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Don't bend over in the garden cause them taters got eyes
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Tobacco juice will ease a wasp sting.
Truth.
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"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
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For poison ivy/oak Granny would scrub it till it was raw then put a paste of coffee and baking soda mixed together.Burnt like a son of a gun but it worked.
"My dear brothers,take note of this:Everyone should be quick to listen,slow to speak and slow to become angry..."James 1:19
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Something my dad used to say;
The sun don't shine on the same dogs a$$ all of the time. My dad use to say; Your alligator mouth is going to overload your jaybird ass. And it usually did.
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Backer juice will take the pain away from wasp stings. And bees too. This one absolutely works.
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."
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My Grandma would put Milk on our Sunburns.
I once saw the same Grandma Take a jar of bacon grease an coat a kitten in it. She said the bacon grease got rid of fleas.. and it did.
X2 on the tobacco. I used that trick many of times
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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04/15/14 04:23 PM
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& of course, who could forget that Tomato Juice gets rid of skunk spray odor.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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read in a book on "ol' timey home remedies" once that sitting naked on a freshly saw pine stump would help treat hemmorhoids. ...it didn't say anything what to do about the sap that got to "other" places. Same book...kill a chicken and split the breast, hold the split meat to a rattlesnake bite to draw out the venom. The meat should turn a greenish color as it draws the venom.
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
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04/15/14 04:30 PM
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oh my wifes grandmother has some tall ones if you wash clothes on new years you will wash a family member away. if you eat greens on new years you will make alot of money the next year. playing with my wifes boobs will give her breast cancer. if her hand itches some company is coming to her house unannounced.
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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04/15/14 04:30 PM
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Makes sense when my wife holds her breasts against me it draws out my "venom".
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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04/15/14 04:31 PM
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A few drops of urine in your ear will cure a earache.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
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04/15/14 04:32 PM
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My grandmomma use to say, if you hear a screech owl, somebody you know will die within 3 days. She had a lot of those old sayings. She fully believed them too. More:
If the wind is out of the east for 3 days, it will rain in spite of hell.
Black wooly worms are a sign of a cold winter.
If your nose itches, somebody is coming for a visit.
I'm sure I'll remember more later.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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04/15/14 04:34 PM
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playing with my wifes boobs will give her breast cancer. I'm not gonna say how I know this, but I've got a really, really good idea that that one is false.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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I know this one to be true. Worked at an oil field fabrication company during the summers when I was In highschool, one old guys clothes were noticeably less stained than mine were. He told me when you get oil or grease on your clothes if you don't want to rurn them gojo or fast orange without the pumice rubbed with a stiff brush will cut grease better than anything
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Oh and if you wear is boxer shorts your thang will hang down to your knee.
That was a lie
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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playing with my wifes boobs will give her breast cancer. I'm not gonna say how I know this, but I've got a really, really good idea that that one is false. You know TFD's wife? NO! but I do know mine...
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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well she aint got breast cancer yet and ive put some miles on those puppies
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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04/15/14 05:48 PM
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A tea bag on a bad tooth will draw the infection out.
Paint a beach ball black and spray with contact cement and hang in the yard and your yellow fly problem will be solved.
Fill a zip-loc bag with water and hang in doorway and it'll keep flys from coming in.
Hunt'em hard when they are hard to hunt but never, ever hardly hunt!
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Fill a zip-loc bag with water and hang in doorway and it'll keep flys from coming in.
you know you gotta put a penny in there too. duh
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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I know this one to be true. Worked at an oil field fabrication company during the summers when I was In highschool, one old guys clothes were noticeably less stained than mine were. He told me when you get oil or grease on your clothes if you don't want to rurn them gojo or fast orange without the pumice rubbed with a stiff brush will cut grease better than anything when I worked on an oil field supply boat we would coat our face and arms with Vaseline when we had to pull the deck boards after drill mud spills. The tar and drill mud wouldn't stick and the Vaseline was easier to wash off than either the drill mud or the tar(ospho).
