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Posted: 2/18/2007 10:54:23 AM | my 3 faves:
"Don't wrestle around in the mud with a pig ~ you both end up dirty and the pig enjoys it." ~ meaning don't participate in the pi$$ing contest (oops! that's another one!)
My grandma used to say: "Turn about's fair play" ~ I liked being on the defended end of this one better than the receiving end.
"Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting... “Holy Sh*t!! What a Ride!!"
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Posted: 2/18/2007 12:31:42 PM | I've got one for ya...I was born in SC and raised in NJ and Md and used to tend bar. One night these two guys came in and one was from the deep South and one from the deep North (I don't remember the states was a long time ago ) well they tried to start up a conversation with each other and I swear they didn't understand what the other was saying. It was like they were speaking foreign languages, well I stepped in and "translated" for them...it was a hoot...and everytime one would say something the other would look at me to tell him what he said...I couldn't stay right there the whole time because I had other customers but it was a learning experience. When we moved from SC to NJ my sisters were entertaining boys on the front porch and my mom told me to go ask them if they wanted a boiled ham sandwich...needless to say I went outside and said "do ya'll wanna bald ham sammich and the boys burst out laughing and I ran inside embarassed and from then on stood in front of a mirror and practiced getting "rid" of my accent (worse thing I ever did) then we moved to Md. and I went to school there and picked up that accent and now when I hear my voice I think "that's not me" it's somebody from Maryland... | |
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Posted: 3/11/2007 6:52:47 AM | Just a few more southern words:
Chawl'stn , S'vanah, Foat Wuth, N'awlins, and Addlanna! | |
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Posted: 3/13/2007 3:26:26 AM | Just found this thread, one of the best I've seen since joining here. Having been "born and raised" in the deep south, I talk like this all the time..
A I've heard and used all my life,
Lost as a blind dog in a meat house - He/She ain't got a clue about anything
Confused as a baby in a topless bar - self explanatory
Usless as screen doors on a submarine - good for nothing
Useless as tit$ on a nun, ball$ on a preacher or pi$$ ants
If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch
Frequently I work with engineers from all over the world. Currently with people from Conneticut, Germany and France.......talk about a language barrier..
I can't understand them and they can't understand me | |
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Posted: 3/15/2007 9:51:05 AM | > THINGS I HAVE LEARNED LIVING IN GEORGIA:
> Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
> There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Georgia.
> There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Georgia plus a
> couple no one's seen before.
> If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
> "Onced" and "twiced" are words.
> It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
> People actually grow and eat okra.
> "Fixinto" is one word.
> There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then
> there is supper.
> Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it
> when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar! (hello Polar
> Bear!)
> "Backards and forwards" means "I know everything about you."
> "DJeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
> You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is.
> You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
> You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
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> YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM GEORGIA IF:
> You measure distance in minutes.
> You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
> You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."
> All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
> vegetable,grain, insect or animal.
> You install security lights on your house and garage and leave
> both unlocked.
> You know what a "dawg" is.
> You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.
> You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
> The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but
> require six pages for local gossip and sports.
> You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
> You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
> You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and
> Christmas.
> Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-Martin'" or
> off to "Wally World."
> You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good
> pinto-bean weather.
> A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop... it's a Coke,
> regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you
> want?"
> Fried catfish is the other white meat.
> We don't need no stinking driver's ed... if our mama says we can
> drive, we can drive.
> You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Georgia (and
those who just wish they were). Not EVERYONE can be a Georgian;
> it's an art form and a gift from God
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Posted: 9/20/2007 7:33:35 PM | I dug into the deep dark dungeons of the forums to find this one again, LOL. Thought it would be nice to have a few laughs again in our meeting place instead of "bickering" all the time.
My southern phrase: My a*s would make you a Sunday face - meaning you are sooooo ugly
I have heard that one all my life
~sea~ ....yeah I'm bored sh**less | |
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Posted: 9/20/2007 8:11:18 PM | Atta'girl Sea!
Lighten up the mood around here. .............well POST your "southern saying" then begiddbia | |
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Posted: 9/20/2007 8:14:46 PM | Some of my favorite Southern phrases...
"I’m finer than frog hair split four ways".
"He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow".
"Don’t you piss on my leg and tell me it’s rainin"!
