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[John6185]

Hanging to me brings memories of reading stories of the old west and rustlers were hung. In fact, even today Grit has movies where hangings take place. It's history and it isn't racial-it's factual. That is jus the way they'd id it in the 1800's-they didn't have electric chairs...

 

[MacFromOK]

I'd forgotten about the "cotton pickin' mind" thing. I use that phrase myself, but given that all of the cotton pickers I know are a) white and b) related to me, anybody offended by that phrase are kindly invited to get over themselves.

Charlie Pride had a hit called "Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town."

Btw, he's black...

 

[okierider]

Just think before you say anything. You'd be out of your cotton picken mind not to.

I man you went and did it !! I gotta go get in my safe place , you said "cotten picken" !!

 

[SoonerP226]

Charlie Pride had a hit called "Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town."

Btw, he's black...

I never heard that one, but I know Roy Clark's I Never Picked Cotton by heart. In fact, about ten years ago, when I was standing in the cotton field up on the caprock that used to be my great-grandparents' farm, my mother's cousin's husband was telling me about "stripping cotton" when he was a kid. I told him that I'd used the Roy Clark method: I never picked cotton...

 

[Powerman620]

Anyone here ever hoed cotton or peanuts? You haven’t worked until you do it, hoe for a quarter of a mile , turn around and go back hoeing within one foot of where you just came. Always looking at the water jug at end of row, I was miss treated as a child.

 

[MacFromOK]

I never heard that one, but I know Roy Clark's I Never Picked Cotton by heart. In fact, about ten years ago, when I was standing in the cotton field up on the caprock that used to be my great-grandparents' farm, my mother's cousin's husband was telling me about "stripping cotton" when he was a kid. I told him that I'd used the Roy Clark method: I never picked cotton...

Lol, I never did either, nor do I think my older siblings did.

I've heard Dad tell many times how he and Mom either pulled or picked cotton when they were young. Apparently, Dad was pretty fast at pulling bolls, but Mom could beat him hands down "picking" it, where they removed the cotton from the bolls and then picked the seeds from the cotton.

Never felt like I missed much.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Anyone here ever hoed cotton or peanuts? You haven’t worked until you do it, hoe for a quarter of a mile , turn around and go back hoeing within one foot of where you just came. Always looking at the water jug at end of row, I was miss treated as a child.

Hell, I'm only 35 and hoed and picked miles of cotton for my cheap-@ss, hard-@ss grandpa in the 90's when the new minimum wage made help too expensive for him. Got the scars to prove it. It was only two harvests, but it was hell. He eventually bought an old stripper, and we all graduated to trailer trompers. I'll never step foot on a gin lot again.

 

[SoonerP226]

Anyone here ever hoed cotton or peanuts?

Can't say I did, but my grandpa raised "registered seed peanuts," so my dad had lots of experience with them. Dad said Grandpa raised cotton once, but that was it. Apparently, peanuts was a controlled crop, and you had to have some kind of allotment to raise them. Grandpa raised them until he got some bad advice about it and planted something else one year, then couldn't get back into peanuts. I was just a kid and don't know the details, but I remember him being hopping mad over it.

Haying is enough work for me, thanks. That's some hard damn work in the hottest part of the year...

 

[Subsonic]

Yolanda Price is the compainer’s Name and is a pre-k teacher in Lawton. She locked her Facebook down but has a picture on there where she is doing a shocker hand gesture. Talk about a classy person.

 

[Subsonic]