Hunt'em hard when they are hard to hunt but never, ever hardly hunt!
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Fill a zip-loc bag with water and hang in doorway and it'll keep flys from coming in.
you know you gotta put a penny in there too. duh We were too poor to afford a penny.
Hunt'em hard when they are hard to hunt but never, ever hardly hunt!
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We were too poor to afford a penny.
Hell I had to sell the bags to buy the water, then all was lost.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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Backer juice will take the pain away from wasp stings. This one works
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When I was young my mom would give me a spoon of sorghum syrup mixed with powder sulfur in the spring for chiggers and other bugs.
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I am lucky, I don't have as far to go as I have been!
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Pee on your feet to cure atheletes feet
Jesus died for you,what are you doing for him?
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04/16/14 03:12 AM
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I once saw the same Grandma Take a jar of bacon grease an coat a kitten in it. She said the bacon grease got rid of fleas.. and it did.
No doubt.......along with the kitten too once the neighbors German Sheppard got a whiff of it
not sure what the best way to handle them is but they shouldnt be on tv and gettn married and raisin kids
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04/16/14 03:20 AM
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The cadium layer of the bark of a dogwood tree..... Just chew on it a while to get rid of heartburn.
Live everyday like its your last
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It is interesting how many of these have a basis in fact. A few drops of urine in an ear ache will draw out the fluid build up behind the ear drum. Urine is sterile (usually) when it is fresh, but sweet oil drops will do the same thing and don't have the yuck factor. Dog wood bark was used by our native Americans for many things because it contains a natural form of aspirin. I have used tobacco juice on a wasp bite many times, the nicotine is a pain reliever, and is one reason man old folks chewed it, to relieve the pain of a bad tooth, or a mouth full of them. a whole clove will also reduce the pain of a tooth ache. Elderberry wine is good for old horses and old men because it contains a heart drug we use today. Putting a chicken breast on a snake bite is like another remedy, putting a piece of liver on the snake bite. that was the basis of the story the Yearling bu Marguerite Rawlings. The daddy got bitten by a cotton mouth (I think, maybe a cane break rattlesnake) and he killed a doe with a fawn to use the liver to take the poison out of the bite. Daddy survived, the boy got the fawn. Cob webs do stop bleeding, sugar will keep a cut from getting infected. A past of baking soda let to dry on poison ivy will draw out the poison and dry it up. I have not heard of adding the coffee, but the caffeine might be a vaso-restricter. There are a lot of old remedies out there that work, there are a lot that don't, and a lot that hurt more than cure. I tend to trust my Dr. rather that the old granny woman.
Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees Stonewall Jackson Hug your loved ones often, Life is short even on its longest days. I don't see the glass as half full or half empty. I just finish it and order another.
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04/16/14 06:29 AM
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urine in a bad ear really works.I personally have never had an earache but I have family thats swears by it.my grandad always use to tell me that if you can get close enough to put salt on a birds tale you can catch it.I wasted alot of salt when I was a kid only to realize when I got older that yeah you can catch a bird if your close enough to put salt on its tail.lol
Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation,whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life;of whom shall I be afraid?
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Tractor Supply has a lip balm called"Chicken Poop"
Psalm 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation,whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life;of whom shall I be afraid?
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Here are some of the one's I can remember. -urine will cure an ear ache/stopped up ear -tobacco will cure pain from a bee sting -burnt (used) motor oil rubbed on a dog with the mange will cure it -put kerosene on a cut to promote healing and stop infection -put salt directly on an ulcer -death's come in threes
I could probably think of a lot more if I put my mind to it.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Here are some of the one's I can remember. -urine will cure an ear ache/stopped up ear -tobacco will cure pain from a bee sting -burnt (used) motor oil rubbed on a dog with the mange will cure it -put kerosene on a cut to promote healing and stop infection -put salt directly on an ulcer -death's come in threes
I could probably think of a lot more if I put my mind to it. J The used motor oil WILL cure the mange.