"Excuses are like backsides. Everybody’s got one and they all stink".
"If his brains were dynamite, he couldn’t blow his nose".
"He’s so dumb, he could throw himself on the ground and miss".
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Posted: 9/20/2007 8:15:13 PM | Seems like at least once I week I promise some client I'll do something tomorrow
"Good Lord willin' and the crick don't rise" | |
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Posted: 9/20/2007 8:41:25 PM | Another one I hear/use after a good meal is
"I'm fuller than a tic on a hound dog's ear" | |
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Posted: 9/20/2007 8:52:55 PM | Now isn't this FUN!!!! Ya'll havin fun yet? LOL
southern saying- "if his brain was gas he wouldn't have enough to crank a piss ant's motorcycle and drive it around a bb....meaning...... he is one stupid person 
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Posted: 9/20/2007 9:04:02 PM | I don't know how Southern this is, but my Grandmother (God rest her soul) used to say this every single time she was told anyone was engaged (including me).
"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip"
Can't hardly think about Grandma without hearing her say that one again.
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Posted: 9/21/2007 3:27:12 AM | I had always heard people asking "Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?" to somebody who was grouchy, but never did understand why it mattered which side of the bed somebody got up on.
When I moved to Georgia, that phrase became "Who p*ssed in your Cornflakes this morning?" for the same reason. I understand that one. | |
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Posted: 9/21/2007 5:32:03 AM |
"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip"
BG
"........and this means? .
Gossip Sea...although said to be unintended-A slip of the lip. | |
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Posted: 9/21/2007 7:04:09 AM | OMG ... this thread is way to funny ... Im a Yankee .. ok Im a DAMNED YANKEE and proud of it .. born n raised in WV above the Mason / Dixon Line and yes there is a Historical Marker where thats located ... southern boundary of Marshall Co. WV .. anyhow .. I married
"a good ole boy" (GA native) ... between my Picksburgese (Pittsburgh PA lingo) and his Southern chatter not to mention the phrases his mom comes up with nearly blew my mind ..
Y'all have managed to hit most of them except I did notice a couple missing that my mother in law says daily ...
You want me to cut that half in two for you ... "grrr .. just cut the damned thing in half"
Well no hurry y'all just stay with us now ... "plzzzzz dont go .. plzzzz stay"
one day my ex husband I got into a discussion .. he was asking me for a PEN .. I thought he said PIN .. so to kinda clarify I asked him where they kept the pigs on the family farm (thinking he would say PIG PEN) .. "we keep them in the HOG LOT" 
and they like to Mash buttons, and carry each other to the store too ... oh oh oh .. and my ex would always tell me while at work "HE WAS BUSIER THAN A 3 LEGGED CAT TRYIN TO BURY SHIT ON A FROZEN POND"
Scott I feel your pain as an uneducated yankee living in a southern world .. I moved here in 1982 at the ripe old age of 21 .. walked into a grocery store and asked them where their cold pop section was .. you would have thought I had just cussed out the poor little clerk who had no clue what I was asking for ... come to find out .. they dont have cold pop sections in southern grocery stores like they did up north ... geeeesh .. I didnt know .. | |
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Posted: 9/21/2007 7:30:28 AM | Thanks for all the laughs. I have picked up a lot of them myself since moving from Miami. I do believe ya'll covered most of them.
Dreamy : | |
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Posted: 9/21/2007 12:58:30 PM | | "I've seen 3 World's Fairs and a goat breeding but this ___________ is more entertaining that any of that" | |
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Posted: 9/21/2007 10:07:08 PM | You should try coming from Australia and having a conversation in the South.
Some of the differences are nationwide I guess, but I've only really travelled in the South.
Like when I asked the guy at the servo(gas station) if he had a bin....he looked at me with that "deer in the headlights" look.....I realised I should have said trashcan...
Or when I told someone it was a bit cold and I might wear a jumper.....I should have said a "pullover"...a jumper is a womans dress apparently....No I'm not gay!!!
And the first time a woman told me she roots for her local football team...I'm like what?....In Australia that means she having sex with them......I'm like, the whole team?...Damn, you love your football
But I do love some of the sayings...they are very funny....You just have to be careful what and how you say them....lol | |
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