Sayings of Charlie Morris

"Charlie-isms"

Interpretation

 
 Related to Businesses in general

1

Generous Motors General Motors

2

Radio Shaft Radio Shack

3

Squat 'n Gobble Fast food place, e.g. McDonald's

4

Stop 'n Rob 24-hour convenience story (yes, Charlie could
be irreverent, but that was part of his charm!)

5

Home Despot Home Depot

6

General Morons & Generic Motors  General Motors
Related to Funeral Business

7

Body shop funeral home

8

Fun house FUNeral home

9

Marble orchard cemetery

10

Rock garden cemetery
 People

11

Rug rats Little kids

12

Yuppie larva Yuppie's rug rats

13

Vampire phlebotomist

14

Calhoun an attorney, as in Algonquin J. Calhoun,
 the attorney on Amos 'n Andy

15

Cathaholic Catholic

16

Whiskeypalian. :) Episcopalian

17

Ring knockers - Masons Masons

18

The Chef  his mom

 

   
 Places

19

Swamp His farm

20

Cincinnapolis Cincinnati

21

Indian-no-place Indianapolis

22

Jelly Springs Yellow Springs

23

Cleve-LAND Cleveland
 Things

24

"The Benz" Whichever of his Mercedes-Benz's
he was driving that day

25

"Mr. Bitchy"  Mitsubishi

26

turk Truck

27

Penguin suit Tuxedo

 

   
Arizona related

28

Ezrazona Arizona (where he visited every winter)

29

"Time to spare, go by air" A favorite saying when traveling

30

Silver tube Airplane

31

Goin'  to do my "Cactus Count" His annual visit to Ron & Dee,
his friends in Phoenix

32

Cactapus Road Cactus Road in Phoenix
Expressions

33

Well now, isn't that spa-a-a-a-shul! This comes from "The Church Lady"
on Saturday Night Live

34

Zero dark 30 Anytime in the wee hours of the morning

35

Five-dark-thirty The hour he had to arise for work

36

Sheeeiiiiittt fire!  

37

No Shit Sherlock!  

38

 Snootful When he had a cold

39

"You Guessed Her Chester!"   

40

"Who gives a fat rats ass!"  

41

"Have a day" Dee Hutt added, "And don’t tell him
what kind of day to have!"

42

Coinkidink Coincidence

 

   
 Actions

43

Give me a call on the box Call him on the ham radio

44

Fire up the oil burner Start the car (diesel, of course)

45

Scrape down and hose off Shave and shower

46

Getting horizontal Going to bed
Agriculture related

47

Shit kickin' school OSU's Agriculture School
(where he spent his first year of college)

48

Alpha Grabba Hoe Agricultural fraternity