OTHER OLD MIDWESTERN JOKES AND PHRASES.

OTHER OLD MIDWESTERN JOKES AND PHRASES. In addition to the Fourth of July joke, my father, who was born in Wisconsin in 1903, had other jokes that had to go back to a simpler time. Apparently, as a boy my father’s father could not whistle, but my grandfather’s sister could. The phrase that was applied to this was (with the original meter): “Whistling girls and crowing hens will always come to some bad ends.” Others phrases: “H-U-HUCKLE; B-U-BUCKLE; HUCKLEBERRY PIE” when that was the dessert. And: “A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.”