tennessee. I have never actually set foot in NYC, but have visited upstate and folks there seem sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 A cotton pickin minute is the time required to remove the childproof cap from the aspirin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Spur Jake SASS #7728 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 If you wait a New York minute at a New York subway platform nowadays you might be what we out west call "Roadkill" from the videos I've seen on the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 13 hours ago, Dantankerous said: Sounds pretty racist to me. Here comes MSNBC... They're were whites pickin cotton too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 Roy Clark didn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 I'd wait a jiffy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 35 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: I'd wait a jiffy. Now a ‘jiffy’ is used in in many scientific fields but its meaning is inconsistent, being anywhere from a computer clock tick (a nanosecond perhaps) to an AC current cycle (1/50 or 1/60 second). in my experience, when a Russian woman says “I’ll be ready in a minute” you might as well put the game on, even if it’s cricket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 29 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: in my experience, when a Russian woman says “I’ll be ready in a minute” you might as well put the game on, even if it’s cricket. So, you're saying a little faster than a Southern woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 2 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: So, you're saying a little faster than a Southern woman. Yeah, typically a Russian woman will say five minutes, but it’s the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 It's considerably more than the "I'm waiting" expressed by a mother or spouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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