Hi Just a cotton picking minute, I asked if my cotton picking cotton picker was

hi quita oh of cou rse Oklahoma grows cotton too. I watched them in some of the fields in Arizona and it looks like really tiring work. I thought picking apples was hard but that looked a lot more tiring. I found myself using that a lot when we first moved to California and people would sort of give me an odd loo k I suppose if I had used the f word and the gd word that wou ld have been okay.lol.

Another Oklahoman? Hello.

HATLEY, Oh picking cotton was awful work. We did it cuz mama made us do it to buy our school clothes. It was the most grueling work I've ever done. first we bought or were given tow sacks to make our bags to put the cotton in. Mama had like six sacks long and my brother and me only had 3 sacks long. We'd get down on the ground and put our feet into our sacks and pack the cotton in as tightly as possible to get the weight up as we got paid for the weight of the cotton in our bags. The OK heat was torture...........we couldn't wait til dinner time. We had bought a few goodies at our local grocery and we enjoyed as I remember Zero candy bars..........I think cuz they melt so bad. If we had money for a pop it was hot by dinner time but we all starved for water that the field boss would bring in with ice in it. Those were hard days but some of the best we ever had.

hi tamarafireheart I was just thinking back over the years I and my hubby were in Phoenix and how we laughed when we heard this cotton picker come into the garage and yell, just a cotton picking minute is my cotton picking cotton picker fixed yet? He laughed too and said, leastwise I did not take the name of the lord in vain, so there. How bout that? We had to agree it was a nice clean cuss word for sure.

Hi Hatley, I try not to swearand wil say oh fidlesticks or something similar but at times I will forget and use something far worse but not often. Huggles. Ellie :D

hi ellie I have done it too, and my son will really geton my case. mom is supposed to be an angel I guess lol.

hi Ellie yes I was just thinking how nice if we used something like cotton picking instead of the f work or gd words which I really hate, I was raised to believe you do not swear and above all you do not take the Lord's name in vain. I was made to go to Sunday school each Sunday and if I said Damn in my dad's presence well oh boy howdy I would wish I had not. It went a lot easier if I remembered to say darn it if I was upset.So when I grew up and heard so many people I liked swearing like crazy I was really appalled. My only vice is that I say sh@t too much, and my son does at times use the f word but he gets on my case if I say too many damns now. I do not really like it when I do swear either. I think we should all try to keep from swearing.

My grandma washed my brother's mouth out with soap when he said damn one time--he was 13 and taller than she was but we respected our elders back then and he was just glad she didn't tell our dad! We loved our parents and family but had a healthy fear of doing wrong because we knew we would be punished. That respect is sorely missing these days. I hope it comes back eventually!

hi dragon yes we used to resp ect our parents and not sass them now days so many say things to their parents that would have got me at least a swat on the butt. But again my parents also respected me as their child and daughter, and that made it easy too to respect them. but I always knew if I stepped out of line there would be consequences, now parents seem afraid of their teen age kids. sad.Neither of my parents ever swore and I did not dare either or else, and I am glad now that I was raised like that as I met people who cannot say one sentence even without swearing.My mom's brother really swore with each sentence and it would really bug my dad too. I always wondered why he did that as he was not even a ngry so why all the swearwords?

hi dragon oh my grandad used to use durn and plugged nickel and he came from Kentucky and Missouri. I hate it that even little kids use the F word and you are right its heartbreaking as they must have had parents who use it too. When I was a kid my dad would really get on my case if I came out with a damn.

hi I should talk I worked in the libray as a page for years and while I got better than minum wages it was nothing to boast about , about 7 dollars an hour then when Orange County went bankrupt whoppee the library had a great excuse to freeze all our salaries county government jobs just like other gov . jobs will get frozen. lol lolOne thing about the city gov. jobs ,nobody got fired unless they had done something so atrocious that the head librarian had to fire. this one girl was also a page but palmed her work onto others and after so much static from the rest of us they did actually fire her.

hi celticeagle That heat was something I never got used to and the super low wages we were working at as they had that right to work law and the minimum wage was a laugh.We never did get really used to the heat.Y eah its cotton picking heat all right.

We have the right to work law here as well. Glad I don't work anymore. Cotton pickers anyway!

hi mgates yes I did think I had heard it before someplace else. You had me thinking wow would it not be nice if that was the most nasty cuss words. cotton picking instead of the f word over and over.'Ihad one uncle who had a fairly bland personality until he swore and oh myg. I hated it,he knew more cuss words than the proverbial sailor and he sure die use them. My husband used one that totally baffled the neighbors, oh you dirty rotten old tin can you. That made them wonder is he mad, is he joking or what. But that was the worst cussing he ever did.

When I hear the GD word, I tell people God's last name is not damm. It hurts my heart to hear that word.

Hi polly yes its sort of outdated I think but is was sure a lot cleaner than what so many use now days. I hate the use of the f word all the time and so m any take the name of the Lord in vain'and when I was growing up I could not even say damn without my dad getting on my case really bad. And not using gD or JC as that would be a paddling for su re. Anyway I went to sunday school as a child and was a good lesson to learn as a child.

hi ambiepam it was really surprising to me that they raised cotton in arizona. I too don't think its racist a s those workers appeared to be allwhite people. Its funny that this came to me as I had not thought of that in years.we all got so we used it too.

ho my guys if I had used The F work or GD work my parents would have had a fit. My dad did not even like me saying Damn which is pretty safe now days.