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Iodine or mucuracone......would heal anything and alum on snake bites
Let them walk ...and grow them big
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Here are some of the one's I can remember. -urine will cure an ear ache/stopped up ear -tobacco will cure pain from a bee sting -burnt (used) motor oil rubbed on a dog with the mange will cure it -put kerosene on a cut to promote healing and stop infection -put salt directly on an ulcer -death's come in threes
I could probably think of a lot more if I put my mind to it. I've heard all of those. Never tried the urine in the ear before though. I'm just not that flexible.
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Sore feet = soak em in epson salt Seen an ol timer put wd40 on his knee for the arthritus
For without victory, there is no survival
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04/16/14 02:17 PM
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Here are some of the one's I can remember. -urine will cure an ear ache/stopped up ear -tobacco will cure pain from a bee sting -burnt (used) motor oil rubbed on a dog with the mange will cure it -put kerosene on a cut to promote healing and stop infection -put salt directly on an ulcer -death's come in threes
I could probably think of a lot more if I put my mind to it. J The used motor oil WILL cure the mange. Used motor oil from a diesel will cure the mange
Yeah c’mon. Daniel White
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04/16/14 02:45 PM
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I saw this with my own eyes. When I was little, we had a red bird in our bay window pecking on it for several days. Momma told us that there would be a death in the family soon. Couple days after the bird left, my step-grandmother died.
Sad to say that we are loosing some of these older sayings and remedies. Sorry to hear about your step-grandmom . Its funny you mention about the bird pecking on the window...about 3 years ago we had this finch/oriole/ something or other that would fly right up to our bedroom window and because he would see his reflection of himself, he would try to attack what he thought was another bird,...I guess it was mating season for them because it was mid springtime. Well this got really really old after about 5 days of this crap,especially before you would wake up in the morning!! He would actually be loud enough to get me up outta bed. Sooooo,.. I reckon the ol saying is somewhat right cause after 5 days of that chit I got my Benjamin 22 pump pellet rifle out and that very same bird did in fact die that same day!!
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Heard the hornets nest last year for the first time.
In order to determine the sex of an unborn baby. Simply tie a ring on a string and apparently whether it spins righty or lefty determines if its a boy or girl
For without victory, there is no survival
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Re: Old folk medicine, sayings, etc
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04/16/14 02:55 PM
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Honey bee stings help with arthritis pain. I know a guy who swears by it. I have seen my grandpa get some bad cuts and he would use turpentine and sugar. He never went to the doctor. My grandma had paw pull one of her teeth with a pair of pliers. She was a tough woman. I've had arthritis since I was about 22, and bee stings DO help, if close to or on the affected joint.
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
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04/16/14 02:59 PM
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I saw this with my own eyes. When I was little, we had a red bird in our bay window pecking on it for several days. Momma told us that there would be a death in the family soon. Couple days after the bird left, my step-grandmother died.
Sad to say that we are loosing some of these older sayings and remedies. Sorry to hear about your step-grandmom . Its funny you mention about the bird pecking on the window...about 3 years ago we had this finch/oriole/ something or other that would fly right up to our bedroom window and because he would see his reflection of himself, he would try to attack what he thought was another bird,...I guess it was mating season for them because it was mid springtime. Well this got really really old after about 5 days of this crap,especially before you would wake up in the morning!! He would actually be loud enough to get me up outta bed. Sooooo,.. I reckon the ol saying is somewhat right cause after 5 days of that chit I got my Benjamin 22 pump pellet rifle out and that very same bird did in fact die that same day!! LOL I probably killed 2 dozen red birds, mockingbirds, and blue jays over the years when I lived @ my parents' house for pecking on the window. They were like frigging drug dealers...kill one and there were two waiting to take his place!
