{"id":1514,"date":"2006-06-29T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/jinx-and-other-things-i-said-as-a-child\/"},"modified":"2006-06-29T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:46:00","slug":"jinx-and-other-things-i-said-as-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/jinx-and-other-things-i-said-as-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinx! and other things I said as a child…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Jinx! You owe me a Coke.”<\/p>\n

I said that phrase today when I was talking on the phone with . It was an automatic reaction ingrained from years of usage on the playgrounds of my home town (Jax, Fla). It got me to wondering… is it something kids across America said? If so, is it still in common use? Did you, dear reader, use this or some similar phrase?<\/p>\n

“Son of a biscuiteater!”<\/p>\n

That’s another one we used as an obvious replacement for “son of a bitch”. “Bitch” was, of course, a “bad” word so we substituted biscuiteater. It ends up being more funny than spiteful, but who wants to be spiteful during those tender years anyway.<\/p>\n

Are there any other odd phrases you used as a kid that you find yourself reverting to at the oddest times? I used son of a biscuiteater just the other day and received some curious looks from my co-workers. I laughed loudly on the inside. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

–sam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Jinx! You owe me a Coke.” I said that phrase today when I was talking on the phone with . It was an automatic reaction ingrained from years of usage on the playgrounds of my home town (Jax, Fla). It got me to wondering… is it something kids across America said? If so, is it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}