"I shoulda 'STOOD' IN BED?"

I've heard folks use "stood" as a kind of past-participle of the verb "stay" - as in: "I shoulda stood in bed". I had always thought it was some kind of uneducated regionalism...

But, it's New Years, (Happy and Healthy, y'all) and I'm watching the 'Twilight Zone' marathon on TV, and Rod Serling just used it...

Rod Serling!

So, my question is...

Is there a reference here? Was it an expression coined at one time (like,"A little dab'll do ya") in advertising or another medium? Or, is it a literary reference..? Does anyone know?

Solution 1:

Probably from here:

I should have stood in bed

• I've had such a bad day that I should never have gotten up at all. For example, And then I got rear-ended at the stop sign—I should have stood in bed.

• This ungrammatical colloquial phrase—properly put as stayed in bed —is ascribed to fight manager Joe Jacobs, who in 1935 saw his first baseball game, the opening game of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. It was a very cold day, and when asked what he thought of baseball, Jacobs replied, “I should have stood in bed.”

(The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary)