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Have you ever PICKED COTTON?

pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
edited June 2009 in Strut Central
JUST WONDERING[/b]

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  • youngEINSTEINyoungEINSTEIN 2,443 Posts
    youngEINSTEIN Said:

    no.

    peace, stein. . .
  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
    No, but I heard its heard because there are thorns and it will tear your fingers up. Actually, maybe I have, come to think of it. There was a lot of cotton fields outside of Bakersfield and I may have picked some on a field trip. Or I may have just made that up in my head.

    I'm not really sure.


    Also, I always forget and think that cotton comes from sheep because they look like they are covered in cotton balls.
  • rascmonrascmon 441 Posts
    no i have others to do it for me
  • LoopDreamsLoopDreams 1,195 Posts
    no i have others to do it for me

    holy shit
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    No.
    That's why I never became a great blues guitar player.
  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    This thread is not going to end well.
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    no i have others to do it for me

    holy shit

    What sort of answer did anyone expect from this question? It's a smart-ass response, but predictable.

    WIDEEYED:HOLYSHIT:WIDEEYED seems extreme to me.
  • bigchalzbigchalz 220 Posts
    James Brown picked a grip of cotton as a youth.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    I spent a couple summers doing corn detasseling - pretty similar to cotton pickin

    6 day weeks - dawn to dusk - thru all weather

    thats REAL WORK
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    My grandfather dropped out of school at 10 years old to pick tobacco.

    He started smoking that same year.

    He went blind in the 40's from drinking bad moonshine.

    He stayed on my ass about going to school and getting an education so I didn't have the same life he did.

    He died in 1997 at age 98.

    RIP Lacey Cooke.

    and thanks.
  • GaryGary 3,982 Posts
    My grandfather dropped out of school at 10 years old to pick tobacco.

    He started smoking that same year.

    He went blind in the 40's from drinking bad moonshine.

    He stayed on my ass about going to school and getting an education so I didn't have the same life he did.

    He died in 1997 at age 98.

    RIP Lacey Cooke.

    and thanks.

    that guys sounds cool.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    My grandfather dropped out of school at 10 years old to pick tobacco.

    He started smoking that same year.

    He went blind in the 40's from drinking bad moonshine.

    He stayed on my ass about going to school and getting an education so I didn't have the same life he did.

    He died in 1997 at age 98.

    RIP Lacey Cooke.

    and thanks.

    that guys sounds cool.

    When he was about 92 I asked him to tell his life story into a tape recorder that I would buy and teach him how to use....I thought it would be cool for my kids and grandkids to learn about him and his life.

    He refused saying "I've done too many things I am ashamed of and wouldn't want anyone to know about"

    I said "Well, just leave that stuff out"

    To which he replied...."Then there won't be anything to talk about".
  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    aren't there machines that pick cotton?
  • willie_fugalwillie_fugal 1,862 Posts
    i actually have picked cotton once! lol

    on a road trip through the south my buddy and I saw some cotton on the side of the road, got out and picked it. it fouking hurt too. thorns an' all that.

    crowning achievement of an awesome road trip.

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