Talking Southern – Blind Hogs and Acorns

Talking Southern – Blind Hogs and Acorns

Blind hogs and acorns, respectively, are the subject and object of a colorful old Southern expression that evolved in a day when most Southerners were engaged in agriculture and livestock endeavors.  The saying expresses something that is pure, unbounded luck –“like a blind hog stumbling over an acorn.”      Your compiler’s late father, an accomplished and successful businessman in Atlanta, would use the phrase to diminish encomia heaped upon hi…