Blind hogs and acorns
By DAN LANGFORD
Blind hogs and acorns. It’s a colorful old Southern expression, from the day when most Southerners were involved in agriculture, which expresses that something that is pure luck.
My daddy used the phrase to diminish encomia heaped upon him for astute business decisions — “It wasn’t particularly prescient on my part. It was more like an old, blind hog stumbling upon an acorn.”
I assume it’s a Southern phrase — I can’t imagine a Northerner saying it. I can apply the phrase to my pleasure in being chosen to write this blog for Brown’s Guide to Georgia, and I must say I appreciate those who read and respond to the assorted nonsense this old blind hog comes up with. Hopefully there’s an acorn or two of truth — or reminiscence — or levity, at least occasionally.