Hello Everyone!
It is actually a decent Friday here in New York City. I’m happy for sweater to t-shirt weather. I have officially stopped wearing my jacket to work. My goal is to no longer wear the jacket until October. How’s the day going for you on your side of the globe today? I’ve had another busy this week both at work and after work. I’m reminding you yet again that my first children’s book “Not All Girls Play With Dolls” is available in e-book, paperback, and hardcover on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes. The same reminder goes for my first adult book entitled, “Construction Tales: Volume I: A Woman’s Journey To Become An Electrician”. I’m sharing with you another slice of Quora advice. I’m honored to be giving you even more reading material while on the toilet. Your secret is safe with me and the other fellow readers. Let’s read this quick and go back to work. 😛 This Quora advice is on the phrase, “you couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a beach ball”. I heard the phrase used by the elders as a kid growing up in Oregon. Out in Oregon, hunting is a major thing that the average person does. Many people do it for survival purposes. Growing up, I ate deer meat, fish, crab, salmon, and other things we caught in the wild. Therefore, being a good aim is vital for many families in order to survive in many parts of the world. Many people start their kids out with learning about firearms very young as well. I shot my first firearm at 7-years-old. I hunted my first deer by the time I was 12-years-old. As a New York City transplant now for many years, hunting is not something that I hear many folks do. I have ran into a few fellow construction workers who share their “tree stand” stories. My dad would never have allowed me to just sit in a tree and wait for the deer to show up. I had to draw them out, via doing sweeps up and down the side of the mountain. We would camp in the middle of nowhere and hunt for an entire week. I honestly don’t recall a fellow New Yorker ever saying that phrase to me. That doesn’t mean that people do not know the phrase here in New York. It’s quite possibly an old time saying that could be dying out. We have new vocabulary that takes over our society all of the time. Some of it can be thrown straight in the trash. My grandparents were kids during the Depression so they saw the world differently. My grandmother washed aluminum foil and plastic bags. My grandmother spoke about living in a barn or a cabin when she was a young woman in Michigan. I did have a great aunt who owned a dairy farm back in Oregon too. I cannot possibly remember all of there catch phrases. However, I do remember hearing the phrase “were you born in a barn?” when I left the door open as a kid. Are these phrases spoken in your part of the globe? Is it possible that there is another interpretation of the main phrase that is the chosen topic? Let me know your thoughts about this phrase by dropping you comments in the comment section down below. Without giving any more away, go ahead and check out the question and my response down below:
POSED QUESTION:
“What is the meaning of the saying, “you couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a beach ball”?”
By Moohaumed Habib
MY RESPONSE:
“Haha!! I remember hearing that phrase from my grandma or my dad as a kid- minus the beach ball. The beach ball adds another humorous layer to the phrase. The phrase is used to describe a person with very poor aim. This could be with a fire arm or as simple as trying to throw a basketball or even pitch a baseball. The term is believed to have originated back in the mid-nineteenth century- within the military. It was often repeated in the early twentieth century, when it was applied to untalented baseball pitchers who could not throw the ball over the plate with any consistency. The “broad side” in this expression also suggests the old naval meaning of broadside, that is, a simultaneous discharge of all the guns on one side of a warship. Adding a beach ball to the mix makes it even harder since beach balls are light in nature. They are very hard to control when trying to aim at anything. We would be correct in assuming, depending on the distance, that being accurate with a beach ball is impossible. I sure wish you luck with trying! #ConstructionTales #NotAllGirlsPlayWithDolls #VerballyDisastrous”
By Leslie M. Jasper
Link To Construction Tales: Volume I: A Woman’s Journey To Become An Electrician (Paperback & Kindle) On Amazon:
Link To Construction Tales: A Young Person’s Guide To Accomplish Anything In Life (Paperback & Kindle) On Amazon:
U.S.A.: Use This Link For The Audio Version Of My Book #ConstructionTales On Audible:
United Kingdom: Use This Link For The Audio Version Of My Book #ConstructionTales On Audible:
France, Belgium, Switzerland: Use This Link For The Audio Version Of My Book #ConstructionTales On Audible:
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Use This Link For The Audio Version Of My Book #ConstructionTales On Audible:
VERBALLY DISASTROUS PODCAST EPISODE LINKS:
Here is the link to the Verbally Disastrous Podcast on Spotify:
Verbally Disastrous! Season #1, Episode #43: Part A- Tramping In Cali! on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous! Season #1, Episode #44: Part B- Tramping In Cali! on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous! Season #1, Episode #45: Part C- Tramping In Cali! on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous! Season #2, Episode #46:Early Life Lessons & Characters To Meet As An Apprentice On YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous Podcast! S#2, Ep. #47: Part A- Juggling Motherhood & Working With The Tools on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous Podcast! S#2, Ep. #48: Part B- Juggling Motherhood & Working With The Tools on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous Podcast- S#2, Episode #49: Just Released Not All Girls Play With Dolls!! on YouTube:
Verbally Disastrous Podcast- S#2, Episode #50: My First 7 Weeks As A Site Safety Manager on YouTube:
I recently shared my latest short story that has been loaded up to my Construction Tales-Told By A Woman Kindle Vella Library on Amazon. This is short story #11 entitled, “Juggling Motherhood & Working With The Tools”. This short story covers my life as a widowed, single mother in the era when I juggled both motherhood and my career as a journeywoman electrician. I share the various challenges I faced and lessons learned along the way. The previous short story is entitled: #10: “Early Life Lessons & Characters To Meet As An Apprentice”. I decided to write about some life lessons such as guarding your personal information, managing nasty rumors, combating sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and racism. Overall, the construction culture has improved dramatically over the past 25-years. Developing both a thick skin and a sharp tongue are key tools needed to survive various jobsite antics. I hope you learn something from this short story. There are more to come. These short stories are now also available as Verbally Disastrous podcast episodes.
Construction Tales- Told By A Woman: (11) Kindle Vella Short Stories On Amazon!!
The Verbally Disastrous Store On Tee-Spring:
https://my-store-c1f946.creator-spring.com
Cheers!
Leslie M. Jasper
-Author And Host of the #VerballyDisastrous podcast now alive on many platforms that include: Acast, Amazon Music, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Castbox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Listen Notes, Overcast, Pandora Podcasts, Player FM, Pocket Casts, Pod Bean, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Podcast Gang, Radio Public, Reason, Soundcloud, Soundtrap, Spotify, Stitcher, Tune In, and YouTube.
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