One of my favorite Christmas-time jokes, but I’ve learned that non-Texans often don’t get it:
Why did the three wise men have ashes in their beards?
They had just come from afar.
:-)
That reminds me of an old episode of the game show Password. Tom Selleck was the celebrity guest and the word he had to try to convey by hints to his partner - a Southern black woman - was "friend". Selleck gave the hint "Foe". The woman replied "Fahv". Selleck near burst a gut laughing.
It took this Texan a couple seconds but I got it - fire/afar.
The word that chaps my hide is pecan. It’s puh-con, not pee-can. A pee can is an empty coffee can that you take with you on a long car ride.
“They had just come from afar.”
And they traveled a fur piece to get there, too. (in NC)
;-)