“Sounds like they’ve made you the ramrod up there.”
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Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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“Sounds like they’ve made you the ramrod up there.”
—-
Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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I found this 1,000 legged bug crawling along in my kitchen the other morning. I suppose it’s really called a millipede…
Using ground meat in some way usually comes to mind when one thinks of creating a cheap make-do kind of meal. There’s…
March is Spring on the wing,birds returning to nest.March is cold mornings, warm days,March wind stirring budding tree limbsAnd dancing…
I remember playing School Bus even before I started school. We had about six or eight old straight chairs. You…
Chitter took this picture of lightning from a recent spring storm we had. Paul, Tipper, Steve When my brothers and…
Chatter’s stacked rocks Between Brasstown and Warne someone stacks rocks. There’s a stack of small rocks on the post of…
Ain’t a ramrod what they used to push a patch and ball down the barrel of a gun after they pour in the powder. Does that mean you have to do the dangerous stuff? Are you not at the mercy of the man on the trigger?
Hope you all have fun!
It takes a strong and tenacious person to keep encouraging/motivating/prodding/pushing along others to get some things done!!
I have heard it many many times in my life but not in a while. I can hear my my dad saying someone was the “ramrod” up at the mill. I remember hearing the word used in the cowboy movies and shows I watched as a kid like Wagon Train, The Virginian and Bonanza. If you were the ramrod you were a supervisor or boss. Straw boss was another term I remember. I think a straw boss was not much more than a regular worker maybe a little more responsibility but not much if any more pay.
We hope to get over to the festival tomorrow if we do we’ll be sure catch one of the shows.
I recall hearing that, though it has been awhile. I guess to be a ramrod one would have to have some stiff spine.
That sounds like something Granny would say!