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
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04/16/14 03:02 PM
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Honey bee stings help with arthritis pain. I know a guy who swears by it. I have seen my grandpa get some bad cuts and he would use turpentine and sugar. He never went to the doctor. My grandma had paw pull one of her teeth with a pair of pliers. She was a tough woman. Turpentine and sugar for a worm remedy also. I've never tried this one but my wife said that her Grandma used to worm all of the grandkids occasionally, just in case.
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04/16/14 03:10 PM
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I seen a show some time back about people with arthritis going to an acupuncture type outfit for bee stings. Pretty interesting. Most of the 40 ingredients in bee venom have been identified," says Cohen. "Mellitin, an anti-inflammatory agent found in the venom, is one hundred times stronger than cortisone
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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Re: Old folk medicine, sayings, etc
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04/16/14 03:19 PM
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My B.I.L. grandad would stick a penny down the dogs throat to deworm them. And said it would also keep them from getting worms in the future
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04/16/14 03:49 PM
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I stayed in the woods for a spring with a old man "Buford Stitcher" learning about herbs, their was way to much to keep up with. But a few I remember:
Yellow Root tea cures all ailments Chew on green pine needles to stop coughing smoke rabbit tobacco to clear sinuses make tea out of saw briar for testosterone Chew sasafrass bark for sore tooth BoarHog Root is natural Viagra
"You do and it will be the biggest mistake you ever made, you Texas brush popper" John Wayne
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04/16/14 06:31 PM
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If you plant a weeping willow, when it gets big enough to cover your grave you will die.
Ground up mud dobber nest for diaper rash. ( Negative)
Never, ever start something on a Friday! My Great Grandmother said so!
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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04/16/14 06:40 PM
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I seen a show some time back about people with arthritis going to an acupuncture type outfit for bee stings. Pretty interesting. Most of the 40 ingredients in bee venom have been identified," says Cohen. "Mellitin, an anti-inflammatory agent found in the venom, is one hundred times stronger than cortisone I should never get arthritis then. I've been stung 6 times by honeybees in the past 2 weeks.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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04/16/14 06:41 PM
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If a child has asthma plant a sourwood sappling. When the grows to be taller than the child, the child won't have asthma anymore.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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04/17/14 03:46 AM
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if a child has astma get a chiwahwa. but if the astma is to bad it will kill the dog. so sometimes you have to keep getting chiwahwas till one finally lives then the astma will be gone
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Re: Old folk medicine, sayings, etc
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04/17/14 04:24 AM
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"Well then you can just get glad in the same britchs you got mad in.'
LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!! - - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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04/17/14 04:46 AM
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"Well then you can just get glad in the same britchs you got mad in.' I'm using that on my girls...they will HATE it.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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[Re: Bigbamaboy]
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04/17/14 05:13 AM
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If the suns shinning and it's raining the devil's beating his wife.
A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Re: Old folk medicine, sayings, etc
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04/17/14 05:15 AM
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-Clothes don't make a man. -Don't let your mouth write a check your a$$ can't cover. -There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Tobacco indeed does take pain from wasp stings.
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AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
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04/17/14 08:19 AM
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When my mom (she's 90 now - that's unimportant but it shows how old this remedy is) was a little girl she got a wart on her index finger. The family maid, who had grandparents who were slaves (this remedy is supposed to come from slave folklore), mixed up a salve of a few kitchen ingredients and bacon grease. She covered the wart in the salve and then wrapped the hair from a horse's tail around it several times and tied it off. That was wrapped in a linen bandage and left untouched for 5 days. The wart fell off and never grew back. Calf dehorning paste will get rid of one in 10 minutes if you're a big enough boy to stand the pain for the last 7 minutes
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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04/17/14 08:41 AM
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When my mom (she's 90 now - that's unimportant but it shows how old this remedy is) was a little girl she got a wart on her index finger. The family maid, who had grandparents who were slaves (this remedy is supposed to come from slave folklore), mixed up a salve of a few kitchen ingredients and bacon grease. She covered the wart in the salve and then wrapped the hair from a horse's tail around it several times and tied it off. That was wrapped in a linen bandage and left untouched for 5 days. The wart fell off and never grew back. i cut a wart of my elbow with a razor blade and cortarized it with a cigar. never came back
For without victory, there is no survival
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[Re: goodman_hunter]
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04/17/14 09:06 AM
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I did the same thing when I was 14 but with a soldering iron.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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04/17/14 09:10 AM
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11 is a little young for LSD IMO.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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04/17/14 09:15 AM
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I dont know what or how he did it but when I was young I had a distant cousin that could talk warts off. I was about 11 and I had warts on my feet and one on my hand. The ones on my feet (probably 15 or so in a couple of patches) hurt when playing sports. I didn't think it was possible to remove them because we had tried several medications. He moved his hands over them while mumbling something in a very low voice. Within a week maybe two they were gone. Darndest thing I have seen happen to this day. I had an Aunt that did basically the same thing. I had them all over both my hands and they were gone by the next week.
