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In The Patriot - Mel Gibson revolutionary War movie - they sewed Heath Ledger into a cloth sack before putting him in bed with the girl. They referred to it as a bundling bag.

 

I wondered at the time if that was a real thing, or if they came up with that for the movie because they figured nobody would understand what a bundling board was.

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2 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Yup. Bundling board is what I was after.

 

Ah!  And here I thought you were referring to the bit of Native American regalia.  

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Wild and wooly.

Woopsy daisy.

Life of Riley.

Kangaroo court.

Peter out.

Catch 22.

Bury the hatchet.

Hunky dory.

High, wide, and handsome. (I used that in one of my books.)

Kit and caboodle.

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"Good lord willin and the creek don't rise"

"Ain't fittin to eat"

"Ants in your pants"

 

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3 hours ago, Alpo said:

I wondered at the time if that was a real thing, or if they came up with that for the movie because they figured nobody would understand what a bundling board was.

 

After Deadwood everybody knew.

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Happy as a pig in sh*t

Drop a dime

Pinch a loaf

wicked Pissah(might be a New England thing)

Don't have a pot to pis* in or a window to throw it out(might just be someting my dad was fond of saying)

 

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11 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

 

After Deadwood everybody knew.

I watched about half of one episode. Too much Louis L'Amour I suppose. There were so few decent women in the west that you treated them nice and you spoke to them politely.

 

That was a trouble I had with Appaloosa - the sheriff sees the woman sitting by herself in the hotel dining room and hollers over to her, "Are you a whore?" If she was a decent woman, and she had a husband or a brother or a father, the sheriff might just get himself shot for that. So anyway, the partial episode of Deadwood that I watched the guy seem to be unable to speak to anybody, including women, without F this and S that.

 

I never watched it after that.

 

So why would they have a bundling board?

 

Bundling board were used in New England, as I understand it. Decent guy Tom would be courting decent girl Sally, and he would go to her house, but the days were short and the nights were cold, and instead of sending him home in the cold dark they would let him spend the night. And they would put him in bed with Sally. With this board about 2 foot tall between them so they could not reach over and do the nasty before they were legally wed.

 

If the only people in Deadwood were miners, gamblers, bartenders and prostitutes, why would they need a bundling board?

8 minutes ago, Tooky Slim said:

Don't have a pot to pis* in or a window to throw it out(might just be someting my dad was fond of saying)

That is someone that is extremely poor. Well-known saying all up and down the East Coast.

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15 minutes ago, Alpo said:

without F this and S that.

 

Yeah, Deadwood was rough on the ear... after a bit you got numb to it.

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16 minutes ago, Alpo said:

So why would they have a bundling board?

 

Fellow sent back east for his wife.  While she was in route he got hisself killed.  His brother married her in the interest of "doing right by him/her".

 

At least that's what I think I remember.  Been a long time.

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Her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

Mom often said, "Well, I'll swan!" (I never knew what she ment.)

Boys will be boys. (No guarantee these days.)

Bubble off plumb.

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1 minute ago, Warden Callaway said:

Mom often said, "Well, I'll swan!" (I never knew what she ment.)

I'm thinking she most likely said "I swan", not I'll.

 

Swan is a nicer term of cussing. Like darn instead of damn or heck instead of hell.

 

She meant "I swear", but nice people, especially nice ladies, didn't used to swear. You didn't even say "I swear", because that's a short version of "I swear to God", and that's taking the lord's name in vain.

 

And now you know

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46 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I watched about half of one episode. Too much Louis L'Amour I suppose. There were so few decent women in the west that you treated them nice and you spoke to them politely.

 

So anyway, the partial episode of Deadwood that I watched the guy seem to be unable to speak to anybody, including women, without F this and S that.

In a normal Western I would agree with you. But from what I remember, people more informed about the real Deadwood than I, said that Al Swearengen was VERY much like that. He was a mean, rude, violent man. Though it didn't show it in the show, he was married in real life. And if he were alive today doing what he did back then, the cops would be at his place for domestic violence calls several times a week. He didn't treat the women that worked for him any better, either. They were so much merchandise to him. 

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How's it hanging? 

Keep the dirty side down and the shiny side up.

Don't do nothing I wouldn't do. 

So skinny you couldn't hit her with a hand full of corn. 

So bad a shot, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. (from the inside)

Dummer than a box of rocks. 

She'd do a pile of rocks if she thought a snake was in it. 

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Could walk under a snake’s belly with a top hat on!

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Feeling your oats?

Since Hector wa a pup

Two steps back for every one forward

God willin' and if the creeks don't rise

A month of Sundays

Six feet under

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Crazy as an "outhouse" rat

Strip my gears and call me shiftless

Jehosephat

Like a broken record

Worthless as a Plugged nickel

Like corn through a goose

penny wise, pound foolish

 

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2 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

How's it hanging? 

Keep the dirty side down and the shiny side up.

Don't do nothing I wouldn't do. 

So skinny you couldn't hit her with a hand full of corn. 

So bad a shot, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. (from the inside)

Dummer than a box of rocks. 

She'd do a pile of rocks if she thought a snake was in it. 

Used that in one of my books, too.

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A bait of grub

A pig in a poke 

“You’re in my light!”

Shutin’ the barn door after the horse gets out.

Wound up like an eight day clock.

Bumper Jacks

Limber as a dish rag

Deader ‘n’ a popcorn fart!

 

 

Posted
16 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Not that old —— beeper 

 

does anyone still carry one?

Not since Israel blew up all those Hezbollah leaders!😁

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11 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:

Not since Israel blew up all those Hezbollah leaders!😁

 Thought that same thing myself!😜

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