Through the years I have gotten a lot mileage out of my favorite Thursday response of “SHIT” when asked how I’m doing. As my questioner looks at me with a puzzled expression, I will quickly followup with “Sure happy it’s Thursday!”
Try as I may, I am not exactly sure where I first heard this expression. It sounds like something that Brother Oswin from my Ryken High School days may have said. Maybe I heard it from him initially but I am not sure.
However, I do recall an old Army friend I knew named Tate saying it every Thursday. (Tate was a West Virginia guy who always had a quip and a quote whenever you asked him how he was doing. For instance, “Happy as a tick on a big fat dog” was another Tateism I recall him frequently saying.)
Today, of course, thanks to the internet of memes and cartoons SHIT is everywhere:
Whenever I use the Sure Happy expression today, I think of my Grandmother Miss Hattie and Cousin Bud Shoemaker. Reason why I do so is that I recall once talking to Miss Hattie about Bud and she made the comment: “I like Bud; but the only problem I have with him is that his favorite word is the Sam Houston Institute of Technology.” I remember not getting the reference and asked her “What do you mean?” She smiled and said “You know, s-h-i-t.” And yes, she spelled it out for me. We both laughed about it. I guess you could say that my Grandmother knew I didn’t know SHIT.
Funny though, when I tried to track the Sam Houston quote down, I found the following summary with several similar acronyms. Sure enough Sam Houston made the list just two above Skanky Hoes in Tights. Don’t know as I have ever heard THAT one. However, what I do know is that Miss Hattie never said it.
The other day I did a post about ranking days of the week with song titles in them and Thursday came in last. Maybe Conan was trying to help rectify that here.