We got some sigoggled people around here.

Words can be fun. Hillbillies have some word you hear nowhere else. Sigoggled is one of those words. Basically it means crooked. You might say that wall is sigoggled. Of course if you want to see sigoggled people you could go to a Trump rally.  

Words are interesting because often they are only used in certain areas. In the old mining days Kadizzle worked with a young guy that used the word yins. Kadizzle instantly knew he was from a small area near Pittsburg. Are Yins coming to dinner?What are yins doing tonight? Yup that fellow is from that area near Pittsburg. 

Calling a paper bag a poke will narrow you down to the south in general and in West Virginia only in certain areas did they use that term. 

In his underground coal mining days Kadizzle noticed the terms used varied from Southern West Virginia to Northern West Virginia. The two coal fields were separated by a couple hundred miles. 

In southern West Virginia they were called buggy runners. In Northern West Virginia it was a shuttle car operator. In southern West Virginia it was a pinner man. In Northern West Virginia it was a roof bolter. 

Industrial terms are often amusing and sometimes fun. Underground you have to use fire proof hydraulic fluid. The fluid is white instead of the usual oil color. The miners called it mouse milk.  When someone first tells you to go get five gallons of mouse milk your brain gets rattled. What the hell is mouse milk? 

This reminds Kadizzle of an industrial story in a steel mill. Somehow the workers began calling a small cable winch " the old man".  Once these things develop the people who use the terms forget most people don't know them. A young guy got a summer job in the steel mill. Someone told him to go get the old man. The young guy came back with the oldest person he could find. 

The classic story may have been told on this blog before, but maybe you forgot. In underground mines they call the piece of track that keeps the coal cars aligned over a switch " a frog".  In the mine Kadizzle worked at a crew was removing some old track. A miner was using a cutting torch to remove the bolts from the frog.  Somehow he badly burnt his hand and had to be taken to the emergency room. The nurse asked how he burnt his hand. Innocently he said " I was trying to cut the nuts off a frog". Supposedly that got him slapped, but these things can happen.