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status: Rob is teachin’ y’all sum suthern.

Well it seems I’ve caused a bit of a stir about a recent status update where I said that I was watching the Devil beat his wife. So here’s the deal…

1. I can see how some thought I was referring my wife with that pronoun. Nope. That’s not what I meant as you’re about to understand…

2. The phrase “the devil is beating his wife” is a phrase to describe a sunshower, or when the sun is shining while it rains.

It’s a southern thing I suppose. In fact, a friend of mine from Georgia knew the phrase and told his wife the same thing today.

I did a little looking around online about this. Of course checking out ’sunshower’ on Wikipedia reveals a good summary of what I was finding spread around the internets.

In the United States, particularly the South, a sunshower is said to show that “the devil is beating his wife.” Similar phrases occur in Hungary and Holland. A regional variant from Tennessee is “the devil is kissing his wife.”

I learned a lot looking this up. Apparently in many places in the world, there are a lot of phrases used to describe a sunshower. Many cultures use phrases that describe animal weddings such as monkeys, jackals, rats, bears, tigers, leopards, and foxes. Other cultures refer to witches making butter, elves getting married, and of course the devil beating his wife.

Additionally there is a book I found on Amazon called The Devil Beats His Wife: And other stories from the Low Country. In the Amazon book description it says:

The author offers poignant descriptions of the old abandon black churches that dot secondary roads in rural areas of the South.

So any others know what I’m talking about? And if so, you from the South?

status: Rob is watching the Devil beat his wife in Winter Park, FLA.

Wednesday (tomorrow), if you’re hungry for a burrito and you live near Chipotle, stop by and much a meal. You’ll be helping out Farm Aid too.

Chomp! Eat mor Burritos.

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Me: That dress makes you look hot!
Her: Did you say I look fat?

Sigh. What’s a guy gotta do?

status: Rob is waiting for a professional to poke me with a sharp object and remove blood from me on purpose.

status: Rob is awake at a pre-alarming hour.

status: Rob is beating the Orlando heat at Barnes & Noble with Mrs Orangejack, coffee, cookies and books.

How to Decide What To Do, originally uploaded by orangejack.

My new philosophy on life and how I decide what I’m going to do.

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Depending on the context:

A U.S. soldier shot by a sniper in Iraq said his pocket-sized Bible tucked in his shirt saved his life by stopping a bullet near his heart.

status: Rob is pondering todays schedule.