Can you guess what this is? Monster Hand? Green Rake?
what is your guess?
Answer at end
I grew up without ever hearing a curse word, not in our house, or church or neighborhood or in movies or at family reunions. None, Nada!
I did here a lot of
“ Dang it”
“ Dad Blast It”
“ Dagnabbit”
“ Dadgummit”
“ Crap”
“ Crapola”
“ Crud”
“H-E-Double LL”
“H-E-Double hockey sticks”
“What the heck? ”
“Cotton picking”
These were the words used when the desire to cure hit and we had to have replacement words
The answer is, the elephant ear in its final death throes.
It look liked this the last time i photographed it the end of May
Natures Drought Art
18 comments:
ew, poor thing. It was fun to guess though! I guessed that it was some kind of plant either coming or going.
Hari OM
Having had these in my Sydney garden, I recognised it straight away.
Like you, swear words were never heard in our childhood, so when in teen years at high school, some kids thought it clever to stretch the verbal envelope, there might have been some banged heads or clipped ears for the taking of that privilege! YAM xx
My guess was a dried out leaf of some kind. So I knew but not the exact type of leaf.
I have heard all of those words. My dad didn't swear at all, his substitute was "oh beans".
My guess was correct, I was going to say elephant ears.
It looks so sad, I hope you get some much needed rain.
Take care, enjoy your day!
I knew it was a plant, but I couldn’t narrow it down to species. As for swear words in childhood, I remember that one could learn all of them in the school yard, and perhaps I did. It’s not something that sticks in my mind, but it’s sad that people now display them on tee shirts and on protest flags. Remember January 6? When a sound track accompanied the videos it seemed that every second word was a swear word, and often of the grossly graphic variety. Maybe that’s the extent of the vocabulary of an insurrectionist. But not to worry boys, Trump will pardon you and you’ll get to scream them all over again and beat on a few cops while you do it. Ah, democracy!
I heard a lot of those words...
Cussing was strictly discouraged in my home growing up- I rarely heard any and when I did it was usually said in an argument that I didn't want to hear anyway! I recognized that dying elephant ear!
OMDs MS it did look just like a rake.
For some reason the last photo of the brown and green is quite interesting too.
No the Mayberry's Cafe is a chain, not sure where it got its name.
Hugs Cecilia
I was going to guess that creepy kudzu. Weird, isn't it, how its green and healthy looking, even in death.
I'll never forget the first time my parents heard me say "Sh**" ...learned at college. Mom: "You weren't raised that way."
My dad would occasionally exclaim, "Son of a biscuit" and the little girl that was me would wonder, what the biscuits had done to make him so mad.
Oh my goodness - water is so important to life! That is sad.
couldn’t guess I’m afraid...it looked like an odd thing inside those green leaves
Being brought up in New Jersey, I hear more than my share of cursing..a lot of it coming from my Mother's mouth LOL. It took a LONG time to curb my cursing when I moved to Texas...
We sure hope your pretty clouds bring rain to your area and end your drought.
There never was cursing in our home growing up or any where I went. Some I heard at school from the "BAD" boys.
Darn was used a lot as was Dang by me but thinking about it I don't really ever remember hearing my parents using the slang terms either.
I was right that it is an elephant ear leaf. So sad but the first photo is pretty artsy.
Sue
Those words sound familiar to me. I know I have used some of them but not for a long time. I didn't hear swear words when I was young. Wow, that leaf is really dramatic when it dies.
Nature is amazing! Great photos!
I never heard many swear words until my 40's, when I went back to work after staying at home with Kaitlin. How things have changed!
The death of the elephant ear plant leaf was a good photo topic, Sandra. I have heard some of the terms you mentioned and when we lived in VA, a frequent one was "Bless his heart" which we later learned meant "he's an idiot" but it was a nicer way of saying that.
Yep, that elephant ear is a goner!
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