Squirrel-dioms # 3

“Yeah right, when squirrels fly.”

There are obvious reasons this popular cliché is no longer a squirrelism. Research dug up an interesting story of how this phrase came about. Billy Joel Jamison’s wife, Pamela Sue Millie had just finished asking him to clean up the barn and feed the pigs. Being a real nincompoop he jumped off the porch, joining his friends Zachariah Stevie Smith and Lou Thomas Jeffries, and sang “Yeah I’ll du dat, win squirrelz fly.” Pamela stood there furious and thinking she probably should have listened to her daddy and married her second cousin. Just as those good ole boys were about to run off, a flying squirrel dramatically sailed through the air landing gracefully in a large pine tree. Later on as Billy was throwing the slop out for the pigs he remarked to his buddies, “Whoz a wood of thought dat a squirrel could really fly?” His sympathetic friends offered this advice, “Next time you ought tell her dat you ain’t gonna do it til pigs fly, cause they really can’t…can they?” Them three boys then spent the rest of the day watching those pigs to ensure they didn’t sprout wings and take off.