About herself:

• We were so poor we couldn’t buy the echo off a steamship.
• I danced so hard my feet almost fell off.
• Around noon I’ll just fix me a dirty bite to eat.
• I ate so much I was plum P. H. U. L.
• These garters are too tight.

• Be careful how you hang your clothes on the line; neighbors are watching.
• Always add a pinch of sugar when cooking vegetables.
• Right often, take your rugs out and beat the tar out of ‘em.
• Them that has, gets.

• That gal has a country mouth!
• She’ll spark on the front porch for all the world to see.
• A proper lady always carries a handkerchief in her pocketbook.
• Her mama obviously didn’t teach her not to be eating while walking down the street.
• Her bangs look like Mamie Eisenhower.
• She has legs like a piano stool.
• If she tells you her age, she’ll tell anything.
• She’s as cheap as a Cracker Jack prize.

• Now, honey, you’re sick. Doncha get up and fan around.
• If you cross your eyes, they will very well stay that way.
• That television is being turned off right now; you are not going to look at that Elvis Presley.
• Miss Priss, that’s too much rouge.
• Grandpa’s waiting! Shake a leg.
• Shut the door on the icebox.
• Don’t jump on the divan.
• Never ever chew gum in public.
• Sit here and help me tally up the laundry.
• Quit plundering in the buffet drawer!
• Don’t drink from somebody else’s glass – you’ll get trench mouth.
• Don’t bang the screen door and don’t let the flies in.
• You’re my little jellyroll!

Let’s hope he’s right!