tits up in a ditch
tits up in a ditch by Twathenge April 27, 2006
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TITS-UP IN A DITCH
A hopeless situation that only gets worse, usually brought about by chance, and from which there appears to be absolutely no escape. bad luckf***** updead endno hope
Used in a fiction by Annie Proulx in the New Yorker June 9&16,2008
TITS-UP IN A DITCH,about the “luck” of a young woman,Dakota who was abandoned by her mother as a baby and raised on a farm by her grandparents. Her grandfather came back to the house one day and said that a cow had tried to climb a steep wet slope that apparently slid out from under her, and had landed on her back in a ditch. “Had me some (bad) luck today” he said. Goddam cow got herself tits-up in a ditch couple days ago. Dead time I found her”.
Dakota goes on to find herself pregnant, married and abandoned by her husband, Sash, who joined the army. Dakota then leaves her baby and also joins the army. Dacota lost an arm, her baby gets killed and Sash ends up in a coma with both legs blown off and half his head gone. Upon returning alone to the farm, Sash’s mother asks Dakota about his condition. Dakota answers “Sash is tits-up in a ditch”. And that is when Dakota began to feel her own decent into the dark watery mud.
TITS-UP IN A DITCH,about the “luck” of a young woman,Dakota who was abandoned by her mother as a baby and raised on a farm by her grandparents. Her grandfather came back to the house one day and said that a cow had tried to climb a steep wet slope that apparently slid out from under her, and had landed on her back in a ditch. “Had me some (bad) luck today” he said. Goddam cow got herself tits-up in a ditch couple days ago. Dead time I found her”.
Dakota goes on to find herself pregnant, married and abandoned by her husband, Sash, who joined the army. Dakota then leaves her baby and also joins the army. Dacota lost an arm, her baby gets killed and Sash ends up in a coma with both legs blown off and half his head gone. Upon returning alone to the farm, Sash’s mother asks Dakota about his condition. Dakota answers “Sash is tits-up in a ditch”. And that is when Dakota began to feel her own decent into the dark watery mud.
TITS-UP IN A DITCH by TuttPutt August 2, 2008
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breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
or
"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
or
"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)