05/14/25 Grif.Net – Odd Story (+ Answers to ‘Cowboy Lingo’ Quiz)

A lon=
g time ago a boy was born breech-backward that ended up with a miss-shaped =
head. Doctor looked at the infant and said he was just odd. His parents wer=
e struggling to come up with a name and remembered what the doctor said, so=
they wrote down “Odd”. The clerk shared his name with the nurs=
es, and they all got a great big giggle out of it. The said, "What an&=
nbsp;Odd baby."

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Growing=
up was hard for Odd. Teachers looked at him as Odd, kids rejected his for =
being Odd, and he got bullied a lot. He finally graduated from school and t=
ook on "Odd jobs". He finally found an Old Maid that =
put up with his Odd ways and Odd speech and got married. =

Years later he was looking back at things and gave his wi=
fe an odd request. He wasn’t sure why his parents had given him that name, =
but it had caused him problems all his life and he never liked it. He asked=
, "Honey, out of respect for my parents I never changed my name, but w=
hen my day comes and you bury me, just don’t put anything other than the ye=
ar I was born and the year I die on my headstone."

His wife agreed and they went about their lives for severa=
l more years before the man finally passed away. The wife honored his reque=
st and had a headstone with only the birth and death years carved on it pla=
ced on his grave.

But to this day everyo=
ne knows who is buried there, even if they never knew the man. People who v=
isit the cemetery look at the blank headstone and say, "Isn’t that Odd=
?".

~~ANSWERS to “Cowboy Ling=
o” Quiz

Ambush at the Store – Scales =
of grocers because they were always “lying in weight.”

Barking Irons – Pistols.

Crowbar Hotel – Jail.

Dusted &#=
8211; Thrown from a horse.

Eagle – A gold ten-dollar coin.

Fish or Cut Bait – Do it or quit talking about it.

G=
rab the Apple&nbs=
p;– Taking hold of the saddle horn to avoid falling off (no self-resp=
ecting cowboy wanted to be caught doing this).

Hell Rouser=
s – Sp=
urs.

Iron Horse – Railroad train.

Jump the Bro=
om – G=
et married.

Keep Company – To court.

Lunkhead – A hor=
se (or person) of inferior breed or appearance.

Mouthpiece=
 – A l=
awyer.

Night Hawk – While cowboys slept on a cattle drive, one s=
tayed up all night standing guard.

Owl Hoot Trail – The outlaw w=
ay of life.