Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Southern Sayings

Ran across this today:

- Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is real bad, add a banana pudding. (we call in 'nanner puddin')

- Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.

- Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."

- Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of yonder."

- Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in: "Going to town, be back directly."

- Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.

Gimme some sugar, :p
Gator

The last thing a southerner says:

Hey guys watch this

ok Bill, you got me. true.

Gator

Eeeeeeewwwww my turn:

"At's finer'n a frog hair split six ways"

"Them ain't puppies; Them's full growed dogs!"

"Y'ont to?"

"Skitt it, boy!"

"It'll be a'ight in tha mo'nin."

"How ya duirn?"

"It's all good but the gravy"

"Never woulda thunk it"

"Never woulda knowed it"

"Back before the war..."

"Knee high to a (short) grasshopper"

"That's older than dirt!"

"Whoah, Nelly!"

"Whee, doggy!"

"Sho' nuff!"

"Get on over hyeh!"

"Get on outta hyeh!"


Deb

coming up a storm(Granny)

lunch is called dinner and dinner is called supper

that's about as fun as watching two mules fight over a turnip(my Greatuncle Bud)

the war of northern aggression(my greatgrandmother)

Old age can sure put a hitch in your gitalong.

Mr. Duggan, ya were close, but it's "hold my beer, and watch this". Gator, ya shoulda knowed that. Bob-O, a yankee hillboy.

"he is tighter than Dicks' hat band"

Gator

I wouldn`t take you kids to a worm wrassle!

Grinning like a mule eating briars

Shaking like a dog passing a peach pit

Really! All seriousness aside!

Git 'er done!

See ya later, I gotta make a block.

"FIXIN TA"

Gator

Grinnin' lika possum passing 'simmon seeds.
Irregardless. that one kills me.

Burger I swear I saw irregardless in a legal document the other day

Yesterday was as cool as the other side of your pillow.

This is bring up great memories of growing up with wonderful southern folks

The differences in a Fairy Tale and a Texas Tall Tale:

A Fairy Tale starts off "Once upon a Time".

A Texas Tall Tale starts off "Hey you %$*(&((&%('s ain't gonna believe this *&^%t.

A Sailor's tale starts off with "and this is no sh..!

This goes back a ways but growing up when southern gentlemen spoke of a good looking woman they refered to her as being handsome(I guess if no kids were around it might have been different)

I thought that really was a word.

Deb as Lewis Grizzard said "dang hoss I don't think I would've said that"

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in munts."

IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - noun. A tool.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh
bard a few munts ago."

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things
gonna catch far."

BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is
gonna far you!"

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup
truck."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in
Paris sometime."

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
HOD - adverb. Not easy.
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."

TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."

LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."

FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country."

DID - adjective. Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JU-HERE - a question.
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the
University of Alabama?"

HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."

SEED - verb, past tense.
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"

HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!

Oops... Bill call me dumb and stamp it in red on my forehead, but I actually use that word a lot. My sister (the English professor) uses it too. Scary thing is she is almost through with her doctrate from FSU.

Oh well, I have decided that it IS a real word! Can you tell I am feeling a wee bit bossy/pushy today?

Dad why is Miss Bessy in the hospital? Son shes having a little plumbing problem. I was about twenty till I figured that one out.

Deb I was pokeing fun at you, I use it too. Just don't write legal documents with it. BTW the lawyer who wrote it told me I was crazy that it's not a word

Ewest what's the correct word I use "not withstanding"

"Youngins"

"That made me more scared than a pole cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs"

My favorite, that puts the question, comment or problem back into the speaker's hands..."Well?"

examp: Yall should have called before you put a pick through my liner..."Well?"

See ya!

I guess if you have less regard for something than regardless would explain, then the double negative, irregardless would be applicable.
Now, is that ap/pli'ca/ble or ap'pli/ca/ble.

Bill :

Yall pleeese dunt right no legal papers !!!

Try this " not withstanding anything contained herein to the contrary" . Never was sure what that means. Better " this provision supercedes and controls over any conflicting or contrary provision contained herein "

Irregardless - a substandard or humorous redundancy for regardless.