ok...you've got a bunch of old dudes in a bag...doesn't exactly inspire me to put on "sex machine" and start gettin' down...can some "hip" person please explain this to me

U have 2 know where U come from - 2 know were Ur heading - Duck

Sahar said:

thanks Sahar... that clears things up beautifully

I give up...
What IS so funky about a sack of grandaddys?

Could anything in the world be as funky as a bow-legged monkey?

1,2,1,2,3 roll it

soul is ham hocks in yo' corn flakes

I always thought it meant, "We're gonna get funkier than your grandaddy's scrotum."

You have to come from the south to understand.

Growing up, my father used to take me down by the creek and make me wade through the water and lift stones.

Underneath the stones were crayfish, or crawlfish. They look like little lobsters.



Most everyone I ever met growing up called them Crawldads or Grandaddies.

Anyway, once stirred, they swim backwards Useing their big tail. And into my dad's net they went.

Some people would collect them in buckets other's into "sacks".

These creatures do not get allong very well. When put together especially that many into one tightly closed area, they begin to fight and pinch each other apart with thir pinchers.

I remember at the bus stop going to school, some of the kids used to put two Grandaddies into a jar to see which one would win a fight.

For each other's lunch money.

Trust me when I say that a whole sack of these "Grandaddies" ripping each other apart is quite a "funky" sight to see.

Funkier than this...



You gots to get egimicated.

What's funky about a sack of granddaddys?

The smell.

yamomma said:

That looks like something out of an Alien abortion clinic.

Ewww...

yamomma said:

We used to catch them by fashioning some monofilament to a stick, and then we'd tie a tiny piece of vienna sausage, or hot dog to the end...having a bucket closeby...lift and drop them into the bucket!

Those were the days...

First you find them:


Then you get 'em

Make sure he's good size for eating.

Catagorize him

Collect them in a sack...

Prepare them and cook them until they are bright red.


Chow Down!


Or you can use him as bait for something bigger.

[This message was edited Fri Nov 15 7:10:15 PST 2002 by yamomma]

I guess I was the only one that Laughed Out Loud when I first heard that line on the "Get Off" maxi single

Lobsters are big and come from the ocean. Grandaddies are small and come from fresh water. Both look a lot alike.

yamomma...u wrong 4 postin up pix of crawfish...i haven't had them in a while!!! my dad used 2 boil up big batches of them all the time...

as 4 the "sack of grandaddies"...another prince-ism, i guess.

The Grandaddy/Crawdad Song

http://guitar-primer.com/Crawdad.mid

You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey. You get line and I'll get a pole babe. You get a line and I'll get a pole and we'll go down to the Grandad hole, honey, sugar baby mine.

What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, Honey? What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, Bab-y? What you gonna do when the lake goes dry? Sit on the bank and watch the Grandads die, Honey. Sugar-baby mine.

What you gonna do when the Grandads die, honey? What you gonna do when the grandads die, babe? What you gonna do when the grandads die? Sit on the bank until I cry, Honey, sugar-baby mine.

Ok, the song could be a little more funky.

Tom said:

There's nothing worse than old people that smell of pee.

"Sack of Grandaddies" = Sack of Crayfish.

"Grandaddies" is just another name for crayfish in the deep south.

Thanks for posting this...as a northern girl I never knew a lot of this stuff.
It's very interesting.

Im not a big fan of eating anything with shells and tentacles, but I must say, crawfish are quite good in seafood dishes.

I used to work at a TGI Fridays, and we had a pasta dish called Seafood Medley, which had them in it. They came already cleanded, and looked like minced lobster pieces. I can eat them when they look like that but not when they're still in their shell.

They have a mild taste but kind of a pasty texture. Very soft.

And "Swirl Meat" is like a stew of various left over meats all together. Like: chicken, pork, and beef all together in the same pot.

Not squirrel meat.

Also, when fishing, one might have a "sack of grandaddies" to be used for bait.

I could imagaine that it would smell by the end of the day.

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[This message was edited Tue Jun 10 4:22:34 PDT 2003 by IstenSzek]

Cool, I learned something new 2day. So I guess Prince got those lines from his mother being she is from Louisiana.

NO, NO, NO...
What da hell would Prince know about crawlfish?
He's from Minnesota!!
"Funkier than a sack of granddaddies" refers to
old folks and their bodily odors...ya'll know
old folks smell now. Put em in a sack...Now, THAT's
Funky!!

zzz

Revolution said:

You got to remember he was hanging with other influenses at that time as well.

yamomma said:

thanks yamomma... i found your posts on this really interesting...and once again the pics you find add a lot to the threads...