Sure, they’re the lowest a the low, but funny how it is that the floor rags clean up, eh? The ragtag bands, they’re those loose ends that come together to make somethin happen. What does it show up with? “Ragtag army, ragtag band, ragtag bunch, ragtag group,” an if you see a movie an the guys in it is a ragtag band a somethin, you know they’re not just scraps, they’re scrappy, they got spunk. ![]() And some hope.Ĭuz that’s how it is with “rag-tag,” ya know. We still had our use, we was needed, and we had some beauty with us, too. The spills an the dirt people brought in with em an all that. ![]() Not raggèd like jaggèd, ya know, but just the things that was once nice clothes an then became stuff you use to mop up with. I guess maybe the tag ends on yer clothes get that way if you let em get real dirty, but I think it’s kinda the wrong way for the most part. Like somehow you start smooth an then you get crispy. You start nice and crisp, like the “t” on “tag,” an then over time you jus wear down till yer soft an smooth an don’t put up no resistance, like the “r” on “rag.” So “tag-rag” was how it was, first off, cause it was from the two words, “tag and rag,” an then later someone swapped em. Jimmy, he was a tight end once, like a football player I mean. And that’s the way it is: even the newest garment is comin inta the world with a tag here or there on it. Sorta like a skin tag, you know, them little things you got hangin maybe off the back a yer neck or somethin. An so from that it was any loose bit a fabric hangin offa somethin, maybe if you tug on a rug you get a little loose end. Sorta like them sheets with phone numbers on it, seen this stray cat, call me, wanna buy this car, call me, want guitar lessons, call me. Now, you think I’m sayin price tag here, but that’s a newer thing we mean with “tag.” First off a tag was one a them bits like you get from slashin the hem a somethin. Well, you know, you come into this world brand new like a bit a clothin in a store with the tag all on it. Hell, I’d bet my money on the bobtail anyways, just long as someone put bells on it, and somebody bet on the bay, otherwise we get upsot.īut what was I sayin. ![]() Seems like even then they couldn’t keep their tags an rags straight. Guys in the sixteen-hundreds an on to the eighteen-hundreds used that phrase, or just “tag-rag.” “Rag-tag,” you know, it dint come round till the seventeen-hundreds. Oh, “tag, rag, and bobtail” – yep, that was an old way of referrin to motley lots like we was. We was mop chauffeurs, playin tag with our rags like a bunch a bobtail nags. A bunch a loose ends like torn an tattered fabric, odds an sods, this one from here, that one from there.
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