"Don't let a dead deer kill ya"
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04/17/14 09:29 AM
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11 is a little young for LSD IMO. I dont know if it was the LSD or something I caught in Saudi Arabia.
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04/17/14 09:36 AM
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-Don't let your mouth write a check your a$$ can't cover.
Dr. B
This is a good one. My mouth still writes those checks.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near"
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04/17/14 10:31 AM
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Couple more classics "Because I said so". When you kids Ask "what for?"...... "Cat fur to make kitten britchs, thats whats for"
LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!! - - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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04/17/14 02:01 PM
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You fulla blue water.... never have found out what that one meant...
Did you know that Beer Nutz are over a Dollar...and Deer Nutz are under a Buck...
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04/17/14 03:04 PM
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Chew on a Southern Spined Ash tree branch and it will stop a tooth ache. I have always heard it referred to as Indian Toothache trees.
Another old saying we always used to go by was the signs. We always castrated hogs and cattle when the sign was right. Never have any surgery when the sign isn't right or you can bleed to death.
I can't stand a thief.
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04/17/14 04:33 PM
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The ring on a string deal over your wrist works...my two girls were predicted as well as us doing it to several other couples we know. They all came out right.
Last edited by TChunter; 04/17/14 04:33 PM.
On the Eighth day God created flounder.
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Here's an oldie my Grandmaw would say about someone bragging on their kids or grandkids.
"Every old crow thinks his little uns are the blackest".
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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When my mom (she's 90 now - that's unimportant but it shows how old this remedy is) was a little girl she got a wart on her index finger. The family maid, who had grandparents who were slaves (this remedy is supposed to come from slave folklore), mixed up a salve of a few kitchen ingredients and bacon grease. She covered the wart in the salve and then wrapped the hair from a horse's tail around it several times and tied it off. That was wrapped in a linen bandage and left untouched for 5 days. The wart fell off and never grew back. Calf dehorning paste will get rid of one in 10 minutes if you're a big enough boy to stand the pain for the last 7 minutes Dang, Fur! What the crap is in that stuff?
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Re: Old folk medicine, sayings, etc
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Dont let that mockingbird mouth overload that hummingbird a $$
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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04/18/14 04:01 AM
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My grandmother would eat Vaseline for stomach ulcers and diverticulitis. I was sitting there one day as a teenager and she had a Sams size jar of Vaseline sitting on the counter. I made a comment on it and she said "Oh, that reminds me" and took a spoon and got a big scoop and swallowed it....
My mom and grandmother both put a fingerful of Vick's Salve in their mouth way back between their cheek and gums at bedtime to clear their sinuses while they slept.
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My grandmother would eat Vaseline for stomach ulcers and diverticulitis. I was sitting there one day as a teenager and she had a Sams size jar of Vaseline sitting on the counter. I made a comment on it and she said "Oh, that reminds me" and took a spoon and got a big scoop and swallowed it. I wish I had the look on my face when I saw that one for the first time.
My grandad would use horse liniment on his knees when they hurt.
Tomato juice bath for poison Ivy. Clorox bath for chiggers. I bet she was never constipated
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