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The devil is beating his wife #6251753 03/04/12 Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 16,740 littoral North Carolina shreck OP Campfire Ranger OP shreck Campfire Ranger Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 16,740 littoral North Carolina Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? A government is the most dangerous threat to man�s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6251777 03/04/12 Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 16,032 Leon County Texas Boggy Creek Ranger Campfire Ranger Boggy Creek Ranger Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 16,032 Leon County Texas Never heard that one but have heard raining and the sun shining rain again tomorrow. Quando Omni Moritati

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6251850 03/04/12 Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 8,573 Northwest corner of Louisiana W websterparish47 Campfire Outfitter websterparish47 Campfire Outfitter W Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 8,573 Northwest corner of Louisiana Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Yep, All us kid "knew" that in the '50s.

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6251862 03/04/12 Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 72 East Tennessee MHCT48 Campfire Greenhorn MHCT48 Campfire Greenhorn Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 72 East Tennessee Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? I remember my Grandmother saying that when I was little....lots of years ago.... Live so that it matters that you have lived at all....

Re: The devil is beating his wife MHCT48 #6252039 03/04/12 Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 4,896 Huntsville, Alabama travelingman1 Campfire Tracker travelingman1 Campfire Tracker Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 4,896 Huntsville, Alabama Just said that to my wife yesterday and she wanted to know what I was talking about. TM Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~

Re: The devil is beating his wife travelingman1 #6252081 03/04/12 Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 675 Running With The Hounds C Cabriolet Campfire Regular Cabriolet Campfire Regular C Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 675 Running With The Hounds Devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan. South East Georgia, 1950's. Survivor of the 13th Original Colony, I escaped on December 17, 1968.

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252111 03/04/12 Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL T LEE Campfire Kahuna T LEE Campfire Kahuna Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 73,096 Punta Gorda, FL We just call them "sunshowers" down here. George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you! Old cat turd! "Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison. I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252227 03/04/12 Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,700 Likes: 3 Kentucky C CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger C Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,700 Likes: 3 Kentucky Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Yep, got that one from my Papaw, and I have passed in on to my son. I don't even have to say it anymore. Tide Jr, just offers it up, whenever he sees rain falling and the sun shining at the same time. "The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252253 03/04/12 Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama .280Rem Campfire Outfitter .280Rem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Yep War Damn Eagle!

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252258 03/04/12 Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 53,303 Southeastern AZ crossfireoops Campfire Kahuna crossfireoops Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 53,303 Southeastern AZ Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Yes Sir,..., Louisiana, as a pup. GTC Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252345 03/04/12 Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 28,227 Likes: 1 Central CA Barkoff Campfire Ranger Barkoff Campfire Ranger Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 28,227 Likes: 1 Central CA Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Can't say I've ever heard it, or even get the analogy.

Re: The devil is beating his wife Barkoff #6252352 03/04/12 Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,973 Alaska Maverick940 Campfire Regular Maverick940 Campfire Regular Joined: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,973 Alaska Originally Posted by Barkoff Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Can't say I've ever heard it, or even get the analogy. Because there isn't one. It's just another of those "down home" American phrases like so many others that make little if any literate sense, such as; "It's a frog strangler out!".

Re: The devil is beating his wife Barkoff #6252372 03/04/12 Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama .280Rem Campfire Outfitter .280Rem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama Originally Posted by Barkoff Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? Can't say I've ever heard it, or even get the analogy. It's not an analogy, it's a southern saying. War Damn Eagle!

Re: The devil is beating his wife Maverick940 #6252376 03/04/12 Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 796 Magnolia Bluff, FL R Ron Campfire Regular Ron Campfire Regular R Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 796 Magnolia Bluff, FL Grew up hearing it...I'm 66. Capt Ron Magnolia Bluff, FL..............Where Heaven is a local call! ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252405 03/04/12 Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 33,971 VA 2 SC byc Campfire 'Bwana byc Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 33,971 VA 2 SC Absolutely!! And it scared the dickens out of us. As well as there's a man in the moon and he was put there for burning trash on Sundays. Often times the dark image did indeed look like that of a mans head. Proud to be a true Sandlapper!! Go Nats!!!!

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252452 03/04/12 Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,141 Likes: 2 Freedom Pugs Campfire Ranger Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,141 Likes: 2 Freedom Originally Posted by shreck Anybody ever heard that used when it's raining but the sun is shining? My Mom (born and bred Texan and now 72) use to use it. I used it last summer and my American-Irish wife looked at me like I was crazy. She had never heard it before. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: The devil is beating his wife Pugs #6252455 03/04/12 Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama .280Rem Campfire Outfitter .280Rem Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 13,760 Alabama http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_80.html War Damn Eagle!

Re: The devil is beating his wife .280Rem #6252502 03/04/12 Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,141 Likes: 2 Freedom Pugs Campfire Ranger Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,141 Likes: 2 Freedom Originally Posted by .280Rem http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_80.html That's a fascinating site! Some others. What do you call a milkshake? http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_63.html What do you call that little bug that rolls up (for me a Roly Poly) http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_74.html If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: The devil is beating his wife Pugs #6252597 03/04/12 Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 16,740 littoral North Carolina shreck OP Campfire Ranger OP shreck Campfire Ranger Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 16,740 littoral North Carolina A pill bug? Rolly Pollys when we were kids. A government is the most dangerous threat to man�s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Re: The devil is beating his wife shreck #6252610 03/04/12 Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,700 Likes: 3 Kentucky C CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger CrimsonTide Campfire Ranger C Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 21,700 Likes: 3 Kentucky We called them sowbugs, but I've heard them called roly poly's too. "The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them." -Master Chief Hershel Davis