Help....phrase on my father's headstone....

[fracmeister]

Growing up, my late Aunt and Father often referred to someone as "a ditch jumping dirt road sport" or even (if particularly fine) "a cotton picking chicken plucking ditch jumping dirt road sport" ...the final "d"s on the verbs were generally not pronounced. Anyway we jokingly said we'd put the phrase on his headstone. He took to the idea so well that the image below is his headstone in Berlin, Oklahoma. A cousin asked me about the phrase and you know all that I do. Google isn;t helping much. Any idea of the origin? "dirt road sport" comes up with regularity, but I am not so sure what else does.

The obverse of the headstone has the names of all of his children (me included) and the University of Oklahoma symbol.

Any help appreciated. I realize this is non-sartorial ---- but surely someone out there is pretty clever...

 

[dl20]

huh

Originally Posted by fracmeister

Growing up, my late Aunt and Father often referred to someone as "a ditch jumping dirt road sport" or even (if particularly fine) "a cotton picking chicken plucking ditch jumping dirt road sport" ...the final "d"s on the verbs were generally not pronounced. Anyway we jokingly said we'd put the phrase on his headstone. He took to the idea so well that the image below is his headstone in Berlin, Oklahoma. A cousin asked me about the phrase and you know all that I do. Google isn;t helping much. Any idea of the origin? "dirt road sport" comes up with regularity, but I am not so sure what else does.

The obverse of the headstone has the names of all of his children (me included) and the University of Oklahoma symbol.

Any help appreciated. I realize this is non-sartorial ---- but surely someone out there is pretty clever...

 

[AndrewRogers]

The gist to me says hard-working and virtuous everyman.

 

[raclotz]

try writing something which he used to say quite often...