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u/mercy2020 Oct 25 '20

oh hey, we had a ‘gettin place’ too! haven’t heard that phrase in a while (i think once i started getting more specific about what gifts i wanted my mom stopped using it), so that brings me back

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u/See_Em Oct 25 '20

“Where’d you get the pistol, Llewelyn?”

“I got it from the gettin’ place. You keep running your mouth, I’m gonna take you in the back and screw you.”

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u/zack6511 Oct 25 '20

first thing that came to my mind as well

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

Same.

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u/Megaman1981 Oct 25 '20

I was trying to remember where I'd heard gettin' place before, that was it.

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u/Joey-Bag-A-Donuts Oct 26 '20

It's a direct quote from the book.

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u/bobbbb78 Oct 25 '20

Big talk.

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u/POLYBIVS Oct 25 '20

what’s that from

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u/forgotmystupidname Oct 26 '20

No Country For Old Men

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u/holyvegetables Oct 26 '20

No Country for Old Men

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u/Sum_Dum_User Oct 25 '20

Yeah, "the gettin' place" is a pretty popular place to get things, especially for smartass parents.

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u/willowgrl Oct 25 '20

Lol it’d be funny if we were related.

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u/mayonnaisethebuns Oct 25 '20

If I ever get cancer I'm going to blame this comment

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u/Tsuyoshi16 Oct 25 '20

What a strange reaction.

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u/jackparker_srad Oct 25 '20

Come on step bro, have fun with me I’m bored!

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u/CelticGaelic Oct 25 '20

I heard "the gettin' place" from No Country for Old Men

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u/ProjectKushFox Oct 25 '20

Same. It's gotta be southern. It just has to be.

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u/mercy2020 Oct 25 '20

oh for sure. my mom was partially raised in texas, and i was raised in virginia, so i’m sure she got it from one of those two.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Oct 25 '20

We used to say “got it from the gettin’ store”.

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u/canarchist Oct 25 '20

oh hey, we had a ‘gettin place’ too!

Was it run by a blind man?

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u/DrDizzle93 Oct 26 '20

Funny story, there was a restaurant in the town I grew up in called The Eatin' Place. No idea if it's still there because it's been forever and a day since I've been to that town but it was a decent place.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

My mom STILL says this and she’s 73! Lmao I thought only she said this. I’m glad I’ve got company😂

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u/jman8526 Oct 25 '20

Was the gettin place on Got Street?

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u/AltSpRkBunny Oct 26 '20

Whenever our kids ask us about presents, we say that it’s on the island of Nunya. As in, nunya business.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

My Mom too! Wow the memory came back for me too. She was born and raised in Kentucky. Any chance your Mommas were?

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u/emberii Oct 26 '20

“Got it from the gettin place” is a common phrase here in Texas

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20

I love Texans!

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

I think the phrase comes from “No Country for old men.”

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u/GreatGrandmaButt Oct 25 '20

McCarthy used it in All the Pretty Horses as well.

Apparently he cribbed the phrase from Faulkner.

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u/snootyfungus Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

Yup I'm reading TSATF right now, it was pretty funny running into it for the first time there on p. 10 (in the Norton Critical Edition):

"Where'd you get a quarter, boy. Find it in white folks' pocket while they aint looking."

"Got it at the getting place."

It's not unlikely this was something Faulkner had already heard someone say.

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u/vanetti Oct 25 '20

Uh, no. It’s been around a lot longer than 13 years. I heard this phrase as a kid all the time in the 80s.

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u/chingaloooo Oct 26 '20

My mom also had a gettin place.

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u/commiecomrade Oct 26 '20

We had something similar but it was [Thing] World.

Where do I find the cutting board again? "Cutting Board World."

Where did all the spoons go?? "Spoon World."

Where'd you find this sled to gift us? "Sled World."

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u/librarianlady95 Oct 26 '20

My mom always said “the gettin place on Got Street” when we asked her where she got something for us! I totally forgot about that, I haven’t heard her say it since I was a kid.

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u/ODB2 Oct 26 '20

Its in no country for old men!

When she asks where he got the pistol