# "That Don't CONFRONT Me........ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012 "2011-12-21T23:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/1 "2011-12-21T23:15:33Z")
… as long as I get my rent money by next Friday" First heard it by George Thorogood, and it sounds like a bastardization of the word “concern”, but was that the way it was commonly used when “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer” was written? Kinda like the word “ain’t” for isn’t? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/2 "2011-12-22T00:08:22Z")
Could that be COMFORT? ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/3 "2011-12-22T00:13:42Z")
Not really - the original (John Lee Hooker?) blues version was much shorter. Later versions of the song, including Thorogood’s, included the additional dialogue with the “landlady” but that was not part of the original. [http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/bourbon-scotch-beer.htm](http://www.bluesforpeace.com/lyrics/bourbon-scotch-beer.htm) Various versions have it as “confront”, “concern” or “comfort”; depending on context any of these words would work. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/4 "2011-12-22T00:17:12Z")
It’s Southern and ebonics slang, with some misnomer. Confrontin’ is like “You be frontin’.” ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/5 "2011-12-22T00:33:10Z")
“Ain’t come one, but many tine tanies”, in the immortal words of Pootie Tang. Don’t be confrontin’ me none. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/6 "2011-12-22T00:38:19Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > It’s Southern and ebonics slang, with some misnomer. Confrontin’ is like “You be frontin’.” Meaning, “you’re lying to me”, **devilsknew**? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/7 "2011-12-22T00:40:10Z")
No, it’s like …shit, this ain’t be whittlin’ me down none. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/8 "2011-12-22T00:46:19Z")
I’ve always interpreted the line to mean “That don’t confront me [with a problem], long as I get my money next Friday.” ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/9 "2011-12-22T00:54:21Z")
She be howlin’ about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent. She ain’t gonna get _none_ of it. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/10 "2011-12-22T00:56:56Z")
No, that’s not it, It’s a call and response. If anything, it’s synononymous with “I don’t give a shit.” Don’t be confrontin’ me none. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/11 "2011-12-22T00:56:59Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > No, it’s like …shit, this ain’t be whittlin’ me down none. That phrase just totally ROCKS! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/12 "2011-12-22T02:20:45Z")
Everybody funny. Now you funny too. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/13 "2011-12-22T02:27:58Z")
My grown-men-boys use the word “conversate” for talking with other people. At first I hated it. Now I like it and would use it myself, but that would make them immediately drop it from their vocabulary. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/14 "2011-12-22T02:56:23Z")
I can’t answer this. I drink alone. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/15 "2011-12-22T03:03:30Z")
If you don’t start drinkin’, I’m gonna leave. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/16 "2011-12-22T03:03:55Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > I can’t answer this. > > I drink alone. I _know_!!!. But this is about the friggin’ _RENT_!:D:D And next Friday came and went…?😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/17 "2011-12-22T03:09:21Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > I _know_!!!. But this is about the friggin’ _RENT_!:D:D > > And next Friday came and went…?😉 > > Q That’s what happens when you drink the rent. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/18 "2011-12-22T03:25:02Z")
Or, **trip** , as \*\*Jerry Lee \*\* would sing it: "Jerry Lee aint’ got da _mutha-humpin_ **RENT!!!"** (“All Killer, no Filler!”) Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/19 "2011-12-22T03:34:05Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > That’s what happens when you drink the rent. We just did that. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=631107). [hic] ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012/20 "2011-12-22T05:36:27Z")
I always heard it as “befront”, which apparently means : to concern or bother. The only lyrics I’ve found on the web use “confront” and “comfort” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-dont-confront-me/607012.md?page=2)