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WePurrsevere

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1. Actually your mom has a great analogy...

Reply to Croney (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:53 AM

Jan 2017

I grew up in the north playing in a nearby creek that had oodles of crawfish/crawdads and they can not only forward but can walk and swim very fast backwards too. To go fast they just tuck their tale underneath go.

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Message from my 94-year-old Louisiana mom [View all] Croney Jan 2017 OP

Actually your mom has a great analogy... WePurrsevere Jan 2017 #1

You're right! Croney Jan 2017 #2

I love some of the old sayings. I'd never heard the crawfish one before... WePurrsevere Jan 2017 #3

Yup! 2naSalit Jan 2017 #4

if you reach down to pick up a crawfish d_r Jan 2017 #5

"Crawfishin' out of the deal" is a common South Louisiana phrase Jimbo101 Feb 2017 #6