You’ll Be in Deep Yogurt!

Hello, you have A Way with Words.

Hello, my name is Daniel.

I’m from Nicholasville, Kentucky, and thanks for having me on.

Welcome to the show, Daniel. What can we do for you?

Well, my father was raised by his grandfather in rural Madison County, Kentucky,

And he had lots of sayings that he used as a farmer and a shop owner,

And one of them was when my dad got in trouble, he’d say,

You’re in deep yogurt. And I was just wondering where that came from. Deep yogurt. Was that a

Special kind of trouble that he was in or it was just regular old trouble? It was just regular

Troubles. Okay. And how deep was that yogurt? I don’t know. He was a milkman. Oh, was he now?

Okay. So he knew yogurt. You know, I’m thinking about all the other terms, Daniel, for this sort

Thing. I’m wondering if being in deep yogurt is worse than being in deep doo-doo.

Which is another. I imagine it was a nicer way of saying that. Yeah. And we all know the term we

Can’t say on the air, which I think comes to mind. A deep foo-foo is another way to put it.

Yeah. Was your grandfather careful about his language?

He was. He was raised in a Christian family. They raised walker hounds.

Well, that would explain some of it.

It’s definitely a nicer way rather than using the four-letter word beginning with an S.

And you’ll find that deep yogurt gets the point across without having to offend anyone’s sensibilities.

Right.

But yeah, possibly by comparison to bird poo is the thing with deep yogurt

Because yogurt does look a lot like you’ve been splattered by a pigeon, you know, if it spills on you.

Okay.

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, our pleasure, Daniel.

Thank you for sharing your memory as a grandfather.

That’s what it was.

Anybody who’s careful with their speech and avoids those four-letter words

Is probably going to have a whole stock of those more polite expressions

To express a little bit of dissatisfaction.

Okay.

Take care now.

You too. Bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye, Daniel.

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