Yep, to both of you ! cotton pickin' is used and was used widely and still is......I say it all the time and like hatley said, if we used the F word or GD word we'd be awful people. I'd just as soon say cotton pickin' wouldnt' you all?

oh i agree with you about people are using harsher words. Now it is acceptable to say "friggin" We were watching the new episode of Hannah Montana and Billy Ray said "hell" and my nine year pointed it out. My first thought was it was a Disney show what next??

hi kimbers I have to flinch when I hear my adult son and his friends using the f wor d, and yet when I have a problem on my computer and let out a few damns he has a fit,Mom dont cuss, that will not help anything. and I am gthinking damn is worse than the vulgar F word? I admit as long as I was in my oarents house damn was out too, my dad was the son of a minister,In fact my Grandfather Clark was the White House Chapling during the Civil war.But the point is mydad did not allow any cursing in our house and I am glad in a way as I have met friends who could not say two words without a cuss word of some sort and not mild one either. o figure.

hi kimbers I think its too mild now and people use harsher words which is sort of sad in a way, at least that expression is clean cussing. I don't remember just what triggered that memory as that was back in the late fifties and early sixties I was talking about. I have not heard it used here.

Your responses make me realize that the youngsters do not really understand what hard work was. amd still is for someone. Some things will always be hand picked.

oh yes like strawberries and other soft fruit. I remember helping pick strawberries as a kid and its hard work but I loved doing it as I loved to eat one or two lol lol. I do not think there is any machine that can pick some fruits. but I never minded it really course i was just a kid then

hi kashmeresmycat I just suddenly thought of that and how we laughed at the man with his just a cotton picking minute, is my cotton picking cotton picker fixed or not, need it yesterday. He laughed too a nd told us it was a lot better than cursing and we had to agree whole heartedly. I think that is one thing that is not raised in Calif b ut am not sure.

hi dawn my hubby and I got so used to hearing it in Ariz that when we move here we both used it all the time. sure sounds better than some cuss words.lol.

Yep, it sure does!

hi jdyrj777 I think maybe people move from the cotton growing states use that and it becomes sort of in the public domain so to speak. No I never heard of cotton being grown in the midwest either nor in my home state of South Dakota. I now live in Calfiornia.

Could have been like a slang or saying that people used for awhile. One person i heard use that saying was a cousin. Who was born and raised in Iowa and Minn. Slangs last a few years then change.

hi Theresaaiza yes I really do agree there, its just a funny term'yet people did get their irritation about something across. I get so sick of so many people here who have to ust The F word or resort to taking the name of the Lord in vain. its as though they have such a small vocabulary they cannot find any other way to express anger or frustration. Odd about the wo rd Cholera too. Must have been a real out break at one time.

hi theresaaiza yes I do not use the f word as i have found other better ways to communicate I am furious like I may be fat but my mother never raised an idiot like your mom did.that really stunned the woman who was trying to belittle me by asking if I knew I was overweight.She did leave in a hurry. We had been waiting in line and the clerk called the disappearing woman's name but she just walked ou. Gess sh did not like being called an idiot.

It is a big mystery to me too! Some of the other towns also have their own local expression and they're really funny of you knew my language. I once got influenced into using the F word, but I sure didn't mean to. When you hear people say it habitually, you just unintentionally get influenced by it as well. It's a good thing I always stopped myself before I mutter it.

hi lovinangels yes I think that it was used jn Beverly Hillbillies too. I got such a kick out of that series too. so much fun and my husband and I used to watch that all the time. I met the actor B uddy Ibsen who played Jeb once in a movie theatre and he was so nice,That was in the old historic movie Theatre In Newport Beach Calif. My sister blurted out that man looks like Jeb and I started to apologize and he said she is right young lady don't scold her. I am Buddy Ibsen He gave my sister an autographed photo of him. Such a really down to earth man. He was dressed in old clothes even. a very comfortable person to talk to and very well educated too.Not at all like the character he portrayed.lol.

Hiya Hatley, You must have both been thrilled to bits I know I would have been. I would have been thrilled to get to know any of the Cast as it was they were so funny. I imagine he was as you say he seemed to be that way as a Person in the Character. It´s such a shame that they don´t have the Series here at all. They gave us some great times watching them. Does your Sister still have the Photo then I know I would. If it were mine it would be stored away. I had a real letter written by Micky Dolenz of the Group "The Monkees" but it got burned along with other things I had. Price I had to pay for marrying my Spaniard that´s love for you. Is your Sister younger than you then?

hi fwidman yep I was right after all,its even been used here in Southern California after all, so in a cotton picking way I was no so far off after all.

hi bunnybon do not feel bad I have had that problem today too, and one response wiped out right in front of me and Ihit back and it did not help at all. Wow so now Cotton is the second biggest industry in Arizona wow.yes I can see the oranges as whenwe first came to Orange county there were orange groves here now most are gone. lol.

hi dorannmwin oh you know its really a lot better than the words so many people use now days. I have often used that when my children were little and keep your pants on, my hubby was always saying well don't get your panties in a knot. still better than the f word which I really really hate.oh he he nobodys younger than me. I just got back from my vision test and my left eye is pretty bad between macular degeneration and a cataract . the eye dr. said he did not feel removing the cataract in my left eye would do any good. But on t he other hand my right eye is still pretty good so I got a prescription for new glasses and will get them in a week.A lot of p eople cope well with one good eye and one not so good.

hi bounce I had never heard the expression until we moved to Tempe Arizona and everyone was letting go with that but ir really hit our funny bone when this man started in to say Just a Cotton picking minute, is my cotton picking cotton picker ready or not? I had to admit it was much cleaner than most of the cusswords we ordinarly use.

hi kumar yes that job of cutting branches sounds even tougher We watched people working in the cotton fields and it looked like a really back breaking work. I doubt if they grow any cotton here in California.I have not heard that phrase in years. but when we lived in Arizona they were really using the term.

hi oldchem Lancashire in the UK oh that makes me think of Witches.lol Thats funny even there they use that expression so it did get around a bit.The funny thing was we even got to n