A listener from Silver City, New Mexico, writes that when he was a child and pouted with his lower lip stuck out, his aunt would say “Stick that out a little farther, and I’ll write the Ten Commandments on it with a mop.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Response for a Pout”
Grant, I think you’ll appreciate this. We were talking a while back about pouting, and that prompted Tyler Connelly from Silver City, New Mexico, to write and tell us that when he was a little kid, his aunt used to say when he would pout, his aunt used to say, “Stick that out a little farther and I’ll write the Ten Commandments on it with a mop.”
Yeah, in my house we call that shelf lip.
Shelf lip? Yeah, you put the pout out there and you can set books on it.
Shelf lip, I like that. Yeah, I i did some digging on that. If you stick that lip out a little farther, you’ll step on it. I like that one too, but shelf lip, I like that family word. It’s like German.
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