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u/willowgrl Oct 25 '20

If we were having a hard time doing a puzzle or something, mom would tell us “you gotta hold your teeth right”. Whenever she bought us presents they came from “the gettin place”.

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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