Your Feet Don’t Fit a Limb

A listener reports that when his Kentucky-born grandmother heard anyone say Who, me? she’d respond Your feet don’t fit a limb. It’s a pun on the sound an owl makes. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Your Feet Don’t Fit a Limb”

We heard from Brent Williams who says that his grandmother from Kentucky was fond of the phrase,

“Your feet don’t fit a limb.”

As in a limb of being one of your legs?

Or a limb on a tree?

A limb on a tree. It was her response whenever anyone said, “Who, me?”

And Brent says, it took me and my brothers an embarrassing amount of time to realize that it was a reference to an owl.

Oh, gotcha.

I looked this up.

This is actually a phrase that plenty of people use.

When somebody says, “Who? Me?”

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